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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...

Don’t buy fuel from table tops – NPA advises motorists

The National Petroleum Authority (NPA) has urged motorists to stop buying petroleum products from unapproved retail outlets,  such as table tops. According to the NPA,...

Kumasi murder: I told the police to keep my son in custody – Mother of accused

The mother of the suspect who butchered a one-year-old boy in Kumasi has revealed that before the incident, she asked the police to keep...

Thief steals fetish priestess’ phone during Aboakyer Festival

The people of Winneba in the Central Region recently celebrated the Aboakyer festival, which involves hunting for deer. Prior to the hunt day, there...

EPA to close down unlicenced churches

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has disclosed that it will close down churches operating without a permit in the Volta Region. In an interview with Citi...

Two arrested in connection with attack on Dagbon FM journalist

Police on Monday, May 8, 2023, arrested the two people who allegedly attacked Abubakari Sadiq, a presenter with Tamale-based Dagbon FM. The duo attacked Mr...

9 injured in accident involving 4 cars on Kasoa-Cape Coast Highway [Photos]

Nine passengers are seriously injured after four cars crashed at Gomoa Okyereko Junction on the Kasoa Cape Coast Highway in the Central Region. The accident...

Kumasi: Metro Mass organises training workshop on leadership and communication for branch managers

The Management of Metro Mass Transit Ltd under the leadership of the Managing Director, Albert Adu-Boahen, has organised a two-day training workshop on Leadership...

Borrow from Treasury bill market to pay us – Pensioner bondholders to govt

The convener of the Pensioner Bondholders Forum says government should borrow from the treasury bills market to pay pensioner bondholders their coupons. Dr Adu Anane...

Chief vows to end involvement of children in mining activities at Manso-Nkwanta

The newly-installed Sompahene of Manso Traditional Area in the Ashanti Region has vowed to end the involvement of children in illegal mining activities in...

6-month-old baby found dead in a polytank

A six-month-old baby has been found dead in a Polytank filled with water at a construction site at the Nkurakan community in the Yilo...

Sakawa boys return snake to ritualist for failing to vomit money at Nkurakan

Chaos erupted at Nkurakan in the Yilo Krobo Municipal District of the Eastern Region when a group of boys, suspected to be ritualists, abandoned...

Election 2024: Shine your eyes – Nigel Gaisie to Mahama and NDC

Founder and Leader of Prophetic Hill Ministry, Prophet Nigel Gaisie, has advised former President John Mahama and the National Democratic Congress (NDC) to be vigilant...

 Police probe death of toddler in Ashanti region

The Police in the Ashanti Region have commenced investigations into the butchering of a toddler, allegedly, by the son of a landlord.  Reports indicate that...

Stroke cases rising among young people

Ghana is recording more cases of stroke among young people of 40 years and below, the acting Programme Manager of the Non-Communicable Diseases of...

Nothing will deter me – Nigel Gaisie on 31st night prophecies

Founder and Leader of Prophetic Hill Ministry, Prophet Nigel Gaisie, has reiterated the Ghana Police Service cannot intimidate him at this year’s 31st Night service. The...

SHS student in critical condition over ¢5 debt

A final year Senior High School (SHS) Student of Twifu Hemang Technical Institute, Davis Nkrumah, is battling for his life after he was inflicted...

Traders count their losses as fire destroys items at Suaman Dadieso market

Parts of the Suaman Dadieso market in the Western North Region have been destroyed by fire. The Sunday morning fire outbreak destroyed stalls, shops and...

National Cathedral’s US Directors have evaded taxes since 2021 – Ablakwa alleges

The Member of Parliament (MP) for North Tongu constituency, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, is out again with another epistle about the National Cathedral. This time, he...

NPP has hurt me – Duffuor

National Democratic Congress (NDC) flagbearer hopeful, Dr Kwabena Duffuor, is still brooding over the collapse of his businesses by the ruling New Patriotic Party...

Beyi W’ano: Dismissed PBC audit officer cries for help [Listen]

JoyNews/AdomNews · Dismissed PBC staff cries for help A former staff of PBC Limited, formerly called Produce Buying Company, is accusing management of ill-treatment. Frederick Ackon,...

Okudzeto finally reveals why he kicked Kusi Boateng’s writ

North Nongu Member of Parliament (MP), Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, has for the first time explained why he kicked a writ from Rev Kusi Boateng...

Pensioner Bondholders Forum resume picketing at Finance Ministry

The Pensioner Bondholders Forum will today, May 8 resume an indefinite protest at the Ministry of Finance to demand the payment of their matured...

Pastor arrested over death of 42-year-old woman

In a shocking incident, a man of God known as pastor Isaac Okyeam, popularly called “Pastor Owusu,” has been arrested for allegedly causing the...

Small-scale mining task force arrests 3 Yemenis at Oda

https://www.youtube.com/embed/hUhGbGluwwA The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Minerals Commission, Martin Ayisi, has disclosed that on Monday, May 1, the small-scale mining task force at...

I won’t accept any ministerial position again – Prof Frimpong-Boateng

Former Minister for Environment, Science, Technology, and Innovation, Professor Kwabena Frimpong-Boateng has said he will decline any ministerial appointment given to him by any...

TUC, Mine Workers Union to demonstrate against Sunon Asogli

The Ghana Trades Union Congress (TUC) in solidarity with the  Ghana Mine Workers’ Union (GMWU), is set to embark on a massive demonstration on...

Two thieves escape lynching at Millennium City

Two thieves were apprehended and nearly killed by angry residents at Millennium City in the Gomoa East District of the Central Region. The incident occurred...

Landlord’s son attacks family with machete; leaves toddler dead

A man has inflicted machete wounds on his father's tenant alongside his two children, including a toddler, Samuel Amo, who died from the attack. The...

Fresh arrest over GPHA manager murder

The police are making inroads in tracking the killers of a manager of Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority (GPHA) following the arrest of two...