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Driver, mate injured in accident on Tema Motorway

A driver and his mate have been injured in an accident on the Tema-Accra Motorway. The accident occurred on Wednesday, April 28, 2021, on the...

Video of Agradaa being baptised in her swimming pool causes commotion

Fetish priestess Nana Agradaa has been baptised as a Christian, a video that has just surfaced online has shown. The video shows Agradaa was...

APEC Congratulates John Kumah on his appointment as Deputy Minister

The Association of Past Executives and Coordinators-Ashanti (APEC-ASHANTI), has congratulated Hon. John Ampontuah Kumah on his recent appointment as Deputy Minister-designate for the Ministry...

Massive shake-up hits Immigration Service

The Ghana Immigration Service (GIS) has made a massive shake-up of its top Senior Officers in a bid to strengthen its Operations in the...

COVID-19: Ghana records 8 more deaths, active cases now 1,583

The Ghana Health Service (GHS) has indicated that eight more Ghanaians have succumbed to the Covid-19 pandemic. In its latest update on its website, the...

COVID-19: Ministry of Foreign Affairs issues travel alert

The Ghana Health Service has advised Ghanaians to either cancel or postpone all non-essential travels to countries with high COVID-19 infection rates. A statement from...

Four-year-old boy found dead in tenant’s room [Photo]

A four-year-old boy has been found dead in the room of a tenant at Boete in the Obuasi East District of the Ashanti region. The...

Ghana not experiencing nationwide load-shedding – Energy Ministry

The Ministry of Energy has dismissed claims that the country is experiencing a nationwide load-shedding of electricity. In a statement dated April 29, 2021 the...

Man, 20, arrested for stealing nine goats [Video]

https://youtu.be/T_w4axeibys A 20-year-old man is in the grips of the Berekum police in the Bono region for stealing goats. According to reports, the suspect, Augustine Nsor...

Police officer jailed for killing man after pushing man off motorbike

A police officer stationed at Kajebi in the Volta Region has been sentenced to 30 months imprisonment by the Ho Circuit Court for negligently...

340 suspected criminals arrested in Kasoa [Photos]

The Central Regional Police Command has arrested 340 suspected criminals at Kasoa in the Central Region, Thursday, April 29,2021. The arrest, according to the police,...

Govt declares Monday, May 3 public holiday

Monday, May 3, 2021 is to be observed as a statutory public holiday, the Interior Ministry has said. This, according to a statement from the...

British Council Country Director passes on

The British Council Ghana has announced the sudden death of their Country Director, Alan Rutt. In a Facebook post Thursday, the British Council, said Mr...

Ramadan: Muslim MPs meet with Methodist Church over Wesley Girls’ refusal for students to fast

The Muslim Caucus in Parliament has held a meeting with the leadership of the Methodist Church in Ghana concerning the refusal of school authorities...

Darkness in a lighthouse (Part 3): “Bishop Dag prayed for strength for me to divorce my wife”

In Part 1 of the “Darkness in a Lighthouse” series, The Fourth Estate examined the alleged failure of Lighthouse Chapel International (United Denominations Originating from the...

Meet Prof. Gyampo’s father as he celebrates his birthday

Senior lecturer at the University of Ghana’s Political Science Department, Prof Ransford Gyampo, has shared a photo of his father as he celebrates his birthday....

Nungua: Drunk driver runs into JHS pupils; kills one, injures 2 others

Three pupils of an International School at Nungua became victims of an alleged drunk driving when a vehicle driven by a man suspected to...

Road to becoming evangelist: Agradaa burns her idols [Video]

Born-again fetish priestess, Patricia Asiedua, also known as, Nana Agradaa, has fulfilled her promise to burn all her deities following her conversion to Christianity. Nana Agradaa...

Repair works begin on Ho-Accra Highway following JoyNews report

The Ghana Highways Authority has begun repair works on the damaged section of the Ho-Accra Highway in the Volta Region.  The Authority contracted Zylodor Construction...

JB Danquah murder trial: Driver denies conspiring to kill his boss with others

The driver of murdered J.B. Danquah Adu, Member of Parliament for Abuakwa North, has told an Accra High Court that he knew nothing about...

Two shot as armed robbers attack fuel station near Gomoa Ojobi

Two persons have sustained gunshot wounds in a robbery attack near Gomoa Ojobi in the Gomoa East District of the Central Region. The robbers attacked...

This photo of Akufo-Addo posing with Charlotte Osei stirs reaction

President Nana Akufo-Addo and former Electoral Commission (EC) Chairperson, Mrs Charlotte Osei recently met at the Jubilee House. The two met when Mrs Osei, who is...

Most students want compulsory sexual consent test before starting university, think tank finds

Most students want to be tested on their understanding of sexual consent before going to university, a survey suggests. The study by think tank the...

2 suspected kidnappers nabbed in Darkoman

JoyNews/AdomNews · Darkoman police arrest 2 men who attempted to kidnap a 4-year-old girl in the community A 4-year-old girl has escaped suspected kidnapping at...

More than 1.3m expiring vaccines in DRC to be re-distributed to Ghana, 5 others

More than 1.3 million AstraZeneca vaccines delivered to the Democratic Republic of Congo on March 4, 2021, are to be re-distributed to Ghana and...

Full text: Dr Owusu Afriyie Akoto’s address at RE: Akoto Memorial Lectures

SPEECH DELIVERED BY HON. DR. OWUSU AFRIYIE AKOTO ON THE OCCASION OF THE 2021 RE: AKOTO MEMORIAL LECTURES The Chairman of the Council of State,...

Galamsey: 2 Chinese nationals arrested, 6 others and 2 Ghanaians flee cops

Two Chinese nationals have been arrested for illegal small scale mining by the Wassa East District Security Council and the Ghana Police Service in...

Vehicle of popular NPP man involved in accident, two dead [Photos]

A driver of a Yutong bus who made a wrong overtaking has led to the death of a 45-year-old man and a 12-year-old girl...

AfCFTA Secretariat, travelers question efficacy of Covid-19 tests at KIA

The Secretariat General of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), Wamkele Mene has tested negative for Covid-19 after an earlier PCI test at...

‘Maame water’ took 3 friends of mine undersea; only 1 returned – Ex-hairdresser [Video]

A Ghanaian hairdresser who quit her job has opened up on why she made the tough decision. The lady said she had to quit...

Western North RCC offices: 23 farmers receive compensation for lands

Twenty-three farmers have received compensation for their lands which they gave up for the construction of the Western North Regional Coordinating Council (RCC)'s offices. Even...

We can’t take child beggars – Social Welfare explains

The Department of Social Welfare (DSW) has said the Madina Social Welfare Shelter in Accra is not in the position to take in child...

Bawumia celebrates Otumfuo as he celebrates 22 years on Golden Stool

Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia has prayed for God’s blessings for Asantehene Otumfuo Osei Tutu II as he celebrates 22 years on the Golden Stool. The...

Woman stabbed to death with trousers ripped off

A woman in her fifties has allegedly been murdered at Maakro Junction in the Suame Municipality of the Ashanti region. The deceased, yet to be...

A/R: Chief priest allegedly killed by wife

The Chief Priest of Mpasaso No 2 in the Ahafo Ano South West District of the Ashanti Region has allegedly been murdered by his...

NSS releases codes for 2021/2022 service personnel

Management of the National Service Secretariat (NSS) has announced the release of pin codes of 110,009 eligible Ghanaians for the 2021/2022 service year enrolment. All...

Shop attendant found dead at Lapaz; police suspect murder

A phone shop attendant believed to be in his 20s has been found dead at Lapaz near the Fidelity bank in Accra. The victim...

Why young pastors get disappointed in Ministry – Bishop Titi-Ofei reveals

If you enter into ministry expecting to be successful overnight, get ready to be disappointed, Bishop Titi-Ofei has said. According to the Presiding Bishop of...

Irate Zongo youth clash with police over arrest at Kyebi

Irate Zongo youth at Kyebi in the Eastern Region have clashed with police over the arrest of three persons on Tuesday evening. The arrest follows...

What I see in Ghana now is bizarre culture of intolerance – Otchere-Darko

Founder of the Danquah Institute, Gabby Asare Otchere-Darko, has bemoaned the bizarre culture of intolerance in Ghana. According to Gabby, there is a group of...