Three Ghanaian Pilgrims Confirmed Dead during 2018 Hajj – Board

Three Ghanaian pilgrims are confirmed to have died during the 2018 Hajj in Saudi Arabia. All three pilgrims died under natural causes and have since been buried in Mecca, Chairman of the Hajj Board, Sheikh I.C Quaye said Wednesday. “One of the victims died while boarding the aircraft, the second person passed on after observing … Read more

Fancy Gadam Consoles Patapaa, Tells Him “you Be My Guy”

At the height of criticisms that his song did not deserve to have won the Most Popular Song of the Year award at the 19th Vodafone Ghana Music Awards, Tamale-based hip life act, Fancy Gadam, has consoled Patapaa for missing out on that award. Many people including Patapaa, have criticized organisers of the awards for … Read more

Tamale-Based Referee Abdul Latif Adaari To Handle Hearts of Oak-Dreams FC Clash; PLB Confirms Officials For Week IV

The Premier League Board has handed Tamale-based referee Abdul Latif Adaari Sunday’s cracker between Hearts of Oak and Dreams FC at the Cape Coast Stadium. He will be assisted on the lines by Safo Adade and Frank Bossman. Adaari scored a lot of points after officiating last year’s MTN FA Cup final between Heats of … Read more

20-Yr-Old Lady Attempts Suicide To Protest ‘exchange Marriage’ In Northern Ghana

A 20-year-old lady who was forced to marry a man in line with an ‘exchange marriage’ tradition in the Northern Region of Ghana, has attempted suicide after a failed escape from her family home. Ayisha Mohammed was said to have drank a poisonous weedicide, sarosate, on Wednesday March 21, 2018 causing her to temporarily paralysed. … Read more

Government To Rehabilitate Police Stations

The Government will commence rehabilitation of all police stations across the country, this year, to standardise their infrastructure, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo announced on Friday. In addition, government has completed negotiations for the rollout of Phase II of the Alpha Project, which would involve the deployment of 8,700 CCTV cameras in all 216 districts, … Read more

Gov’t Committed To Equip Police To Fight Crime – President Akufo-Addo

Government is doing all within its power to provide the necessary logistics and resources to the Ghana Police Service to enable it discharge its duties effectively, especially in the wake of reports of indiscipline and lawlessness. Practical support, such as increased recruitment, rehabilitation and equipping of police stations across the country to standardize the infrastructure, … Read more

Gov’t Committed To Equip Police – Akufo-Addo

Government is doing all in its power to provide the necessary logistics and resources to the Ghana Police Service to enable it discharge its duties effectively, especially in the wake of reports of indiscipline and lawlessness. Practical support, such as increased recruitment, rehabilitation and equipping of police stations across the country to standardize the infrastructure, … Read more

No Artiste Deserves ‘Artiste of the Year’ Than Me

Does anyone else agree with Fancy Gadam’s assertion that he deserves the “Artiste of the Year” award more than any artist? While you chew on that, It will interest you to know that the Tamale-based artiste Fancy Gadam, born Mujahid Ahmed Bello, has described as clueless, those who say he does not deserve the prestigious ‘Artiste … Read more

Free SHS Congestion Causes Students To Sleep Under Trees

Vitting SHS -The massive influx of Free SHS students has left Vitting Senior High with no choice than to allow its students sleep under trees due to congestion. Tamale Vitting Senior High School is one of the most densely populated second cycle institutions in the Tamale Metropolis, located off the Tamale-Yendi Highway. According to reports, the … Read more

Allowances For 8,000 National Service Personnel Suspended

Allowances for about 8,000 National Service personnel across the country have been withheld, the National Service Secretariat has announced. It explained in a statement Saturday that the suspension of the payment of the September allowances is to allow for investigations into the affected personnel, who are either suspected of impersonation or disqualified from doing national … Read more

Operation To Ban Public Smoking In Tamale To Be Activated After Six Arrested In Swoop

A joint military and police team on Monday arrested six suspected criminals in the Tamale Forest Reserve in the Northern Region as part of efforts to rid the forest reserve and the metropolis of criminals and restore sanity. The almost two-hour swoop came on the heels of suspected illegal and criminal activities including the peddling … Read more

N/R: Police On Manhunt After Driver’s Mate Killed

The Northern Regional Police Command is seeking the indulgence of the general public to find the killers of one Abdulai Hamid, a resident of Kukuo, a suburb of Tamale. The body of Abdulai Hamid was picked by the Police Command around the Tamale abattoir in Shishegu at about 8:30pm August, 21 2017 after distress calls … Read more

I Will Give Prez Nana Addo 10% For His Six Months Work Done

Rating the performance of the President His excellency Nana Addo Danquah Akufo Addo for his six months in office, the deputy general secretary of the National Democratic Congress, Koku Anyidohu stated emphatically that he will grade the President on a 10% scale. During a phone interview on ATV’s Anopa Bosuo, Tuesday, July 18, 2017, Koku … Read more

Kwami Sefa Kayi Donates Incubators To First Lady

The Kokrokoo Charities Foundation, has presented two incubators worth $20,000 to the First Lady, Mrs Rebecca Akufo Addo towards her “Save a Mother Save a Child.” Mr Kwami Sefa Kayi, founder of the Kokrokoo Charities Foundation and host of the Kokrokoo Morning Show on Peace FM, who presented the incubators to the First Lady, said … Read more

School Under Tree Relocated Into Ultra-Modern Block

Kalveo Kindergarten and Primary School in the Kassena Nankana West District of the Upper East Region which was under one big baobab tree has seen a facelift with an ultra modern 3-unit classroom block with teacher’s office with furniture, library with furniture, books, desk top computer, printer, and a washroom. This gesture is by Tuma … Read more

Bawumia Donates Vehicle To Hajia Mariam Islamic Institute

Vice President, Alhaji Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has fulfilled his promise to give the Hajia Mariam Alolo Islamic Institute, headquartered in Tamale, a mini bus. As the Northern Region premier women’s Islamic Institute, lack of transportation has compelled management to hire tricycles for its outreach programs. The Veep during his recent tour of the Northern Region … Read more

Mayor of Tamale Asked To Declare Cost of Decongestion Exercise

A policy analyst in Tamale wants the metropolitan assembly to disclose the amount involved in carrying out the recent decongestion exercise in the city. The assembly, as part of measures to sustain the exercise setup security posts made up of a platoon of military to scare hawkers from coming back to the streets. But the … Read more

CEO of Tamale Teaching Hospital Sacked

The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Tamale Teaching Hospital, Dr Prosper Akanbon has been relieved of his duties, mynewsgh.com can exclusively report. Dr Akanbon who had about two-years to retire from his position, is being replaced with Dr. David Zaawumya Kolbila a Gynecologist and a lecturer at the University for Development Studies Medical School. … Read more

Health Screening of Would-Be Hajj Pilgrims Begins Monday

All prospective Hajj pilgrims will from Monday be screened of their health status, the Hajj Board has announced. The health screening exercise will be done concurrently in Accra , Kumasi, Tamale and Bawku in the Greater Accra, Ashanti, Northern and Upper East regions respectively. In Accra, they would be screened at the newly constructed Hajj … Read more