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Mad rush for fuel as tanker overturns on Accra-Tema Motorway [Video]

https://youtube.com/shorts/xJw7-brxlck?feature=share Residents and drivers along the Accra-Tema motorway on Friday morning risked their lives to fetch fuel which was gushing out of a crashed tanker. The...

Weija-Gbawe MCE drops shocking details about canoe accident

It has emerged that a 12-year-old boy was the person paddling a canoe that capsized and claimed the lives of nine children at Faana...

Oppong Nkrumah reacts to Weija Gbawe drowning incident [Play attached audio]

Information Minister, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah has reacted to the drowning of nine children at Faanaa, an island community in the Greater Accra Region. In an...

Oti: Pupil teacher drowns after boat he was travelling on capsised

A teacher with the Chinekope M/A Primary School in the Kete Krachi Municipality in the Oti Region has met his untimely death. Sampson Adu, 29,...

Photos of Bortianor-Faanaa boat disaster

Nine school children of Fanaa, a suburb of Bortianor in the Ga South Municipality of the Greater Accra Region drowned on Wednesday, May 11,...

NDC primaries to proceed as Duffuor withdraws case against party

An Accra High Court has today, Friday, May 12, struck out Dr Kwabena Duffour’s injunction application against the National Democratic Congress (NDC)’s presidential and...

Court ‘throws out’ Ato Essien’s motion to renegotiate GH¢60million payment 

The High Court in Accra has rejected an attempt by the founder of the defunct Capital Bank, William Ato Essien, to renegotiate a GH¢60...

Drowning of 9 pupils: EduWatch blames GES, Education Ministry

The African Education Watch has blamed the Ministry of Education and the Ghana Education Service (GES) for the drowning of nine children at Faanaa,...

Govt to ban exportation of bauxite, iron ore

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has announced plans to ban the wholesale exportation of Ghana’s bauxite and iron ore. The move, according to President Akufo-Addo,...

Charles Owusu’s lawyer responds to Prof Frimpong-Boateng’s allegations

Lawyer for former Head of the Monitoring Unit at the Forestry Commission, Charles Owusu, has officially responded to allegations made by former Minister of...

Court throws out Ato Essien’s application

An Accra High Court has dismissed an application by founder of defunct Capital Bank, William Ato Essien, asking for a chance to re-negotiate with...

ECG MD reacts to recent power outages

The Managing Director (MD) of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG), Samuel Dubik Mahama, has assured that recent power outages recorded in parts of...

Visually impaired law students share inspiring story on Asempa FM

Two visually impaired young men have defied all odds to pursue their dream profession at the University of Ghana. Benjamin Mellish Agyapong and Gilbert Agyare...

Black day for KNUST as level 200 student passes on

The Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) has suffered another blow as a level 200 student is confirmed dead. Crispin Dari Ngmensum from...

Ato Essien pays GH¢4m ahead of today’s sentence motion hearing

Former Chief Executive Officer of defunct Capital Bank, William Ato Essien, has paid GH¢4 million to the state ahead of his custodial sentence hearing...

Police on manhunt for suspects who lynched 2 over witchcraft accusations

Police are on a manhunt for some suspects allegedly involved in the lynching of two people accused of practising witchcraft at Zakpalsi in the...

Expedite action on local vaccine production – Akufo-Addo to National Vaccine Institute

President Nana Akufo-Addo has charged the National Vaccine Institute (NVI) to work to bring to fruition the vision of developing and manufacturing vaccines locally.  He...

Tamale Technical University teachers withdraw services over allowances

Members of the Tamale Technical University chapter of the Technical University Teacher’s Association of Ghana (TUTAG) have withdrawn all services effective Wednesday, May 10....

8 school children drown at Weija

Eight school children have drowned after a boat carrying them capsized at Faana in the Weija Gbawe municipality in Accra. The unfortunate accident happened around...

People’s Forum: Ningo fishermen allege ‘family and friends’ distribution of premix fuel

Fishermen at Ningo landing beach in the Greater Accra region are alleging political interference in the distribution of premix fuel in the area. They claim...

People’s Forum: Residents at New Ningo blame Sam George, DCE for bad roads

Residents at New Ningo in the Ningo Prampram Constituency of the Greater Accra Region are blaming the bad roads in the area on the...

Weija: Survivor of canoe accident that claimed 8 lives reveals what caused the tragedy

Enoyanam Ekpe, one of the children who survived the canoe accident at Weija which claimed eight lives, has blamed it on overloading. Speaking to...

Bukom Banku sends important message to NDC

Ghanaian boxer, Braimah Kamoko, popularly known as Bukom Banku, has suggested that the National Democratic Congress (NDC) resolves its issues internally so the primaries...

About 1.9m out of 10 million workers are covered under SSNIT scheme – SSNIT Boss

Only about 1.9 million of the 10 million workers in the country are covered under the Social Security and National Insurance (SSNIT) Scheme. According...

NDC Primaries: Mahama reacts to Duffuor’s injunction suit

It is the prayer of one of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) flagbearer hopefuls, John Mahama, that the presidential and parliamentary primaries will come...

NSS teacher remanded for defiling 3 pupils

A Bibiani Circuit Court has remanded a 24-year-old National Service person to three weeks in police custody for allegedly defiling three pupils in the...

TUC to march to Jubilee House over dismissal of 3 local union leaders at Sunon Asogli Power

The Ghana Trades Union Congress (TUC) says it is ready to exhaust all options available in ensuring that three local union leaders dismissed in...

Over 1,000 RTI requests received so far – Kojo Oppong Nkrumah

Information Minister, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah says over 1,000 requests have been placed using the Right to Information (RTI) law in the last three years. According...

GLC withdraws its recognition of 3 universities’ law faculties

The Ghana Legal Council (GLC) has with immediate effect withdrawn its recognition of faculties of law of three private universities. The affected universities are; Presbyterian...

Man, 27, on the run after defiling 12-year-old girl at Weija

A 27-year-old man is on the run after allegedly defiling a 13-year-old girl at Choice in the Weija -Gbawe Municipality of the Greater Accra...

GRIDCo blames gas supply challenges from Nigeria for recent outages

Management of the Ghana Grid Company (GRIDCo) has attributed recent outages across the country to challenges encountered with gas supply from Nigeria.  This, the company...

Otumfuo eulogises Kufuor

Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, has revealed the reason behind former President John Agyekum Kufuor’s restricted mobility. According to him, the former President chose the...

NDC communicator fined GH¢3,600 over attack on Dagbon FM journalist

The District Court in Tamale, presided over by his Worship Amadu Issifu, has slapped a GH¢3,600 fine on former National Democratic Congress (NDC) Northern...

Tension mounts between Bunso and Nsutam residents over ownership of roundabout

Tension is brewing between the chiefs and people of Bunso and Nsutam over the prolonged tussle over ownership of the land space at the...

Three arrested for destroying NDC vehicle

Former Deputy Information Minister, Felix Kwakye Ofosu, is very hot following the arrest of three of his supporters at Abura Asebu Kwamankese in the...

Woman in viral ‘Father Bernard’ video explains why she jumped onto a casket in a grave [Listen]

It’s been several weeks since a video of a solemn burial service at Saltpond in the Central Region went viral. In the video, a...

Be wary of unscrupulous private employment agencies – Labour Ministry warns job seekers

The Ministry of Employment and Labour and Relations has warned job seekers to be wary of unscrupulous private employment agencies promising them jobs outside...

Doe Adjaho, Asiedu Nketia saved me – Prof Frimpong-Boateng [Audio]

JoyNews/AdomNews · Doe Adjaho, Asiedu Nketia Saved Me - Prof Frimpong - Boateng Former Environment Minister, Prof Kwabena Frimpong-Boateng, has recounted how former Speaker of...

11-year-old wins Girls in ICT program contest in the Savannah Region

An eleven-year-old basic six pupil, Mohammed Rahima from T.I Ahmadiya Islamic School at Kpalbusi in the North East Gonja district of the Savannah Region,...

Angry chief demands contractor’s arrest over Bortianor church collapse

Akwashonkye of Sakaman, Nii Omani Mensah, has called on the Ghana Police Service to arrest and prosecute the contractor responsible for building the collapsed...