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6.8m Ghanaians are poor – GSS

Statistics from the Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) indicate that poverty has been declining consistently for the past three decades as a result of governments’...

Owusu Bempah fights Korankye Ankrah over bleaching comment

The founder of Glorious Word Power Ministry, Rev Issac Owusu Bempah has responded to Sam Korankye Ankrah’s claims that bleached face Prophets are fake. According...

Kofi Annan’s body touches down in Accra today

The remains of former UN Secretary General, Kofi Annan, will arrive in Ghana on Monday ahead of the official state burial this week. The body...

Computers vanish from ICT centre

The Minister of Communications, Ursula Owusu-Ekuful, and her entourage could not believe their eyes during a recent visit to the Community Information and Communications...

Deaf and dumb child drowns after Asamankese downpour

Police in the Eastern Region is searching for the body of a 6-year-old who drowned at Asamankese Amanfrom in the Lower West Akim District. According...

Motor rider, passenger crushed to death at Wulensi

Two people have been crushed to death by a benz bus at Wulensi in the Northern region. According to reports, the deceased were travelling from...

Teacher Licensure Examination starts Monday

A total of 28,910 newly trained teachers across the country will begin the first-ever Teacher Licensure Examination. The examination will be held in all the...

Assin Dompim Unit Committee members worried over activities of ‘Satan Boys’

Some unit committee members of Assin Dompim have expressed worry about the illegal operation of a newly emerged group "Satan Boys" in the community. According...

Add human touch in handling domestic violence cases – Second Lady

Mrs Samira Bawumia, Second Lady, on Friday urged officers of the Domestic Violence and Victim Support Unit (DOVVSU), to add a human touch in...

Carpenter jailed 20 years for robbing 30 Ghana Cedis

A thirty- two years old carpenter, Ali Mohammed, has been jailed 20 years for shooting and robbing an Okada operator 30 Ghana Cedis in...

Tailor jailed 10 years for defiling seven-year old girl

A tailor believed to be in his early 30’s has been sentenced to 10 years imprisonment by an Accra Circuit Court for having sex...

VIDEO: Corpse refuses to be buried, leads villagers to its killer’s house

A village in Zambia experienced a rare pandemonium when a corpse refused to be buried until it led villagers to the home of its...

PHOTO: Ghanaian soldier dies one month to his wedding

All deaths bring pain to the loved ones of the deceased but some bring more pain than others. Such is the case of the...

Achimota School GUNSA donates to Korle Bu Teaching Hospital

The Achimota School branch of the Ghana United Nations Students and Youth Association (GUNSA) have donated an amount of Two Thousand Ghana Cedis (GHC...

N/R: Boy, 4, drowns after heavy downpour

A 4-year-old boy has drowned in Yirangu a community near Kubori in Mamprugu Moaduri district of the Northern region after a heavy rainfall in...

BA NADMO Boss denies ‘chopping’ school feeding suppliers money

Brong-Ahafo Regional NADMO Coordinator, Konlaabig Rasheed has vehemently denied the accusation that he squandered School Feeding Suppliers money in the region. One Akufo Atiemo who...

Photos: Residents of Kwahu protest against incessant cases of armed robbery

Some residents of Kwahu-Tafo in the Eastern region are protesting against the incessant cases of armed robbery attacks in the area. The protestors, mostly market...

Former Supreme Court Judge V.C.R.A.C Crabbe has died, 94

Myjoyonline.com is learning of the death a former Supreme Court Judge of Ghana, Justice Vincent Cyril Richard Arthur Charles. The 94-year-old prominent judge is said...

Killing of Zongo 7: Muntaka raises concern over delay in release of investigative report

Member of Parliament for Asawasi, Mohammed Muntaka Mubarak, has told Joy News the mandate of the investigative committee on the killing of seven Zongo...

Video: All you need to know about double track system

Deputy Minister of Education, Dr Osei Adutwum, has addressed, in detail, the problems that have characterized government's proposed double-track system for senior high schools. The first...

VIDEO: Two prostitutes detain ‘Okada’ man for trying to abscond after ‘service’

An Okada rider who solicited the services of a prostitute and refused to pay for the services could make his friend spend several days...

Photos: Rainstorm displaces over 2,000 residents in Tolon

A rainstorm has displaced over 2000 people in the Tolon District following torrential rains that hit some parts of the Northern Region, Tuesday. The affected areas...

PHOTOS: 4 Zongo youth killed in Kumasi laid to rest amid heavy security

Hundreds of residents in Kumasi on Thursday joined relatives and community leaders to bury four Zongo youth mistaken for armed robbers and killed by police...

Prophet Nigel Gaisie announces his weakness

Leader and founder of True Fire Prophetic Ministries, Prophet Nigel Gaisie has disclosed his weakness in a recent interview. Speaking during an interview on Zylofon...

Eastwood Anaba’s Love Revolution Campaign slated for September 12

Thousands of Christians across the country are expected to gather at the 15,000-seater capacity Fantasy Dome at the Trade Fair Center in Accra for...

Family of 6 drown at Adagya [Photo]

A family of six people has drowned at Adagya near Esereso on the Lake Road in Kumasi while attempting to cross a broken bridge...

VIDEO: Anas exposes international child trafficking ring in Ghana

Investigative journalist, Anas Aremeyaw Anas, has released a documentary on the increasing numbers of child trafficking in Ghana. The feature project, christened "Chained by Begging"...

9-yr-old defiled by her teacher struggling to walk

A nine-year-old girl in the Central regional town of Kasoa is struggling to walk after she was alleged to have been sexually assaulted by...

Audio: Toilet roll, bed sheets, pens not free under free SHS – CHASS

The Conference of Heads of Assisted Secondary Schools (CHASS) is worried parents don’t still understand the free Senior High School (SHS) policy. President of CHASS,...

Three Katanga Hall male students arrested over ‘secret’ meeting

Three male students affiliated to University Hall otherwise known as Katanga Hall of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST)  have been...

Out of control Ford car kills mother of three, injures 8 others in Accra

A mother of three died instantly while eight others were injured after an alleged out of control Ford Caravan hit them Wednesday afternoon in...

[Audio] People we name our babies after can have negative influence – Prophet Joshua Adjei

The General Overseer of Bread of Live Ministries International, Prophet Joshua Adjei, has warned parents to be careful with the people they name their...

Court fines two okada riders for breaking traffic regulations

The Wenchi Magistrate Court has fined two Okada riders GHC 1,800.00 each for the violation of the road traffic regulations. The accused Persons are Adams...

Check out why Nkwanta South MCE can’t sleep

Municipal Chief Executive for Nkwanta South, John Thasun, says he is unable to sleep due to bad roads in his Municipality. According to him, almost...

Bride and mother-in-law exchange slaps over food

A story has emerged online about how a bride fought her mother in law at her marriage ceremony over the shortage of food. The incident...

Fire Service flouts High Court order, refuses to reinstate sacked female fire officers

The hope of two female officers sacked by Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS) for getting pregnant while on probation to be reinstated has been...

False, doomsday prophets ‘have bleached faces’ – Korankye Ankrah

The Apostle-General of Royalhouse Chapel International, Reverend Sam Korankye Ankrah, has made a very interesting observation about false and doomsday prophets in Ghana –...

Local Govt Ministry inaugurates committee to fight galamsey in the Northern region

The Minister for Local Government and Rural Development, Hajia Alima Mahama in conjunction with various ministries has inaugurated and sworn in the District Committees on...

Berekum boy gets support; Child Rights NGO takes over case

The Ghana NGO Coalition on the Rights of the Child is seeking justice for the young boy allegedly shot at close range by a...

Six Zongo youth killed in K’si to be buried on Thursday amid heavy security

The remaining six of the seven youths killed in Kumasi Zongo by police for alleged robbery in Amansie West District will be laid to rest on Thursday. Ahead...