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Full Text: Nineth edition of EC’s ‘Let the Citizen Know’ series

LET THE CITIZEN KNOW PRESENTATION BY CHAIRPERSON OF THE ELECTORAL COMMISSION, MRS JEAN MENSA ON WEDNESDAY 12TH AUGUST, 2020 AT 10:00am AT THE IPAC...

Mahama reveals real reason for 2020 comeback

Former President John Dramani Mahama has revealed his desire to help the youth of Ghana has informed his keen comeback. To the flagbearer of...

EC reveals total number of registered voters

The Electoral Commission (EC) has disclosed the total number of Ghanaians registered in the newly compiled voters register. The disclosure was made by the...

Asiedu Nketia’s judgment on Ahwoi’s book ‘Working with Rawlings’

 General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Johnson Asiedu Nketia, has made his view on Prof Kwamena Ahwoi’s ‘Working with Rawlings’ book known. In...

Robber’s attack forces man to jump from Dzorwulu overhead (Video)

A young Ghanaian vlogger, Kelvin Okeyere, has recounted how his decision to jump from the Dzorwulu overhead cost him eight of his front teeth. According...

Bride runs away from her own wedding [Video]

A bizarre incidence has taken place at a wedding ceremony where a bride allegedly run away from her own wedding. Hardly will anyone ever envision...

Adom FM launches ‘The Big Debate’

Adom 106.3 FM, Ghana’s leading Akan-speaking radio station has launched an election-based segment under its banner coverage of the 2020 elections, the Kokromoti Power. Dubbed...

Patapaa’s camp breaks silence on ‘poison’ reports

Hiplife artiste Patapaa Amisty has refuted media reports that he was poisoned and on the verge of death at a hospital. A press release signed...

We have cleared debt left by Prof. Naana Opoku-Agyemang – Napo

The Minister of Education, Dr Matthew Opoku-Prempeh, has painted a bleak picture of the state of affairs in the education sector at the time...

Akufo-Addo cuts sod for new projects [Photos]

President Nana Akufo-Addo on Tuesday, August 11, 2020, cut the sod for the construction of new projects in Accra. They include the 400-bed...

Full Text: Education Minister’s statement on ‘Education and Teacher Reforms’

PARLIAMENTARY STATEMENT ON EDUCATION AND TEACHER REFORMSBY DR. MATTHEW OPOKU-PREMPEH, HONOURABLE MINISTER OF EDUCATION Mr. Speaker, I am grateful for the opportunity to make a...

Gov’t introduces new teachers’ allowance

Government has disclosed plans to introduce what it calls 'professional teachers allowance'. The new allowance meant to be paid on annual basis will benefit both...

NPP has delivered on manifesto promise to transform education sector – Education Minister

Education Minister Dr Matthew Opoku Prempeh says the Akufo-Addo government has delivered on its manifesto promise to transform Ghana’s education sector. In a statement to...

WASSCE 2020: Why SDA Church is opting for Nov/Dec for students [audio]

JoyNews/AdomNews · Why SDA Church is opting for Nov/Dec for students The Seventh Day Adventist (SDA) Church is registering church members who failed to write...

Elder endorses behaviour of SDA students who refused to write WASSCE on ‘Sabbath Day’ [Video]

Three final year students of Agona Senior High Technical School (ASTECH) in the Ashanti region failed to write their Asante Twi paper in the...

Ten arrested for attacking chief’s palace over cancellation of festival

The Kpeshie Divisional police have arrested 10 persons who who allegedly attacked the Palace of the Teshie Chief, Gbetsorlor Nii Ashitey Akomfra III. The arrested...

Woman jilts lover after he sustained injuries in the eye from stray bullet (Listen)

JoyNews/AdomNews · Woman jilts lover after stray bullet destroys eye Cephas Pagayiri Yorosey, a Community Health Nurse, believed to be in his thirties, has narrated...

Social Media stunned over new photo of family with blue eyes

Social media users are stunned over the total transformation of a little girl with unique blue eyes, who was allegedly rejected by her father. Photos...

Anas reacts to suspension of two Ridge Hospital staff in his latest documentary

Ace investigative journalist, Anas Aremeyaw Anas, has reacted to the suspension of two Greater Accra Regional Hospital (Ridge) staff after they were captured in...

Oppong-Nkrumah speaks on his interview with Serwaa Amihere

Former journalist and now Minister for Information, Kojo Oppong-Nkrumah, has clarified that he never set out to embarrass GHOne’s presenter, Serwaa Amihere during their...

Nurse narrates how bullet fired into moving taxi damaged his eye [Audio]

Cephas Pagayiri, a community health nurse in Navrongo has narrated how he lost his eyes from a bullet that was fired into a taxi...

Ghana takes cue from Lebanon port explosion

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has directed companies in the country that store ammonium nitrate to be mindful of accepted safety protocols. The direction follows...

7 more arrested over NPP, NDC clash at Nkrankwanta

Police in the Bono Region have arrested seven more suspects over last Saturday's clash at Nkrankwanta during the voters' register mop-up exercise. The clash between...

Video of how Kantanka’s electric ‘Amoanimah’ vehicle works surfaces online

Kwadwo Safo Junior, the Chief Executive Officer of the Kantanka Group of Companies, has released a video demonstrating how its new brand of Uber-like...

Police arrest 65-year-old, two others for gang-raping 11-year-old girl

A Nigerian Police Command has arrested a 65-year-old man, Ahmadu Garba, and two others identified as Abubakar Bala, 37, and Suleiman Ahmadu, for allegedly...

Dead body missing from morgue found in another village

The burial and funeral rites of a 95-year-old woman were put on hold as family members who had gone to retrieve the body at...

Osu Mantse’s advice to Opoku-Agyemang ‘will shock you’

President of the Greater Accra Regional House of Chiefs, Nii Okwei Kinka Dowuona VI, has advised Professor Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang to have a big...

Power One Trial: More details emerge about how biochemist was murdered

Christian Awoe Gamelie, also known as, Power-One, 40, Famous Adukonu, also known as, Scorpion, 37, and Yaw Azamate, 27, have been remanded on the...

Mahama begs Akufo-Addo over pastor jailed for flouting COVID-19 rules

Former President and Leader of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), John Dramani Mahama, has called on President Nana Akufo-Addo to grant clemency to a...

Asiedu Nketia descends heavily on John Boadu

General Secretary of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Jonson Asiedu Nketia, has descended heavily on his colleague General Secretary of the New Patriotic...

Prophet Kumchacha buries mother in strange coffin [Video]

Nicholas Osei, popularly known as Prophet Kumchacha, on Saturday, August 8, buried his mother at her hometown, Apedwa in the Eastern region. The popular prophet...

Ghana Airports Company replies Mahama

The Ghana Airports Company Limited (GACL) has replied some assertions made by former president John Mahama in an interview on pro-National Democratic Congress (NDC)...

Police send important message after La Beach explosion

The Ghana Police Service has advised the general public to be wary of strange objects following an explosion at La in Accra. The incident is...

ECOPH, engage Now Africa and H2GO sensitize eight communities on COVID-19

Some three non-governmental organizations have organised COVID-19 sensitization for some communities in the Ashanti, Eastern and Volta Regions. The NGOs namely; Ensign College of Public...

How Ghanaians are reacting to Patapaa’s poisoning

Ghanaian musician Patapaa, known in private life as Justice Amoah, has been hospitalised. This follows a suspected case of poisoning the 'One Corner' hitmaker is...

10 girls aged 13-15 give birth every month in my facility – Doctor reveals [Videos]

A medical doctor at the Kwahu Afram Plains North District Presbyterian Health Centre at Donkorkrom in the Eastern region has revealed that teenage pregnancy...

Our vigilance has reduced foreigners on Ghana’s voter register – John Boadu

The General Secretary of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), John Boadu, says the vigilance of the party's polling agents during the mass voters'...

My dad abandoned me at 9 because I was accused of sucking his blood – Woman cries

A mother of one has narrated that her father got disconnected from her at age nine after she was accused of being a witch...

Full Text: NPP’s press briefing on the just ended voters’ registration exercise

PRESS CONFERENCE ADDRESSED BY THE NPP GENERAL SECRETARY, JOHN BOADU ON THE PARTY’S POSITION AND OBSERVATION OF THE JUST ENDED MASS VOTER REGISTRATION EXERCISE Ladies...

PDS Scandal Revisited: 5 questions Akufo-Addo must answer

Ghana's biggest opposition, the National Democratic Congress (NDC) is demanding answers to five 'nagging questions' with respect to the termination of the Power Distribution...