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Photos+Audio: Operation Vanguard accused of killing 4 at Anyinam

Tension is mounting at Anyinam in the Atiwa district of the Eastern region after four bodies were found near a mining pit at Akyem...

Photos: Days after massacre, Nigerian church re-dedicated to God

Days after the massacre that left 13 people dead and several others injured,  His lordship, Most Rev. Hillary Odili Okeke, yesterday led other worshippers...

Hajj 2017: 3rd batch of 506 would-be pilgrims airlifted

A jumbo flight 747 Sunday morning airlifted 506 would-be pilgrims from the Tamale airport to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for this year's Hajj. The touching down of...

Musama Peace festival turns chaos

Police in the Central region is said to have prevented members of the Musama Disco Christo Church (MDCC) from holding its annual Peace festival. According...

Gov’t to boost affordable housing with Pension Act amendment

Housing Minister, Samuel Atta Akyea says government is determined to roll out the affordable housing programme with an amendment of portions of the Pension...

President urges doctors to accept postings to rural communities

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on Saturday urged newly qualified doctors to accept postings to rural communities. He said young doctors who were posted to...

Photos: Gofundme presents late Maj Mahama's wife with ¢27,770 cheque

The widow of late Major Maxwell Adam Mahama has been presented with a cheque of  GHC27, 770 which was raised by some people who...

Don’t give undue advantage to foreign businesses – Kofi Annan

Dr Kofi Annan, a Former United Nations Secretary-General, has advised African governments and state institutions not to give undue advantage to foreign businesses at...

Military training for National Service – Nitiwul

Minister of Defence, Mr Dominic Nitiwul, has revealed that 10,000 National Service Personnel would be selected to embark on six months of military training as...

PHOTOS: Owusu Bempah storms Abossey Okai with ‘anointing oil’

Reverend Dr Isaac Owusu Bempah, founder of the Glorious Word Power Ministry International on Friday visited traders at Abossey Okai in Accra and held...

Operation Vanguard ‘needless’ – Mahama Ayariga

MP for Bawku Central, Mahama Ayariga, says the deployment of a joint military and police taskforce to illegal mining areas amounts to the use...

MMDAs ‘chop’ money – 2016 Auditor-General’s Report reveals

Deficiencies in the operations of metropolitan, municipal and district assemblies (MMDAs) created avenues for some officials of the assemblies to mismanage funds and resources...

Over 400 Hajj Pilgrims airlifted

The first batch of Muslims on the Hajj Pilgrimage from Ghana was airlifted Friday evening to the holy land of Mecca. It comes as a...

HOT VIDEO: ‘Mad man’ beaten mercilessly after terrorizing Awutu Breku residents

Residents and drivers at Awutu Breku in the Central Region have been subjected to harassment by a rampaging mad man in the area. Some victims...

Hot audio: 'Komenda Sugar Factory never produced sugar'

The revamped Komenda sugar factory in the Central region never produced even a cube of sugar. Deputy Minister for Trade and Industry, Robert Ahomka...

Review Of Book: THE MFANTSIPIM DREAM

Title of Book:                     ‘THE MFANTSIPIM DREAM’ Author:                                MAGNUS REXDANQUAH Reviewed by:                    ENIMIL ASHON   One does not point at the father’s village with the left...

Photo:'Dwarfs' arrested for selling marijuana

A 43-year-old woman, Alaba Mulika and her 16-year-old daughter, Olamide, have been arrested by the Ogun State Police Command for allegedly trading in cannabis. The...

MP to cover funeral cost of slain Alajo mechanic

Deputy Interior Minister, Henry Quartey has pledged to cover the funeral cost of the mechanic, Yaw Boadi who was shot at Alajo. Speaking to colleagues...

PHOTOS: Hajj pilgrims stranded at Tamale

Hundreds of Muslims embarking on the Hajj pilgrimage are stranded in Tamale due to an emergency at the destination country – Mecca. About 500 pilgrims...

Over 3,000 public workers to lose salaries over SSNIT biometric registration

Over 3,000 government workers are yet to complete their registration unto the SSNIT biometric database, which will affect payment of their salaries. A Deputy Minister...

WAEC says it has not released BECE results

The West Africa Examination Council (WAEC) has refuted rumours that it has released the 2017 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE). It said its systems had...

PHOTO: The doctor who records sexual encounters with women

Police have arrested one Faith Mensah Tekpor said to be a serial confident trickster. He poses as a Medical Doctor with several names such as...

Minister orders closure of illegal mining pits in Talensi

The Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, John Peter Amewu has ordered for the permanent closure of all illegal mining pits in Gbane mining...

Hot audio: Family of Alajo garage shooting victim invoke Anto Nyama on police

Family of victim shot and killed at Alajo in Accra have invoked the dreaded Ashanti deity, ‘Antoa Nyama’ on any police officer who will...

Hot audio: We will help you to flush out illegal miners if… – Galamseyer to gov’t  

The man whose earthmoving equipment was torched by some angry youth at Abekoase in the Atiwa district of the Eastern Region some months ago...

Kofi Annan led 'demo' over food at Mfantsipim

Soft-spoken and reserved to a fault, Kofi Annan's personality hides an interesting detail of his student days at Mfantsipim School in the Central Region. There...

VIDEO+PHOTOS: Drivers threaten strike over potholes on Eastern corridor road

Prior to the 2016 elections in December, the erstwhile President John Dramani Mahama highlighted his administration’s commitment to opening up the Eastern stretch of...

Hot Audio: Galamsey taskforce deny shooting illegal miner at Sefwi

The anti-galamsey task force known as Operation Vanguard (OV) has denied shooting a miner at Sefwi-Ankra in the Juaboso District of the Western Region...

PHOTOS: Victim of Alajo garage shooting dies

A hospitalised victim of a shooting incident at Alajo in Accra has died, a family source has confirmed to Joy News. The victim, Richard Yaw...

Hot Audio: American-based Ghanaian drowns at Boti Falls

An American-based Ghanaian has drowned at Boti Falls in the Eastern region. The victim, Jeremiad Bediako is believed to be in his 30s. Brother of the...

PHOTOS: Artisans at Alajo demonstrate over killing of colleague

A group of artisans in the Accra suburb of Alajo today besieged the frontage of the JoyFM building demanding justice following the fatal shooting...

Viral VIDEO: Galamsey operator weeps, curses gov't while watching excavators burn

The video of a galamsey operator crying out loud and cursing the government while watching his two excavators burn has gone viral on social...

29 'born again' Christians return their certificates to WAEC for cheating

Twenty-nine born again Christians have returned their results slips to the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) after they had confessed of engaging in examination...

Atuabo Gas Plant critical to Ghana’s transformation – Akufo-Addo

President Akufo-Addo, has described the Atuabo Gas Plant as a critical piece of infrastructure that will aid in the transformation of the Ghanaian economy,...

My mum sold my sight to buy witchcraft – Blind Man confesses

Nana Awuku, a sixty three (63) year-old man at Adweso in Koforidua has revealed that his mother, Abena Asantewaa exchanged his soul with blindness...

Audio: Techiman chiefs bare teeth at ‘fake’ financial institutions

Chiefs and people of Techimantia in Tano South District of Brong Ahafo Region have vowed to deal ruthlessly with any financial institution whose aim...

Hot audio: Baby boy survives after mother buried him alive

A two-month-old baby escaped death after his mother buried him alive in an uncompleted building at Elmina-Bantuma in the KEEA municipality in the Central...

Girl, 4 dead after drinking mother’s akpeteshie

A four-year-old girl drank herself to death after she mistook her mother’s locally made liquor to water. The deceased who name was only given as...

Health training institutions over producing than required – NMC

The Nurses and Midwifery Council (NMC) has revealed that health institutions in the country are churning out products more than required for consumption by...

EOCO seizes expired drugs

The Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO) has seized expired and unregistered confectionaries and some pharmaceutical products worth thousands of Ghana Cedis, from two...