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Kabaka Foundation aims to build hospital to serve as Medical Tourism Centre

The struggle by residents of Kwahu-Nkwatia and its environs to access healthcare will soon be a thing of the past. This is because the area...

Suhum: Kwadjo Asante charges BECE candidates to be confident

Kwadjo Asante, the Member of Parliament (MP) for Suhum constituency in the Eastern Region, on Monday, November 15, 2021, visited the various examination centres...

Guan DCE dies after 11 days in office

The District Chief Executive (DCE) for the newly-created Guan District in the Oti Region, Marlon Anipa has passed on. His sudden demise occurred on Tuesday...

Rest well ‘my special one’ – Ofosu Ampofo eulogises Dzifa Attivor

Chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Samuel Ofosu Ampofo, has paid a glowing tribute to former Transport Minister, Dzifa Attivor. According to him, Madam...

20 pregnant girls write BECE in Effutu

More than 20 pregnant girls are among a total of 1,758 candidates writing the exams at centers ‘A’ and ‘B’ in Winneba. The total number...

12 teachers arrested over BECE malpractice

Eleven teachers and a headmaster have been arrested for alleged malpractice in the 2021 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE). They were arrested by security...

Male candidates dominate BECE in Northern Region

Statistics from the Northern Regional Educational Directorate indicate that male candidates outnumber their female counterparts in the ongoing Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE). Out of...

Don’t politicise tidal waves disaster – V/R House of Chiefs

President of the Volta Regional House of Chiefs, Togbe Tepre Hodo has entreated politicians to desist from capitalizing on the recent tidal waves that...

Rev Owusu Bempah, three others served witness statements

Reverend Isaac Owusu Bempah of the Glorious Word Power Ministries and some three other persons from his church, who allegedly assaulted police officers have...

Good news for NABCo trainees

The Secretariat of the Nation Builders Corps, NABco, has directed trainees of the programme to remain at post. It said the directive comes after a...

School Feeding boss urges caterers to live up to expectation

The National Coordinator of the Ghana School Feeding Programme (GSFP), Gertrude Quashigah, has strongly urged non-performing caterers to up their game or risk being...

Abortion complications killed 311 Ghanaian women in 2019 – GHS

A total of 311 women died in 2019 from complications of abortion, accounting for 9.2% direct maternal deaths in Ghana. The Ghana Health Service (GHS)...

2021 BECE: Wenchi Municipal records 18 absentees first day

A total of 18 students in the Wenchi Municipality of the Bono Region were absent on the first day of the Basic Education Certificate...

Angry residents besiege Police station to demand release of suspect who shot MOMO vendor dead [Video]

Some angry youth of Sehwi Juaboso Nkwanta in the Western North Region have stormed the Juaboso police station to demand the release of a...

Police recruitment: Good news for qualified applicants

The Ghana Police Service wishes to inform all applicants who qualified under the Medical professionals and Lawyers categories of the 2021 Police recruitment exercise...

Saboba Tragedy: Minister warns teachers [Audio]

JoyNews/AdomNews · Saboba Tragedy: Minister sends strong warning to teachers Deputy of Education Minister, Rev. John Ntim Fordjour, has sent a strong warning to teachers...

Saboba boat disaster: More trouble for headmaster

The Director-General of the Ghana Education Service, Professor Kwasi Opoku Amankwa, has hinted that the headteacher at the center of the drowning of nine...

VRA sends strong warning ahead of Ameri Power Plant relocation to Kumasi

The Volta River Authority (VRA) has cautioned farmers working on a fifteen-acre of land allocated for the Ameri Power Plant to desist from cultivating...

56% of Ghanaians confident in Ghana Police Service under Dampare – Survey

In observing the Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Dr George Akuffo Dampare’s first 100 days in office, the Bureau of Public Safety has released a...

Ibn Chambas sends important message to ECOWAS leaders

The Former United Nations Special Representative of the Secretary-General for West Africa, Mohammed Ibn Chambas has said that the recent wave of military takeovers,...

Five Konongo Odumase SHS students denied bail

The Konongo District Court has denied bail to the five students arrested for their roles in the death of a student of Konongo Odumase...

BECE 2021: Five nursing mothers, 4 pregnant girls write at Akrofuom

Four pregnant girls are taking part in the 2021 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) at the Akrofuom SHS Centre 'A' in the Adansi Akrofuom...

Two Chinese nationals fined Ghc2.8m over illegal gold deal

A Tarkwa Circuit Court, presided over by Her Honour Hathia Ama Manu, has convicted two Chinese nationals, Chen Hung, Labania and Chen Xhili Andy...

Barber, 23, jailed 114 years for sodomising 12 boys

A 23-year-old old barber, Kwame Amponsah, has been jailed 114 years by the Mpraeso Circuit Court for allegedly sodomizing 12 Schoolboys at Atawase, a...

Asantehene urges immigration service to be extra vigilant at the borders [Video+Photos]

The Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, has urged the Ghana Immigration Service to tighten security at the country’s borders. He made the remarks when the...

GIJ postpones re-opening of 2021/2022 academic year

The Management and the Academic Board of the Ghana Institute of Journalism (GIJ) has postponed the commencement of the 2021/2022 academic year to January 10,...

7 burnt to death in gory accident

No fewer than seven people were on Saturday night burnt to death in an accident that involved two vehicles around Sandrete Ogunmakin area, on...

3 students collapse as fire guts parts of Osino SHS

Fire has gutted the storeroom of Osino Senior High School (SHS) in the Fanteakwa South District in the Eastern Region. Three female students, who reportedly...

65-year-old mother, son electrocuted as house submerges in water [Video]

https://youtu.be/73HtJu9WVQI A 65-year-old mother and her 38-year-old son have been electrocuted to death after their house submerged in floodwater at Kasoa Old Barrier in the...

Headmaster in Saboba drowning incident remanded into prison custody

A Tamale Magistrate Court has remanded the headteacher of the St. Charles Lwanga R/C Junior High School into prison custody. Lawyers for the accused,...

Covid-19: Ghana’s death toll now 1,207

The Ghana Health Service (GHS) says the country has recorded 1,207 Covid-19 related deaths since its first case in March 2020. The Service’s latest update...

Saboba drowning: The lifeless body of my son broke my heart – Father

The distraught father of a 15-year-old boy who drowned in the Oti River while returning from his headmaster’s farm has narrated how the lifeless...

Saboba drowning: Education Watch commends GES, Police for swift action against headmaster

Education think tank, Africa Education Watch, has commended GES and the Police for the arrest of the Headmaster of St Charles Liwanga R/C JHS...

Headmaster in Saboba drowning incident to appear in court today

The Headmaster of the St Charles Liwanga R/C Junior High School in the Saboba District of the Northern region who took students to his...

LGBTQ+ Bill: Archbishop of Canterbury eats humble pie

Senior bishops of the Anglican Church in the United Kingdom (UK) and Ghana have agreed that although human dignity is always paramount, cultural and...

Students of Charles Liwanga JHS who drowned in Oti River buried

The nine students of St Charles Liwanga R/C Junior High School (JHS) in the Saboba District of the Northern region who drowned in the...

No leakage in this year’s BECE – WAEC assures

The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) says it has put stringent security measures in place to prevent leakages of this year’s Basic Education Certificate...

We didn’t present 7 mattresses to tidal waves victims – NADMO

The National Disaster Management Organization (NADMO) has denied claims that it presented only seven student mattresses to victims of last Sunday’s tidal waves attack...

Teachers who use students as farmhands risk losing their licences – DCE

The District Chief Executive for Saboba District, Bingrini George, has said the District Security Committee (DISEC) is set to meet with the Ghana Education...

Govt to partner Zoomlion to transform waste sector – Minister

The Savannah Regional Minister, Saeed Muhazu Jibril has renewed the government's commitment to continue to partner with Zoomlion in order to transform the waste...