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Lands Ministry: Outright ban on export of rosewood

Whereas the Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources (hereinafter called 'the Ministry') is responsible for ensuring the sustainable management and efficient and effective utilisation...

Man found dead at Pankrono Estate

A middle-aged man has been found dead at Pankrono-Estate at Old Tafo in the Ashanti Region under circumstances the residents describe as strange. According to...

How NIA intends to register Ghanaians living abroad [Listen]

JoyNews/AdomNews · How NIA intends to register Ghanaians living abroad unto the scheme The National Identification Authority (NIA) is urging Ghanaians living abroad to bear...

Owusu Bempah invokes curses on Agradaa, others [Video]

The Founder and Leader of the Glorious Word and Power Ministry, Rev. Owusu Bempah, has invoked curses on former fetish Priestess Nana Agradaa now known...

One injured as youth factions clash at Ntonsu [Photos]

One person has reportedly been injured in a violent clash involving youth factions at Ntonsu in the Kwabere East District of the Ashanti Region. Reports...

Makola Market fire disaster in pictures

The inferno started around 9:00am on Monday, July 5, 2021, in one of the shops in the building near the Makola Market Complex and...

Ejura: Committee to start investigation into disturbances on Tuesday

A three-member committee, chaired by an Appeal’s Court judge, Justice George Kingsley Koomson, will on Tuesday begin a public hearing into the shooting and...

Good news for Agbogloshie scrap dealers

The government has acquired a 10-acre land at Kofi Kwei in the Ga South Municipality of the Greater Accra Region for the relocation of...

First Lady signs book of condolence in honour of Osu Mantse, Nii Kinka Dowuona IV [Photos]

First Lady, Rebecca Akufo-Addo, has signed the book of condolence opened in memory of the late Osu Mantse, Nii Okwei Kinka ÄŽowuona IV. Nii Dowuona IV,...

Chief and people of Kandiga boycott census

The Chief and people of Kandiga, a community in the Kassena-Nankana West District of the Upper East Region, say they are not participating in...

How to check 2021 WAEC results of BECE private candidates

The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has released the results of the 2021 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) for private candidates. The examination is...

Akufo-Addo, Bawumia, others mourn with Otchere-Darko [Photos]

The father of the Founder of Danquah Institute, Gabby Asare Otchere-Darko, has been laid to rest. The solemn ceremony for Dr Joseph Felix Boateng...

Ejura gunshot survivor has had leg amputated

One of last Tuesday’s Ejura shootings surviving victims has lost his right leg after surgical amputation at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH). Awal Misbawu,...

Parts of Makola market on fire [Video]

Traders have been thrown into despair as fire ravages the shopping mall behind the GCB Bank at Kantamanto in Accra. The cause of the Monday...

Uber driver beheaded at Feyiase in Ashanti Region

The decapitated body of an adult male has been found at Feyiase in the Bosomtwe District of the Ashanti Region. A search party of the...

Middle Belt Devt Authority CEO inspects durbar grounds and Astroturf at Juaben

Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Middle Belt Development Authority, Joe Danquah, has inspected ongoing projects under one constituency, one million dollars policy in...

KNUST suspends SRC elections

Management of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) has suspended the 2021 Students Representative Council (SRC) election-related activities following a clash...

Mahama helping accident victims warm hearts [Video]

Former President John Mahama on Sunday helped some victims of a motorbike accident. He was on his way to Ho airport in the Volta Region...

COVID-19: Achimota School records 135 cases

JoyNews/AdomNews · Covid-19: 135 Achimota School students test positive, mostly Delta Variant Some 135 students of Achimota School have tested positive for Covid-19, with most...

Fire guts Railways Quarters

Fire has gutted the homes of many squatters at the Railways Quarters area behind Accra Breweries Limited and Graphic Communications Company Limited. The inferno is...

Former IGP sues TV talk show host for defamation

The immediate past Inspector General of Police (IGP), David Asante-Apeatu, has sued Net 2 TV’s ‘The Seat’ talk show host, Justice Kweku Annan, for...

KNUST: Many injured in Katanga and Conti clash

A number of students of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) have suffered various degrees of injuries following a clash between...

PDS loses ECG assets management case

The Commercial Division of the Accra High Court has dismissed an application by Power Distribution Services (PDS) challenging the cancellation of its operation licences. This...

Two MMCEs to be sanctioned for failure to lead clean-up exercise

Northern Regional Minister, Alhaji Alhassan Shani Shaibu, has warned that the two acting Metropolitan and Municipal Chief Executives (MMCEs) of the Sagnarigu and Tamale...

Okada rider allegedly murdered by two pillion riders at Adaklu

Police are on the heels of two assailants, who allegedly murdered Komla Tsomana, 28, an Okada rider of Mafi-Kumasi in cold-blood inflicting multiple machete...

Abuga Pele pardoned on health grounds

President Nana Akufo-Addo has granted a presidential pardon to Abuga Pele, a former National Coordinator of the now-defunct Ghana Youth Employment and Entrepreneurial Development...

Popular security expert recounts encounter with ‘corrupt’ police officer

The Director of Faculty of Academic Affairs and Research at the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre (KAIPTC) claims a police officer is extorting...

Covid-19: Ghana’s active cases hit 1,674

The number of active COVID-19 cases in Ghana has risen to 1,674, according to latest figures released by the Ghana Health Service. Of that number,...

2 friends convicted for stealing motorbike

The District Magistrate court at Enchi has fined two friends ¢600 each for stealing a motorbike valued at ¢4,200. Ebenezer Kwaw, a Junior High School...

Chief Imam wants thorough investigations into Ejura shooting

Chief Imam, Sheikh Osman Nuhu Sharubutu says a thorough work from the three-member committee set up to investigate the Ejura shooting will help build...

Ghana loses GH¢1.9bn in judgment debts over last two decades

Ghana paid a total of GH¢1.9 billion in judgment debts over the last two decades, a comprehensive review by the Centre for Social Justice...

Landlords liable to 2-year jail term if…

Landlords who demand more than six months advance from their tenants before renting out their property are liable to a two-year jail term. This is...

Man undergoes surgery after military brutality in Wa [Photos+Video]

A 29-year-old man, who was allegedly assaulted by rampaging soldiers in Wa, has undergone surgery at the Upper West Regional Hospital. Gafur Mahama developed a...

Building collapses on man after heavy downpour [Photos+Video]

A middle-aged-man has died after a building collapsed on him at Bugu in the Asante Akyem South Municipality of the Ashanti Region. Reports indicate the...

Ejura MCE clears air on his dismissal

The Ejura-Sekyedumase Municipal Chief Executive Officer (MCE), Mohammed Salisu Bamba, has debunked reports of his dismissal from office. According to him, he is still at...

I’ve relocated my family – Journalist who recorded military brutality in Wa

The journalist, who secretly filmed soldiers brutalising some residents of Wa in the Upper West Region, says he has moved his wife and children...

Akufo-Addo pays glowing tribute to Zambia’s founding president

Tribute by President Nana Akufo-Addo, at the funeral of the Llte Kenneth David Kaunda, at the National Heroes Stadium, On Friday, 2nd July 2021, In Lusaka,...

Good news for NDC as Police make U-turn on planned demo

The Ghana Police Service has given the greenlight for the youth wing of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) to embark on their “March for...

Ejura: Chilling account of how ‘Kaaka Macho’ was murdered pops up in court

The Asokwa District Court has been told of the chilling manner in which social media activist, Ibrahim Mohammed, also known as Kaaka Macho, was...

Police invite social media user who accused officers of dad’s death

The Police Service has invited a social media user for questioning after she accused some personnel of killing her father in his home. The user,...