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Faced with the galloping inflation in Ghana, currently estimated at 37%, hundreds of Ghanaians took to the streets of Accra on Saturday 5 November to denounce the deteriorating economic situation, French media RFI reported. “Resign or be impeached! Politicians eat, Ghanaians suffer!” : the slogans chanted by the crowd were …

Mankessim Divisional Police Command in Ghana announced the arrest of a 50-year-old woman for stealing a baby girl, Adomonline reported. The woman forced the two-year-old girl into a margarine rubber after she intentionally went there to play with the kid. “She intentionally went there to play with the kid when …

A 12-year-old boy was reportedly shot dead by his uncle on a farm and secretly buried the same day under cover of darkness in Mankuma, Savannah Region, Ghana. The mother of the deceased left him under the care of his uncle who later picked him on a motorcycle to the farm with a …

A 23-year-old mother, resident of Nkroful in the Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolis, attempted to kill her two children and herself, arguing that she was fed up with life. The woman locked herself and her two children in her room and decided to kill the children and herself later. She covered her six …

An investigation is underway to establish the cause of a fire that engulfed the girls’ dormitory at Sawla High School (SHS) in Savannah Region, Ghana. The timely intervention of the Sawla Fire Command prevented the fire which could have ruined the entire dormitory from wreaking more havoc. The tactical firefighters …

Ghanaian police have recovered the body of a man found hanging in a container alongside a railway line in Konongo, local media reported. The incident is believed to have happened at dawn. He was discovered by residents due to the hanging colourful cloth he allegedly wrapped around his neck. According …

Ghanaian President Nana Akufo-Addo, in a televised address on Sunday, said his country is going through its worst economic crisis. “We are in crisis. I do not exaggerate when I say so. I cannot find an example in history when so many malevolent forces have come together at the same …

A majority of the NPP’s members of parliament in Ghana have suspended demands that finance minister Ken Ofori-Atta be sacked from from the government. The lawmakers said they suspend the request until a support package is negotiated with the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) said …

A 22-year-old man is battling for his life at the Twifo Praso District Hospital in the Twifo Atimorkwa District of the Central Region as he was electrocuted by a transformer belonging to the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG). The incident occurred at about 6:00 am on Monday at the Twifo …

A majority of Ghana’s ruling party parliamentarians on Tuesday asked the president to sack finance minister Ken Ofori-Atta and his deputy, in order to “restore hope in the financial sector”. Speaking on behalf of 80 of the 137 NPP members, Andy Appiah-Kubi said the members of parliament would not take …