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Onion traders use Nigeria route after Benin and Burkina Faso border closure

Onion traders in Ghana have now resorted to bringing what is left of the produce through Nigeria rather than waiting on Benin and Burkina...
Kojo Oppong Nkrumah

Bear with us on border closure – Oppong Nkrumah

The Minister of Information, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, has urged residents of border communities to bear with the government’s decision on the continuous closure of...

Starvation will kill people more than COVID-19 – Volta Region NDC on border closure

JoyNews/AdomNews · Starvation will kill people more than COVID-19 – Volta region NDC on border closureThe Volta Regional branch of the opposition National Democratic...

MP threatens demo over border closure

The Jomoro Member of Parliament (MP), Dorcas Toffey, has threatened to embark on a demonstration with his constituents over Ghana's border closure.According to her,...

60 traders arrested for defying border closure

The Aflao wing of the Ghana Immigration Service (GIS) has arrested a total of 60 traders for attempting to use unlawful exiting through unapproved...
Akufo Addo travel

Akufo-Addo to embark on first foreign trip after border closure

President Akufo-Addo will on Thursday embark on a trip to the West African country of Mali.This will be the first foreign trip after he...
Kotoka International Airport

Border closure: Check out the number of Ghanaians evacuated so far

Amid Ghana's border closure over the COVID-19 pandemic, it has emerged that a number of stranded Ghanaians have been evacuated from various countries.To ensure...
Tracy Sarkcess, wife of Sarkodie

Sarkodie’s wife cries over continuous border closure

Tracy Sarkcess, wife of multiple award-winning rapper Sarkodie, has expressed her frustrations at the government over the continuous closure of the country’s borders which has...
The Burkinabes were arrested on Monday night

Coronavirus: 41 Burkinabes fleeing Ghana despite border closure arrested

Some 41 Burkina Faso nationals were on Monday night intercepted, after they attempted to flee Ghana to their home country.They were arrested at an...

Pappy Kojo mocks himself over border closure extension [Watch]

Ghanaian Rapper, Pappy Kojo, has shared a hilarious video of how he intends to return to Ghana after President Nana Akufo-Addo’s decision to extend...

Akufo-Addo extends border closure by 2 more weeks

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has further extended the closure of Ghana's borders by an additional two-week period.This was announced by the Information Minister,...

Coronavirus: persons illegally entering country despite border closure warned

Caution has been sent to persons illegally attempting to enter the country despite the closure of the country’s land and sea borders.  The c...
The Nigerian government began closing its borders in August 2019

Nigeria border closure: ECOWAS must intervene – Consumer expert

Country Director of Consumer Unity and Trust Society, Appiah Kusi Adomako, is calling on the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Parliament to...
The Bono Regional Chairman of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), Kwame Baffoe, popularly known as Abronye DC, has reacted to the closure of Nigeria’s border.

NPP chairman reacts to Nigeria’s border closure

The Bono Regional Chairman of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), Kwame Baffoe, popularly known as Abronye DC, has reacted to the closure of...

GUTA rejects gov’t assurances on Nigeria border closure

The Ghana Union of Traders Association has rejected assurances from the government that relief is in the offing for Ghanaian traders stranded at the...

Closure of land borders: Akufo-Addo finally replies demonstrators [Listen]

JoyNews/AdomNews · Reopening borders comes with a huge risk - Akufo-Addo to Elubo demonstratorsPresident Nana Akufo-Addo has finally given a response to demonstrators against...

Akufo-Addo extends closure of border again!

President Nana Akufo-Addo has extended the closure of Ghana’s borders by another month following the increase in the number of confirmed cases of the...
akufo addo

Covid-19: Akufo-Addo speaks on closure of schools, borders

President Nana Akufo-Addo has stated that Ghana cannot continue to keep schools closed forever and continue with the ban on social gathering.He said, there...
‘China coronavirus’

Coronavirus: Hong Kong hospital staff strike to demand closure of China border

Hundreds of hospital workers in Hong Kong have gone on strike, demanding the border with mainland China be completely closed to reduce the risk...
Nii Lante Vanderpuye

Secret for closure of Nigeria border exposed!

Member of Parliament (MP) for Odododiodoo constituency, Nii Lante Vanderpuye, says he feels the closure of the Nigerian border to other Africans including Ghana...

NDC demands full disclosure on lithium deal

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) is demanding complete transparency in the government's controversial lithium deal with Barari BV.Under the current shareholding structure, there...

Truck drivers stranded at Niger borders turn to menial jobs for survival

The Head of Freight and Logistics at the Ghana Shippers Authority (GSA), Fred Asiedu Dartey, has revealed that, transit truck drivers who got stranded...

Aflao Border main gate temporary closed for security screening – Immigration Service

The Aflao Sector Command of the Ghana Immigration Service (GIS) has explained that the closure of the main gate of the Aflao Border to...
Niger Coup: Ghanaian driver shot and trucks burnt by terrorists on Burkina border

Niger Coup: Ghanaian driver shot and trucks burnt on Burkina border

Three trucks carting foodstuff from Niger to Ghana have been burnt at the Burkina Faso border by suspected terrorists.Driver of the lead vehicle is...
Niger Coup: Over 45 million cedis lost as trucks delivering onions to Ghana are blocked

Niger Coup: Over 45 million cedis lost as trucks delivering onions to Ghana are...

Over one hundred trucks loaded with onions are locked up in the border town between Benin and Niger following the border closure.Each truck is...

Niger Coup: Hundreds of trucks delivering onions to Ghana blocked at Benin border

Over one hundred trucks loaded with onions are locked up in the border town between Benin and Niger following the border closure.The action was...

Mahama dares Education Minister over closure of schools

JoyNews/AdomNews · Don’t you dare close down schools - Mahama tells Education MinisterFormer President John Dramani Mahama has asked the Minister for Education, Dr...

Nigeria to close land borders on election day

Nigeria has ordered the closure of all its land borders during Saturday’s tightly contested elections.The directive is meant to ensure that the “elections are...

We were called thieves, all manner of names to incite hatred – GUTA Prez...

JoyNews/AdomNews · GUTA Prez justifies shops closurePresident of Ghana Union of Traders Association (GUTA), Dr Joseph Obeng, has justified the proposed closure of their...
Ghana Togo border

I’m a happy man – Ketu South MCE on opening of land borders

The Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) for Ketu South in the Volta region is over the moon about the opening of Ghana's land borders.The MCE,...

COVID-19: Ghana opens land and sea borders

Government has announced the re-opening of Ghana’s land and sea borders after two years closure.President Akufo-Addo announced this during the 28th address on the...
Ghana Togo border

Open land borders for business – Obiri Boahen tells govt [Audio]

JoyNews/AdomNews · Open land borders for business – Obiri boahen tells governmentThe Deputy General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party, Nana Obiri Boahen, has...

Mahama’s latest comment on reopening of land borders

Former President John Dramani Mahama has called for the immediate reopening of land borders.Mr Mahama, in a Facebook post, said “the long border closures...

UTAG Strike: Minority pushes for closure of Universities [Audio]

The Minority in Parliament is pushing for the closure of public universities in the country amid the strike embarked upon by the University Teachers...
NLC BOSS, Mr Ofosu Asamoah

UTAG Strike: NLC sets records straight on closure of public universities [Listen]

JoyNews/AdomNews · NLC sets records straight on closure of public universitiesThe National Labour Commission (NLC) has said there is nowhere in the law that...

Mali ‘strongly condemns’ ECOWAS sanctions; closes land borders

The Malian government slammed regional sanctions, imposed after the ruling military junta failed to bring forward elections to introduce democratic rule, as “illegal” on...
Ghana Togo border

To reopen borders now or not; Akufo-Addo reiterates position

President Nana Akufo-Addo has reiterated this is not the time for the country to reopen its land borders as the covid-19 situation is still...
ecowas

ECOWAS proposes date to reopen land borders

ECOWAS member states have proposed January 1, 2022, for the reopening of all land borders.ECOWAS sectoral ministers, in collaboration with the West African...

‘Open Our Land Border Now’ demo not to score political points – Jomoro MP

The Member of Parliament for Jomoro, Dorcas Affo Toffey, has rejected accusations that she is engaging in cheap blackmail to score political points over...

‘Open our land borders’ demo shakes Aflao [Photos+Video]

Masquerades joined scores of residents to attend the much-anticipated 'open the borders' demonstration held at Aflao in the Volta Region.The Member of Parliament (MP)...