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50 CEPS officials interdicted over tax fraud

At least 50 staff of the Ghana Revenue Authority have been interdicted for allegedly aiding some private companies to evade duties and taxes. The interdicted...

Hot Audio: Boy, 6, loses both legs over GHC2.20p

A six-year-old pupil, Peter Mensah has lost both legs in an accident at Offinso-Sanproso in the Ashanti Region. According to an eye witness, Opoku Alexander,...

Audio: Pregnant woman beaten to pulp by soldier

A pregnant woman has been assaulted by a military man at Kwabenya-Abuom (Stone) junction in the Dome Kwabenya constituency in the Greater Accra region...

1.8 Million Children engaged in child labour – Survey

The Sixth Ghana Living Standards Survey estimates that over 1.8 million children are engaged in child labour, out of which 1.2 million of them...

Made-in-Ghana Ambassador: Let’s focus on herbal medicine use

Ambassador for the Made-in-Ghana campaign, Emelia Arthur, is appealing to the Ministry of Health and its stakeholders to endorse the usage of our herbal...

Rev. Korankye Ankrah clears air on Denkyira-Oboase curse claim

Rev. Sam Korankye Ankrah, Apostle General of Royalhouse Chapel International has clarified excepts of a sermon he preached that generated public debate about the...

Hot Audio: Woman wants blood covenant with estranged lover broken

A 26-year-old mother of two is in a fix over her relationship with a man he entered a blood covenant. Afia Konadu says she met...

Hot Video: Angry Makola women mob Kennedy

It was a sight to behold when hundreds of market women from Makola market in Accra mobbed the Member of Parliament for Assin Central...

Only 36 per cent of pregnant women deliver at hospitals

Only 36 per cent of pregnant women in the Northern Region patronise health facilities for delivery, Ms Georgina Amidu, Communications for Development Officer at...

VIDEO: Lapaz shooting: Kennedy Agyepong calls on IGP to arm all police officers

New Patriotic Party Member of Parliament for the Assin Central constituency in the Central region has called on the Inspector General of Police to...

I personally invited Radio Gold – Mustapha Hamid

Information Minister, Mustapha Hamid has dispelled rumours that they deliberately did not invite pro-National Democratic Congress (NDC) radio station, Radio Gold from the maiden...

PHOTOS: Fuel tanker goes up in flames on Assin-Fosu Highway

A fuel tanker has caught fire on the Assin Fosu-Kumasi highway causing heavy vehicular traffic. The incident occurred when a diesel tanker hit a Metro...

Brong-Ahafo records 62 deaths in 327 road crashes

The Brong-Ahafo Region from January to June this year has recorded 62 deaths in 327 road crashes. The total number of accidents for the period...

VIDEO: How Gov’t officials masterminded Central Medical Stores arson

Details have started emerging on how some officials of government allegedly paid for and ordered the arson that occurred at the Central Medical Stores...

Woman killed over AIDS

The police are on the heels of a man at Teshie who is believed to have left a chilling note, accusing a deceased woman...

Court prosecutes sanitation offenders

The Abeka Sanitation and Motor Magistrate Court has prosecuted 21 residents of Lapaz and its environs within the Okaikoi North Sub-metro of the Accra...

Woyome’s review application dismissed

The Supreme Court yesterday dismissed another application by businessman, Mr Alfred Agbesi Woyome, to stop his upcoming oral examination in relation to the GH¢51.2...

Disband all vigilante groups – US Envoy

Mr Robert P. Jackson, the United Sates Ambassador to Ghana, has urged the government of Ghana to take concrete steps to rein vigilante groups...

Charlotte Osei in trouble as EC staff call for her impeachment over fraud, abuse of office

Joy News has intercepted a petition filed by staff of the Electoral Commission against the Chairperson, Charlotte Osei, calling for a full-scale probe into...

YEA beneficiaries to demonstrate over unpaid allowances

A group calling itself the Coalition of Youth Employment Agency (YEA) beneficiaries has served notice of a demonstration against the management of YEA over...

President, CJ petitioned to impeach EC Chairperson

Some concerned workers of the Electoral Commission (EC) have petitioned the President and Her Ladyship, the Chief Justice to begin impeachment processes against the...

Hot video: 9-year-old gospel-singing sensation

Bismarck Donkor is only nine but everywhere he performs, he gets the same reaction: people are awestruck by the little boy’s great big voice. The...

Hot video: 'I'm the greatest victim of irresponsible journalism in Ghanaian media'

President Akufo-Addo says he has been the greatest victim in the domain of irresponsible journalism in a section of the Ghanaian media. According to him,...

Woyome's day of reckoning will come – Akufo-Addo

There will eventually be a day of reckoning for businessman Alfred Agbesi Woyome as far as the litany of legal issues concerning that matter...

Fire guts JOB 600 building

Fire has gutted the 10th floor of the Job 600 building which serve as offices for Members of Parliament and their research assistants. Acting Director...

Audio: Pregnant midwife found dead while in labour

A 30-year-old pregnant midwife, who also works at the Atebubu district government hospital in the Brong Ahafo region has been found dead. According to reports,...

Man swindles fiancée of GH¢165,000

A man, who betrayed the trust of his fiancée by allegedly swindling her of her cash of GH¢165,000, has been arrested to face the...

I will marshal all arsenals to fight galamsey – Akufo-Addo

President Akufo-Addo has reiterated his resolve to fight illegal mining popularly known as galamsey in the country. According to him, not even his quest to...

Accident leaves ‘gravediggers’ unconscious

Scores of people who were on their way to a cemetery at Kormantse-Nkum in the Central Region to dig a grave have been involved...

PHOTO: Major Mahama's mother receives his master's degree certificate

The mother of the late Major of the Ghana Army who was lynched in Denkyira-Obuasi has received his master's degree certificate on his behalf. The...

2 Ashaiman Illegal petrol fire victims die

Two persons among a family of four who were seriously burnt by wild fire, purportedly caused by illegal petroleum products dealer at Taifa, a...

Judges threaten strike over unpaid allowances

Five hundred members of the Association of Magistrates and Judges are threatening to embark on a nationwide strike over unpaid allowances. Another issue they are...

Koforidua roads develop potholes 6 months after construction

Major parts of roads in Koforidua in the New Juaben Municipality of the Eastern Region have developed deep potholes in less than 6 months...

Let’s all be innovation enablers – First Lady urges Africans

First Lady Rebecca Akufo-Addo has urged all Africans to help create and promote innovation in communities in a bid to solve real and difficult...

President Akufo-Addo accounts to Ghana on July 18

As President Nana Addo Danquah Akufo-Addo?s Administration builds momentum, Ghanaians would, on Tuesday, July 18, have the opportunity to assess the significant role, achievements...

Hot audio: Man cursed for sleeping with his pastor's wife

Sleeping with another man’s wife knowingly or unknowingly attracts some curses or punishments but this becomes worse if the woman happens to be the...

Aggrieved traders at Kotokuraba market protest unfair stalls distribution

Some Assembly members and traders at the Kotokuraba Market in Cape Coast in the Central region are protesting what they describe as the unfair...

PHOTOS: Alhaji Chocho paves Koforidua Regional Hospital road

The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Chocho Industries Limited, Alhaji Dr Mustapha Oti Boateng, has paved and handed over a 231 metre-length road...

Ghana's record keeping 'weak' – Kweku Baako

Editor-in-Chief of New Crusading Guide, Abdul Malik Kweku Baako has described Ghana as a country which is weak in record keeping. Speaking at the 13th...

Audio: Ghana could suffer terror attack if… – Security analyst

Security expert at the University of Cape Coast, Dr Kingsley Adjei has warned Ghana may be a target of terror attack in West Africa. His...