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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...

Man killed, wife raped but police ignore call because they don’t have vehicle

Residents of Juapong, a town in the North Tongu District of the Volta region, have demonstrated against the district police after a snub when...

New JHS and SHS Courses to be rolled out

The Minister of Education, Dr Matthew Opoku-Prempeh, has revealed that Cabinet has approved the Common Core Programme (CCP) Curriculum for Junior and Senior High...

NITA brings MDAs, MMDAs onboard ‘smart workplace’ platform

The National Information Technology Agency (NITA) is set to bring onboard various Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) as well as Metropolitan and Municipal District...

Barbaric: Girl, 4, battles for life after alleged defilement with knife inserted in private part

A four-year-old girl is battling for her life after a 16-year-old boy allegedly defiled her and inserted a knife into her private part in...

Sanitation Ministry steps up efforts to rid Accra drains off solid waste

The Ministry of Sanitation and Water Resources (MSWR) has intensified its efforts to ensure that drains in the national capital, Accra, are rid of...

5-day-old revamped Anyaa-Fanmilk traffic light destroyed

A cargo car transporting what is believed to be sacks of rice has destroyed the newly fixed traffic lights on the Anyaa-Fanmilk - Ablekuma...

Residents break into mortuary, steal body of suspected COVID-19 patient

Some residents of Kojo Boffour near Yeji in the Bono region have stormed the St. Mathias Catholic Hospital to remove the body of a...

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...