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Covid-19: GMA makes shocking revelation about Delta variant [Listen]

JoyNews/AdomNews · Covid-19: GMA makes shocking revelation about Delta variant The Ghana Medical Association (GMA) has said the third wave of coronavirus infections driven by...

Latest on 2021/2022 nursing and midwifery admissions at 37 Military Hospital

The Nursing and Midwifery Training College of the 37 Military Hospital on Thursday announced that it would end the sale of online admission application...

At least 4 dead, others injured in fatal accident on Konongo road [Video]

At least four persons have been reported dead with others injured in a fatal accident on the Konong-Kumasi highway. The incident, according to reports, occurred...

38-year-old woman cut into 2 in fatal accident near Suhum

A 38-year-old woman has died after she was severed in a fatal accident at Krobom-Obretema near Suhum on the Accra-Kumasi highway. The deceased has been...

NACOC, police intercept 9,752 slabs of cannabis [Photos]

The Narcotics Control Commission (NACOC), in collaboration with the Volta Regional Police Command, has seized 9,752 slabs of cannabis. The seized items are estimated to...

IGP launches Horse Patrol Operations [Photos]

The Acting Inspector-General of Police, Dr George Akuffo Dampare, has launched the Horse Patrol Operations as part of efforts to strengthen the resolve to...

Chief remanded for raping his sister-in-law

A 42-year-old sub-chief at Gomoa Buduatta in the Central Region has been remanded into police custody for allegedly raping his sister-in-law. The Awutu Bereku District...

COVID-19: GHS to begin offering Johnson & Johnson vaccine shots from Friday

The Ghana Health Service (GHS) is expected to begin giving out jabs of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine against the COVID-19 virus in the...

Akwamuman SHS wins 2021 0nga Art Cook Competition

The third edition of Onga Cook Art, a second cycle culinary contest came to a successful end with Akwamuman SHS emerging as champions. This was...

COVID-19 is no respector of persons – Hassan Ayariga preaches after near-death experience

Founder and Leader of the All People's Congress (APC), Hassan Ayariga, has joined the COVID-19 awareness campaign. This was after his near-death experience after being...

Nurse accused of replacing COVID-19 vaccines with saline solution

Authorities in Northern Germany have appealed to thousands of people to get another shot of the Covid vaccine. This was after a police investigation found...

Judges, magistrates and police must experience prison life – Justice Kulendi

Supreme Court Judge, Yonny Kulendi, says the difficulty in justice delivery in the country can be reduced when agents including judges, magistrates and police...

Mining firm guards allegedly assault worker to death at Manso-Asamang

A 27-year-old man is alleged to have been assaulted to death by guards of a Community Mining firm at Manso-Asamang in the Amansie West...

8 districts record Covid-19 Delta Variant cases in Western Region

The Western Regional Health Promotion Officer says eight Districts in the Region have recorded the Covid-19 Delta Variant cases. Daniel Bomfeh said the Regional Covid-19...

Kadjebi records increases in HIV/AIDS cases

The Kadjebi District in the Oti Region has recorded 66 new HIV/AIDS cases as of June 2021 compared with 51 cases recorded in the...

Deputy Majority Leader confirms receipt of $2.4m refunded by Sheikh Al Maktoum

Deputy Majority Leader in Parliament, Alexander Afenyo-Markin, has confirmed that the United Arab Emirates-based agent in the botched attempt to procure Sputnik V vaccines...

Fixing Ghana is a collective responsibility – Chief of Chiraa to Ghanaians

The Chief of the Chiraa Traditional Area in the Sunyani West District of the Bono Region, Nana Afari Mintah, has told Ghanaians that Ghana...

Attorney-General commiserates with Justice Marful-Sau’s family

The Attorney-General and Minister for Justice has eulogised the late Justice Samuel Marful-Sau, describing him as an excellent Common Law judge with immense intellectual...

Shell to pay $111m over 1970s oil spill in Nigeria

Oil giant Shell will pay a Nigerian community $111m (£80m) over an oil spill more than 50 years ago. A spokesman said the payment would...

Kaaka’s murder: No show for suspects as docket is forwarded to A-G’s office [Video]

Relatives of three accused persons standing trial for the murder of social media activist, Ibrahim Mohammed at Ejura, were left disappointed as the court...

Landlord jailed for renting out facility without toilet

A landlord has been sentenced for renting out his building without a toilet facility to tenants. Abdulai Maman pleaded guilty with an explanation that he...

French Ambassador apologises after hosting Sam George

The French Ambassador to Ghana, Anne Sophie Ave, has rendered a public apology after hosting Member of Parliament (MP) for Ningo Prampram, Sam George,...

ECG’s procured prepaid metres worth ¢59m not in use after 5 years – Auditor-General

It has emerged that the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG), between 2014 and 2016, procured prepaid meters and conductors worth ¢59 million, but the...

Man found dead in uncompleted building [Photos]

A middle-aged man has been found dead in an uncompleted building at Adweso Estate near the Trinity Presbyterian Church of Ghana in the New...

Heavy traffic on Tema Motorway as trailer, other cars are involved in accident

There is heavy vehicular traffic on the Tema Motorway after a Tema-bound tractor-trailer skidded into the middle of the road. This has made it difficult...

Robbers on raping spree at West Mamprusi

Residents in communities along the Wulugu - Kpasenkpe road in the West Mamprusi Municipality of the North East Region are calling on the Inspector-General...

Speaker Bagbin sends important message to Ethiopian MPs

Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin, has charged some Ethiopian Members of Parliamet (MPs) to disregard the negative aspects of the country’s democracy and take...

Dubai Sheikh refunds Ghana’s money after botched Sputnik vaccine deal

The Emirati at the centre of the botched Sputnik V vaccine deal, Sheikh Ahmed Dalmook Al Maktoum, has fulfilled his promise to refund $ 2,470,000 to...

Ghana Immigration Service repatriates 76 illegal immigrants

The Ghana Immigration Service has repatriated some 76 illegal immigrants suspected to be recruited as internet fraudsters. The immigrants, which consist 72 Togo nationals and...

Kofi Dzamesi appointed CEO of Bui Power Authority

President Nana Akufo-Addo has appointed Samuel Kofi Dzamesi as the new Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Bui Power Authority. The immediate past Minister for...

Food shortage hits Damongo SHS [Photos]

Over 1,800 students at Damongo Senior High School (SHS) in the West Gonja Municipality of the Savannah Region are worried as the school is...

Woman claims her sisters made her blind after a rich man promised to marry her at age 13

Visually impaired old lady, Portia Essah, lives alone in a village called Saakye in the Central Region and she claims that her sisters caused...

Akufo-Addo enstooled as ‘Nkosohene’ at Chiraa

President Nana Akufo-Addo has been installed as Nkosohene (Development Chief) by Nana Yeboah Pene, the Queen-Mother of Chiraa in the Sunyani West District of...

Groom whose wife refused to kiss him breaks silence [Video]

A young Ghanaian couple recently went viral after a video from their marriage ceremony popped up on social media. In the video, the bride, for...

1D1F: Akuapem Gold set to begin processing of avocado oil in September

Akuapem Gold Avocado Cultivation and Processing Limited, is set to start processing oil from avocado as well as export the raw fruit beginning September...

Bibiani Degede wife killer arrested [Photo]

The 28-year-old man, who allegedly murdered his wife at Bibiani-Ahwiaso-Bekwai in the Western Region, has been arrested by the police. Emmanuel Okyere Baffuor was apprehended...

Lighthouse Chapel mounts defence against former pastors

The Lighthouse Chapel International (LCI) Ghana has mounted a defence against six former pastors who have, among other things, sued the church over Social...

ASEPA petitions Special Prosecutor to investigate Frontier Healthcare Services’ contract

Civil Society Organisation (CSO), Alliance for Social Equity and Public Accountability (ASEPA), has petitioned the Special Prosecutor to investigate the contract between Frontiers Healthcare...

NPP Chairman’s all-important message about Ghana’s youth

New Patriotic Party (NPP) Constituency Chairman for New Juaben North in the Eastern Region, Kwadwo Boateng-Agyemang, has called for a united front towards youth...

NYA to mark 2021 International Youth Day in style

The National Youth Authority (NYA) will on Thursday, August 12, 2021, hold a summit to commemorate International Youth Day. The event is scheduled for 10:00...