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A 35-year-old farmer at Agona Asafo has been arrested by the Agona Swedru Police Command after he bargained to sell off his 2-year-old daughter for an amount of GH¢20,000. According to a report by Onuaonline.com, the farmer in one of his usual conversations with a group of friends revealed his...

Five hundred and thirty-three people on the Controller and Accountant-Generals Department (CAGD) payroll database have been found to have multiple identities. In addition, 148,060 out of the about 601,000 employees on the database did not match any of the names on the national identification...

On the Interbank forex rates from the Bank of Ghana August 10, 2022, the Ghana Cedi is trading against the dollar at a buying price of 8.0161 and a selling price of 8.0241. As compared to yesterday’s trading of a buying price of 8.0011 and a selling price of 8.0091. At a forex bureau in Accra...

Twin babies thought to be about 7 months old have been found aborted near the Abura Dunkwa Senior High School in the Abura Asebu Kwamankese District of the Central Region. Information gathered by Kasapa News Yaw Boagyan indicates that a resident on her way from Abura Edumfa, a suburb of Abura...

The Minister for Communications and Digitalisation, Mrs. Ursula Owusu-Ekuful says a self-service SIM Registration App will be ready for commercial launch on Tuesday, August 2, 2022. This app is to aid in dealing with some of the challenges associated with the ongoing SIM re-registration...

Despite widespread criticisms over its funding, President Akufo-Addo insists there is no right time to build a national cathedral. He said throughout history, there has never been a nation that built a national cathedral only when its economy was in good shape. Speaking at a program dubbed...

Young Women in Northern Ghana have over the years traveled to cities in southern Ghana in search of jobs to sustain themselves and their families. Most of them end up becoming head potters commonly referred to in Ghanaian parlance as Kaayayei, while others may end up in prostitution to survive...

Michael Tetteh, a driver's mate has been sentenced to 16-months imprisonment by an Adentan Circuit Court for stealing 10 artisanal pots locally called 'dadesen' belonging to Oyarifa Presbyterian School at Oyarifa in the Greater Accra Region. Tetteh, aged 25, is said to have caused damage to the...

The national ePharmacy, which is the first national-scale ePharmacy platform in Africa, is a digital convergence of licensed pharmacies across the country, which will enable Ghanaians to have access to prescribed medicines and buy by making an order with a mobile phone through the ePharmacy app...

Issues of managing the economy, tackling unemployment and the need for infrastructure are the top policy priorities of Ghanaians, a latest Afrobarometer survey has revealed. For the first time since 2008 where education has been among top three priority in the last five rounds of the survey...

As the teacher’s strike drags on, students at the Walewale Senior High Technical School in the West Mamprusi Municipality of the North East Region are being forced to assume the duties of the school caterers by making their own meals in the dining hall. Due to the school caterers’ strike with...

Information Minister, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, has insisted that the decision by the government to go for an International Monetary Fund (IMF) bailout, does not belittle the ‘Ghana Beyond Aid’ agenda as is being asserted. According to him, the government is going to the IMF for a loan which it...

Tsatsu Tsikata is one of the best legal brains in the country. He is referred to as the law by a number of Ghanaians because of his vast knowledge about issues regarding Ghana and international law. Even his political rivals stand in awe when they hear he is leading a case. Tsatsu Tsikata born...

Some passengers traveling on the Legon-Madina Highway have sustained various degrees of injuries Friday afternoon after a Kia truck reportedly jumped the red light at the UPSA traffic light after failing brakes causing multiple crashes. The driver who was said to have been on top speed in an...

The government says although the four teacher unions demanding the payment of the cost of living allowance have legitimate concerns, the timing is problematic. The Deputy Employment and Labour Relations Minister, Bright Wireko-Brobby admits that the current economic conditions are dire, hence...

Isaac Kwame Addae, a University of Ghana graduate who went viral after begging for a job by the roadside, has received calls from over 50 companies. Addae revealed in an interview with Serwaa Amihere on GhOne TV that multiple companies have reached out to him, although he’s still yet to land a...

Some basic and second-cycle institution teachers have abandoned classrooms in the Ashanti Region as they comply with the strike directive by their union leaders over the Cost of Living Allowance (COLA). When Class News’ Elisha Adarkwah visited Amankwatia Primary and Junior High school, Kumasi...

The World Bank has appointed Victoria Kwakwa as the new Vice President for Eastern and Southern Africa from July 1, 2022. Mrs Kwakwa, before her appointment, was the World Bank’s Vice President for Corporate Strategic Initiatives. She comes in with over 30 years of experience and will lead...

Professor Jophus Anamuah-Mensah, a former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Education, Winneba (UEW), has supported the call for a review of basic and secondary education in Ghana with immediate well-thought-out measures to salvage it from collapse. He said many children were not literate and...

The Member of Parliament for Assin Central, Kennedy Agyapong has said the New Patriotic Party cannot win the 2024 elections with people leading the nation to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for a financial bailout. Speaking at an on-going NPP National Constituency Officers Welfare...