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Govt to close down schools only if…

The government, following the pressure mounted on it to close down schools by parents, Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) and the Minority in Parliament, due...

Woyome loses again!

A last-minute attempt by troubled businessman Alfred Agbesi Woyome to frustrate efforts by government to sell his properties to defray the GH¢51.2 million he...

NDC Youth Wing to put Nana B ‘in his place’ with press conference later today

The National Youth Wing of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) will, later today, respond to certain comments by Henry Nana Boakye, the National Youth...

Latest demand by suspected Tardi girls kidnapper will shock you

One of the two Nigerians arrested in connection with the kidnapping of the Takoradi girls stunned the Sekondi High Court yesterday with a weird...

Nana Aba Anamoah’s baby daddy donates to mother whose three children are without legs [Video]

Baby daddy of celebrated broadcaster, Nana Aba Anamoah, has donated to a mother of three children who due to leprosy, have had their legs...

ICUMS generates almost GHC 2 billion, as GRA Board Chair says system is better than GCNET

The new trade facilitation tool, the Integrated Customs Management System (ICUMS) deployed by the government at the ports and frontiers, is said to have...

Revealed: How cyber-criminals are using ‘ladies’ to blackmail men

Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP), Gustav Yankson of the Cybercrime Unit of the Criminal Investigation Department of the Police Service, has shed light on...

Prof Opoku-Agyemang wades into death of KNUST SHS student

Running mate to National Democratic Congress (NDC) flagbearer John Mahama, Professor Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang, has reacted to the death of a student of the...

Coronavirus: Medical staff at KATH dies; 170 others test positive

One medical staff at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) has died of Covid-19. Details of the deceased are scanty, but JoyNews has learnt the...

Ursula Owusu orders GBC to reduce number of channels on DTT platform

The Ministry of Communications has notified the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC) of its intention to reduce the six channels it currently operates to three. In...

Ridge Hospital breaks silence on ‘missing’ body of Rwandan official who died of Covid-19

The Greater Accra Regional Hospital, Ridge, has broken its silence on the body of a Rwandan official that was reported to have gone missing. The...

Govt begins installation of CCTV cameras nationwide

The government of Ghana, through the National Security Ministry, is embarking on an aggressive installation of Closed Circuit Television(CCTV) cameras nationwide. The initiative is part...

Health authorities secure biggest Covid-19 treatment centre in Ashanti Region [video]

Health authorities have secured a facility for setting up the biggest Covid-19 treatment centre so far in the Ashanti Region. The 115-bed capacity...

Father of ‘kidnapped Takoradi girl’ still doubts police after 2 years

A father of the one of the four kidnapped Takoradi girls who have been declared dead by the police still does not...

Man arrested for unlawful possession of human parts

A 20-year-old man, Samuel Asare, who resides at Anum- Boso in the Asuogyamag district of the Eastern region, is in police grips for unlawfully...

Closing down schools defeatist – Health Minister

Government has served notice it would not close down senior high schools despite some students testing positive for coronavirus. Minister of Health, Kwaku Agyemang Manu...

‘New health facilities in Ashanti region to have Covid-19 treatment centres’

Some of the health infrastructure projects currently under construction in the Ashanti region would have Covid-19 treatment centres as confirmed cases in the region...

Last words of dying KNUST SHS student to mother [Video]

Mother of Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) Senior High School (SHS) final year business student has recounted the last...

Voters’ Register: We are fighting the ‘Father, Son and Holy Spirit’- Asiedu Nketia

General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Johnson Asiedu Nketia, says the party is ready to fight authorities in the quest to ensure...

How my three girls have changed my personality – Rawlings reveals [audio]

JoyNews/AdomNews · My three daughters have changed me – Rawlings Former President Jerry John Rawlings says it is not an accident that he has given...

Caring for 3 children without legs; the sad story of Abena Donkor [video]

Being a single mother is arguably the most challenging task in parenthood; however, being a single mother of three children without legs...

A look inside Ghana’s presidential villa [Video]

Ghana’s presidential villa is located at the country’s presidential palace, Golden Jubilee House. The Jubilee House serves as the seat of government for the...

COVID-19: Ghana’s case count surpasses 25,000

Ghana has recorded 264 new Covid-19 cases bringing the number of total cases as of Tuesday, July 14, 2020, to 25,252. The new cases were...

ICUMS is a much better system than GCNET – Prof Adei

Board Chairman of the Ghana Revenue Authority, Professor Stephen Adei, has spoken highly of the not-so-long-ago deployed port management system; the Integrated Customs Management...

Chairman Wontumi sued!

Business mogul, Ibrahim Mahama, has hit Ashanti Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party, Bernard Antwi Boasiako, (Chairman Wontumi) with a defamation suit. The suit follows...

Rawlings condemns fake flyers

The Office of former President Jerry John Rawlings on Monday described as fake some flyers purported to have originated from him, which are being...

37-year-old man commits suicide at Nkawkaw

A 37-year-old man has allegedly committed suicide by hanging at Nkawkaw in the Eastern Region. A resident James Alley reported to Nkawkaw Central Police on...

Covid-19: Akufo-Addo endangering lives of students and teachers – NDC

The Covid-19 technical team of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has added its voice to calls for the closure of schools by the government...

Full Speech: Seventh edition of NDC’s weekly press briefing

SPEECH DELIVERED BY COMRADE SAMMY GYAMFI, NATIONAL COMMUNICATION OFFICER OF THE NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC CONGRESS (NDC), AT THE 7TH EDITION OF THE NDC’S WEEKLY PRESS...

10 reasons why Akufo-Addo has lost fight against Covid-19 – NDC tells Ghanaians

The opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has outlined 10 reasons why it believes the Akufo-Addo-led administration has lost the fight against Covid-19. According to the...

Counsellor Lutterodt in hot waters!

Controversial Ghanaian counsellor, Cyril George Carstensen Lutterodt, has incurred the wrath of the International Human Rights Observer (IRHO) of the United Nations over his...

Coronavirus: 39 FDA staff recovering after testing positive

The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) says 39 out of 450 staff of the Authority have tested positive for Covid-19. A statement signed by the...

Meet Ghana’s ‘most brilliant’ student

Florentina Naa Djama Odoi completed Junior High School with a clean record of 10-ones and then proceeded to study General Science at Wesley Girls’...

Police commander denies disrespecting Yaa-Naa

The Divisional Police Commander for Yendi, Superintendent Peter Kofi Ayerizeng, has denied reports of showing gross disrespect to the Overlord of the Dagbon State,...

Gorilla given Covid-19 test after developing fever following fight with brother

A gorilla has been tested for coronavirus after developing a fever thanks to wounds picked up in a fight with his brother. Shango, 31, a...

Police arrests nine for disrupting registration exercise

The Accra Regional Police Command has arrested two persons who disrupted the registration exercise. Seven of their accomplices who tried freeing them while police was...

Rawlings’ prediction on daughter, Zanetor’s political career [Listen]

JoyNews/AdomNews · Rawlings’ prediction on daughter, Zanetor’s political career Former President Jerry John Rawlings is of the firm conviction that his daughter, Dr Zanetor Rawlings,...

Receptionist-Turned-Sales Manager: The 20-year journey story of Multimedia’s Flora Lamptey [Audio]

“People have always asked me; why are you still with the Multimedia Group after all these years, can’t you change your job? My reply...

Tema General Hospital to bury over 50 unclaimed bodies in mass burial

Tema General Hospital is expected to bury over 50 unclaimed bodies by end of this month due to congestion at the facility’s morgue. Some 23...

Ex-Inter-ministerial Committee on Illegal Mining officer arrested!

Nana Yaw Boadu, a former Special Monitoring and Evacuation Officer of the Inter-ministerial Committee On Illegal Mining (IMCIM), has been apprehended by the Asokwa...