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Moses Foh-Amoaning’s harsh words to Gabby Otchere-Darko over LGBTQ+

Moses Foh-Amoaning has challenged Gabby Otchere-Darko to speak up on what he really believes when it comes to the LGBTQ+. He dared the politician to...

Review laws to criminalise homos3xuality – Chief Imam

The National Chief Imam, Sheikh Dr Usumanu Nuhu Sharubutu, has urged the government to consider the immediate review of the country’s laws to criminalise...

Boy, 19, allegedly sodomises four-year-old girl at Kasoa

A four-year-old girl is in ill health after a 19-year-old young man, Kwabena Dodzi, allegedly sodomised her in an uncompleted building. The mother of the...

Accra is on course in becoming cleanest city in Africa – Cecilia Dapaah

Sanitation and Water Resources Minister-designate, Cecilia Abena Dapaah, has said the government is on course in making the national capital, Accra, the cleanest city...

LGBTQI brouhaha: Pentecost elder makes ‘shocking’ revelation [Listen]

JoyNews/AdomNews · LGBTQI brouhaha: Pentecost elder makes shocking revelations An elder with the Church of Pentecost has said monitoring activities of Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer...

COVID-19: Ghana to receive first batch of vaccines on Feb 24

The Government of Ghana will on Wednesday, February 24, 2021, receive the first batch of the coronavirus vaccines at the Kotoka International Airport in...

Traders flee for their lives as fire guts part of Bole market

Traders were in outrage when fire erupted in some parts of the Bole market in the Savannah Region. According to the affected victims, the fire...

Fishermen Council sends important message over Hawa Koomson

The Ghana National Canoe Fishermen Council has reacted to the uproar that has greeted Minister-Designate for Fisheries and Aquaculture, Hawa Koomson. Traditional and social media have been inundated with...

What Akufo-Addo demands of the newly constituted Council of State

President Nana Akufo-Addo is demanding of the newly constituted Council of State honest and unblemished truth in engagements on matters of the state. He...

Govt ends double-track system

JoyNews/AdomNews · No double track for form ones – GES The Ghana Education Service (GES) will from this academic year suspend the double-track system employed...

Owusu Bempah warns LGBTQ+ community

Founder and Leader Of Glorious Way Church, Rev. Isaac Owusu Bempah, says although God is a forgiving God, homosexuality is a sin that he...

Foh Amoaning in trouble over anti-LGBTQI+ movement

The Association of African Albinos has expelled their leader, Moses Foh-Amoaning, for speaking against Lesbians, Gay, Bisexual Transgender and queer Intersex Rights (LGBTQI) movement...

Church of Pentecost okays COVID-19 vaccines

The Church of Pentecost has declared its support for the administration of any approved COVID-19 vaccine to fight the virus in Ghana. The church, in...

Two die in gory accident at Akuse Junction

Two male passengers died while many sustained injuries in a fatal accident that occurred Monday evening on the Tema to Akosombo Highway. The accident, which...

I will take COVID-19 vaccine publicly – Okudzeto-Ablakwa

Member of Parliament (MP) for North Tongu, Samuel Okudzeto-Ablakwa, has joined the campaign to educate the public about the COVID-19 vaccines ahead of the...

Let us be careful and not generate hate campaign against LGBTI – Gabby Otchere-Darko

New Patriotic Party (NPP) Stalwart, Gabby Asare Otchere-Darko, has advised Ghanaians to be careful and not generate hate against people of the LGBTI community....

The drink that changed my life – Lesbian narrates love story

A 21-year-old lady has opened up on her life as a lesbian and how a glass of drink has changed her life to date. According...

Two injured after truck rams into six cars, shop

A Kia Rhino truck fully loaded with bags of rice, on Monday run into six cars and injured two persons in the process at...

MP vows to resist plot to open LGBTQI office in his constituency

The Member of Parliament (MP) for Sefwi Akontombra constituency has vowed to lead a mammoth demonstration against an LGBTQI office yet to be opened. Alex...

COVID-19: Ghana records 5 deaths, active cases now 6,812

Ghana has recorded 506 new cases of the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) increasing the country’s cumulative cases to 80,759. The number of active cases as of...

Over 300,000 small businesses receive govt’s stimulus package

More than 300,000 micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) have accessed the special fund set up by the government to cushion businesses against the...

Man paraded for allegedly sleeping with sheep

A young boy is devastated after accusations of having sexual intercourse with a sheep at Asante Akyem. Now 21 years old, the suspect was...

M*sturbation: Addicted man pleads for help

A 25-year-old man, who claims to have been masturbating for 11 years now, wants to quit the act. The young man, who made a passionate...

COVID-19 vaccines safe, effective – FDA assures public

The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) says adequate safety and quality assurance has been done in authorising the two COVID-19 vaccines to be administered...

Another LGBTQI office pops up in Accra [Listen]

JoyNews/AdomNews · Kwabenya Traditional Council identifies ‘new’ LGBTQI The Kwabenya Traditional Council in the GA East Municipality of the Greater Accra Region has said it...

Parah Foundation provides water for Tinkong Tenurase village

The Parah Foundation, the Missions wing of the Remi Gharbin Ministries, has provided a mechanised borehole for the people of Tinkong Tenurase village in...

Power outage to hit parts of Accra, check out affected areas

Parts of the Greater Accra Region will today, February 23, 2021, experience a power outage from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm. The Electricity Company of...

I’m gay, fear forced me to deny it – Ghanaian journalist comes out on live TV

A Ghanaian journalist and LGBTQI+ activist has, for the very first time, openly declared he is gay. According to Ignatius Annor, he had kept his...

Govt reaffirms position on LGBTQI [Audio]

JoyNews/AdomNews · Government reaffirms position on LGBTQI Government has no intention to change Ghana’s position on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBTQI) rights. Information Minister-designate, Kojo...

Why a man married his wife’s niece will shock you [Video]

A man and wife are on the verge of divorce after the man elevated his wife's niece to the status of a rival. What started...

Traders whose items were destroyed by fire last year send a reminder to Akufo-Addo

Over 3,000 traders, whose items were destroyed in the inferno that razed down the Odawna market in November last year, are reminding President Nana...

Kejetia traders resist eviction from central market [Photos]

Traders at the Kumasi Central Market have embarked on a protest over claim they are being forcibly ejected without proper relocation arrangement by the...

Covid-19: Hospitals release autopsy reports for research

The Ga East and 37 Military Hospitals have released their Covid-19 autopsy reports for research purposes. The research conducted by 10 medical professionals was...

Death of 13-year-old girl: Family suspects rape and murder

The family of 13-year-old Akua Georgina has challenged reports she allegedly committed suicide in their compound at Konongo-Odumasi. The victim was found hanging by a...

Prof Gyampo wades into LGBTQI debate

A senior lecturer at the Political Science Department of the University of Ghana, Professor Ransford Gyampo, has condemned in no uncertain terms activities of...

My wife of 5 years doesn’t know I’m gay, I have no feelings for her – Man reveals [Audio]

JoyNews/AdomNews · My wife of 5 years doesn’t know I’m gay, I have no feelings for her – Man reveals A 35-year-old man, who claims...

Meet the Ghanaian engineer behind NASA’s robotic arm for Mars

Standing at the porch of his house in Ghana, as a young boy, Ashitey Trebi-Ollennu was fascinated by the planes that flew in and...

Why Akoto Ampaw wants Mahama’s review application dismissed [Audio]

JoyNews/AdomNews · Why Akoto Ampaw wants Mahama’s review application dismissed Lead Counsel for the 2nd Respondent in the 2020 Presidential Election Petition, Akoto Ampaw, has...

Police officer arrested for shooting into crowd on Accra-Tema Motorway

A police officer, who allegedly fired his pump action gun into a crowd of mourners and thereby injuring one person on the Accra-Tema Motorway,...

Opuni-Frimpong sends message to religious leaders over LGBTQI+

Former General Secretary of the Christian Council of Ghana, Dr Kwabena Opuni-Frimpong, has called on religious bodies and other stakeholders to rise against the...