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Gabby reacts to penis-shaped coffin

A leading member of the New Patriotic Party, Gabby Otchere-Darko, has reacted to a coffin-shaped penis in a viral video. He claimed the coffin is...

Court issues bench warrant for alleged coup plotter

The High Court in Accra has issued a bench warrant for the arrest of Warrant Officer II (WOII) Esther Saan Dekuwine for failing to...

Two robbers arrested, one shot dead in Wa

The police have arrested two persons in the Upper West Region for allegedly robbing and injuring two victims. A press release issued by the Police...

Volta region: One dies in Fumeve storm surge

Residents of Fumeve in the Volta Region say a 50-year-old man had died during last week’s storm surge. Akpalogo Amevornyagbo a fisherman and talented singer...

Saboba DISEC, GES to discuss sanctions for teachers who use students as farmhands

The District Chief Executive (DCE) for Saboba District, Bingrini George, has indicated that the District Security Committee is set to meet with the Ghana...

Koku Anyidoho writes: Let us not call it a Presidential Jet: Let us name it “The EAGLE”!!!

Fact has it that, “Air Force One”, is technically a radio call name, for any plane on which the President of the United States...

There is nothing homegrown about bill that seeks to criminalise LGBTQ+ – H. Kwasi Prempeh

The Executive Director of the Centre for Democratic Development (CDD), Professor H. Kwasi Prempeh, has added his voice to calls against the passage of...

Bawumia lauds religious leaders for Ghana’s peace

The Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, has commended Muslim and Christian leaders in Ghana for their immense contributions to religious tolerance and peace in...

Victor Smith recounts how US forced Rawlings to return Ghana to democracy

Former Ambassador to the United Kingdom, Victor Smith, has told the story – as he says was told him privately by former president Jerry...

Retired fire officer arrested over GHC56K recruitment fraud

A 62-year-old female retired fire officer has been arrested by Police in Eastern Region for allegedly defrauding several people to the tune of GH¢56,...

Armed robbers engage miners in gun battle, 3 dead

Three people have been shot dead while six others are in critical condition after armed robbers attacked and exchanged fire with Small scale miners...

MoMo vendor arrested over fake robbery attack

A mobile money operator has been arrested by Police in Koforidua for allegedly faking a robbery attack after Ghc10,000 loss. The teenage mobile money vendor...

68 inmates killed in prison riot

Ferocious clashes have left 68 inmates dead in an Ecuador prison, police said Saturday, in the latest unrest at a Guayaquil jail that was...

Boy dies as van crashes into wall during police chase

A 17-year-old boy has died after the van he was in crashed into a wall during a police chase. A white Citroen Berlingo van was...

OPASS student dies after punishment

A form two student of Ofori Panin Senior High School (OPASS) in the Eastern Region has died.The General Arts student, Andrews Appiah Tinkorang alias...

If you can’t provide relief items, at least visit tidal waves victims – Mahama

Former President John Mahama has reiterated calls on the government to show more sympathy to residents on Keta-Aflao stretch affected by severe tidal waves. Speaking...

Ambulance personnel escape armed robbery attack amidst gunshots

Two ambulances narrowly escaped a robbery attack after being shot at in the early hours of Saturday, November 13th, 2021, at around 1:00 am...

Three killed as armed robbers engage miners in gun battle at Adaboi

Three persons have been shot dead after suspected armed robbers attacked and exchanged fire with a group of Small Scale miners at Adaboi in...

Man found dead at Kasoa-Obom station

A man has been found dead at the Kasoa-Obom station in the Central Region. The deceased, who is yet to be identified, was found in...

Anti-LGBTQI bill: Ghana Catholic Bishops’ Conference appeals to Ghanaians

The Ghana Catholic Bishops’ Conference (GCBC) has appealed to all Ghanaians to support the Proper Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Family Values Bill of...

Headmaster of St. Charles Liwanga R/C JHS arrested

The Headmaster of St. Charles Liwanga R/C Junior High School (JHS) has reported himself to the police. The police are currently detaining him to assist...

Seven JHS pupils die after boat capsised on Oti River

Seven pupils of the St. Charles Liwanga Junior High School in the Saboba District of the Northern Region are feared dead after one of...

Five arrested as police raid gun manufacturing ‘enterprises’

The Bono East Regional Police Command has arrested five persons alleged to be in the business of illegally manufacturing guns at Kintampo in the...

Kasoa: 25 suspected internet fraudsters remanded [Video]

https://youtu.be/5AjLrJ2XsHA The Awutu Ofaakor Circuit Court in the Central Region has remanded into police custody for two weeks, 25 suspected internet fraudsters. This was...

Kumasi police investigate latest robbery at food joint

Police in Kumasi are investigating the latest robbery incident at the Ayigya suburb, where machete-wielding men attacked the Pico food joint in the Top...

Gone but not forgotten – Akufo-Addo remembers Rawlings a year on

President Nana Akufo-Addo has eulogised the late president Flt Lt. Jerry John Rawlings. In a tweet made in the afternoon of Friday, November 12, 2021,...

7 pupils drown when returning from headmaster’s rice farm

Seven pupils of the St Charles Liwanga Junior High School in the Saboba District of the Northern Region have drowned after one of the...

Two MPs in near fisticuffs over Keta tidal waves [Video]

A photo used by the Majority Caucus in Parliament on the issue of tidal waves, which has devasted communities in the Volta Region, nearly...

Tidal waves: Eminent Voltarians mobilise relief items for victims

Some eminent Ghanaians, who hail from the Volta Region, are mobilising funds for victims of Sunday’s tidal wave. Head of Marketing and Communications at Stanbic...

Mentally challenged man allegedly kills grandparents in their sleep [Video]

https://youtu.be/9FoClX2_qt4 A 48-year-old mentally challenged man, Fredrickson Erickson Kwadwo Kyere, has attacked and killed his grandparents at Sunyani Newton in the Bono Region. The deceased, identified...

Police give more details on missing Lands Commission employee

It has emerged in court that a lecturer at KNUST used his wife, Rhodaline Amoah-Darko’s phone to send messages to family members, friends and...

Husband of missing Lands Commission employee charged with kidnapping

The husband of a missing Lands Commission employee in Kumasi has been remanded in police custody by the Asokwa District Court in Kumasi. Dr Wilberforce...

Rawlings’ death: Mahama, Bawumia, other officials join family to mark first anniversary [Photos+Video]

https://youtu.be/1qLvmc0VSOs Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia and former President John Mahama, joined the family of late ex-President Rawlings to commemorate the first year of his...

First class graduate crushed to death

Two brothers met their untimely death on Monday, November 08, 2021, when they had head-on collision with a market truck after they were returning...

It’s been a difficult 12 months for us – Rawlings’ family

The family of the late Jerry John Rawlings says “it has been a difficult 12 months” because the former President is not physically present...

Breman Jamara: Tears as mothers whose kids were killed in building collapse recount incident [Audio]

JoyNews/AdomNews · Breman Jamara: Tears as mothers whose kids were killed in building collapse recounts incident Some women at Breman Jamera in the Odoben Brakwa...

Rawlings compares only to late British PM, Sir Winston Churchill – Amidu

Former Special Prosecutor, Martin Amidu, says no other Ghanaian President can compare to former President Jerry John Rawlings’ exhibition of the highest degree of...

Passage of LGBTQ+ Bill will affect Ghana’s fight against AIDS – Commission warns

JoyNews/AdomNews · Ghana’s fight against AIDS will suffer if Parliament passes anti-LGBTQ+ bill - Commission warns The Ghana AIDS Commission has warned that Ghana’s fight...

Breman Jamera classroom project: Chief’s emotional appeal 4 years after building collapsed on six pupils [Photos+Audio]

JoyNews/AdomNews · Chief’s emotional appeal 4 years after building collapsed on six pupils The chiefs and people of Breman Jamera in the Odoben Brakwa District...

Huawei, Rebecca Foundation begin coding and fintech training in rural areas

Huawei Ghana, in collaboration with Rebecca Foundation, has begun a digital technologies training in Coding and Financial Technology (Fintech) for Junior High School (JHS)...