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COVID-19 protocols for Ghanaian travellers reviewed

Management of the Kotoka International Airport have revised the COVID-19 protocols for travellers arriving in Ghana following the upsurge of the disease. Ghanaian residents, who...

J.B. Danquah-Adu’s death: Wife drops short message 5 years after murder

Wife of the murdered Abuakwa North Member of Parliament (MP), J.B. Danquah-Adu, Ivy Heward-Mills, has lamented over the delay in justice for her late...

Police arrest armed robbery gang after gun-battle at Haatso

The Accra Regional Police Command on Monday engaged in a gun-battle with four suspected armed robbers at Haatso in Accra killing one of them,...

Man slashes lover over farmland [Video]

A heated argument between two lovers, Abena Ataa and Akwaboah, over farmland has ended in the former hospitalised at Amenfi Central. The woman said their...

Musician stabbed to death in Cape Coast

Dancehall artiste, Emmanuel Aikins, 28, known in music circles as ‘Unrully Crank’ died after he was allegedly involved in a fight with his colleague...

Security guard killed as robbers raid Filling Station

Three suspected robbers attacked a filling station at Ashongman Monday dawn and allegedly killed a private security man on duty. The robbers locked up two...

NPP Youth Organiser suspended!

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) Youth Organiser for the Nabdam Constituency in the Upper East Region, Lawrence Agengre, has been suspended. His suspension comes on...

Police Service clears air on viral video of officer ‘poisoned’ by colleagues

The Ghana Police Service (GPS) has reacted to a viral video suggesting that an officer was poisoned to death by his colleagues during a...

Covid-19: 23 schools in Accra, other regions record cases

Some 23 schools in the Greater Accra Region have recorded 56 cases of coronavirus. A number of cases have also been recorded in Senior High...

Two JHS pupils thought to have been kidnapped found with their boyfriends

Two female pupils of the St. Louis Junior High School (JHS) in Kumasi, who were allegedly kidnapped have been found with their boyfriends, Police...

Dzodze chiefs beg Akufo-Addo over this…

The chiefs and queen mothers of the Dzodze Traditional Area in the Ketu North Municipality have called on President Nana Akufo-Addo to consider the...

Soldier battling for his life after six policemen beat him to pulp [Listen]

JoyNews/AdomNews · military OFFICER BEATEN SPEAKS A soldier, identified as Sergeant K.K., is battling for his life after six policemen attacked and beat him to...

Coronavirus: 13 tertiary institutions record cases

The Chairman of Vice-Chancellors Ghana, Professor John Owusu Gyapong, has revealed that active Covid-19 cases recorded in some of Ghana’s universities are...

Badly decomposed body found in poultry farm

Residents of Kwanteng, a farming community near Goaso in the Ahafo Region, have been forced to live in hell over the smell of a...

Kumasi traders to embark on strike

Traders at the Kumasi Central Market are threatening to boycott activities in protest of what they claim to be their relocation with no adequate...

Coronavirus: U.S Embassy in Ghana postpones scheduled visa appointments

The United States(US) Embassy in Accra has postponed some of its scheduled visa appointments to prevent a spread of coronavirus. The Embassy made this known...

New shocking twist to ambulance driver killed by robbers [Listen]

JoyNews/AdomNews · AMBULANCE STORY Chief Executive Officer of the National Ambulance Service, Professor Ahmed Zakariah, says armed robbers, who shot and killed an ambulance driver,...

Explosion kills mother, injures husband and baby

A mother has died with her husband and baby injured in an explosion at Abogri in the New Juaben South Municipality of the Eastern...

George Andah blesses Awutu Senya West constituents with polytanks, others [Photos]

Former Member of Parliament (MP) for Awutu Senya West, Nenyi George Andah, has warmed the hearts of constituents with his kind gesture. The former Deputy...

Two JHS pupils allegedly kidnapped

Police in the Ashanti Region have mounted a search for persons believed to be behind the alleged kidnapping of two female pupils of the...

Bees raid parts of Assin-Fosu township, 2-year-old injured

A large swarm of bees in the early hours of Sunday, February 7, attacked some residents of New-Town, a suburb of the Assin-Fosu Municipality...

I have bought several coffins even as a Muslim – Former MP reveals

 Former Member of Parliament (MP) for Akwatia in the Eastern Region, Baba Jamal, has detailed some sacrifices he made as a Ghanaian lawmaker. According to...

Good news for doctors and dentists

The Ministry of Health has announced the recruitment of Medical Doctors and Dentists from Tuesday, February 9, 2021. The outfit has indicated the recruitment...

Angry Kintampo traders seize 10 trucks of imported tomatoes

Ghana could face shortage of tomatoes in the coming days as tomato traders at Kintampo have impounded 10 trucks of tomatoes from neighboring countries...

Two ‘okada’ riders die in tragic accident

Two persons died on the spot on Sunday after they collided head-on with their motorbikes at Wenchi. The deceased were from Wurompo Akete to...

‘Self-medication adding to risk of COVID-19 morbidity’

The acting Director of the Ghana Infectious Diseases Centre (GIDC), Dr Joseph Adjetey Oliver-Commey, has advised the public against self-medication and rather seek early...

Family, colleagues of murdered ambulance driver demand justice

Family of the murdered ambulance service driver, who was shot by suspected armed robbers while on official duty, is calling for an expedited investigation...

I talk to my children about s3x every day – Okyeame Kwame

Rapper Okyeame Kwame says he educates his two children, 11-year-old Sir Bota Nsiah-Apau and nine-year-old Sante Nsiah-Apau, about sex every day. According to him, he...

Man, 60, bribes girl, 14, with GHS5 to defile her

Family members of the 14-year-old-girl who was allegedly defiled by a 60-year-old are demanding justice at the Awutu Ofaakor Circuit Court in the Central...

Coronavirus: 7 more deaths recorded; active cases now 6,411

Seven more persons have succumbed to the deadly coronavirus, according to the Ghana Health Service (GHS). The service, in its latest update, indicated that 765...

KNUST loses research scientist and advocate for traditional medicine

Management of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) has expressed shock at the demise of Professor George Kuffour, a renowned research...

Driver trapped dead as saloon car collides with articulated truck

A driver of a saloon car has died after his car crashed head-on with an articulated truck on the Teacher Mante New Town Community...

Mixed feelings greet announcement of demise of Osu Mantse

Sources close to the Osu Palace have expressed displeasure at the swift media reports that Nii Okwei Kinka Dowuona VI, President of the Osu...

Tipper truck kills beautiful girl in kitchen

A tipper truck has crushed a 22-year-old Senior High School leaver, Anita Asieduwaa Ama Nkrumah, to death. The beautiful lady was in a kitchen...

Meet Abena, the young girl who lives at the cemetery with her boyfriend (Video)

https://www.youtube.com/embed/SZY0GimLxM8 Many find love at functions such as funerals and other social events. But, young Abena found love at a place no one will think...

Joyce Bawah Mogtari: We shall someday be heeded, and everybody will think it was always so

On January 20, 2021, the world witnessed a spectacle as never before. Billions stayed glued to their TV sets while others watched via the internet,...

Volta Region records 281 active cases of coronavirus

Ho Municipal recorded some 89 active cases followed by Hohoe with 71 active cases, denoting 15 out of the 18 districts having seen active...

Hairdresser arrested for locking up police, ECG officials

A 28-year-old owner of a hairdressing salon at Amakom in Kumasi, Akwasi Asiamah, is in the grip of the police for locking up a...

Ambulance driver shot by armed robbers has passed

The ambulance driver, who was shot by armed robbers while conveying a pregnant woman in labour, has died at the Korle-bu Teaching Hospital in...

Three arrested for illegal mining, 4 excavators set ablaze in Western North Region

Some three persons have been apprehended for engaging in illegal mining activities in the Bibiani Anhwiaso Bekwai forest reserve in the Western North Region. Head...