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Students trapped, scores feared dead as three-storey hostel collapses in Nigeria’s Anambra State

An unspecified number of students are feared dead, while several others remain trapped after a three-storey hostel collapsed in Oko, a host community of...

NPP cannot be equated to the NDC in any way – Eric Adjei

The Chief Executive Officer of the National Entrepreneurship and Innovation Programme (NEIP), Eric Adjei, has suggested that the New Patriotic Party (NPP) may face...

Two arrested over shooting of forest guard, destruction of plantation in Ashanti Region

The Ghana Police Service at Tepa in the Ahafo Ano South East District has arrested two suspects in connection with the shooting of a...

AMA announces August National Sanitation Day clean-up exercise with strict enforcement measures

The Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) has announced that the August edition of the National Sanitation Day clean-up exercise will take place on Saturday, August...

Greater Accra courts to suspend sittings for Supreme Court’s 150th anniversary celebrations

The Chief Justice, Paul Baffoe-Bonnie, has directed all courts in the Greater Accra Region to suspend sittings on Tuesday, July 28, and Friday, July...

VALCO not for sale – Board Chairman dismisses claims amid return to profit

The Board Chairman of the Volta Aluminium Company Limited (VALCO), Horace Nii Ankrah, has firmly dismissed claims that the company is being sold, describing...

GIADEC dismisses alleged sale of VALCO to Ibrahim Mahama

The Ghana Integrated Aluminium Development Corporation (GIADEC) has dismissed as false claims circulating on social media and other public platforms that the Volta Aluminium...

Students growing involvement in drugs becoming is worrying — NACOC Deputy DG

The Deputy Director General in charge of Enforcement, Control and Elimination at the Narcotics Control Commission (NACOC), Alexander Twum-Barimah, has expressed concern over the...

Ghanaian twins who drowned in Spain laid to rest

Eleven-year-old Ghanaian identical twins, Emery and Emmett Acheampong, have been laid to rest in Spain after their tragic death in the Ter River in...

623 Ghanaians qualify for free passport replacement after June 29 floods – Ablakwa

Minister for Foreign Affairs Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa has announced that 623 Ghanaians affected by the June 29 floods have qualified for the government’s free...

Ibrahim Mahama denies interest in acquiring VALCO, threatens legal action over claims

Businessman Ibrahim Mahama has denied claims that he is seeking to acquire the Volta Aluminium Company Limited (VALCO), describing the allegations as false and...

272 Ghanaians recruited into Russia-Ukraine war since 2022, about 55 dead – Ablakwa

Minister for Foreign Affairs, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, has revealed that an estimated 272 Ghanaians are believed to have been drawn into the ongoing Russia-Ukraine...

Foreign Affairs Ministry providing consular support to detained Asante Akyem North MP – Ablakwa

The Minister for Foreign Affairs, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, has confirmed that the government is providing consular assistance to the Member of Parliament for Asante...

Body of xenophobic attack victim from South Africa arrives in Ghana, awaits second

The government of Ghana has confirmed receiving the remains of one of two Ghanaian nationals killed during the recent wave of xenophobic violence in...

How Ghana ushered in the television era in 1965

Ghana officially entered the television broadcasting era with the launch of its first national television service, a landmark project valued at 3.35 million cedis. The...

Ashanti NPP constituency chairmen announce night vigil in honour of Chairman Wontumi

The Ashanti Regional Constituency Chairmen's Caucus of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) has announced plans to hold a night vigil in honour of the...

NDC supporters besiege Kasoa divisional police command over arrest of Zongo Ward Youth Organiser

Supporters and delegates of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the Awutu Senya East Constituency have thronged the Kasoa Divisional Police Command following the...

Government secures 200 jobs for returning Ghanaians evacuated from South Africa

The government has secured approximately 200 employment opportunities for Ghanaians returning from South Africa as part of efforts to support their reintegration following recent...

The Accra Strangler: Inside Ghana’s most notorious serial killing case

For nearly a decade, women in Accra and Kumasi were disappearing, found strangled — many stripped, some disfigured. Ghanaians, especially women, lived in fear,...

Maxima Media Group launches maiden edition of Foodies Choice Awards

Maxima Media Group has officially launched the maiden edition of the Foodies Choice Awards, a new Pan-African awards scheme aimed at recognizing excellence across...

GNAT urges teachers to embrace financial discipline amid rising debt concerns

The Nkwanta South branch of the Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT) has urged teachers to adopt sound financial management practices to address growing...

70-year-old woman found dead under mysterious circumstances in Eastern Region

A 70-year-old woman, identified as Afua Kyere, has been found dead under mysterious circumstances at Akyem Koforidua Akura, a suburb of Akyem Akroso in...

Kantanka family heads to court over Apostle Kwadwo Safo’s burial

Nana Kwadwo Safo Akofena I, Head of the Kantanka Family and Leader of the Kristo Asafo Mission of Ghana (KAMOG), has announced that the...

Gov’t urged to expand support to private schools as King Arthur International School marks 30th anniversary

Private educational institutions have called on the government to extend more support to private schools, arguing that they remain key partners in Ghana’s human...

PMSU-VALCO disassociates itself from protest, backs search for strategic partner

The Professional and Management Staff Union (PMSU) of the Volta Aluminium Company (VALCO) has distanced itself from the ongoing demonstration by some workers against...

Xenophobic attacks: Ramaphosa vows crackdown on perpetrators

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has assured that his government will take firm action against individuals involved in xenophobic attacks, stressing that violence and...

Bechem Omanhene calls for completion of abandoned St. Joseph’s College of Education projects

The Omanhene of the Bechem Traditional Area in the Ahafo Region, Nana Asiwobour Osei Bonsu III, has appealed to the government to urgently complete...

Government allocates GH¢50m for UMaT Kenyasi campus infrastructure – Haruna Iddrisu

The Minister for Education, Haruna Iddrisu, has announced that the government has allocated GH¢50 million through the Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETFund) to support...

NGO empowers 5,000 young women in five years, calls for more funding to expand

More than 5,000 young women across Ghana have been equipped with vocational and entrepreneurial skills over the past five years through the intervention of...

Bagbin cautions parents against sending children abroad too early

Speaker of Parliament Alban Bagbin has cautioned Ghanaian parents against sending their children abroad for education at a very young age, warning that the...

Students of Techiman-Krobo Nursing and Midwifery Training College protest over poor conditions

Students of the Techiman-Krobo Nursing and Midwifery Training College in the Bono East Region have staged a demonstration to protest what they describe as...

EXIM Bank case: NPP bigwigs storm court to support Wontumi (Video)

Several senior figures of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) were at the General Jurisdiction Division of the Accra High Court on Monday as...

Korle Bu to receive major diagnostic equipment upgrade under Mahama Cares

The Korle Bu Teaching Hospital is set to receive a major boost in its diagnostic and treatment capacity under the Ghana Medical Trust Fund...

Girls relying on men for sanitary pads – Patasie D/A headmistress bemoans rising teenage pregnancy

The Headmistress of Patasie D/A Junior High School in the Jacobu District of the Ashanti Region, Esther Nyame, has expressed concern over the rising...

Vote-buying undermines democracy and public trust – Chief Justice Baffoe-Bonnie

Chief Justice Paul Baffoe-Bonnie has cautioned that vote-buying poses a serious threat to Ghana's democracy, warning that the practice undermines democratic institutions and ultimately...

More Ghanaians evacuated from South Africa [Video]

A second batch of Ghanaians evacuated from South Africa has safely arrived in the country as the government presses ahead with efforts to bring...

Almost 80% of sachet water sampled contained bacteria — Study reveals

Ghana is facing a systemic food safety crisis, as there is widespread contamination across the country’s food production and distribution chain, the Ghana Medical...

Deadly Doses II: JoyNews investigation uncovers disturbing shift in Ghana’s growing drug crisis

A year after JoyNews’ Deadly Doses investigation exposed the thriving drug ghettos of Thinker Island and Columbia in the Ashanti Region, a follow-up has...

Deadly Doses II: ‘Infused noodles’ hit food joints as drug abuse takes new twist

Psychiatrist Dr Ruth Owusu Antwi has raised concerns over a trend in Ghana's growing drug crisis, revealing that some drug users are mixing narcotic substances...

Environmental advocacy group accuses security personnel of extortion from miners

Environmental advocacy group, Green Traceability Minds Foundation, has accused some security operatives of extorting money from licensed small-scale and cooperative miners, describing the practice...