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Video: Couple with 3 children with rare abnormal growth left devastated

The abnormal condition of three children with growth disorder in Asante-Akyem North District of the Ashanti Region has left their parents devastated. Doctors at the...

JoyNews’ Seth Kwame Boateng grabs 3rd Master’s degree from University of Leeds

One of the country’s decorated journalists, Seth Kwame Boateng, has graduated with a third Master’s degree from the University of Leeds in the United...

Court places injunction on Mpakadan Inland Port construction

An on-going dispute between chiefs and elders of Ajena and the chief of Akwamu over the ownership of land earmarked for the construction of...

Jospong Group holds 2019 annual thanksgiving ceremony

Executive Chairman of the Jospong Group of Companies, Dr Joseph Siaw Agyapong, and the entire staff of the company, together with stakeholders in the...

School bus conductor crushed to death

Conductor of Pentecost Preparatory School in Koforidua, Eastern region, was crushed to death while attempting to jump on the moving vehicle. The 55-year-old deceased, identified...

Fuel price hike possible due to continuous cedi depreciation – IES warns

Energy think tank Institute for Energy Security (IES), has warned of a possible increment in the price of fuel by the end of December...

Policeman shoots driver’s mate

Lance Corporal Frank Amoako has been placed in police custody by the Western Regional Police Command for allegedly shooting a driver’s mate...

Listen: Middle Belt Authority reveals major challenges of $1 million per constituency projects

The Chief Executive Officer of the Middle Belt Development Authority, Joe Danquah, has revealed two major challenges hindering the implementation of the $1 million...

Accra to become hub of artists – First Lady

First Lady Rebecca Akufo-Addo says it is her dream to see the nation’s capital, Accra, become the hub for artists on the continent of...

Metro Mass drivers embark on sit-down strike [Video]

Some passengers have been left stranded following a sit-down strike embarked upon by Metro Mass Transit drivers in Cape Coast in the Central Region.  The...

Mankessim shootings: Police accused of demanding GH¢ 2,310 from family of deceased [Audio]

The family of Kofi Yamoah, a man shot and killed during the ‘outdooring’ of a Queenmother at Mankessim in the Central region has appealed...

Insane video of church members drinking pastor’s bath water infuriates Ghanaians

A video of members of a so-called church drinking their church leader's bath water has angered the Ghanaian public. The video, which became an instant...

‘Home alone’ boy escapes burning house

An eight-year-old boy Nana Kwame left home alone, on Friday morning escaped a deadly fire outbreak in his family apartment unhurt in Saki. Nana Kwame...

Newlyweds commit suicide over wedding debt

Two families in Kisumu are mourning their two children who, together, committed suicide four days after their beautiful wedding. According to sources, the new couple...

Woman delivers in tricycle over lack of ambulance

A 21-year old woman in labour has been compelled to deliver in a tricycle due to the lack of ambulance at Kpaglaghi in...

Police raid ‘Facebook fetish priests’

Police have arrested two ‘fake’ Fetish priests who allegedly use social media especially Facebook to defraud inspecting members of the public under the guise...

Fifty year-old woman dies in Enchi-Dadieso accident

A head-on collision by a Benz bus with registration number GR 7865-B and a rickshaw on the Enchi-Dadieso road in the Aowin constituency of...

MMT bus’ brake fails, rams six cars at Ayi-Mensah toll booth

Operators and hawkers at the Ayi-Mensah toll booth were given a scare Saturday, December 14, when a Metro Mass Transit bus came colliding into...

Takoradi to get first Intergrated Waste Recycling plant within six months

The Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolis will, by June 2020, obtain its first integrated Waste Treatment plant. This is to help address the solid waste treatment challenges that...

SHS teacher allegedly slaps student for waving at MP

A teacher at the Agona Namanwura Senior High School in the Central Region has allegedly slapped a student for waving at the Member of...

207 Benz romance, meet the couple working together as driver, mate

Becoming business partners could be a difficult task for couples as balancing personal and business relationships is no mean task. Both sides of the relationship,...

It’s ‘shocking’, ‘bad’ – Rev. Campbell on children in sports betting

The Parish Priest of the Christ The King Catholic Church in Accra, Father Andrew Campbell, has expressed worry about the rate at which young...

Hand over legal education to GBA if approved as next CJ – Justice Anin-Yeboah told

Former Director of the Ghana Law School (GLS), Dr Ansah Asare, has advised Chief Justice nominee Justice Anin-Yeboah to hand over legal education to...

Fmr. Director of Ghana Law School welcomes nomination of Justice Anin-Yeboah as Chief Justice

Former Director of the Ghana Law School (GLS), Dr Ansah Asare, has expressed satisfaction over the nomination of Justice Anin-Yeboah as Ghana’s next Chief...

Man returns N98m transferred to his account

A Nigerian man, identified as Sunny Anderson, has reportedly returned a whopping sum of N98m which was mistakenly transferred into his account. According to the...

Video: Dambai communities risk lives on river without bridge

Residents of five adjoining farming communities at Dambai in the Krachi East Municipality of the Oti Region are appealing to the government to construct...

Four Ghanaians join UK House of Commons

Four Ghanaians have found their way into the UK House of Commons after securing a win in the elections held on Thursday, December 12,...

Man dies in an accident on Winneba-Kasoa highway

A 38-year old man, Ahianu Bruno, from Kasoa died when a Mercedes Benz Sprinter Bus veered off its lane unto the shoulders...

Mahama’s ‘meet and greet’ session with Pastor Otabil

The Flagbearer of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), John Dramani Mahama, had a ‘meet and greet’ session with Pastor Mensa Otabil...

President’s Encounter: MFWA grades Akufo-Addo, journalists

Over the past three years, the President of Ghana, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has hosted journalists at the Jubilee House, the seat of government, to respond...

Prez speaks about ‘Year of Return’ and implications for tourism

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo says the 'Year of Return' initiative implemented by his administration has boosted tourism revenue generated across the country. He said...

Photos: Tears flow for late Cyril Acolatse

A pre-burial service has been organised in Accra in memory of veteran journalist, Cyril Harry Kwasi Acolatse who died in October at the Tema General...

Akufo-Addo reacts to ‘Family and Friends’ tag on him

President Akufo-Addo has said, his decision to appoint his cousin, Ken Ofori-Atta, as the Finance Minister wasn't influenced by his relation to him. The...

Listen: What Akufo-Addo said about Special Prosecutor

President Nana Akufo-Addo seems satisfied with the work of the Special Prosecutor though a year in office some have criticised him for doing nothing....

Decision not to distribute 96 ambulances mine – Akufo-Addo

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has revealed why some 96 national ambulances to be distributed to the various constituencies across the country remain parked...

How E/R NDC communicator and wife escaped death from highway robbers at Potsin [Audio]

Eastern Regional Communications Officer for the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Dallas Ampomah Williams, has narrated how he, together with his newly-wedded wife and cousin,...

Akufo-Addo reveals biggest regret in 2019 [Audio]

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo says his biggest regret as president in 2019 is over the four girls who were kidnapped and subsequently killed...

Meet the American astronaut who schooled at University of Ghana

An American Astronaut, Christina Hammock Koch has described her learning experience at the University of Ghana some twenty years ago as “life-changing.” The Astronaut took...

Photo: Christian Atsu pays fine for visually impaired prisoner’s freedom

Peter Ennin, who has no sight in both eyes, gained his freedom from the Nsawam Prison after Black Stars player Christian Atsu paid his...

Togbe Afede breaks silence on Farmers’ Day snub

The Agbogbomefia of Ho, Togbe Afede XIV, has broken his silence on his absence from the National Farmers' Day ceremony in the Volta Regional...