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Ghana’s President John Atta Mills dead at 68, few months before seeking 2nd term

  John Atta Mills, who ran three times for president before being elected in the closest vote in the country’s history on a platform vowing to
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Armed Robbers Engage Police In Gun Battle In Kumasi

A gun battle between a group of suspected armed robbers and the police at Sepe Timpon, in Kumasi Saturday, left one of the suspects dead. Three...
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List of Passengers on Dana Air Plane that crashed in Nigeria

Below is a list of all the names of 153 passengers of the ill-fated Dana Air Flight List of the dead: Onyeka Anyene; Hurria Lawal; Maimuna Anyene;...
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Jim Iyke's Sierra Leonean Lover, Sally, Tested HIV Positive

That the gangling Nollywood actor, Jim Iyke is controversial in nature can not be contested. His fights, arrogance, women battering, to mention a...
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‘I’ll Show Love To Otumfuo’

NANA ADDO Dankwa Akufo-Addo, the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Presidential Candidate says he will reciprocate the immense love that the Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei...
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Pastors To Turn Gays

PASTORS IN Ghana have recently developed an appetite for horrible scandals, ranging from fraud to sex abuse, and  sensational fetish priest Nana Kwaku...
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PHOTO: Nana Boroo In Love With Nasara

News-One has picked signals that Nana Boroo of ‘Aha Ye De’ fame has found something sweet on the body of the embattled Ghana’s...
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He ‘Loved Mum, Defiled Daughter’

Lucats John, a thirty-seven-year-old Nigerian, and his lover, one Juliet, yesterday appeared before an Accra Circuit Court to answer charges of defiling a...
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Girl Burnt To Death Over Love

RESIDENTS OF Teshie Tsuibleoo could not help but look on with sadness and shock as a 16-year-old girl who visited her boyfriend and ...
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Why I love Nigerians–Yvonne Chaka Chaka

South African music diva, Yvonne Chaka Chaka has every reason to be angry with Nigerians. This is because many of her live shows...
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Parliament demands action against institutions flouting GES directive

File photo Parliament is demanding disciplinary action against heads of educational institutions who do not allow pregnant female students to write examinations.They are asking the Education...

85-year-old bride proves it's never too old to find love

A lovelorn pensioner has become a bride for the first time in her life - at the age of 85.Phyllis Cook walked down the aisle...

Man, 98 charged for murder

A 98-year-old former police officer has been charged today by Hungarian prosecutors for abusing thousands of Jews and sending them to Nazi death camps during...

Support for gay marriage high in developed nations

Most adults in developed countries favor gay marriage or some type of legal recognition for same-sex couples and think they should be able to adopt...

Muslim cleric gets 11-year sentence for burning a Bible

A hard-line Muslim cleric has received an 11-year suspended sentence after tearing up and burning a Bible in front of the U.S. Embassy in Egypt.Ahmed...

Pharmacists suspend 2-months old strike

Members of the Government and Hospital Pharmacists Association (GHOSPA) have also called off their two-month-old strike. The Pharmacists who work in public hospitals across the...

B.E.C.E begins nationwide

Junior High Schools across the nation on Monday began this year’s Basic Education Certificate Examination (B.E.C.E). A tour of some examination centres revealed that the...

Chief, others granted bail for allegedly burning Asokwa chief’s car

A Kumasi Circuit Court has granted a GH¢15,000.00 bail with a surety each to Nana Kwakye Prempeh 11, the chief of Bekwai-Besease and four others...

AMA to refurbish Ga Community Centre, says Accra Mayor

Mr Alfred Okoe Vanderpuije Mr Alfred Okoe Vanderpuije, the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) Chief Executive, on Monday announced that rehabilitation work would soon begin on the...

NHIS capitation makes significant strides in Ashanti

The National Health Insurance capitation scheme has chalked significant strides after a year of piloting in the Ashanti Region. It includes the enrolment of a...

The dark side of China's Las Vegas

Triad attacks. Prostitute calling cards. Illicit money flows.This is the dark underbelly of Macau -- Asia's gambling capital. The only Chinese territory where casinos are...

GMA bemoans no-action to resolve pharmacists' strike, fears stored drugs may expire

Dr. Kwabena Opoku-Adusei The Ghana Medical Association (GMA) says it is frustrated by the lack of action to resolve the impasse between the Fair Wages and...

Improving urban transport; ‘Trotro’ to be confined to rural areas

Egypt Kudoto Mini buses operating in the transport sector popularly called “Totro” will soon be restricted to the rural areas, as Government moves to decongest the...

BECE Update: NGO sponsors 98 candidates; UW/R candidates complain of poor visibility at exams centres

World Vision International (WVI) is sponsoring 98 pupils from six Junior High Schools (JHS) in the Afram Plains, to write their Basic Education Certificate Examination...

Medical Students support treatment of Children with “abnormal heads”

Medical students at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology are raising funds for treatment of 30 children with abnormally enlarged heads.The condition which...

Gov’t assures of timely completion of ongoing reconstruction of Ridge Hospital

Emergency Unit of the Ridge Hospital The Minister for Health Sherry Ayittey has expressed delight at the proposed reconstruction of the Ridge Hospital into a modern...

FAO honours Ghana for reducing hunger by half, ahead of 2015 targets

Ghana has been honoured by the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of the United Nations, for achieving internationally established targets in the fight against hunger....

Watch video and photos of latest Kumasi Central market fire

Watch a video and photos of the latest fire that ravaged several stores at the Kumasi Central market Sunday.Follow link for photos of the havoc...

G8 Summit: Cameron calls for new strategy to fight poverty; Mahama promises transparency

File photo:David Cameron and President Mahama British Prime Minister, David Cameron, is asking world leaders and donor countries to move away from the strategy of providing...

Nii Latse II calls for unity among Ga people as Homowo draws near

File photo The Ga Mantse, Nii Takie Adama Latse II, has urged Gas in Greater Accra to use this year’s Homowo festival to forge ahead in...

I haven’t seen many A-Gs lead from the front like Martin Amidu – Tarzan

Charles Wereko-Brobby spoke on the Super Morning Show on Joy FM Outspoken politician and political commentator, Dr. Charles Wereko-Brobby, has joined the chorus of commendation heaped...

Video: Five bedroom Trassaco house gutted by fire

Watch video of a five-bedroom house situated at the plush Trassaco Valley residential community that was gutted by fire Sunday morning....

Muslims urged to respect authority

Muslims have been urged to respect people in authority and the rule of law. The Acting Ameer of the Ahmadiyya Muslim mission in Ghana, Maulvi...

In Nepal, women suffer from a ritual isolation during menstruation

Next to an abandoned stable now used to store firewood, a reluctant young mother crouched to pass through a tiny door into a dark, musty...

GWCL workers threaten strike, demand dissolution of GUWL

Workers of the Ghana Water Company Ltd (GWCL) have given government a two-week ultimatum to merge the operations of the Ghana Urban Water Ltd (GUWL)...

POEM: Marathon in circles

This is the race for mutual glory A race to cast our names progressivelyOn the golden records of world giants.Our sprint began on equal footing.As...

Scholarship secretariat fails graduands

As usual in life, there is a kind of truth that scathes the ear. It is provocative, daring and probably acerbic but still deserves to...

Help build capacities of developing countries - President

President Mahama President John Dramani Mahama on Saturday appealed to G8 member countries to support developing countries in building the capacities of their people as they...

Another fire at Kumasi Central market flatens dozens of shops

Another fire outbreak at the Kumasi Central market has razed down more than 30 shops, destroying property worth thousands of Ghana Cedis.The fire started around...

Woyome is not going down – Dafeamekpor

Counsel for embattled businessman Alfred Agbesi Woyome has said his client has a solid case and will not go down like Waterville holdings.Rockson-Nelson Dafeamekpor was...

Fire guts Adansi North district assembly office

Reports reaching Myjoyonline.com indicate that fire has gutted the District Assembly Office of the Adansi North Constituency in the Ashanti Region. The cause of the...