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Residents flee as gunshots ring out at Lugni over chieftaincy dispute

Residents of Lugni in the Nanumba South District of the Northern Region are fleeing for their lives after a chieftaincy dispute led to several...

GBA blasts MP over criticisms against former Chief Justice Anin Yeboah

The Ghana Bar Association (GBA) has descended hard on the Minority Chief Whip, Kwame Governs Agboza, over his criticism that former Chief Justice, Justice...

Tension rises as 12th person is murdered at Akatsi; traditional council calls for calm

More than 12 persons have been killed in the Akatsi South municipality in the Volta Region between the last quarter of 2022 and the...

I’ve no regrets; I’m proud of what we’ve done at NIA – Ken Attafuah

Professor Ken Attafuah, the Executive Secretary of the National Identification Authority (NIA), says he is undeterred by the numerous challenges and enduring insults from...

Martin Amidu: Kissi Agyebeng’s OSP pick people that he thinks he should, rather than pick cases that need to be prosecuted

 â€œTherein is the most dangerous power of the prosecutor: that he will pick people that he thinks he should, rather than pick cases that...

Not everybody can just get up and say I’m becoming a lawyer – Ayikoi Otoo

Former Attorney General, Nii Ayikoi Otoo, has expressed the view that legal education should not be considered a right for everyone. During an exclusive interview...

Bagbin suggests how Ghana can raise revenue without e-levy

Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin, has proposed how Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta can raise revenue without draconian revenue measures such as the Electronic (E-levy). According...

Locally assembled cars to hit 12,000 in 5 years

Locally assembled vehicles are projected to hit 12,000 units by 2027, constituting 60 per cent of the country’s new car market.  Also, the automotive industry...

House turned mine site sinks underground at Odumase in Ashanti region

Barely a year after a residential toilet sunk into a galamsey pit killing a woman, another house has sunk into underground tunnels created by...

Fake national security operative, presidential staffer arrested for visa fraud

Two persons, Sylvia Naa Dodua Wristberg and Patrick Torto, have been apprehended and arraigned at an Accra Circuit Court on charges of defrauding a...

File a motion to discontinue Gyakye Quayson trial – Lawyer tells Attorney General

A private legal practitioner, Kwame Jantuah, has called on Attorney General, Godfred Dame, to file a 'nolle prosequi' in the criminal trial of Assin...

Lawyer sues Attorney General, Speaker, and GRA boss over sanitary pad taxes

A private legal practitioner, James Kofi Afedo, and his foundation have dragged the Attorney General, the Commissioner-General of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA), and...

Human activities hindering actions to address flooding – Asenso-Boakye 

Human activities have hindered various actions to address flooding in the country, Francis Asenso-Boakye, the Minister for Works and Housing, has observed. Such activities...

3 Christ Embassy members charged for flouting COVID-19 law acquitted and discharged

The Accra Circuit Court has acquitted and discharged three members of the Christ Embassy Church who were standing trial for breaking COVID-19 restrictions during...

Engage IPPs to avoid power crisis – Energy consultant to govt

Energy Consultant, Dr Yussif Sulemana, has suggested to policymakers to engage Independent Power Producers (IPPs) to find a lasting solution to the imminent power...

I told my husband to resign many times – Late Amissah Arthur’s wife

The wife of the late former Vice President, Paa Kwesi Amissah Arthur, has revealed that she asked her husband to resign many times during...

Agenda 111: Govt committed to project completion – Dr Nsiah Asare

Presidential Advisor on Health, Dr Anthony Nsiah Asare, says the government remains committed to completing all hospital projects under the Agenda 111 initiative. According to...

MASLOC secures AFDB grant to support its operations

The Micro Finance and Small Loans Centre (MASLOC) will receive support for its operations across the country from a $ 31.34 million grant from...

Roads Minister proposes measures for deplorable Kpone-TOR road

Roads and Highways, Kwasi Amoako-Attah, has proposed some temporary measures to rehabilitate the deplorable 7.2-kilometre stretch of road from Kpone to the Tema Oil...

Robert Arday Clegg admitted counsellor Attorney-at-law in New York

Ghanaian journalist and private legal practitioner Robert Nii Arday Clegg has passed the bar exams in New York State. Mr Clegg revealed in a Facebook...

Parliament summons two ministers over perennial floods

Parliament has summoned two Ministers of State to explain measures to end the perennial floods that have taken over communities. The Minister of Works and...

Petroleum tanker drivers suspend nationwide strike

The Ghana National Petroleum Tanker Drivers Union and Liquified Petroleum Gas Tanker Drivers have suspended their industrial action after more than two hours of...

Agenda 111: Govt terminates 3 projects in Ashanti region

https://youtu.be/ba6V8hc3u3Q Presidential Advisor on Health, Dr Anthony Nsiah Asare, has revealed contracts for three Agenda 111 projects in the Ashanti region have been terminated. Dr Nsiah Asare...

Dadaba Group of Companies add recruitment and consultancy services to their conglomerate

Ghanaian Integrated Business Solutions conglomerate, Dadaba Group of Companies owned by renowned businessman and philanthropist, Dennis Kumi Appiah, also known as Oseadeeyo Nana Kumi Kodie...

Court of Appeal Judge sends important message to students

A justice of the Court of Appeal, Justice Jerome Noble Nkrumah, has called on students to take the art of public speaking more seriously...

NDC MP bags PhD in Communication Management

The Member of Parliament for Bunkpurugu Constituency in the North East Region, Abed Bandim, has graduated with a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree in...

Afriyie Akoto secures big tractor deal for Ghana

A flagbearer hopeful of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Dr Owusu Afriyie Akoto, has secured a tractor manufacturing plant deal for Ghana to boost...

Court detains small-scale miner over alleged kidnapping

A small-scale miner who allegedly kidnapped a 27-year-old man has been remanded by an Accra Circuit Court. Prince Asante, 36, also known as who...

Six Sankofa mine workers arrested

Six workers of Prestea Sankofa Gold Limited in the Western Region who were accused of stealing tailings from the ball mill at the company’s...

Ellembele MP tours flood areas in the constituency

Emmanuel Armah-Kofi Buah, the Member of Parliament (MP) representing Ellembelle, has made a visit to areas within his constituency that have been severely affected...

Man found dead in gutter at Santa Maria; residents suspect foul play

A man presumed to be in his late thirties has been found dead in a gutter along Nii Amasa Street near Friends Gardens at...

BoG suspends forex licences of Fidelity Bank, First National Bank

The Bank of Ghana (BoG) has suspended the forex licences of Fidelity Bank and First National Bank Limited. The suspension takes effect from Thursday, June...

Assin North: Akufo-Addo made Gyakye Quayson’s victory easy – Kwesi Pratt

Kwesi Pratt Jnr, the Managing Editor of the Insight Newspaper, has expressed his views on President Nana Akufo-Addo's role in facilitating the victory of...

The Supreme Court of Assin North has spoken – Opare Addo celebrates Gyakye Quayson’s win

JoyNews/AdomNews · The Supreme Court of Assin North has spoken – NDC celebrates Quayson’s win The National Organiser of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC)...

Angel Carbonu goes berserk over death of St. Monica’s SHS student [Listen]

JoyNews/AdomNews · Angel Carbonu goes berserk over death of St. Monica’s SHS student The President of the National Graduate Association of Teachers (NAGRAT), Angel Carbonu,...

Striking tanker drivers give condition under which they will suspend action

The National Petroleum Tanker Drivers Union says they expect government to show commitment to fixing deplorable roads leading to its depots in Takoradi, Tema,...

37 Military Hospital performs historic surgery for woman with blocked heart

The 37 Military Hospital has successfully conducted its first-ever Dual Chamber Pacemaker surgery for a 47-year-old woman who has lived with a blocked heart...

Teachers petition GNAT over Police brutality

Teachers at the St. Bernadette Technical Institute in the Kassena-Nankana Municipality in the Upper East Region have petitioned the regional office of the Ghana...

At least 15 injured in accident on Dambai Highway

At least 15 passengers were injured in an accident involving a sprinter bus near Asukawkaw Bridge in the Krachi East Municipality of the Oti...

Pensioner Bondholders suspend picketing at Finance Ministry

The Pensioner Bondholders Forum has suspended its planned picketing at the Finance Ministry to protest the non-payment of outstanding coupons. This follows the resumption of...