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Full details of Agenda 111 project

President Nana Akufo-Addo on Tuesday, August 17, launched the Agenda 111 project. The project will cover the design, procurement, construction, equipping and commissioning of 101...

Land guard jailed for duping MP over land

An Accra Circuit Court has sentenced a land guard to four years imprisonment in hard labour for defrauding the Member of Parliament (MP) for...

Simulation exercise ahead of surgery for conjoined twins [Photos]

Ahead of surgery to be performed on the conjoined twins connected at the head, a team of nurses have embarked on simulation exercise at...

55-year-old man dies while fleeing COVID centre at Effia

A 55-year-old man slumped and died while attempting to escape from COVID-19 centre at Effia near Sekondi. The victim, Paulus Okine, was admitted at the...

University students want more time to prepare for exams as UTAG suspends strike

University students across the country are asking lecturers to give them more time to adequately prepare for their end of semester examinations. The students were...

We are happy with work of Adwoa Safo – School Feeding Caterers Association reacts to negative reports

The attention of the Leadership of the Ghana National School Feeding Caterers Association has been drawn to some unfortunate reports circulating on...

Hunters catch grasscutters at abandoned Fomena Hospital project site [Audio]

JoyNews/AdomNews · Hunters catch nine grasscutters in abandoned Fomena hospital project Hunters at Fomena in the Adansi North District in the Ashanti Region have reportedly...

Ghana to host 2022 OACPS fisheries summit

Ghana will in 2022 host the 7th meeting of the Organisation of the African, Caribbean and Pacific States (OACPS). The Executive Director of the Fisheries...

Report on Makola fire incident out

A report put together by a team tasked by the Accra Metropolitan Assembly to probe the fire incident recorded at the Makola market on...

Govt transports fertilisers to Northern Ghana to address food security

The National Food Buffer Stock Company has disclosed that fertilisers have been transported to the northern parts of the country to address the lack...

Ghana Health Service to begin mass drug administration for onchocerciasis

The Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) Programme of the Ghana Health Service (GHS) will from Monday, August 23 begin a Mass Drug Administration (MDA) for...

Meet the UG graduate who proudly sells spare parts at Abossey-Okai

Spare parts dealer, Paulina Adu, popularly known as ‘The Abossey-Okai Girl’, has shared how life as a female in a male-dominated workspace is for...

All is set for ‘open our land borders demo’

The Member of Parliament (MP) for Ketu South, Dzifa Abla Gomashie, is set to lead her constituents on a demonstration against Ghana's border closure. The...

Fuel attendant, two others arrested for robbing employer

A pump attendant at Bonsawire near Tarkwa in the Tarkwa-Nsuaem Municipality of the Western Region, who conspired with others to rob his employer, has...

‘Galamsey’ equipment destroyed on Ankobra River [Photos]

The Western Regional Minister, Kwabena Okyere Darko-Mensah, has led a team of police on an exercise to stop illegal mining activities on the Ankobra...

All the photos you need to see after Allotey Jacobs met Kufuor [Photos]

The former Central Regional chairman of the National Democratic Congress, Bernard Allotey Jacobs, has finally met former President John Agyekum Kufuor. Mr Jacobs revealed that...

Gold dealer, pastor shot dead by armed robbers [Photos]

Armed robbers have shot dead a gold dealer named Adu and a pastor of the 12 Apostles Church aka Nakaba at Wassa Juabo in...

Govt’s juicy plan for the mining sector [Read]

A Deputy Minister for Lands and Natural Resources, George Mireku Duker, says the government is poised to build local champions in the mining industry. According...

Moving vehicle catches fire on Legon road [Photos]

A driver of a Toyota Yaris escaped death when the vehicle caught fire and burnt beyond recognition on the Legon-Madina bypass. The incident occurred in...

Level 400 KNUST student allegedly commits suicide (Photo)

A level 300 student of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) has allegedly committed suicide at Adoato close to Bantama in...

40-footer container falls off truck at Kantamanto

A 40-footer truck loaded with second-hand clothing crashed into some stores at Kantamanto yesterday, Wednesday, August 18, 2021.The truck, with registration number GT 2875-10,...

Charlotte Osei shares her Afghanistan experience

Former United Nations (UN) Elections Commissioner in Afghanistan, Mrs Charlotte Osei, has praised Afghans for their hospitality despite the violence there. According to the former...

ECG asks Asawinso residents to pay 10 percent of debt before reconnection

The Sefwi-Wiawso District office of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) has asked residents of Asawinso disconnected over the debt owed the company to...

Agenda 111 project – Dr Nsiah-Asare reveals source of funding

JoyNews/AdomNews · Government to fund Agenda 111 project - Dr Nsiah-Asare Presidential Advisor on Health, Dr Anthony Nsiah-Asare, has said that the Agenda 111 hospitals...

Ghana must exploit and monetise her gas for industrialisation- NAPO

The Minister for Energy, Dr Matthew Opoku-Prempeh, has stated that the country’s huge gas reserves make it imperative for her to exploit and monetise...

Man who raped daughter to prevent spiritual calamity remanded

A man, who told his 16-year daughter that his pastor had directed him to have sex with her to spare their family of spiritual...

Ridge Hospital clears air on funds for separation of Siamese twins

The Medical Director of the Greater Accra Regional Hospital (Ridge Hospital), Dr Emmanuel Srofenyo, has cleared the air on funds for the separation of...

Agric Ministry to destroy 2 containers of Morroco tomatoes at Port

The Ministry of food and Agriculture (MoFA) says it would destroy two containers of tomatoes imported from Morocco at the Tema habour. This was announced...

Robbers attack anti-robbery police team

Some police officers deployed for anti-robbery duties in the Eastern Region were on Tuesday dawn attacked by a robbery gang. The robbers, allegedly wielding AK47...

UTAG agrees to call off strike

The University Teachers Association (UTAG) has agreed to suspend its strike following an emergency meeting with the National Labour Commission and the Ministry of...

Public Sector demo: Low turnout due to lack of funding – Leader explains [Audio]

JoyNews/AdomNews · Low turnout to Public Sector demo due to lack of funding The leader of the aggrieved public sector workers has explained the low...

Women lawyers bare teeth at ‘holy kiss’ priest

The International Federation of Women Lawyers (FIDA-Ghana) has condemned the Anglican Priest involved in the kissing incident at St. Monica’s College of Education. FIDA-Ghana, therefore,...

Sack Adwoa Safo – School Feeding caterers to Akufo-Addo

Some aggrieved caterers of the Ghana School Feeding Programme (GSFP) have made a fierce demand on President Akufo-Addo, to sack the Minister of Gender,...

Covid-19: Environmental officers suspend burial of dead bodies

The Environmental Health Officers Alliance Ghana (EHOAG) says it has suspended the burial of all persons who will die of Covid-19 in the country. The...

Low turnout at public sector workers’ demo [Photos]

The aggrieved public sector workers' demonstration recorded a low turnout as police personnel providing security outnumbered the protestors. The demo, which started at 9: 00...

Drop the cassock if you can’t stop kissing young girls— Bishop to kissing Anglican Priest

The Head Pastor and the Founder of Alabaster International Minis-Ines (Alabaster House Chapel), Prophet Kofi Oduro, has told the Anglican Priest, who was caught...

NRSA eulogises Koduah Atuahene for role in Authority’s transition

The National Road Safety Authority (NRSA) has conferred an honorary award on Kwame Koduah Atuahene for playing an instrumental role in its transition from...

Ken, Angela Ofori-Atta build flats for doctors

The Ken and Angela Ofori-Atta Foundation has handed over a newly completed six-unit accommodation facility to the Kyebi Government Hospital in the Abuakwa South...

Akufo-Addo eulogises Adu Boahen as he commissions durbar ground in his honour [Photos]

President Nana Akufo-Addo has heaped praises on a late founding member of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Prof Albert Kwadwo Adu Boahen for his...

Charlotte Osei sends message to churches over LGBT+ saga [Audio]

JoyNews/AdomNews · Charlotte Osei sends message to churches over LGBT+ saga Former Electoral Commission (EC) chair, Mrs Charlotte Osei, has waded into the ongoing debate...