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Be mindful of what you say about your country – Archbishop Duncan- Williams tells citizens

Archbishop Nicholas Duncan-Williams, Founder of Action Chapel International, has urged Ghanaians to be mindful of their utterances as they have the tendency to destroy. According...

Aftermath of church building collapse: Boy, 6, battles for his life

Justice Kekeli Biedo, a 6-year-old boy, is battling for his life at the St. Anthony Hospital in Dzodze after part of an uncompleted Church...

Security Council locks down Ho Central Mosque

The Ho Municipal Security Council has closed down the Ho Central Mosque for two weeks while litigation over the Regional Imam position is being...

JoyNews gets results: Rebecca Foundation supports struggling mother to raise daughter with special needs

The Rebecca Foundation has moved swiftly to support the sick and frail-looking 40-year-old woman, Georgina Yawa Ankrah, following a JoyNews report on...

Four more people arrested in connection with Yong Dakpeme Yili chieftaincy clash

Four more people have been arrested in connection with the Yong Dakpeme Yili chieftaincy clash. The four were arrested at a hide-out in the remote...

GES to set up call centres to address SHS placement issues

The Ghana Education Service (GES) is appealing for calm as it prepares to release this year’s Senior High School (SHS) placement. A statement, copied to...

Assin South MP joins calls for closure of LGBTQI office

Assin South Member of Parliament (MP) is calling for the closure of an office allegedly opened by the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual Transgender and queer...

Deputy Clerk of Parliament has passed

A Deputy Clerk of Parliament has died.Robert Apodolla died on Friday, February 19 after a short illness.He was one of the clerks who had...

Suspected thief beaten to pulp at Assin Fosu

A middle-aged man has been beaten to pulp in a botched robbery operation. The young man, whose name was only given as Issah, a native...

Coronavirus: 60 health workers at Savelugu Hospital test positive

Some 60 health workers at the Savelugu Hospital in the Northern Region have tested positive for Covid-19. This follows mass testing of staff of the...

Fisherman dies on Winneba waters

A 59-year fisherman, on Thursday, February 18, met his untimely death after suddenly collapsing into the fishing vessel he was working on in Winneba...

Tension mounts among Muslims in Ho

There is tension mounting among members of the Zongo community in the Volta Regional capital, Ho, over who takes the leadership of the Muslim...

Tears as police officer shot dead on duty and his mother are buried [Photos]

A police officer, Constable Eugene Yelnona, 27, stationed at the National Protection Unit, who was shot dead a couple of weeks ago while on...

Bolgatanga: Motorbike rider burns beyond recognition in ghastly accident, one other killed [Photos]

Two young men riding a motorcycle were killed in an accident that occurred on the Bolgatanga-Navrongo Highway in the Upper East Region. The yet-to-be-identified men...

Catholic Bishops send message to Akufo-Addo over gays, lesbians

The Ghana Catholic Bishops' Conference (GCBC) has called on President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to close down the newly-opened Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and...

Reporter gets robbed at gunpoint during live segment

An Ecuadorian television reporter and his camera crew got the scare of their lives when they were held at gunpoint by a masked robber,...

Three foreigners dead in gory accident at Gomoa Okyereko

Three foreigners were on Friday confirmed dead in a fatal accident at Gomoa Okyereko on the Winneba-Highway in the Central Region. The three, a male...

Ebola not recorded in Ghana – GHS

The Director-General of the Ghana Health Service (GHS), Dr Patrick Kuma-Aboagye, has confirmed that no case of Ebola has been recorded in...

Atubiga apologies to NDC [Audio]

JoyNews/AdomNews · Stephen Atubiga apologises to NDC A member of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Stephen Atubiga, has rendered an unqualified apology following a summon...

Coronavirus: Amanfro Polyclinic to get isolation centre

The Member of Parliament (MP) for Bortianor Ngleshie Amanfro, Matthew Sylvester Tetteh, is set to cut the sod for the building of an isolation...

Coronavirus: 15 students at Tarkwa test positive

A total of 15 students from basic, junior, senior and tertiary institutions in the Tarkwa-Nsuaem Municipality of the Western Region have tested positive for...

23 houses set ablaze amid gunshots over alleged chieftaincy issue in Tamale

Heavy police presence is currently being witnessed at Yong Dakpemyili, a community in the Tamale metropolis over alleged chieftaincy dispute. There were multiple gunshots discharged...

Mother whose husband impregnated her two daughters cries for help

Gladys Koomson, a mother of four, whose husband impregnated two of her daughters in a kiosk at Kasoa SCC in the Weija Gbawe Municipality,...

Disinfection exercises will curb new surge in Covid-19 cases

The Northern Regional Vector Control Officer of Zoomlion, Abdul Aziz Yelsuma, has assured the general public that the recent disinfection exercises across the country...

Health workers threaten to boycott COVID-19 burials

Workers at the Environmental Health Unit of the Cape Coast Metropolitan Assembly have threatened to boycott the burial of persons who have died of...

Six grabbed over suspected kidnapping at Prampram

The Prampram Divisional Command is investigating a case in which six persons are alleged to have attacked a 29-year-old herdsman whose name has been...

FDA recalls contaminated pet foods which has found its way into Ghanaian market

The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) has cautioned the public against contaminated pet foods that has entered the Ghanaian market. The food regulatory body says...

‘427 dams, 42 warehouses were completed under my tenure’

Member of Parliament for Awutu Senya East, Hawa Koomson, has revealed some 427 dams and 42 warehouses were completed under the Special Development Initiatives...

Ghana is dying – Nunoo-Mensah

Former Chief of Defense Staff, Brigadier Joseph Nunoo-Mensah, has said Ghana is dying looking at the current dispensation. He bemoaned that systems are not...

Family of late Jerry Rawlings appreciates Akufo-Addo [Photos]

The family of late former President Jerry John Rawlings has called on President Nana Akufo-Addo to thank him for a successful funeral. The delegation to...

Kwakye Ofosu mocks Hawa Koomson

A former Deputy Communications Minister, Felix Kwakye Ofosu, has mocked the Fisheries and Aquaculture Minister-Designate, Hawa Koomson. This was after Madam Koomson, who doubles as...

We have delivered Global Peace in 100 cities in 100 countries – Kobla Asamani

The Coordinator of Campaign and Advocacy of Global Peace and African Centre for the Constructive Resolution of Disputes (ACCORD), Kobla Asamani, has said that...

Man rescued after suspected suicide attempt at Dome [Video]

Some Dome residents gathered in shock as a man, believed to be in his thirties, was found lying unconscious in front of a shop...

Two dead, many injured in accident at Mile 40

Two persons have been confirmed dead in an accident at Mile 40, a suburb of the Central Gonja district of the Savannah Region. Per reports...

Primary pupils team up to build classroom during study hours [Video]

In the absence of classroom blocks to enhance quality education, pupils of Kechiebi Asuogya M/A basic school have teamed up to erect structures. The school,...

New twist in closure of LGBTQI office in Ghana

A human rights lawyer, Joyce Opoku Boateng, has opined that it will be illegal to shut down an office of the LGBTQI group which...

Hawa Koomson apologises for Kasoa shooting incident

Member of Parliament for Awutu Senya East, Hawa Koomson, has rendered an unqualified apology to her constituents. Her apology was in relation to a shooting...

How female inmates of Ho Central Prisons were pampered on Val’s Day

'Groom Dat Girl,' a girl-child empowerment initiative, on Valentine's Day, served female inmates of the Ho Central Prisons with acts of kindness to mark...

Top govt official passes on

The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Ghana Railway Development Authority (GRDA), Richard Dombo, has died. Sources say he succumbed to Covid-19 complications on Wednesday,...

Akufo-Addo congratulates new WTO boss, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

The President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has congratulated Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala on her “historic” appointment as the new Director-General of the...