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Why we didn’t get to spend much time with our father – Zanetor Rawlings explains

Daughter of late Jerry John Rawlings, Dr Zanetor Agyeman-Rawlings, says she and her siblings could not spend enough time with their late father because of...

Photos: Vigil held in honour of Rawlings

A vigil was held in honour of late Jerry John Rawlings at the Air Force Officers Mess in Accra. This was after a Catholic requiem...

Forgive Rawlings – Archbishop Palmer Buckle

The Archbishop of the Cape Coast Archdiocese, Most Rev. Charles Gabriel Palmer-Buckle has called on Ghanaians to forgive late former President Jerry John Rawlings. "Beloved, if...

Photo: Nana Konadu Agyemang Rawlings weeps

Former First lady was at the requiem mass held for her husband, late former President Jerry John Rawlings at the Holy Spirit Cathedral in...

Requiem mass for Rawlings at Holy Spirit Cathedral [Photos]

President Akufo-Addo on Sunday led government delegation to bid farewell to late President Jerry John Rawlings. He was accompanied by First lady, Rebecca Akufo-Addo, Vice...

Livestream: Requiem mass for Rawlings at Holy Spirit Cathedral

The four-day state funeral of former President Jerry John Rawlings begins today, Sunday, January 24, 2021, with a service at the Holy Spirit Cathedral. This...

Coronavirus: Oti Region confirms two new cases

The Oti Region has confirmed some new cases of Covid-19. This was announced in a press release signed by the Director of Health Services...

Bring Rawlings’ body home – Group appeals

The people of Anlo have petitioned Torgbui Agbesi Awusu II, the Awadada of Anlo to demand that the body of former President Jerry John...

Operation Calm Life personnel extorted ₵1000 from me – Man alleges

One Abeku Adams Ekumfi on Facebook has shared the story of how his friend was forced to give ₵1000 to members of Operation Calm...

Akatsi police arrest members of cattle rustling syndicates

Akatsi Police have arrested two suspected members of a cattle rustling syndicate and saved some of the animals. The suspects, identified as Gariba Ali and...

64-year-old woman burnt alive

Police in Nakpanduri in the Bunkpurugu District of the North East Region is on a hunt for two suspects who set a 64-year-old woman...

Coronavirus: Ghana records more than 600 daily infections

Ghana's COVID-19 active cases have seen a further surge to 2,799 on Saturday following the confirmation of 635 new cases of infections.This is from...

Rawlings’ state funeral begins today

The funeral rites of late former President Jerry John Rawlings begins today, Sunday, January 24, 2021. He will be laid-in-state from today to January 26,...

Akufo-Addo’s speech at the 58th ECOWAS Ordinary Session

Opening Statement By The President Of The Republic Of Ghana, And Chair Of The ECOWAS Authority, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, At The Virtual Summit...

Death-trap school building collapses on boy, 13 [Video]

 A death-trap school building of the New Nsuta Junior High School (JHS) in the Obuasi Municipality of the Ashanti Region has collapsed on a...

Taxi driver shot dead at Mmoatiakrom

A taxi driver, identified as Culture, has been shot dead at Mmoatiakrom, a community near Dunkwa-On-Offin in the Upper Denkyira East Municipality of the...

Articulated truck kills truck pusher at Mankessim

A 40-year-old truck pusher, popularly known as Taller, has met his untimely death after an articulated truck run over his head at Mankessim in...

2 injured after building collapse at Adabraka [Video]

https://youtu.be/lWi3pFQlw-I Two persons are currently battling for their lives at the Greater Accra Regional Hospital after part of an uncompleted two-storey building collapsed on them. The...

200 arrested at Tesano for breaching Covid-19 protocols

Police at the Tesano Police Station have arrested 200 persons in the area for failing to wear facemask in public areas. Speaking to JoyNews, the...

Six dead, others injured in fatal accident at Mpaha junction

Six persons have been confirmed dead with five injured in a fatal accident at Mpaha junction in the Central Gonja district of the Savannah...

Man kills friend over GH¢10 debt at Assin Awisem

Bright Ofori, also known as T.I, unemployed, has been remanded into prison custody by the Twifo-Praso Magistrate’s court for allegedly killing his friend, Mohammed...

‘I used to call myself Covid police until I let my guard down’

Several citizens began flouting the Covid-19 safety protocols when the country saw a decline in cases in the last quarter of 2020. However, after the...

Coronavirus: Two students of St. Francis Xavier Minor Seminary test positive

JoyNews/AdomNews · 2 students of St. Francis Xavier Minor Seminary in Wa test positive for Covid-19 Two students of the St. Francis Xavier Minor Seminary...

Security man allegedly kills brother’s wife, stabs sister [Video]

A security man, believed to be in his 30s, has allegedly killed his brother’s wife and stabbed his sister who is currently...

Covid-19: GHS announces 658 new cases

Ghana continues to witness a steady rise in its Covid-19 active cases in recent weeks with the country confirming 658 new cases on Friday. This...

Suspected West Hills Mall employment fraudster arrested

A man suspected to be a member of a syndicate of fraudsters who use Accra’s major malls to extort money from young, unsuspecting job...

Cloth for Rawlings’ funeral pops up; check out name [Photo]

A new textile print has been introduced for the funeral of former President Jerry John Rawlings. The theme for the wax print is Odupɔn bi...

UCC student wows girlfriend with ‘kokonte’ [Watch]

A student from the University of Cape Coast (UCC), who returned to school recently, has been seen in a video that is fast going...

Boy, 13, burns beyond recognition in Buipe toll bridge fire

Another fire outbreak at the Buipe Toll Bridge in the Central Gonja District of the Savannah Region has burnt a 13-year-old boy, Ibrahim Musah,...

Buried body exhumed in Wa

The buried body of a 30-year-old man has been exhumed at Kpaguri in the Wa Municipality of the Upper West Region. The body was said...

Profile: Samuel A. Jinapor, Lands and Natural Resources Minister-designate

Samuel A. Jinapor is a politician, a dedicated member of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), and a qualified Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme...

Why Oti Regional Minister nominee is trending

President Nana Akufo-Addo has won many hearts on social media after appointing Joseph Makubu as the Oti Regional Minister. This is because the young man,...

License of doctors involved in baby-selling syndicate revoked

Operating licenses of doctors who have been implicated in an undercover investigation by the Medical and Dental Council (MDC) Ghana and the Economic and...

Coronavirus: Three inmates in Walewale police cells test positive

Three inmates in the Walewale police cells in the North East region have reportedly tested positive for Covid-19. The three are Miftaw Ibrahim, 22, Musah...

Taxi driver accused of killing son remanded

The Goaso Magistrate Court in the Ahafo Region has remanded into prison custody a 42-year-old taxi driver for the alleged murder of his son. The...

My mum forced me to go in for men for my upkeep – teenage mother

A 13-year-old teenage mother, only identified as Gifty, has recounted how her mother forced her to go in for men for her upkeep. Gifty got...

Naval officer, several others run over by articulated truck in Takoradi [Video]

A naval officer sustained varied degrees of injuries after an articulated truck run over a parked Pontiac Vibe vehicle with registration number, WR 72-12...

Man, 24, arrested for killing friend over GH¢10.00

A 24-year-old unemployed, Bright Ofori, has been arrested after he allegedly clubbed to death 35- year-old Muniru Mohammed Haddi at Assin Awisem in the...

Ghana Registered Nurses and Midwives Association wants all staff tested

The Ghana Registered Nurses and Midwives Association (GRNMA) has called for the testing of staff at health facilities for Covid-19 as primary sufferers in...

Prof Azar reacts to Amoako-Tuffour’s death

A lawyer and economics professor, Professor Stephen Kwaku Asare, has reacted to the sudden demise of the founding member of the New Patriotic Party...