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GES top official tests positive for Covid-19

A Staff at the Okere District Education Directorate in the Eastern Region has tested positive for Covid-19. The Staff reportedly contracted the virus from a...

Covid-19: Populalar Mepe ‘Afenorto’ festival cancelled

Covid-19 has forced the chiefs and people of the Mepe Traditional Area in the North Tongu District of the Volta Region to cancel their...

No ‘break time’ for returning JHS 3 students ahead of BECE

Final year Junior High students upon resumption of academic activities ahead of the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) are to be engaged in five...

Delegate who voted in NPP Primaries dies of Covid-19

The presiding member of Oforikrom Municipal Assembly William Kwabena Boateng, believed to have voted in Saturday's Parliamentary Primaries of the New Patriotic Party has...

Akufo-Addo apologises to Buhari over demolition of Nigerian High Commission property

Ghana’s President Nana Addo Dankwah Akufo-Addo, has rendered an apology to President of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari, over the demolition of a building at the...

Baby thief busted at New Takoradi

The Takoradi Central Police has successfully rescued a 10-month-old baby after she was abducted by an 18-year-old neighbour. The baby, identified as Rose Cobbina, was stolen...

NAM 1 in fresh trouble!

The State on Tuesday filed new charges against the Chief Executive Officer of Menzgold, Nana Appiah Mensah, is also known as NAM 1 at...

Former NDC Chairman passes on [Photo]

A former National Democratic Congress (NDC) Chairman for the Damongo Constituency in the Savannah Region, Alhaji Fuseini Mprah, has died. Though the cause of death...

I don’t care if you insult my father – Owusu-Bempah’s daughter [Video]

Emmanuella Bempah, daughter of Founder and Leader of Glorious Word Power Ministry International, Rev. Isaac Owusu-Bempah, says she is not bothered about the many...

Cleric who accurately predicted 2016 polls says Mahama is leading in the 2020 elections

Mallam Sham-una Uztaz Jibril has said that the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) is in a comfortable lead as far his assessment in the...

Major political party in Nigeria wades into demolition of High Commission’s property in Ghana

Nigeria's largest opposition political party, the People's Democratic Party (PDP), has blamed the demolition of the country's High Commission's property in Ghana on its...

Coronavirus: Accra Technical University records first case

Management of the Accra Technical University says one person has tested positive for Covid-19 at the educational facility. This is less than two weeks...

11 grabbed over Nima Police Station burglary

The Nima Divisional Police Command has arrested 11 suspects in relation to the recent burglary of one of the general offices at the command. Some...

Covid-19: Laboratory scientists express disappointment in Akufo-Addo

The Ghana Association of Medical Laboratory Scientists (GAMLS) has expressed disappointment in the lack of commitment by the government to heed to professional advice...

Apostle Kwabena Owusu Agyei granted bail

An Accra Circuit Court has granted bail to Apostle Kwabena Owusu Agyei, who threatened President Nana Akufo-Addo and Mrs Jean Mensa. The Court judge, Emmanuel...

Supreme Court throws out GIBA’s case against NCA

The Supreme Court has in a unanimous decision dismissed a case filed by the Ghana Independent Broadcasters Association (GIBA) challenging the National Communications Authority's...

MP fights for albinos

While giving positives to albinos for their skin colour, John Majisi, a legislator, has said albinos are made to shine and continue to defy...

Defeated MPs in primaries weak links in NPP retaining power in 2020 – George Ayisi

Deputy Communications Director for the National Disaster Management Organisation, George Ayisi, has described as 'weak links' defeated incumbent Members of Parliament (MP) in the...

Police caution Tamale residents over car snatching

The Ghana Police Service has cautioned residents of the Northern region, particularly, Tamale over the resurgence of car snatching incidents. The latest incident, according to...

I love NPP more than my wife – NPP Chairman

The Ashanti Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Bernard Antwi Boasiako, has stated that he loves the NPP more than his wife. Mr...

Kennedy Agyapong threatens banks [Video]

Assin Central Member of Parliament, Kennedy Agyapong, has advised banks in Ghana to refrain from opening offshore accounts because it affects the rate of...

Rival Chief at Osu demands for court ruling on Nigerian High Commission demolishing exercise

Nii Nortey Adumua IV, a rival of paramount chief of Osu Traditional Area, Nii Okwei Kinka Dowuona VI, is demanding for the court ruling...

I will use the law to stop all the ‘fraud boys’ – Kennedy Agyapong [Video]

Kennedy Agyapong, Member of Parliament (MP) for Assin Central, says it is time for him to go after people who are committing cyber-crimes and...

Kennedy Agyapong’s savage response to his daughter’s apology (Watch)

Ghanaian legislator, Kennedy Agyapong, says he has no intention of taking back his daughter despite a much-publicised apology for her waywardness on Father's Day. Anell...

Baby, 3 others die in fatal accident

Four persons including a baby have perished in a fatal accident on the Akwadum stretch of Koforidua to Suhum Road. The accident occurred Sunday evening...

Return bicycles or be sacked – John Boadu to defeated aspirant

The General Secretary of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), John Boadu, has issued a stern warning to Eric Amankwa Blay, an aspirant in...

Osu Chiefs and elders hold crunch meeting on demolition

The Chiefs and stool elders of Osu on Monday held a crunch meeting with stakeholders to find the wayforward on the demolition of a...

Ghana’s Coat of Arms explained

Nii Amon Kotei, the acclaimed designer of the coat of arms of Ghana. He was a Ghanaian artist (sculpture, painter and musician) and surveyor. Amon Kotei...

UEW partners Right to Play Ghana in play-based learning [Photos]

Right to Play Ghana and the University of Education, Winneba (UEW) have signed a memorandum of understanding for the establishment of a Centre of...

Stranded Ghanaians with European resident’s permit evacuated [photos]

Some One Hundred and Seventy-Eight Ghanaians with resident’s permit in Europe who were stranded in Ghana as a result of the lockdown to contain...

Former BOST CEO, George Okley Mensah has died

Former Managing Director for Bulk Oil Storage and Transport (BOST) Company Limited, George Okley Mensah has died. According to reports, he passed on after a...

Weija Treatment Plant to be shut down

The Ghana Water Company Limited says it will shut the Weija Treatment Plant on Tuesday June 23, 2020 for repair works to be effected...

Gbetseli Stool Fumes Over Attacks And Unnecessary Arrests

The chief and elders of the Gbetseli stool have expressed their displeasure at attacks by some unscrupulous persons with evil intentions to distract the...

Martin Amidu ‘sweats’ for witness in Ayariga’s trial

The trial of Bawku Central Member of Parliament, Mahama Ayariga, could not commence at an Accra High Court due to the absence of the...

I am not interested in destroying Kennedy Agyapong – Baby mama slams ‘enemies’

One of Kennedy Agyapong's baby mamas, Moira Dawson-Williams, has opened up again about her dealings with the controversial Member of Parliament (MP), Kennedy Agyapong. In...

Ken Agyapong’s baby mama eats humble pie; begs for support

Moira Dawson-Williams, the mother of 'wayward daughter' of Assin Central Member of Parliament (MP), is begging for forgiveness after subjecting the legislator to vitriolic...

Are we paying for the ‘sins’ of our party? – Defeated MP quizzes

One of the defeated incumbent Members of Parliament (MPs) in the just-ended New Patriotic Party (NPP) parliamentary primaries, Ben Abdallah Banda, has expressed shock...

Nigeria’s Foreign Affairs Minister breaks silence on ‘criminal attacks’ at High Commission building

Nigeria’s Foreign Affairs Minister, Geoffrey Onyeama has condemned an attack at the country’s High Commissioner’s residence in Accra on Friday night. JoyNews editor, Fred Smith...

MP accused of using residence as voting centre

Incumbent Member for Asante-Akyem North, Andy Kwame Appiah-Kubi, has been accused of using his residence as a voting centre despite an injunction on voting...

Attempt to Arrest Smugglers: Immigration officer dead; another in critical condition

An Officer of Ghana Immigration Service (GIS) met his death with another in critical condition after they were involved in an accident at Kuyuli...