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25-year-old arrested for allegedly defiling girl, 10

A 25-year-old man, Sulemana Manu, has been arrested by the Gushegu police in the Northern Region for allegedly defiling a 10-year-old girl at Pisinga. The...

Woman shot in highway robbery

A female passenger sustained gunshot wounds in another highway robbery attack at Afram Plains South District of the Eastern Region. The woman was rushed to...

Policeman crushed to death on Tema Motorway

A policeman attached to the Workshop of the Ghana Police Service in Accra has been crushed to death by a motorist on the Accra-Tema...

Sections of N1, N2 Highways to experience disruptions in traffic flow on Saturday and Sunday

The Ministry of Roads and Highways has announced that parts of the N1 and N2 Highways will experience disruptions in traffic flow between Saturday,...

JHS shut down as man invades premises with machete

Kodjonya Millennium Presbyterian Junior High School (JHS) in the Lower Manya Krobo Municipality in the Eastern Region has been temporarily closed down. This is...

‘Three months grace period’ for tenants to vacate rented place is not in our laws – Rent Control PRO

There has been some form of confusion as to whether or not a landlord should grant a tenant grace period to vacate a premise...

Manasseh Azure Awuni: Andrew Amuna returns home, but not to stay

Andrew Mbabila Amuna had missed his mother and father, so he invited them to visit him in the United States. Some months earlier, William...

COVID-19: GHS starts administering Johnson and Johnson vaccines

The Ghana Health Service (GHS) has begun administering the Johnson and Johnson vaccines. The Director of Health Promotion at the GHS, Dr Aboagye DaCosta, revealed...

Former Standards Authority boss cited for receiving double salary

A former Executive Director of the Ghana Standards Authority, Dr George Ben Crentsil, has been cited in a 2020 Auditor-General’s report for receiving a...

COVID-19: Six die at Suntreso hospital in one month

Six persons have died of the coronavirus within a month at the Suntreso Government Hospital in the Kumasi Metropolis of the Ashanti Region. The Medical...

Woman arrested with dead birds allegedly infected by avian flu at Mankranso

Police at Mankranso in the Ahafo Ano South East District of the Ashanti Region are holding a middle-aged woman in custody after she was...

One arrested in connection with alleged lynching of miner

A 31-year-old man has been arrested in connection with an alleged assault on a miner at Manso-Asamang in the Amansie West District of the...

Graduate reportedly commits suicide over fear of carryover [Photos]

The burden of failure was too heavy for a fresh university graduate to bear and as a result, she reportedly took her life. Oshokoya Deborah...

Covid-19: GMA makes shocking revelation about Delta variant [Listen]

JoyNews/AdomNews · Covid-19: GMA makes shocking revelation about Delta variant The Ghana Medical Association (GMA) has said the third wave of coronavirus infections driven by...

Latest on 2021/2022 nursing and midwifery admissions at 37 Military Hospital

The Nursing and Midwifery Training College of the 37 Military Hospital on Thursday announced that it would end the sale of online admission application...

At least 4 dead, others injured in fatal accident on Konongo road [Video]

At least four persons have been reported dead with others injured in a fatal accident on the Konong-Kumasi highway. The incident, according to reports, occurred...

38-year-old woman cut into 2 in fatal accident near Suhum

A 38-year-old woman has died after she was severed in a fatal accident at Krobom-Obretema near Suhum on the Accra-Kumasi highway. The deceased has been...

NACOC, police intercept 9,752 slabs of cannabis [Photos]

The Narcotics Control Commission (NACOC), in collaboration with the Volta Regional Police Command, has seized 9,752 slabs of cannabis. The seized items are estimated to...

IGP launches Horse Patrol Operations [Photos]

The Acting Inspector-General of Police, Dr George Akuffo Dampare, has launched the Horse Patrol Operations as part of efforts to strengthen the resolve to...

Chief remanded for raping his sister-in-law

A 42-year-old sub-chief at Gomoa Buduatta in the Central Region has been remanded into police custody for allegedly raping his sister-in-law. The Awutu Bereku District...

COVID-19: GHS to begin offering Johnson & Johnson vaccine shots from Friday

The Ghana Health Service (GHS) is expected to begin giving out jabs of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine against the COVID-19 virus in the...

Akwamuman SHS wins 2021 0nga Art Cook Competition

The third edition of Onga Cook Art, a second cycle culinary contest came to a successful end with Akwamuman SHS emerging as champions. This was...

COVID-19 is no respector of persons – Hassan Ayariga preaches after near-death experience

Founder and Leader of the All People's Congress (APC), Hassan Ayariga, has joined the COVID-19 awareness campaign. This was after his near-death experience after being...

Nurse accused of replacing COVID-19 vaccines with saline solution

Authorities in Northern Germany have appealed to thousands of people to get another shot of the Covid vaccine. This was after a police investigation found...

Judges, magistrates and police must experience prison life – Justice Kulendi

Supreme Court Judge, Yonny Kulendi, says the difficulty in justice delivery in the country can be reduced when agents including judges, magistrates and police...

Mining firm guards allegedly assault worker to death at Manso-Asamang

A 27-year-old man is alleged to have been assaulted to death by guards of a Community Mining firm at Manso-Asamang in the Amansie West...

8 districts record Covid-19 Delta Variant cases in Western Region

The Western Regional Health Promotion Officer says eight Districts in the Region have recorded the Covid-19 Delta Variant cases. Daniel Bomfeh said the Regional Covid-19...

Kadjebi records increases in HIV/AIDS cases

The Kadjebi District in the Oti Region has recorded 66 new HIV/AIDS cases as of June 2021 compared with 51 cases recorded in the...

Deputy Majority Leader confirms receipt of $2.4m refunded by Sheikh Al Maktoum

Deputy Majority Leader in Parliament, Alexander Afenyo-Markin, has confirmed that the United Arab Emirates-based agent in the botched attempt to procure Sputnik V vaccines...

Fixing Ghana is a collective responsibility – Chief of Chiraa to Ghanaians

The Chief of the Chiraa Traditional Area in the Sunyani West District of the Bono Region, Nana Afari Mintah, has told Ghanaians that Ghana...

Attorney-General commiserates with Justice Marful-Sau’s family

The Attorney-General and Minister for Justice has eulogised the late Justice Samuel Marful-Sau, describing him as an excellent Common Law judge with immense intellectual...

Shell to pay $111m over 1970s oil spill in Nigeria

Oil giant Shell will pay a Nigerian community $111m (£80m) over an oil spill more than 50 years ago. A spokesman said the payment would...

Kaaka’s murder: No show for suspects as docket is forwarded to A-G’s office [Video]

Relatives of three accused persons standing trial for the murder of social media activist, Ibrahim Mohammed at Ejura, were left disappointed as the court...

Landlord jailed for renting out facility without toilet

A landlord has been sentenced for renting out his building without a toilet facility to tenants. Abdulai Maman pleaded guilty with an explanation that he...

French Ambassador apologises after hosting Sam George

The French Ambassador to Ghana, Anne Sophie Ave, has rendered a public apology after hosting Member of Parliament (MP) for Ningo Prampram, Sam George,...

ECG’s procured prepaid metres worth ¢59m not in use after 5 years – Auditor-General

It has emerged that the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG), between 2014 and 2016, procured prepaid meters and conductors worth ¢59 million, but the...

Man found dead in uncompleted building [Photos]

A middle-aged man has been found dead in an uncompleted building at Adweso Estate near the Trinity Presbyterian Church of Ghana in the New...

Heavy traffic on Tema Motorway as trailer, other cars are involved in accident

There is heavy vehicular traffic on the Tema Motorway after a Tema-bound tractor-trailer skidded into the middle of the road. This has made it difficult...

Robbers on raping spree at West Mamprusi

Residents in communities along the Wulugu - Kpasenkpe road in the West Mamprusi Municipality of the North East Region are calling on the Inspector-General...

Speaker Bagbin sends important message to Ethiopian MPs

Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin, has charged some Ethiopian Members of Parliamet (MPs) to disregard the negative aspects of the country’s democracy and take...