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You could now be jailed for up to 25 years for corruption in Ghana

Parliament has passed the Criminal Offences Amendment Bill 2020. The bill among others changes the status of corruption from a misdemeanour to a felony. That means...

Govt secures $103m loan for electricity extension

Deputy Minister of Energy, Owuraku Aidoo, has disclosed the government has secured a loan of $103 million to extend electricity to 582 communities in...

One dead in accident on Kasoa-Cape Coast Highway

A young man, believed to be in his late 20s, has been crashed to death at Kese Wokan near Awutu Bereku on the Kasoa-Cape...

Akyem Batabi church building collapse: How an old woman was rescued [Watch)

A woman has been rescued from the collapsed church building at Akyem Batabi in the Eastern Region. The unidentified woman was saved by the rescue...

Road accidents claim lives of 242 persons in 3 Regions

A total of 242 people have died through 591 road accidents recorded from January to September this year. The accidents were recorded in the Bono,...

I will stop campaigning for Akufo-Addo if …… – Abronye DC

The Bono Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Kwame Baffoe Abronye, has sent a message of caution to President Nana Akufo-Addo. Abronye DC,...

Three earthquake early warning equipment installed to detect tremors in advance

The Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, Kwaku Asomah-Cheremeh, has revealed that the government has taken steps to detect earthquakes way in advance before...

Juaboso-Bia Forestry Commission supplies desks to three districts

To reduce the infrastructural deficit in some public schools in the Western North Region, the Juaboso-Bia Forestry Commission has distributed 300 mono desks to...

Rawlings wades into Nigeria’s #EndSARS protest, killings

Former Ghanaian leader, Jerry John Rawlings has lent his voice to the happenings ongoing in naighbouring Nigeria regarding an #ENDSARS campaign. The anti-police brutality campaign,...

View beautiful photos of Ghana’s first Railway Training School as it readies for intake in 2021

Renovation works on Ghana’s first Railway University at Essikado in the Western region has been completed as the school readies itself for admissions in...

Akyem Batabi church collapse: Survivor recounts horrifying incident [Video]

A survivor of the Church of Prosperity collapse at Akyem Batabi has recounted the horrifying incident. The church in the Asene-Manso-Akroso District of...

Check out state of Akyem Batabi Church building before it collapsed [Photo]

A photo of the state of Akyem Batabi Church building in the Eastern Region before it collapsed has popped up online. The building, prior to its...

Okada rider feared dead in multiple Anyaa Market vehicle collision [Video+Photos]

An okada rider is feared dead in a multiple vehicle collision at the Awoshie Anyaa market in Accra. Reports say the brakes of a cargo...

We’re grateful for ending our 40-year wait for a region – Nkaseim chiefs to Akufo-Addo

The Twafohene of Nkaseim, Nana Sarfo Kantanka, has, on behalf of the chiefs and people of Nkaseim and Ahafo, commended President Nana Addo Dankwa...

#EndSARS protest: ECOWAS reacts to police brutality in Nigeria

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has reacted to the violence visited on citizens demonstrating against police brutality in Nigeria. The Commission expressed...

Shocking: 18-year-old JHS graduate’s p3nis shrinks after a touch from friend

There was drama in the studios of Nhyira FM when an 18-year old Junior High School graduate lamented the shrinking of his...

60-year-old dumpsite evacuated in Ahafo region

A 60-year-old dumpsite in the Ahafo Region has been evacuated by the government. The evacuation exercise was through the effort of the Ministry of Sanitation...

Television serial number exposes thief

An unemployed man, who allegedly stole a flat-screen television (TV) set, got exposed when the real owner spelt out its serial number. Yaw Opoku, who...

ECOWAS Chair Akufo-Addo reacts to #EndSARS protest in Nigeria

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has finally added his voice to the ongoing #EndSARS protest in Nigeria, which resulted in many deaths and injury...

Ghana Link, Customs begin refresher training

Ghana Link Network Services Ltd in collaboration with the Customs Division of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) has begun another round of refresher training...

Bureau of Public Safety blames church collapse on Building Inspectorate Department

The Bureau of Public Safety has blamed the collapse of a three-storey church at Akim Batabi on the Building Inspectorate Department of the Akim...

UK Parliament reacts to killing of #EndSARS protesters in Nigeria [Video]

The United Kingdom's Parliament has condemned the attack on peaceful #EndSARS protesters at Lekki toll gate in Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial city on Tuesday, October 20, 2020. It...

Former ECOWAS member reported dead

Bashir Mamman IFO, the immediate past President of the ECOWAS Bank for Investment and Development (EBID), passed on in Lomé on October 20, 2020,...

Kwaw Kese’s message to Akufo-Addo over protest in Nigeria [Video]

Rapper Kwaw Kese says he is surprised President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has remained silent as the chairman of the Economic Community of West...

New date for population census announced

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has announced that the next Population and Housing Census (PHC) has been scheduled for between April and May 2021. He...

Minister reveals where 157 seized excavators are being kept [Listen]

JoyNews/AdomNews · MISSING EXCAVATORS currently in the custody of govt- Minister Minister for Lands and Natural Resources, Kwaku Asomah-Cheremeh, says a total of 157 seized...

Pressure mounts on ECOWAS chair Akufo-Addo to speak on violence in Nigeria

Pressure is mounting on President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to speak out on the ongoing protests in Nigeria after protesters were reportedly injured and...

Govt revives affordable housing scheme; 200 Units to be delivered yearly

The government has revived the affordable housing scheme to deliver at least 200 housing units for public sector workers annually in a bid to...

SARS brutality: ‘Akufo-Addo’s silence is for a good reason’ [Listen]

Chairman of Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee, Frank Annoh-Dompreh, is calling on The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the African Union to...

No.2 on ballot paper could mean second defeat – NDC told

Member of Parliament for the Sekondi constituency, Andrew Egyapa Mercer, has asked the National Democratic Congress (NDC) not to rejoice yet over their second...

NADMO, others storm Akyem Batabi to rescue worshippers trapped under collapsed church [Video]

Rescue works are underway to save some worshippers trapped in a collapsed church building at Akyem Batabi in the Eastern Region. The Church of Prosperity...

Woman hospitalised after attack by unknown person

A woman, believed to be in her 40s, Madam Rose Adade, has been found in a pool of blood in her own residence at...

Nine confirmed dead in Akyem Batabi church collapse

Nine people have been confirmed dead after the Church of Prosperity at Akyem Batabi in the Asene-Manso-Akroso District of the Eastern Region collapsed on Tuesday, October...

Pastor of collapsed church building arrested!

Founder of the Church of Prosperity at Akyem Batabi in the Asene Manso Akroso District of the Eastern Region is in the grips of...

Election 2020: Koku Anyidoho’s reaction to presidential ballot slots

Former Deputy General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Koku Anyidoho, has reacted to the presidential ballot slots for the 2020 general election....

Akyem Batabi church building collapse: 2 dead bodies identified by relatives [Audio]

JoyNews/AdomNews · Akyem Batabi church building collapse: 2 bodies identified by relatives Two out of six persons, who died in the collapse of a church...

Sammy Awuku makes strong case for Akufo-Addo as he campaigns for NPP’s Yagaba Kubori PC

The National Organiser of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Sammy Awuku, who has been campaigning in the Yagaba Kubori constituency in the North East...

Akufo-Addo commissions Naval Training Command

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has commissioned the newly constructed Naval Training Command at Nutekpor in the South Tongu District of the Volta Region. According...

Parliament sends delegation to investigate Ghana Embassy’s withdrawal of funds in Belgium by ING Bank

The Parliament of Ghana has sent a delegation to Brussels to investigate the closure of Ghana’s Embassy account by the order of ING Bank...

GNASSM President clears air on supposed police arrest for forgery

The President of Small Scale Miners Association and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Chrisphil Goldfields Ltd, Philip Kwasi Akuffo has described an earlier publication...