3 h. ago 19 injured, 4 critical in Central Region crash involving 2 Sprinter buses

Nineteen people sustained injuries, including four in critical condition, following a head-on collision between two Sprinter Benz buses at Awutu Bonsuoku in the Central Region. The critically injured victims have been transferred to the Winneba Trauma and Specialist Hospital, while 13 others are receiving treatment at the Hope Christian Hospital in Gomoa Fetteh, and two at the Senya Bereku Polyclinic.

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5 h. ago Essikado MP cautions: Environments that silence dissent kill growth

Essikado-Ketan MP, Prof Dr Grace Ayensu Danquah, has called for a more respectful and open political environment, warning that any space where people feel unsafe to disagree is not about growth, but about control. Her remarks come in the wake of controversial comments made by Minority Leader Alexander Afenyo-Markin, who questioned her recent nomination as […]

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11 h. ago ‘Adidome is not a town of ritual killers’ – Chief breaks silence, denounces allegations

The Dufia of Mafi Adidome, Togbe Kwasinyi Kakaklolo Agyeman V, has condemned what he describes as “barbaric, backwards, anti-social” and false allegations linking his town to recent ritual murders.

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17 h. ago Dialysis crisis: Cape Coast Teaching Hospital struggling to keep up with demand 

The Cape Coast Teaching Hospital is facing a growing crisis in the provision of dialysis services, Dr. Eric Kofi Ngyedu, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Cape Coast Teaching Hospital, has said. 

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30 h. ago Don’t vilify Air India crash crew: Indian pilots’ association

An association of Indian pilots has defended the crew of the Air India Flight 171 which crashed in June, killing 260 people.

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2 d. ago Paediatric Society of Ghana launches National Child Road Safety Campaign

The Volta Region of the Paediatric Society of Ghana, in partnership with the National Road Safety Authority, has launched the National Child Road Safety Campaign to ensure the safety of children in traffic areas. This forms part of an advocacy by the Society to intensify awareness on the need to always look out for children […]

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5 d. ago Suspect in the alleged killing of Immigration Officer gives conflicting accounts – Police

The Greater Accra Regional Police Command says a man who is at the centre of the alleged killing an immigration officer who went missing for days has been giving conflicting statements. The suspect, Bright Aweh, who allegedly called the deceased into a meeting, told police he gave an amount of GH₵500,000 to the late officer […]

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5 d. ago Children queuing for supplements killed in Israeli strike in Gaza, hospital says

At least 15 Palestinians, including eight children and two women, have been killed in an Israeli strike near a medical point in central Gaza, a hospital there says.

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5 d. ago Authorities condemn shrine killings in Central Tongu, vows swift justice

The Central Tongu MP, Alexander Roosevelt Hotordze, and Dodzi Addison Mornyuie, the District Chief Executive, have condemned the discovery of human remains at a shrine in Mafi Gblorkope.

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6 d. ago The United States and Israel will make new attempts to attack Iran

On June 13, 2025, Israel and the United States launched a large-scale military operation to overthrow the military-political regime of the Islamic Republic of Iran, subjecting Iranian territory to massive rocket attacks and bombing.

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6 d. ago UG lecturer slams gov’t for failed leadership over KATH doctor’s tragic death

A Political Science Lecturer at the University of Ghana, Dr Kwame Asah-Asante, has accused the government of failed leadership following the tragic death of Dr Kwame Adu Ofori, an emergency physician at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH). Dr Ofori lost his life because the hospital lacked a vital catheterisation laboratory (cath lab), an essential […]

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6 d. ago Nigeria insurgents, bandits kill more in first half of 2025 than in all of last year

More people were killed by bandits or insurgents in Nigeria in the first half of this year than in all of 2024, according to figures released on Tuesday by Nigeria's human rights agency.

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7 d. ago Activist demands ‘rescue shelter’ for street children in Bono  

Bono Regional Director of the Social Welfare Department Peter Biya Yah ,says the lack of ‘rescue shelter’ is impeding efforts to tackle the growing child streetism and alms begging in the region.    He emphasized that the government alone could however not shoulder the responsibility of providing shelter for rescued children and appealed for support from wealthy […]

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7 d. ago From despair to hope: How Seidu Agongo kindness transformed a storm

On the morning of May 23, 2025, the Sawaliga Basic School in the Talensi District resembled a scene from a disaster movie. A devastating rainstorm the night before had reduced the once vibrant school block—filled with eager young minds—into a wreckage of mangled roofing sheets, broken wooden beams, and scattered debris. The storm had not only destroyed access to education for the children; its aftermath posed a grave danger to their lives. One man, however, could not bear to look away. When philanthropist and businessman Alhaji Seidu Agongo saw viral photos of the damaged school and the desperate conditions the students were enduring, he said he felt something break inside him.

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7 d. ago At least 11 dead in Kenya protests as central Nairobi sealed off

At least eleven people have been killed during anti-government protests in Kenya and 567 arrested, police said.

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7 d. ago Doctors can’t treat what they can’t see: why lab tests are important

Teniola and I went to the hospital a day after she started feeling unwell. The doctor sent her to the laboratory for some test.

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7 d. ago Suspected killer of queen mother who was shot at Gbawe arrested, firearm recovered

The Accra Regional Police Command has arrested a 21-year-old man in connection with the shooting and killing of a queenmother during a naming ceremony at Gbawe Zero, a suburb of Accra, on Thursday, June 19, 2025.

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8 d. ago KATH doctor dies over lack of laboratory for treating ‘heart attack’

The Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital is seeking the urgent prioritization and construction of a catheterisation laboratory after losing one of its critical medical staff who suffered a heart attack. 

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8 d. ago 200,000 children in Ghana have uncorrected refractive errors

More than 200,000 children in Ghana suffer from uncorrected refractive errors, a leading cause of visual impairment, with one in four schoolchildren requiring vision correction. A Chief Optometrist at the Trust Hospital in Accra, Dr Naa Kowah Agyemfra, said that although refractive error, which causes visual impairment, accounts for 50 per cent of the cases, […]

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8 d. ago Owners of escaped pet lion arrested after it attacks three people

Police in Pakistan have arrested the owners of a pet lion that attacked a woman and her three young children after it escaped.

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