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Unemployed remanded for allegedly swindling widow of GH¢10,000 legal fees

The Ashaiman Circuit Court has remanded into police custody a 41-year-old unemployed man, who allegedly swindled a 64-year-old widow of GH¢10,000. Emmanuel Godfred Amenuveve is...

NMC to engage Manhyia, Oyerepa FM management over impasse

The National Media Commission (NMC) says it is engaging the traditional leaders in Kumasi and management of Kumasi-based Oyerepa FM to find an amicable...

16-year-old boy allegedly commits suicide at Tema New Town

A 16-year-old Junior High School graduate and an apprentice tailor was in the early hours of Friday, August 26, 2022, found hanging on a...

Pastor arrested while watering neighbour’s plants [Video]

Footage has emerged of a pastor in the US state of Alabama being wrongfully arrested as he watered his neighbour's flowers. Michael Jennings was handcuffed...

Multimedia Group receives YPYC MTN PULSE’s Africa Role Model Overall Organisation Award

The Multimedia Group Limited has been awarded the Africa Role Model Overall Organisation Award at the 13th edition of the YPYC MTN PULSE Transformation...

Ransford Gyampo: Chiefs do not have the power to order shut down of radio stations

The relevance or otherwise of the institution of chieftaincy has been brought to the fore, following the impasse between Oyerepa FM and some chiefs. It...

No coffee, biscuits in meetings for civil servants helped UK govt to cut down expenditure – High Commissioner

The British High Commissioner to Ghana, Harriet Thompson, has cited the cost of refreshments as something that the Government of Ghana may want to...

HIV is a spiritual disease; sex with women who wear waist beads can prevent it – Kumasi resident

https://youtu.be/CBz8tyShvvI Earlier this week, it came to bare that a total of 23,495 people in Ghana tested positive for HIV in the first half of...

Oyerepa FM shutdown order amounts to abuse of power – H. Kwasi Prempeh

https://youtu.be/olt73gzvfgM The Executive Director of the Centre for Democratic Development (CDD), Professor Henry Kwasi Prempeh, says the directive by the Kumasi Traditional Council to the...

2 arrested for damaging AirtelTigo infrastructure [Photos]

Police at Nungua in Accra have arrested two persons believed to be employees of the Ghana Water Company for allegedly causing damage to some...

Central Region NPP appoints Dr. Micheal Kojo Kyeremateng as Council of Patrons member

Executives of the Agona West New Patriotic Party (NPP) has appointed Dr Michael Kojo Kyeremateng as a member of the Council of Patrons. The...

KNUST Council bans morale sessions, suspends hall elections

The Council of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) has abolished all Junior Common Room (JCR) systems of hall management by...

Akyem Apedwahene sets records straight on ownership of Akyem Abuakwa lands

The chief of Apedwa, Osabarima Frimpong Manso, says at all material times the Apedwa stool has been a subject stool of Ofori Panin within...

World Bank explains why cedi keeps falling and US dollar keeps winning

The US dollar is on a tear, strengthening around 11% since the start of the year and – for the first time in two...

Ghana Boxing Authority disowns Richard Commey

The Ghana Boxing Authority (GBA) has disowned former IBF Lightweight champion, Richard Commey. The president of the sport governing body, Abraham Kotei Neequaye,...

I knew I’ll fail – Obaapa Christy on why she abandoned BECE results

Ghanaian gospel musician Obaapa Christy has revealed that she did not go for her Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) results because she knew she...

Son of late heir apparent to Yaa Naa installed Mion Regent

Naa Alhassan Abdulai, the first son of the late Mion Lana Abdulai Mahamudu, has been traditionally installed as the regent of the Mion Traditional...

Police Night Patrol team arrests 5 suspected land guards, 3 on the run

Police Night Patrol team has arrested five suspected land guards. However, three of the suspects are said to have escaped arrest at Adjiriganno in...

Let’s be patient; Akufo-Addo will take us to the promised land – NPP guru

A leading member of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Ashanti Region, Odeneho Kwaku Appiah, has called on Ghanaians to exercise patience and...

Emotional scenes as Bawumia mourns with Hackman Owusu-Agyemang

It was an emotional scene when Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia visited Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Council of Elders, Hackman Owusu-Agyemang,...

Govt receives $750 million loan from Afrexim Bank

The $750 million African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) Loan has finally hit the Bank of Ghana’s (BoG) Account. Documents sighted by JOYBUSINESS showed that the...

ECG-Kroboland impasse: NDC demands withdrawal of military from area

The national leadership of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has paid a working visit to the Lower Manya and Yilo Krobo areas. The visit on...

SIM re-registration: NCA rolls out self-service app on play store

The National Communications Authority (NCA) has uploaded the Self-Service Application (App) for the SIM re-registration on Google Play Store. The NCA announced this...

GJA takes steps to rescue Oyerepa FM

The Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) has dispatched a delegation to meet with the Kumasi Traditional Council over the temporary shutdown of Kumasi-based Oyerepa FM. GJA in...

Waiting times for UK visas are coming down – British High Commissioner

JoyNews/AdomNews · ‘Waiting times for UK visas are coming down’ – Harriet Thompson The British High Commissioner to Ghana, Harriet Thompson, says the waiting times...

4 dead, scores seriously injured in accident at Buduatta junction

Four persons have died with scores injured after a fatal accident at Buduatta junction on the Accra-Cape Coast highway. The collision was between a sprinter...

NHIS now covers childhood cancers, sickle cell drug – Bawumia

Treatment for childhood cancers and the cost of Hydroxyurea, a drug used for the treatment of sickle cell anaemia, are now covered by the...

Asesewa hospital staff demand removal of administrator

Staff of the Asesewa Government Hospital want their administrator removed over alleged corruption and incompetence. In a petition to the management, the medics and paramedics...

Why Ghana went from hero to zero for investors

Ghana is learning the hard way why oil can be a blessing and a curse. The onset of commercial crude production helped turn the West...

Chiefs don’t have power to shut down radio stations – Media Foundation for West Africa

The Executive Director of the Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA), Sulemana Braimah, says chiefs do not have any legal authority to close down...

Mixed reactions as Mercy Asiedu’s latest song goes viral

Veteran actress Oheneyere Mercy Asiedu has announced plans to test waters in other fields of the entertainment industry. The actress, who doubles as a royal,...

No HIV in COVID vaccines; Ghana’s spiking HIV rate nothing to do with pandemic jab – Noguchi fellow

A senior research fellow at the Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research (NMIMR), Dr Isaac Darko Okyere, has refuted claims that HIV proteins were...

71% of Ghanaians give their MP’s ‘failing grade’ for 2021 – Afrobarometer report

Under the current ‘hung’ parliament, Members of Parliament (MPs) have become “much more” effective when it comes to scrutinising government spending, a recent Afrobarometer...

Beautiful photos drop as Mercy Johnson and husband celebrate 11th wedding anniversary

Nigerian actress Mercy Johnson and her husband Prince Okojie have thanked God for seeing them through 11 years of marriage. As part of their anniversary...

ECG disconnects Boomerang nightclub from power grid

Boomerang nightclub has been disconnected from the national power grid and served notice to appear before the ECG Project office, where managers of the...

How a pastor absconded without paying Piesie Esther after performing at a church programme

Piesie Esther, a renowned Ghanaian gospel musician, has narrated how a pastor absconded without paying her after performing at a church programme with her...

George Foreman: 2 women file lawsuits after accusing boxing champion of sexual abuse in 1970s

Two women have filed lawsuits in the United States after accusing ex-heavyweight world champion George Foreman of sexual abuse in the 1970s. The women say...

Man diagnosed with monkeypox, HIV, and Covid-19

A man, who tested positive for COVID-19, broke out in a rash later that day. Tests revealed he also had monkeypox and HIV, according...

Delay’s interview with Dr UN that is causing stir on social media

Popular TV Show host, Delay, has released a short clip of her interview with Dr U.N, which is set to air this weekend. The...

Greater Accra tops noise making – EPA

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) received a total of 271 noise pollution complaints for the year 2021.Out of the number, Greater Accra had 176...