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Dzita residents hit by another mysterious death

Residents of Dzita in the Volta Region have been thrown into a state of fear, shock and disbelieve following another mysterious death of one...

Keta Municipality: Residents alarmed by ‘mysterious’ deaths

Residents of Dzita in the Keta Municipality of the Volta Region, are yet to come to terms with news of serial killings there after...

Hot Audio: Free SHS: Woman appeals for funds to purchase chop-box for son

If you thought the introduction of Free Senior High School (SHS) has ended the era when people got admission but are unable to go...

Photos: Seth Kwame Boateng receives prestigious ICFJ Award

Joy News' multiple award-winning journalist, Seth Kwame Boateng has received the Global Health Reporting 2017 Award from highly esteemed International Center for Journalists (ICFJ). Seth Kwame...

Prisoners beat gay suspects at Kumasi Central Prison

Inmates of the Kumasi Central Prisons that engage in sodomy are unusually beaten by their angry colleagues severely, DAILY GUIDE has gathered. The gay inmates...

Photos: President Akufo-Addo interacts with Ghanaians in New York

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo together with the First Lady, Mrs Rebecca Akufo-Addo are in New York this week to participate in the 72nd...

Ghanaian Times workers’ protest ‘unwarranted’ – Board

The Board of Directors of the New Times Corporation – managers of the state-owned Ghanaian Times Newspaper, has described as unfortunate and unwarranted a...

PHOTOS: The car that rammed into Manasseh Azure’s

Last Wednesday night, this Toyota Corolla taxi rammed into my car on my way home from work. The driver's seat on which I sat was...

Court orders GIS to restore Indian businessman’s permit

A High Court in Accra has ordered the Ghana Immigration Service (GIS) to restore the Residence and Work Permit of Mr. Ashok Kumar Sivaran,...

Prosecute A-Plus for baseless corruption claims – Vitus Azeem

Anti-corruption campaigner, Vitus Azeem, is calling for the prosecution of musician, Kwame Asare Obeng, popularly known as A-Plus, for making “baseless” corruption allegations against...

A Plus’ claims against Jinapor, Asenso-Boakye “baseless” – CID

The Criminal Investigations Department of the Ghana Police Service has described as “baseless”, “unsubstantiated” and without “credibility”, corruption allegations made against Deputy Chiefs of...

Audio: Times spends over GHC 100, 000 weekly on printing newspapers outside

It has emerged that the New-Times Corporation, managers of the Ghanaian Times Newspaper spend over GHC 100,000 weekly in printing newspapers at Graphic Communications...

Thursday declared public holiday

The Ministry of Interior has declared Thursday, September 21, 2017 as a public holiday. The holiday, Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Day, commemorates the birthday of Ghana’s...

Policeman slaps Legon lecturer

A lecturer at the University of Ghana is demanding disciplinary action against a police officer who allegedly slapped him during a misunderstanding Sunday night...

Ghana Home Loans launches 10th anniversary Housing Fair

Ghana Home Loans has officially launched its 20th edition Housing Fair at the forecourt of its head office, Airport Residential Area, Accra. The fair is...

Revealed: Hot video: SSNIT ‘blows’ GH₵79 million on pocket dairies

Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) has reportedly spent a whopping GH¢79 million on pocket dairies in 2016. SSNIT, which is struggling to pay...

Ghanaian men are afraid to propose to us – Military women cry out

A group of military women have blamed their singleness on the timidity of some Ghanaian men, saying they (men) lack the courage to propose...

August 4 is new Founders Day

President Akufo-Addo is set to propose to Parliament to adopt August 4 as Founders Day for the Republic. The proposal will also request parliament to...

Scammed mobile money vendor collapses

A scammer nearly caused the death of a mobile money vendor in Takoradi after he had been duped of GH¢6,000 in a fake transaction. The...

Audio: Fire guts VIP bus en route to Kumasi; 29 escape death

A VIP bus en route to the Ashanti Regional capital Kumasi caught when it developed a mechanical fault in a town near Nkawkaw Sunday Fortunately,...

Nurse’s post over death of 10yr old boy sparks social media outrage

A mean-spirited post about the death of a 10-year-old boy at the Tema General Hospital, by a supposed nurse, has sparked outrage on social...

Photos: Four dead in canoe disaster on White Volta.

The National Disaster Management Organization (NADMO) has retrieved four dead bodies after a boat carrying five people sunk in the White Volta around Bimbini...

Stop sabotaging President’s Free SHS policy – Tema Mantse

Dr. Nii Adjei Kraku ll, the Paramount Chief of Tema, has decried a trend of extortions in second cycle institutions in the wake of...

“We are excited with the Free SHS”- Togbe Afede

Togbe Afede XIV, Agbogbomefia of Asogli State and President of the National House of Chiefs, has lauded government for implementing its flagship Free Senior...

ECOWAS must play lead role in Togo – Togbe Afede

Togbe Afede XIV, Agbogbomefia of Asogli and President of the National House of Chiefs, has reiterated the call on the Economic Community of West...

Hot Audio: Girl stripped naked in school for bed wetting

A woman, believed to be in her 40s has allegedly stripped her 11 year-old girl naked in her school at Assin Krofofordo in the...

Okyenhene wants Akyem-Abuakwa chiefs to retire at 75

The Okyenhene, Osagyefuo Amoatia Ofori Panin, is pushing for a mandatory abdication of chiefs on attainment of the ripe age of 75 years. He said...

Stop sabotaging President’s Free SHS policy – Chief

Dr. Nii Adjei Kraku ll, the Paramount Chief of Tema, has decried a trend of extortions in second cycle institutions in the wake of...

Minister in trouble over Komenda Sugar Factory

Deputy Minister for Trade and Industry, is in fresh trouble over what an ex-worker of the Komenda Sugar Factory in the Central Region, described...

24 inmates test HIV positive at Kumasi prison…

A total of 24 inmates at the Kumasi Central Prison have tested positive for HIV, the Ashanti Regional Prisons Commander, DDP Lord Nii Boye...

108 Ghanaians deported from Benin

One hundred and eight Ghanaians have been deported from Benin following the takeover of their residence by the Beninoise government for the construction of...

Akufo-Addo leaves Accra for United Nations General Assembly

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo is scheduled to deliver his maiden address to the United Nations General Assembly on Thursday, September 21. According to a...

New GhanaCard is an improvement over previous one – Akufo-Addo

President Nana Dankwa Akufo-Addo has expressed that the new national identification card tagged ‘GhanaCard’ with its unique features and functions posit as a vast...

“GazPROM LNG supply deal important for Ghana’s economy’ – Akufo-Addo

The President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has described the Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) sales agreement reached between the Ghana National Petroleum...

President Akufo-Addo receives new ‘Ghana Card’

The President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has received his National Identification Card, dubbed the new “Ghana Card”, at a ceremony held...

Hot Audio: Student with dreadlocks denied SHS admission

A parent seeking a Free Senior High School admission for his ward at Accra Girls Senior High School has been denied because she had...

Renewed National ID scheme kicks off today

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo will today, September, 15, 2017 kick off the renewed National Identification System promised by the governing New Patriotic Party(NPP). President...

KATH hard hit by absence of 150 doctors

Authorities of the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) are reeling under pressure over delayed replacement of 150 medical officers for horsemanship. The absence of the...

Audio: I wish free SHS succeeds – Former Education Minister

Former Minister of Education, Professor Jane Naana Opoku Agyemang is praying for the sustainability of the free Senior High School (SHS) policy rolled out...

Joy News’ Manasseh Azure Awuni escapes unhurt in car crash

Joy News’ Investigative journalist Manasseh Azure Awuni was Wednesday evening involved in an accident at the GIMPA road, between GIMPA and the University of Ghana boundary...