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No more ‘BNI’ in Ghana as govt moves to effect name change

The Bureau of National Investigation (BNI) is to be renamed the National Intelligence Bureau (NIB), according to the Security and Intelligence Agencies Bill, 2020.  According to the Bill, the National Intelligence Bureau (NIB) would reinforce its focus...

No more ‘paper folders’ at KATH as hospital goes fully paperless

The Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital has announced the operationalisation of the computerisation of the final phase of all its clinical functions on Saturday, 1...

EC details items destroyed in fire outbreak

The Electoral Commission has broken silence on a fire outbreak that swept through one of its Regional offices in Sarpeiman, Accra. The EC, in a...

Laboratory scientists ‘fight’ FDA over test kits validation method

The Ghana Association of Medical Laboratory Scientists (GAMLS), has expressed concern over the Food and Drugs Authority's (FDA) method of validating antibody Rapid Diagnostic...

Minors and foreigners present in new register not our doing – NPP, NDC

Both the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and New Patriotic Party (NPP) have denied claims of being responsible for the names of minors and foreigners...

Akufo-Addo hints of reopening date for Sunyani airport [Photos]

President Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has hinted the Sunyani airport will be ready and opened to the public by October 2020. The President explained the ongoing...

Kwesi Pratt recounts how Kufuor, Mills gave him big offers… (Listen)

JoyNews/AdomNews · Kwesi Pratt recounts political appointment offers he turned down Managing Editor of the Insight newspaper, Kwesi Pratt Jnr, has recounted numerous political appointment...

The Big Agenda: NDC poses vital questions on Voters Register cleaning

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has expressed disappointment in the Electoral Commission(EC), after it announced the presence of some minors and foreigners in the...

Meet Bernice Dapaah, the Ghanaian woman building bikes from bamboo

Bernice Dapaah is a Ghanaian entrepreneur who is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Bamboo Bike Initiative in Kumasi. This Initiative addresses...

Fire guts EC’s Greater Accra Regional office

The Greater Accra Regional Office of the Electoral Commission (EC), located at Sapeiman near Amasaman, has been gutted by fire. The fire started at about...

Address me as Ya-Na Abukari II – Overlord of Dagbon

The Dagbon State has clarified that the King and Overlord of the land should be addressed as Ya-Na Abukari II and not Ya-Na Abukari...

Presidency throws out petition for Jean Mensa’s dismissal

President Nana Akufo-Addo has rejected a petition to have the Chairperson of the Electoral Commission (EC) dismissed. The Alliance for Social Equity and Public Accountability...

NPP sends message to Ghanaians over Mahama

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has expressed reservations about former President John Mahama’s promises to Ghanaians ahead of the December polls. According to the party,...

Teen who raped, inserted knife into 4-year-old girl’s private part sentenced! (Video)

An 18-year-old man, Kwaku Mensah, has been sentenced to 18 years imprisonment for defiling a four-year-old girl at Dabiasem in the Suaman...

MTN invests $2.5m into artificial intelligence to fight MoMo fraud

MTN Ghana has announced that it is investing US$2.5 million to beef up its artificial intelligence so they can win the fight against mobile...

UK based educationist condemns politicisation of education in Ghana

Following the intolerable behaviour of some final year students that went viral on social media, many educationists have called for a proper, strict and...

The Big Debate: Anyone who compares NDC to NPP is suffering from ‘unconscious incompetence’ – MASLOC CEO

Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Microfinance and Small Loans Centre, Stephen Amoah, has said persons who compare the National Democratic Congress (NDC) to...

Mahama’s message to Kamala Harris on her nomination as US Vice Presidential Candidate

Former president John Mahama has sent a congratulatory message to Kamala Harris, Vice Presidential Candidate of the Democrat party in the United States of...

Check out number of people arrested for not using Madina-Adentan footbridges

The Motor Traffic and Trasport Directorate (MTTD) at Madina has disclosed that about 90 people have been arrested and fined for failing to use...

Pastor’s wife recounts how 15-year-old robber murdered husband [Listen]

JoyNews/AdomNews · Pastor’s wife recounts how 15-year-old robber murdered husband Wife of 44-year-old pastor with the Jehovah Nissi Church at Ejisu has recounted how he...

Man in trouble for attempting to steal ‘okada’

A 29-year-old man, who allegedly attempted to rob an ‘okada’ rider at Ridge, in Accra, has been arrested by the police. The suspect, Awowin Akonvu,...

The Big Debate: Kwaku Boahen makes ‘rib-cracking’ comment about Free SHS

Kwaku Boahen, a member of the communications team of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), has made a hilarious comment about the government's educational...

EC ready to deal with foreigners, minors in new register

The Electoral Commission (EC) has announced over 16.9 million total voters have been registered in the just ended mass exercise. The total number, EC boss, Mrs...

NPP Chairman suspended!

The Central Regional Executive Committee of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) has suspended the Awutu Senya West Constituency Chairman, Charles Amoansah. His suspension follows a...

Prof Gyampo shares Rawlings’ ‘relationship’ with Akufo-Addo govt [Listen]

JoyNews/AdomNews · Prof Gyampo shares Rawlings' 'relationship' with Akufo-Addo gov't Prof Yaw Gyampo is of the view that the Akufo-Addo-led government has been able to...

The Big Agenda: ‘Disrespectful EC back to square one with new ‘bloated’ voters’ register’

SEND Ghana, a Civil Society Organisation (CSO), has pegged what it describes as a failed and bloated register to disrespect of administrators of the...

Man shot dead at Nkwantakese

A 26-year-old man identified as Kofi Doyini has been shot dead at Nkwantakese, a farming Community in the Afigya Kwabre North district of the...

This account of 4-year-old girl defiled with knife inserted into private part will make you cry [listen]

JoyNews/AdomNews · This account of 4-yr-old girl defiled with knife inserted in private part will make you cry The four-year-old girl, who has been defiled...

Three MPs, others honoured

Member of Parliament for Abirem in the Eastern Region, John Osei-Frimpong, has been honoured for his contributions towards growth and development in his constituency. He...

The Big Debate: NPP, NDC clash over development footprints in Eastern region

National Democratic Congress' (NDC) William Dallas and New Patriotic Party's (NPP) Alhaji Modinga have clashed over projects undertaken by their respective parties...

Liberia’s Vice President flown to Ghana with ‘respiratory complications’

The Vice President of Liberia, Jewel Howard-Taylor, has been flown to Ghana for health treatment. The government said she was sent to Ghana on Tuesday...

Protest hits Okyenhene’s university over salary and SSNIT non-payment

Some staff and the Students Representative Council of the University College of Environment and Agricultural Studies at Bunso in the Eastern region have protested...

Coronavirus: Ghana records 168 new Covid-19 with 8 deaths

Ghana has recorded 168 new Covid-19 cases raising the national Covid-19 tally to 41,572. These were samples that were taken from the period July 29...

Kidnapped 83-year-old escapes

The 83-year-old man kidnapped in the Bunkprugu/Nakpanduri district has escaped from captivity, his family has confirmed to JoyNews. According to the family, the man fled...

Pastor murdered at Ejisu

A 44-year-old pastor with the Jehovah Nissi Church at Ejisu has been murdered in cold blood. The incident, which occurred Wednesday dawn at his residence...

16.9m registered voters expected to drop – EC

The Electoral Commission's (EC) provisional figures for the just-ended voters' registration exercise has pegged the total number of registered voters at 16,963,306. The EC boss,...

Why this 16-year-old SHS student committed suicide will shock you

A 16-year-old student of the Osei Kyeretwie Senior High School in Kumasi has allegedly committed suicide at Asonomaso, in the Kwabre East Municipality. Kwabena Prince...

Check out proposed Cabinet members of an African govt

Professor Patrick Loch Otieno Lumumba, a renowned Kenyan Pan-Africanist, has listed African presidents would become Cabinet members in a supposed African government. Professor Lumumba...

Thank you for believing in us – EC chair tells Ghanaians

Chairperson of the Electoral Commission (EC), Mrs Jean Adukwei Mensa, has expressed the Commission's gratitude to Ghanaians for the huge participation in the registration...

Banks lose GH¢ 102 million in profits for 2020

The Ghana Association of Bankers has estimated that about GH¢102 million has been forfeited by commercial banks in the country through various measures they...