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Provide breastfeeding corners at workplaces – UNICEF, GHS advocate

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has partnered the Ghana Health Service (GHS) to advocate for baby-friendly environment for lactating mothers at workplaces. The objective...

NUGS chases Students Loan Trust Fund over non-payment of loans for 2 years

The National Union of Ghana Students (NUGS) has expressed worry about the inability of the Student’s Loan Trust Fund (SLTF) to fulfill its financial...

Condoms, aborted babies choke Lavender Hill sewage treatment plants

Engineers at the Mudor Waste Water Treatment Plant have disclosed that foreign materials including condoms, sanitary pads and remains of aborted babies are damaging...

Akufo-Addo leaves for North Carolina, London

President Nana Akufo-Addo left Ghana on Thursday, 31st March 2022, for Charlotte, North Carolina, in United States of America, and for London in...

Govt intends to plant more trees to mitigate climate change – Abu Jinapor

Minister for Lands and Natural Resources, Samuel Abu Jinapor, has revealed the government’s intention of planting more trees as part of the plans put...

Why Ghana cannot ban rice importation – Agric Minister explains

JoyNews/AdomNews · Why Ghana cannot ban rice importation Ghana does not have the capacity to ban the importation of rice, Minister for Food and Agriculture,...

Stop ‘unlawful extradition’ of Nigerian national to US – Lawyer prays court

A private legal practitioner, Ralph Poku Adusei, has filed an application at the High Court seeking to stop what he says is an illegal...

Ghana gets $100 million from food exports – Agric Minister

The Minister for Food and Agriculture, Dr Owusu Afriyie Akoto, has revealed Ghana got $100 million from food exports in 2019. According to him, the...

I use magic cream to attract men – Sex worker reveals

Not all that glitters is gold, so if you get your orgasm from commercial sex workers, you may want to rethink your source of...

Increasing number of young persons diagnosed with stroke – Korle-Bu Stroke Unit

Doctors at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital’s Stroke Unit have disclosed that more young persons are now being diagnosed with stroke. According to the Head of...

Two dead, 3 including fire officer in critical condition in accident on Cape Coast Highway [Video]

https://youtu.be/b-aBLc_Gn_U Two persons have died on the spot, with three others including a fire officer in critical condition following an accident on the Kasoa Cape...

EcoZoil decries filthy state of beaches in Ghana

EcoZoil, a subsidiary of Jospong Group of Companies (JGC), has decried the lack of regular cleanups of the country’s beaches over the past years. General...

Dawhenya residents clash with soldiers, police over land [Video]

Residents of Dawhenya have threatened to fight military and police personnel for destroying property on their lands. According to the residents who spoke on Adom...

Galamsey fight: Govt to compensate Ntoboroso residents

Some residents of Ntoroboso in the Atwima Mponua District of the Ashanti Region, who had their property accidentally destroyed during an operation Halt II...

2 busted for posing as ECG staff

Two persons, who posed as staff of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) and allegedly extorted money from some customers, have been arrested. The suspects,...

Yaw Oppong assumes office as Director of Ghana School of Law

Legal practitioner Yaw Oppong is assuming the role of Director of the Ghana School of Law (GSL) today, April 1. He takes over from Kwasi...

Video of man assaulting a street preacher goes viral

Social media users have mounted a search for a man who was captured assaulting a preacher on the street. In the trending video, the man...

Why is #Where’sPartey trending on Twitter?

A tweet by Bleacher Report Football presenting some stars to expect at the 2022 World Cup has stirred up controversy. On March 31, Bleacher Report...

Adom FM donates Event Park to Kwawu Obomeng

Adom 106.3 FM, a subsidiary radio station of the Multimedia Group Limited (MGL) has donated an Event Park to the chiefs and people of...

Price of bread to go up in Kumasi

Prices of bread are expected to increase on the market as bakers complain of hikes in cost of ingredients. They say the prices of flour...

2 robbers jailed 30 years each

An Accra Circuit Court has sentenced two persons to a total of 30 years imprisonment each in hard labour, however, one was sentenced in...

I was arrested and deported to Ghana for using a suspect’s work documents – Ghanaian reveals

USA-based Ghanaian, Henry Agyapong, has revealed that he got arrested in the UK for using a Ghanaian suspect’s work permit.In an interview on SVTV...

Akufo-Addo, Bawumia, other officials join Education Minister to bury mother [Photos]

The final funeral rites of Obaapanyin Yaa Nkrumah, the mother of Education Minister, Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum, has been held. The ceremony took place...

Ghana receives €44.7m grant for irrigation infrastructure

Ghana’s quest to build robust irrigation infrastructure in the northern part of the country has received a boost with the receipt of a grant...

Fire guts church, mechanic shop, and chop bar at Awoshie Mangoase

Fire has gutted a mechanic shop at Awoshie Mangoase in Accra. The fire, which caught the community’s attention around 5:15 am on Friday, spread...

Ghana Armed Forces clears air on alleged recruitment

The Ghana Armed Forces (GAF) has dismissed reports of recruitment and enlistment exercise. The outfit in a public notice on its Twitter page indicated...

Sea to swallow Osu Castle, Nkrumah Mausoleum, Independence Square ‘soon’ – Researcher

A new study conducted by the Director, Institute for Environment and Sanitation Studies of the University of Ghana, Prof Kwasi Appeaning Addo, reveals that...

Sachet water to sell at ¢0.40, a bag goes for ¢8 effective today

Sachet water price is expected to increase from today, April 1. According to the National Association of Sachet and Packaged Water Producers, the new price...

Documents were forged to implicate me in Capital Bank collapse – Witness tells court

Businessman Dr Tetteh Nettey has made serious allegations about how he got involved in the Capital Bank case. He alleges that officials of the collapsed...

How my father impregnated me, aborted pregnancy – Survivor

A 20-year-old girl (name withheld) on Thursday told a Court how her biological father, Akin Isaac, allegedly impregnated her and aborted the pregnancy. The News...

Free SHS: Institute for Transgenerational Leaders’ lecture honours Akufo-Addo [Photos]

The Institute for Transgenerational Leaders has held a public lecture in Accra to honour President Nana Akufo-Addo over the free Senior High School (SHS)...

GMWU reacts to EIGWU’s ‘mistreating of Newmont Ghana workers’ allegation

The Ghana Mineworkers Union (GMWU) has cleared the air on some allegations leveled against them by the Extractive Industry Workers Union of Ghana (EIWUG). Executives...

Dr Lawrence Tetteh receives Hungary’s highest award

The President of Hungary, H.E. János Áder, has decorated the Founder and Leader of World Miracle Outreach, Dr. Lawrence Tetteh, an International Evangelist, with...

Ato Essien dishonestly took ¢130m from Capital Bank to set up another Bank – Prosecutor

Chief State Attorney Evelyn Keelson has alleged that founder of defunct Capital Bank William Ato Essien and businessman Dr Tetteh Nettey dishonestly took ¢130...

E-levy: Speak truth to power – GRA, technical partners told over implementation

JoyNews/AdomNews · GRA must speak truth to authority over implementation of E-levy – Telecoms Chamber The Ghana Telecoms Chamber has urged the Ghana Revenue Authority...

Reduce the size of govt to protect public purse – Prof Agyeman-Duah to Akufo-Addo

A co-founder of the Ghana Centre for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana), Professor Baffour Agyemang-Duah, has called for an immediate reduction in the size of the...

GPRTU suspends planned 15% increase in transport fares [Audio]

A planned further 15% increase in transportation fare has been suspended by the Ghana Private Roads Transport Union (GPRTU). Speaking shortly after a meeting involving players...

Gabby Otchere-Darko’s post about Otto Addo causes stir

New Patriotic Party (NPP) Stalwart, Gabby Asare Otchere-Darko, has sparked a conversation on social media with a post about Ghana coach, Otto Addo. Mr Otchere-Darko...

Unemployed nurses, midwives to embark on massive demo

A group calling itself unemployed nurses have declared their intention to embark on a massive demonstration over their postings. According to them, the demo...

Akufo-Addo to commission Nissan Vehicle Assembly Plant

President Nana Akufo-Addo will today, March 31, 2022, commission a Nissan Vehicle Assembly Plant in the Tema Industrial Area. This comes on the back...