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Man beheads mother at Asamankese

A 41-year-old man, Kwaku Appau, popularly known as Kwaku Bankye has allegedly beheaded his mother at Asamankese in the Eastern region. The suspect, who an...

Two dead in tricycle clash at Kpandai

Two persons are feared dead in a tricycle clash on the Kpandai-Salaga road in the Northern Region. According to an eyewitness who spoke Adom News,...

ECG urged to immediately resolve prepaid card meter billings

The Institute for Energy Securities wants the Electricity Company of Ghana to immediately resolve issues with prepaid card meters and billings. According to the IES,...

Two persons battling for their lives over an antelope

Two persons are said to be battling for their lives after sustaining life threatening injuries after chasing and knocking down an antelope. The incident is...

Market fire: Tema traders cry for protection

Traders in Tema are calling on security agencies to protect their shops from the rampant fire outbreak in the country. In an interview on Adom...

Kiva Foundation blesses widows with cash, food items ahead of X’mas

Charity organisation Kiva Foundation has donated some food items and cash to some widows ahead of the Christmas holidays. According to the Chief Executive Officer...

GIBA condemns post-election attacks on media houses and journalists

The Ghana Independent Broadcasters Association (GIBA) has criticised the physical and verbal attacks on media houses and journalists after the December 7, general election. In...

Passengers escape death as VIP bus burns beyond recognition [Photos+Video]

About 34 passengers onboard a VIP bus with registration number GT 4159 have escaped death after the vehicle caught fire. The incident occurred...

ECG must undo illegal connections at market places – Fire Service

The Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS) has called on the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) to undo illegal connections at market places to avert...

US-based Ghanaian surgeon pleads guilty to federal healthcare fraud

US-based Ghanaian cardiovascular surgeon, Dr Moses DeGraft-Johnson who was earlier this year charged for participating in a federal healthcare fraud has pleaded guilty. The 46-year-old...

NPP maidens call for MCE’s ‘head’ over hotel comments

New Patriotic Party (NPP) maidens under the women’s wing in the Kpone-Katamanso constituency have descended heavily on Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) of the area,...

Fire destroys four-bedroom flat at Adansi-Asokwa [Photos]

Fire has run through a four-bedroom flat at Adansi Asokwa in the Ashanti Region destroying the entire edifice. Reports indicate the Fomena Fire Service was...

Fire guts Kaneshie market [Video + Photos]

A portion of the Kaneshie market in Accra has been gutted by fire. The news of the fire broke out in the early hours of...

2 policemen, civilian busted for attempting to sell weapons

Two police officers in active service and their civilian accomplice have been arrested for attempting to sell weapons to plain-clothed police investigators at Achimota. ...

Renowned businessman laid to rest [Photos]

It was a difficult moment for family and friends when renowned businessman, Atu Mould was laid to rest.  The 48-year-old, who is a nephew of...

Luv FM, Nhyira FM organise blood donation for KATH [Photos]

A blood donation drive by Luv FM and Nhyira FM in Kumasi, a subsidiary of the Multimedia Group attracted selfless voluntary donors. The regular blood...

Election 2020: NDC is being unreasonably greedy – Afenyo-Markin

The Effutu Member of Parliament (MP) says the National Democratic Congress (NDC) is being unreasonably greedy following the results of the 2020 general election....

Tamale NDC Chairman’s 413-acre rice farm set ablaze [Video]

Some 320 out of 413 acres of rice farm belonging to the Northern Regional Chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Ibrahim Mobila, has...

Traders displaced as fire guts shops at Asankragwa market

Traders have been displaced after fire razed through the Asankragwa market in the Amenfi West Municipality of the Western Region. Reports indicate the fire incident...

Election 2020 was not peaceful, free and fair as expected – Sammy Gyamfi [Video]

The National Communications Officer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has said the 2020 elections were not peaceful, free and fair as many have...

Rawlings’ burial: Paramount Chief writes to family

The Paramount Chief of the Tefle Traditional Area in the Volta Region, Togbe Nakakpo Dugbaza VIII, has made an appeal to the family of...

Artisan remanded over sex with minor

A 34-year-old artisan, Carlos Kofi Apeti, is said to have allegedly lured a 14-year-old girl into a wooden structure at Mempeasem, near East Legon...

GIPC, German Cooperation sign €762,300 financing agreement

The Ghana Investment Promotion Centre (GIPC) has signed a €762,300 financing agreement with the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development to help...

Police chase election violence suspects

The Ghana Police Service is pursuing all suspects identified to be involved in violent activities, including the discharge of firearms during the December 7,...

Set up independent body to investigate police over … – Agalga

The Minority Spokesperson on Defence and Interior says an independent body must be set up to investigate several electoral deaths in which the police...

Young Health Advocates pay courtesy call on presidential advisor on HIV in Ghana

A delegation from Young Health Advocates Ghana (YHAG), a national network of young people working to prevent HIV among young Ghanaians under the auspices...

Meet the lawyer whose fees were paid by Dr Bawumia

A lawyer, who was recently called to the bar, Akbar Yussif Rohullah Khomeini, has showered praises on Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia for paying...

Residents sit on time bomb amid rains, chocked, dirty and smelly gutters [Photos]

The rainy season is here again and residents, who have erected property along drainage lines have, as expected, begun feeling jittery. What are their fears?...

Kantamanto traders hail Bawumia over this…

Traders at Kantamanto within the Central Business District of Accra have hailed Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia and the government for providing them with...

CID investigates Techiman South electoral violence

The Criminal Investigations Department says it is still conducting investigations to unravel persons behind the shooting which lead to the death of two persons...

Mahama, Jane Naana storm Central Police Station

It was a joyful moment when the Presidential Candidate of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), John Mahama and his running mate, Prof Jane Naana...

Arrest Mahama – Parliament’s Defense committee

Vice-Chairman of Parliament’s Defense and Interior Committee, Collins Owusu Amankwah, is calling on the security agencies to arrest the presidential candidate of the opposition...

Savelugu shooting: Police give update on chief, NDC candidate over weapons [Listen]

JoyNews/AdomNews · POLICE ON SAVELIGU SHOOTING The case involving a Savlugu chief and a parliamentary candidate of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), who were arrested...

Kandahar boys, others storm NDA over employment

Kandahar Boys, a Tamale-based vigilante group, believed to be affiliated to the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), has attacked the Northern Development Authority (NDA). The...

Protestors arrested for unlawful assembly at EC office granted bail

The Adjabeng Court has granted bail to some supporters of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) arrested for unlawful assembly at the Electoral Commission's (EC)...

Why Otchere-Darko wants Mahama to concede after EC’s verdict

Gabby Asare Otchere-Darko, a leading member of the New Patriotic Party, has advised National Democratic Congress' (NDC) flagbearer, John Dramani Mahama to concede defeat...

Fresh trouble for journalist who threatened Akufo-Addo

The Attorney-General (A-G) has dragged a journalist with Accra-based Power FM, Oheneba Boamah Bennie, who insulted and threatened President Nana Akufo-Addo to court for...

Mahama briefs Secretary-General of The Commonwealth on election results declared by the EC [Photos]

Former President and flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), John Dramani Mahama, has shared photos after he met with the Secretary-General of The...

Electrician’s wrist chopped off over hen coop [Video]

A 32-year-old electrician, Mohammed Muntala, whose wrist was chopped off in an altercation, is seeking justice. The electrician, narrating his ordeal to Joy...

NPP identifies ‘crucial factors’ that accounted for lost seats in Central Region

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Central Region says it has identified some crucial factors that accounted for the loss of many of...