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Why govt can’t deal with Sputnik V producers directly [Audio]

JoyNews/AdomNews · Why govt can't deal with Sputnik V producers directly Government's inability to procure the Sputnik V vaccines directly from the Russian government has...

Assin North MP yet to be served a week after court’s order

The Assin North legislator, Joe Gyakye Quayson, is yet to be served a week after a High Court in Cape Coast ordered his service,...

Teachers to boycott class as residents turn school into toilet facility [Video]

Teachers at Mosama Primary School, Sankore in the Asunafo South District of the Ahafo Region, have threatened to boycott teaching as residents in the...

Allow your children to do music if they have the talent & interest – Okyeame Kwame [Video]

Rapper Okyeame Kwame has urged parents to allow their kids to venture into music if they have the interest or talent. According to him, music...

Allotey Jacobs drops bombshell on TB Joshua, Atta Mills’ relationship

Social commentator, Allotey Jacobs, has made a shocking revelation about late televangelist Prophet T.B. Joshua's relationship with late ex-President Atta Mills. Before his demise on...

The boy in PRESEC uniform but never a ‘real student’ – The story of Afriyie-Ankrah

“I went to the United States at age 17 after my secondary school education at Okuapeman but came back to continue my A’ levels...

Woman forced to deliver on the road as gunmen rob commuters

A robbery at Nweneso in the Atwima Kwanwoma District of the Ashanti Region has reportedly forced a woman in labour to deliver on her...

George Andah installed chief [Photos]

Former Member of Parliament for Awutu Senya West, George Kojo Nenyi Andah, has been installed as acting Akyempim Odefey of the Senya Beraku Traditional...

Japan Motors support ‘Let’s make Accra work’ campaign with Yamaha ‘AG125’ motorcycles

Japan Motors Trading Company Limited (JMTC) has donated three brand new Yamaha AG125 Motorcycles to the Accra Regional Co-ordinating Council to support the ‘Let’s...

Akufo-Addo launches Ghana Enterprise Agency

President Nana Akufo-Addo, has launched the Ghana Enterprises Agency (formerly NBSSI), the National Micro, Small and Medium-Scale Enterprises (MSMEs) and Entrepreneurship Policy, and the...

Drobo chiefs petition NMC over Jaman Radio’s alleged attacks

The Drobo Traditional Council in the Jaman South Municipality of the Bono Region has expressed its displeasure over what they described as a deliberate...

Govt justifies purchase of Sputnik V vaccines

Government says it rather successfully negotiated downwards the price of the Sputnik V vaccine from a higher price to 19$. A statement issued by the...

Prophet Nigel Gaisie predicts own death [Audio]

Popular Ghanaian Prophet, Nigel Gaisie, claims God he knows when he would die as a result of a revelation made to him by God. "I...

Health Ministry to respond to allegations of over-priced Sputnik vaccine

The Ministry of Health (MOH) has revealed it will in due course respond to allegations surrounding the purchase of Sputnik vaccines into the country....

Truck full of yam plunges into Oti River [Video]

A truck full of yam has plunged into the Oti river at Dambai in the Krachi East Municipality of the Oti Region. The incident, according to...

Mother cries for help to locate missing boy in Offinso

A young woman is pleading for assistance in locating her four-year-old son. The boy has been missing for nearly two weeks at Offinso in the...

Three arrested over burglary at Awutu Akrampa

The Awutu Breku District police command has arrested three persons in connection with a burglary at Akrampa in the Awutu Breku of the Central...

Four dead, others injured in head-on collision at Kwanwoma

Four persons have died with two injured in a head-on collision involving two trucks at Kwanwoma in the Ashanti Region. According to a witness, one...

Journalism student who was declared missing found dead

A student of GH Media, who was declared missing some weeks ago, has been found dead. Priscilla Tsegah, alias Kiki, was declared missing after her...

I’ll not recuse myself – Judge to Opuni

A second push by lawyers for former Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) Chief Executive Officer, Dr Stephen Opuni, to have the judge hearing his criminal...

N/R: Man to commit suicide if police fail to arrest rapists who killed her daughter

An 18-year-old girl has died after an alleged rape at Safam, a farming community in the Savelugu Municipality of the Northern Region. She is said...

16,000 agribusinesses remain closed in Ghana – New survey reveals

COVID-19 has affected almost all sectors of the economy and agribusiness is no exception. New data on the impact of the pandemic on agribusinesses in...

Tema residents cough blood, suffer nose bleeding [Video]

Residents at Tema Community 7 in the Greater Accra Region are complaining about what they term as excess poisonous smoke from an industry within...

Retired police officer allegedly defiles granddaughter at Kasoa Ofaakor

A-72-year-old retired policeman, Chief Inspector Larbie, has been arrested by theKasoa Domestic Violence and Victims Support Unit of the Ghana Police Service for allegedly...

Fight against terrorism a collective one; ECOWAS will assist Burkina Faso – Akufo-Addo

The Chairperson of the Authority of Heads of States and government of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo,...

First witness in treason trial appears in court

Colonel Isaac Amponsah, in charge of the Military Academy Training School, one of the first witnesses in the alleged treason trial involving Dr Frederick...

Forestry Commission to plant 5 million trees under Green Ghana project

JoyNews/AdomNews · Forestry Commission to plant 5 million trees The Forestry Commission, through the Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources, has launched the Green Ghana...

Your statement is full of grammatical errors – #Fixthecountry convenor fires police

JoyNews/AdomNews · Ernesto Yeboah fires Ghana Police Service Pressure group #FixTheCountry is treating the order by the Ghana Police Service not to demonstrate with 'the...

Reasons for #FixTheCountry protest not compelling – Police

The Ghana Police Service says the reasons given by some Ghanaians for a need to hit the streets to demand better living conditions are...

Shortage in gas supply to blame for Monday’s power outage – GRIDCo

The Ghana Grid Company Limited (GRIDCo) has attributed Monday night’s power outage in some parts of the Greater Accra Region to shortage in gas...

Corruption Watch: Exposé in ‘Pay or Die documentary’ a tip of the iceberg – Public Health expert

JoyNews/AdomNews · Health expert wants NHIS policy reviewed Retired Public Health expert, Dr Oben Apori, is not surprised pregnant women are made to pay for...

30-year-old man arrested for allegedly killing taxi driver

Police in the Ashanti Region have arrested a murder suspect, Emmanuel Asare Bediako, aged 30, at Amanfrom CPC in Kumasi. Mr Bediako is suspected to...

Police send strong message to #FixTheCountry protesters

The Ghana Police Service has said the #FixTheCountry protesters can still not hold their demonstration despite a Supreme Court ruling in their favour. According to...

Jobs created by Akufo-Addo will shock you

Deputy Minister-designate for Employment and Labour Relations, Bright Wireko-Brobby says the Akufo-Addo government has created over 3.8 million jobs since 2017. According to him, the...

One shot dead, 6 injured in robbery at Gomoa Manso [Photos]

One person has been shot dead in a robbery at a sand winning site at Gomoa Manso in the Gomoa Central District of the...

Woman stabs lover to death after being denied grasscutter soup

Police at Abesim in the Sunyani Municipality have arrested Hilda Asumani, a 27- year-old hairdresser, for allegedly stabbing her boyfriend, Prince Yaw Aboagye, to...

Govt given 7 days to reconstitute expired university councils

The Minority in Parliament has given government a seven-day ultimatum to constitute new governing councils for all public universities across the country after their...

CLOGSAG threatens to strike over pension contributions

Members of the Civil and Local Government Staff Association of Ghana (CLOGSAG) say they will lay down their tools in two weeks if the...

NLC summons striking Universities’ Senior Staff

The National Labour Commission (NLC) has summoned the striking Universities' Senior Staff (SSA) to appear before it on Wednesday, June 9, 2021. The meeting has...

Drama in court as Ghanaian wife of convicted Chinese illegal miner pleads for leniency

There was drama at the court complex in Kumasi when the Ghanaian wife of a convicted illegal Chinese immigrant stormed the venue with their...