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Former PBC CEO challenges current management to provide evidence of mismanagement

JoyNews/AdomNews · PBC FMR CEO Former Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Produce Buying Company (PBC), Nana Agyenim Boateng, has denied responsibility for the company's...

Section of Takoradi-Agona road to be closed

The Ghana Highway Authority has announced a temporary closure of the Ewusiejoe section of the Takoradi-Agona Road on the N1 Highway. The closure is expected...

Otumfuo secures US scholarships for Ghanaians

The Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, has secured a scholarship package for Ghanaian students to study at the prestigious University of Memphis, Tennessee, in...

I don’t wish for a coup but we’re getting there if… – Nunoo-Mensah

Former Chief of Defence Staff of the Ghana Armed Forces, Brigadier General Joseph Nunoo-Mensah, has cautioned that Ghana is heading towards destruction as the...

Attorney General responds to Multimedia’s request for information on missing Ghanaian fisheries observer

The Attorney General’s office has responded to Multimedia’s request for information on the missing Ghanaian fisheries observer. JoyNews sent a Right To Information (RTI)...

Dad and daughter reunite after 50 years apart

A dad and daughter have been reunited with each other after 50 years apart. Jane Graham lost contact with her dad, James McGarvie, when she...

Court remands father for beating son with cutlass

The Assin Fosu District Court presided over by His Worship Abdul Majid Iliasu has remanded 34-year-old Robert Kwame Kobi into police custody for two...

Man drowns in river while chasing grasscutter

A 40-year-old man drowned in River Oda while he was chasing a grasscutter. The incident happened at Chiransa near Senfi in the Bekwai Municipality of the...

Suspect tells court how policeman aided his escape from Manet cells

Pius Anundoabil Ayoma, 23, a private security man who escaped from the Manet Police Custody shortly after appearing in court on March 1, this...

Fake soldier who also poses as National Security operative arrested

The police have arrested a man who has been posing as a military officer with a fake service name WOII Samuel Owusu Dartey in...

Chief, Assemblyman of Kwaprow convicted of contempt for threatening UCC lawyer with death

A Cape Coast High Court has fined the Chief of Kwaprow, Nana Kwesi Mensah III and the Assemblyman of Kwaprow, John Kilson Mensah, GH6,000...

I now take diazepam for panic attacks – Pensioner bondholder cries out

A pensioner who invested in government bonds, Balbir Allan, says she has resorted to medication due to panic attacks from the fear of losing...

Farmer accused of killing toddler at Adankwame remanded into custody

A 35-year-old farmer, who inflicted cutlass wounds on a family of three resulting in the death of one of them at Adankwame, has been...

Word in Action church reacts to collapse of their 3-storey building

The Word in Action church has sent heartfelt consolation to the families of victims affected by the collapse of their 3-storey building. The building located...

Karaga youth on rampage over arrest of suspected ‘chief killers’

Some youth in the Karaga District in the Northern Region on Monday went on rampage and destroyed structures belonging to the New Patriotic Party...

I married for myself and not anyone else – Prof Dominic Fobih on taking a wife at 80

A former Minister of Education, Professor Dominic Fobih, has made headlines after tying the knot with a 31-year-old woman. The 80-year-old former Member of Parliament...

Attempted murder: Security man who escaped from Manet police custody re-arrested

A joint force of private security and case investigators has led to the arrest of a private Security man who escaped from the Manet...

No fake P-500 paracetamol in Ghana – FDA

The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) has dismissed claims circulating on social media that a paracetamol tablet known as “P-500” is on the Ghanaian...

Husband drives past fatal crash without realising wife was victim

A husband drove past the scene of his wife’s fatal 90mph car crash, not realising she was the victim. Bolaji Onifade had been heading to his work in...

Galamsey: Sub-chief, two foreign nationals arrested at Akyem Oda

The Akim Oda Divisional Police Command has arrested two foreign nationals and a sub-chief for allegedly engaging in illegal mining at Akyem Oda in...

Four injured as church building collapses at Bortianor

Four persons have reportedly been injured after a church building collapsed at Old Bortianor in the Ga South Municipality of the Greater Accra Region. The...

Akyem Osorase nurses living in fear over attack by patients

The lives of two nurses managing a CHPS Compound at Akyem Osorase in the Achiase district of the Eastern region are in danger following...

Ada Traditional Council condemns ASLA demo

The Ada Traditional Council has warned political parties to stay clear off Ada Songor Lagoon development and allow indigenes to achieve the massive transformation...

Ghana’s School of Shame: A child’s tears for a table and a chair

The quest for 11-year-old Gifty Odanjo to get furniture for decent education in her rural school, Bakpaba DA Primary School in the Northern region...

NSS teacher, 24, arrested for defiling three pupils

The Bibiani Circuit Court has remanded a 24-year-old National Service Person at Sehwi Asawinso Methodist Primary B to three weeks into police custody for...

GIS intercepts 900 slabs of Indian hemp

Officers of the Ghana Immigration Service (GIS) at the Nyive border in the Volta Region have intercepted 896 slabs of suspected Indian hemp at...

We will invoke all legal actions if…– Dr Duffuor campaign

Policy Analyst for Dr Kwabena Duffuor’s campaign team, Dr Kofi Kukubor, has said the presidential aspirant will seek legal redress should the National Democratic...

UDS to probe collapsed building

The management of the University for Development Studies (UDS) will today, May 9, inaugurate a committee of experts tasked to investigate the cause of...

Two lynched over witchcraft accusations in Northern Region [Audio]

JoyNews/AdomNews · Two Lynched Over Witchcraft Accusations In Northern Region Two persons have been lynched at Zakpalsi, a farming community in the Mion District of...

Fijai Headmaster reinstated

The Ghana Education Service (GES) has directed the headmaster of Fijai Senior High School (SHS), Kenneth Agbomadze, to return to office. This comes on the...

Three injured after tipper truck crashes into Obinim’s family house

A tipper truck has run into the family house of the Founder and Leader of International God’s Way Church, Bishop Daniel Obinim, injuring three...

Toilet dormitory saga: GHANASCO headmaster reinstated

The Ghana Education Service (GES) has reinstated the interdicted headmaster of Ghana Senior High School (GHANASCO) with immediate effect.  Doughlas Haruna was interdicted after a video...

Boy, 14, dies after heap of rubbish collapses on him

A 14-year-old boy has died after a massive garbage dump collapsed on him at the Oti Landfill Site in the Asokwa Municipality of the Ashanti Region. He...

Ofosu-Ampofo, Kwaku Boahen’s trial adjourned pending stay of proceedings

The Accra High Court trying Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo and Anthony Kwaku Boahen has adjourned the trial to June 1, 2023. This followed the attention drawn by...

Galamsey: I’m available if my ideas are still needed – Prof Frimpong-Boateng

The former Chairman of the Inter-Ministerial Committee on Illegal Mining (IMCIM) says he is still available to help the government address the illegal mining...

Five arrested for attacking ECG staff in Eastern Region

The Eastern Regional Police Command has arrested five persons for allegedly attacking some officials of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) when they were...

John Peter Amewu commissions girls’ school at Hohoe

The Member of Parliament for Hohoe, John Peter Amewu, has commissioned a new school building named Santa Esther Girls’ Senior High School for the...

Lawyers won’t write exams to renew license – GLC clarifies

The General Legal Council (GLC) says reports that lawyers will soon be required to write examinations before renewal of their licenses are untrue.  The GLC...

UG approves 2% discount on fees for some students

The Council of the University of Ghana has approved a one-time discount of 2% on the 15% fee increment for some of its students...

I only touched Major Mahama’s trousers- Alleged killer tells court 

One of the 14 persons accused of killing Major Maxwell Adam Mahama has testified that he only touched the trousers of the military officer...