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Nkwa Asɛm, the Contemporary, full Asante Bible by Biblica ready to launch!

Biblica, the International Bible Society will on September 11, 2020, launch Nkwa Asɛm, a new translation of the Bible in contemporary Asante Twi language...

Heavy downpour, Bagre dam spillage kills 4 in North East

Four people have been confirmed dead in the North East Region following days of heavy downpour and flood waters from the opening of the...

JoyNews Weekly Wrap: Mahama tours Wa, reopening of KIA and launch of NSMQ 2020

With less than three months to Ghana’s general election, political promises abound. In the camp of the NDC, flagbearer, John Dramani Mahama has promised the...

I heard my sister crying on phone… T’di Girls’ witness

A sister of one of the Takoradi girls who were kidnapped and later killed has said she heard her sister crying on the telephone...

Girl, 9, dies after mother sprays pesticide on hair to kill lice

A nine-year-old girl has reportedly lost her life after her mother sprayed a pesticide called sniper, on her hair to kill lice.  The incident...

3-year-old girl raped and murdered!

A three-year-old girl has been raped and murdered in India as part of an on-going feud between rival families, the victim’s father claims. The child,...

One in coma, two injured in clash with land guards [Photos]

A 40-year-old man is in coma while two others have sustained cutlass wounds after two different groups, believed to be land guards clashed on...

Rawlings ‘dances’ to King Ayisoba’s tunes [Video]

It was a spectacular sight to behold when legendary Ghanaian traditional Artiste; King Ayisoba, met with former President Jerry Rawlings in his office. Mr Rawlings,...

Adom FM’s CJ rejected so-called ‘UN Award’

The host of Adom 106.3 FM’s morning show, Chief Jerry Forson, known to many as CJ, has revealed that he rejected an attempt by...

Lady narrates how she was raped and robbed by ‘Facebook lover’ (Watch)

A Ghanaian young lady has narrated how she was allegedly raped by a young man a week after they met on Facebook. According to...

GRA responds to allegations of smuggled fuel at Customs Division

The Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) has reacted to a publication making rounds on social media that implicates the Customs Division of the Authority. The GRA,...

Meet Hajia Aya Yar’Adua, the woman who gave birth to a President, Vice President and a Governor (Photos)

Raising children to be great in future takes a lot of work. It takes great mothers to produce great children. Mothers cannot predict the future...

COVID:19 Nigeria extends nationwide curfew

The Federal Government of Nigeria has adjusted the curfew from 12 midnight through 4:am, as it continues the gradual easing of lockdown measures imposed...

Essam-Debiso residents stake lotto with Jane Naana’s number plate [Video]

Some residents of Essam-Debiso in the Western region have decided to stake lotto with the number plate of the running mate of...

Adansi chief accuses DCEs of engaging in galamsey

The Adansi Traditional Council is incensed about what it describes as illegal mining activities known in local parlance as 'galamsey' by some District Chief...

John Boadu exposes plot behind delay in NDC manifesto launch

General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) has bemoaned the delay of the National Democratic Congres (NDC) in launching its 2020 manifesto. Following the...

Hollard Insurance wins big at 2020 Ghana Insurance Awards

Hollard Ghana, a subsidiary of the Hollard Insurance Group, has won multiple awards at the recently held 2020 edition of the Ghana Insurance Awards...

Aburi Girls withdraws from NSMQ 2020

Aburi Girls Senior High School (ABUGISS) has withdrawn from this year’s National Science and Maths Quiz (NSMQ), organisers of the content have announced. In a...

Agyapa Royalties deal increases risks of Anti-Money Laundering blacklisting by EU – Seth Terkper

Former Finance Minister, Seth Emmanuel Terkper, has warned the government of the elevated risks the registration and establishment of its Special Purpose Vehicle Agyapa...

Govt excluded Agyapa Royalties from 2020 and Mid-Year Budgets Review – Seth Terkper

Finance Minister under the erstwhile John Mahama administration, Seth Terkper, has questioned the reason behind the exclusion of a major policy such as the...

Group petitions govt over $150 Covid-19 testing fee

An advocacy group is demanding that the government absorbs the Covid-19 testing cost at the airport for Ghanaian students returning home. Research Centre for Policy...

Accra to lose nation’s capital city status if…

The presidential candidate of the Liberal Party of Ghana, Kofi Percival Akpaloo, has promised to relocate the nation's capital city from Accra. Mr Akpaloo said...

‘Welcome to Western Togoland’ billboard causes stir at Somanya, Akuse

A billboard, believed to have come from the Volta Separatist Group, has been sighted at Somanya in the Eastern region, Thursday. For travellers heading towards Somanya...

This is how much govt has generated in 2 days from Covid-19 testing at KIA

Government has generated a total of $37,050 from Covid-19 testing of travellers coming into Ghana since reopening the Kotoka International Airport on September 1. According...

Coronavirus: Ghana’s active cases now 856 with 280 deaths

The Ghana Health Service (GHS) says the country’s active Covid-19 cases have significantly dropped to 856. According to the GHS, Ghana has also recorded some...

Chairman Wontumi flaunts gold bars during live interview [Video]

Ashanti Regional New Patriotic Party Chairman, Bernard Antwi Boasiako, popularly known as ‘Chairman Wontumi’, has flaunted his wealth.  Chairman Wontumi has, over the years,...

Three police officers narrowly escape death in robbery chase

Three police officers on the Kasoa Oklu Nkwanta checkpoint in the Awutu Senya East Municipality of the Central region narrowly escaped death after an...

Killer of SDA caretaker arrested!

Police in the Ashanti region have arrested two ex-convicts, believed to have robbed and killed two people in separate robbery incidents in Kumasi and...

A prayer warrior has revealed to me that I am Ghana’s next president – Kofi Akpaloo

Flagbearer of the Liberal Party Ghana (LPG), Kofi Akpaloo, has asserted that he will be Ghana's next president. His optimism of being Ghana's next...

‘No performance, no pay for Ministers’

The presidential candidate of the Liberal Party of Ghana (LPG), Kofi Percival Akpaloo, has promised to remunerate ministers of his government on the basis...

This story of 130-year-old woman who died after chasing her GHc 34 will break your heart [video]

Obaapanin Mary, a 130-year-old woman in Ghana, has passed on days after she fell during an attempt to retrieve GH¢34 that was owed her...

45-year-old farmer shot dead at Abrikasu-Ntaabeni

A 45-year-old farmer, Kwabena Ntarban, has been shot dead at Abrikasu Ntaabeni in the Jaman South Municipality of the Bono region. According to the deceased's...

Poverty made my wife bury our baby alive – Man weeps

A man, whose wife buried their newborn baby at Ajumako Ebowkurase of the Central region, has recounted how the incident happened. According to him, the...

All-knowing CSOs: Prof Gyampo replies Elizabeth Ohene

Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Ghana and Head of the Youth Bridge Research Institute, Professor Ransford Gyampo, has responded to...

Rawlings to speak at wife’s party’s national conference

Former President Jerry John Rawlings is set to speak at the national delegates conference of the National Democratic Party (NDP). The conference of the party,...

Kill me but don’t destroy my cannabis farm – Suspect to police

A 42-year-old cannabis farmer, Clement Akor, has begged the Nigerian National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) to take his life instead of destroying his...

Barbados Embassy in Ghana to open in October

Minister of Health and Wellness, Lt. Col. Jeffrey Bostic, announced on Monday that Barbados has established an embassy in Ghana and the opening is...

GRIDCo explains intermittent outages

The main operator of the electricity grid, Ghana Grid Company, has attributed recent intermittent power outages to challenges with some of its key transmission...

Ato Forson defends Mahama over ‘ethnocentric sentiments’

Member of Parliament for Ajumako-Enyan-Esiam in the Central region, Cassiel Ato Forson, has jumped to the defence of former President John Mahama after the...

Ato Forson draws ‘thin line’ between Agyapa Royalties and Ghana Gold Company

Deputy Finance Minister, Cassiel Ato Forson, has denied assertions by members of the ruling New Patriotic Party that seem to suggest that Ghana Gold...