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Taxi driver inflicts cutlass wounds on suspected rival [photos]

A taxi driver, said to have been driven by jealousy, has inflicted deep cutlass wounds on a man he suspected to be having an...

Government to launch ECG credit mobile App

Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia has revealed plans by government to launch a mobile application that will enable prepaid customers of the Electricity Company of...

Gov’t Town Hall Meeting: Bantamahene wants insecurity in Ashanti Region addressed [Audio]

Bantamahene, Baffour Owusu Amankwatia IV, has called on the government to immediately attend to the insecurity issues in the region. The traditional ruler is concerned...

Woman dumps sick husband, 4 physically-challenged children for another lover [Video]

A wife and mother of four physically challenged children, has left her family for another man. The four children; Kwabena, 20; Kojo, 15; Kwaku Tawia, 10,...

Menzgold customers threaten to defy police orders on demo

Aggrieved customers of Menzgold have vowed to march to the Jubilee House to petition President Nana Akufo-Addo over their locked up investments despite...

NDC had no courage to deal with financial sector clean-up – Bawumia

Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia is of the view that the National Democratic Congress (NDC) government lacked the courage and fortitude required to deal...

Railway Company announces free passenger ride on Nsawam rail line

Management of the Ghana Railway Company Limited (GRCL) has announced plans to run a free passenger service on the Accra-Nsawam rail line. The new announcement comes...

Council of State counsel’s Menzgold customers

The Council of State has reacted to a notice served by the aggrieved customers of defunct gold dealership firm, Menzgold, to march to the...

We must not allow bad behaviour to defeat the purpose of free SHS

The Executive Director of the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NaCCA) has said the viral videos of some Senior High School students advertising sex...

Police turns down Menzgold customers demo request

The Greater Accra Regional Police Command has turned down the decision of the Coalition of Aggrived Menzgold customers to petition President Akufo-Addo. The customers...

Bawumia justifies 72% 2016 manifesto achievement claim in Kumasi today

Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia will today, 11th February, 2020 justify President Akufo-Addo’s 72 per cent manifesto achievement claim in this year’s maiden edition...

Ghanaian students in China insist on immediate evacuation

Ghanaian students in Wuhan, China are insisting the Government of Ghana should, with immediate effect, evacuate them as the death toll on the Coronavirus...

Coronavirus: Calls for evacuation step in the right direction – Ablakwa

Member of Parliament for the North Tongu Constituency on the ticket of the National Democratic Congress says calls to evacuate Ghanaian students in China...

Over 2,000 candidates write 2020 private BECE

Some 2,154 candidates are sitting for the 2020 private Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) across the country. The exam, which is being taken in 17...

Barclays Bank officially rebrands as ABSA Ghana

Barclays Bank has now rebranded as Absa Ghana following a decision by its parent Absa Group to change all of its operations in Africa. The...

Find out what gov’t is doing to get you into the tax net by end of 2020

Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, has announced government’s plans to increase the number of taxpayers to, at least, 16 million by end of 2020. The...

MP makes interesting revelations about galamsey operations [Video]

National Democratic Congress Member of Parliament (MP) for Juaboso constituency has made some interesting revelations about galamsey operations in Ghana. The MP, Kwabena Mintah Akandoh,...

Africa Education Watch opposes expulsion of seven Ejisuman SHS female students

Africa Education Watch, a non-governmental organisation, has kicked against the decision by management of Ejisuman Senior High School (SHS) to expel seven female final...

Murdered nurse’s husband bought her car she never sat in [Audio]

Kwadwo Arhin, husband to late Ruth Eshun has revealed that a vehicle he bought for his wife was never used by her. A grief-stricken...

Ruth Arhin’s murder sparks fear among nurses [Audio]

The Association of Community Health Nurses has appealed to authorities to protect its members following the rape and murder of Ruth Eshun, a nurse...

Amidu warns public against ‘speculation’, ‘politicisation’ of Airbus scandal

The Special Prosecutor, Martin Amidu, has cautioned Ghanaians to refrain from ‘speculating’ and ‘politicising’ bribery allegations against public officials in the Airbus scandal.    The...

Martin Amidu breaks silence on Airbus bribery scandal

The Special Prosecutor (SP), Martin Amidu, has served notice of his decision to treat the trending bribery allegations against some former public officials in...

Two children die in fire at Donaso in Ashanti Region

A 23-year-old mother of two is grieving over the death of her children who perished in a fire outbreak in a residential building at...

We don’t pray for people to die – Wreath makers

Wreath makers in the Tema Metropolis are not the favourite artisans of the public as many locals believe that they wish and pray for...

Cyber Security Law to be passed by June – Communications Minister

Minister of Communications, Ursula Owusu-Ekuful, has said that measures have been put in place for the enactment of a new cybersecurity law...

Be fearless like Jesus Christ…Stand for the truth – Rawlings urges

The Former President, Flight Lieutenant Jerry John Rawlings (Retired), on Sunday, advised Christians to back their prayer of thoughts and words with actions to...

Murder of nurse in Sewua: Police arrest one suspect

The social media campaign being embarked on by friends of a nurse, Ruth Arhin, who was allegedly raped and murdered appears to be yielding...

Land guards making our lives ‘living hell’ – Okanta residents

Chiefs and people of Okanta, a suburb of Adoagyiri in the Nsawam-Adoagyiri Municipality of the Eastern Region have complained of terrorism they experience daily...

Ofoase-Ayirebi constituents pick forms for Oppong Nkrumah

New Patriotic Party(NPP) Polling Station Executives in the Ofoase-Ayirebi Constituency in the Eastern Region stormed the party office to pick Parliamentary Primaries forms for...

Missing Excavators: Arrested persons to be dealt with if found culpable – Information Minister

Minister for Information, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, has assured of justice delivery in the over 500 missing excavators. According to the Minister, police investigations have already...

Finance Minister defends borrowing habit despite concerns raised by IMF and World Bank [Video]

Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, has mounted a defense for government’s incessant borrowing despite cautions from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank to...

Dep. Chief of Staff files to contest Bantama seat [photos]

The Deputy Chief of Staff, Francis Asenso-Boakye has filed his forms to contest as MP for Bantama on the ticket of the New Patriotic...

Woman, 21, mauled to death by lions

A young woman working at a game reserve has been mauled to death by lions. Swans van Wyke, 21, was performing her daily duties in...

Couple’s farm produce go waste after death of children

About 30,000 yam mounds belonging to a family that lost two children in a farm fire that claimed the lives of four children on...

US fund managers dominated Ghana’s Eurobond sale – Finance Ministry

Fund Managers from the United States of America dominated the recent sale of Ghana’s Eurobond.  This was based on information JoyBusiness picked from persons that...

Sarkodie apologises to Yemi Alade

Ghanaian rapper Sarkodie and Nigerian singer Yemi Alade seem to be patching things up after falling out two years ago. On Thursday, Sarkodie asked Alade...

Joyce Bawa writes on Airbus bribery scandal

Ghanaians are still scratching their heads over who Government Official 1 and Intermediary 5 are after the Airbus Scandal that dominated the headlines in...

MPs clash over mass failure

There was heated debate in Parliament yesterday, on the mass failure of students who wrote the entrance examinations into the Ghana School of Law...

Ameen Sangari Company workers demand payment of salary arrears

Dozens of workers of Ameen Sangari Company Limited, the only manufacturing company in Cape Coast, have staged a demonstration to press home their demand...

Missing excavators: Minister lodges money laundering charge against journalist, security chief and ex-NPP chair

Minister for Environment, Science and Technology Innovations (MESTI), Prof. Kwabena Frimpong Boateng, has requested the Police Service to probe three men allegedly engaged in...