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We’ll fix roads destroyed by rains – Ministry assures

The Ministry of Roads and Highways is urging Ghanaians to exercise restraint as it works assiduously to fix roads that have gone bad due...

Govt to automate premix fuel supply

The Ministry of Fisheries and Aquaculture Development (MoFAD) has announced plans to automate premix fuel outlets across the country. This initiative is to curb issues...

The lights shall continue to stay on – Napo reassures Ghanaians

Energy Minister, Dr Matthew Opoku-Prempeh, has reiterated his resolve to consolidate efforts at ensuring power stability for industrial and residential use.  This, he says will...

Gender Ministry condemns abuse of female victim at Kupelga

The Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection, has condemned in no uncertain terms the abuse of a woman at Kupelga in the Upper...

Man in shock as wife of 46 years names another man as father of their last child

A 60-year-old farmer is in a state of shock after knowing a woman he has been married to for over four decades has been...

Residents in shock as mother, son, are found dead in room at Buduburam [Photos]

A heartbreaking incident has occurred at Gomoa Buduburam in the Gomoa East District of the Central Region, as the lifeless bodies of a woman...

Right To Play takes child protection campaign to Ghanaian schools, homes

Right To Play has rolled out series of activities to raise awareness of the need to protect Ghanaian children against abuse, exploitation, neglect, and...

Directive from Presidency asking MMDCEs to remain at post unnecessary – Supreme Court

The Supreme Court has ruled that the tenure of office of Metropolitan, Municipal and District Chief Executives (MMDCEs) is not tied to that of...

Driver whose car hit NPP chairman arrested

The driver of a Daewoo truck which crashed into the motorbike of the Bono East Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Ibrahim...

Former C/R National Security Coordinator, Ofori Attah sues Prof Frimpong-Boateng

A former Central Regional National Security Coordinator, John Ofori Attah Dawone, who has been accused by former Environment Minister, Prof Kwabena Frimpong-Boateng, of money...

Ghanaian medical students in Ukraine face expulsion over unpaid fees

Several Ghanaian medical students studying in Ukraine are facing the threat of expulsion due to a lack of payment from the government for their...

Court of Appeal sets date on Opuni’s retrial decision

The Court of Appeal has set July 3 to deliver judgment on the state’s application to set aside the High Court’s decision to restart...

Bortianor shooting: Security agencies must understand underlying causes of land and chieftaincy disputes – MP

JoyNews/AdomNews · BORTAINAOR MP Member of Parliament (MP) for Bortianor-Ngleshie Amanfrom, Sylvester Tetteh, has expressed his concerns and called for a thorough investigation into the...

Kasoa: Environmental Officer confiscates suspected Anthrax infected cow meat [Video]

https://youtu.be/qxy7pZIl2ao The Environmental Health and Sanitation Unit of the Awutu Senya East Municipal Assembly (ASEMA) has confiscated cow meat suspected to be infected with anthrax...

Pregnant women stranded, activities grind to a halt as Agbozome submerges in flood

Residents of Agbozume and other communities in the Ketu South Municipality of the Volta Region have expressed worry over what they have described as...

10 million Ghana Card holders without TIN

The Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) has found out that more than 10 million Ghana Card holders whose information has been migrated to its system...

Man butchers wife, 25, over divorce threats at Mpohor

A young man in his early 30s is currently in the grips of the Mpohor District Police Command for butchering his wife after threatening...

Upper East Regional Minister reacts to calls for his removal

The Upper East Regional Minister, Stephen Yakubu, has said the allegations being levelled against him for his removal have no basis. A group calling...

Bank staff arrested for stealing over GH¢1.2 million from customers’ accounts

A contract staff of one of the major banks in Ghana has been arrested by security agencies for allegedly stealing close to GH¢1.2million...

Four remanded over GPHA’s Marketing Manager’s murder

Four suspects have been remanded in custody by a Tema District Magistrate Court on murder charges related to the assassination of Josephine Asante, the...

Former Community Policing Assistant busted in attempt to steal electricity cables

A former Community Policing Assistant (CPA) who was stationed at the Koforidua Central Police Station has been arrested by residents of Daasebere Estate in...

Police arrest one suspected armed robber

The Bole Police Command has arrested one suspected armed robber who was identified by a robbery victim in the Bole market. According to one of...

Three kids burnt to death after moving car catches fire [Video]

https://youtu.be/IxAxDtBRmtY Three school children have been burnt to death at Huu, a community in the Amansie Central District of the Ashanti Region. The sad incident reportedly...

Pragya burnt, rider beaten to death for alleged theft of second-hand shoes in Cape Coast

Pragya, a type of tricycle commonly used for transportation, was set on fire, reducing it to ashes at the Mfantsipim Round-about School gate. The rider...

Parliament to probe killing of five suspected landguards at Bortianor

The Second Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Andrew Amoako Asiamah, has assigned the Defence and Interior Committee to conduct an investigation into the killing of...

Turn blind eye sometimes – Kwesi Pratt to Akufo-Addo

Kwesi Pratt Jnr, the Managing Editor of the Insight Newspaper, has expressed his views on President Akufo-Addo's response to the national anthem incident during...

Pressure mounts on Keta Municipal Chief Executive over allocation of premix fuel

The Keta Municipal Assembly (KeMA) is currently experiencing heightened tension due to allegations of misuse of premix fuel allocation by the Municipal Chief Executive...

Historic Achievement: Senior military officer attains PhD from leading UK university

Major Patrick Peprah Obuobi (Dr), a senior officer in the Ghanaian Army, has achieved a significant milestone by earning a Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil)...

Chief Justice Gertrude Torkornoo abhors people without integrity – Friend

Erika Mamley Osae, a close friend of the newly sworn-in, Chief Justice, Gertrude Torkornoo, says her friend abhors people without integrity. She remarked that the...

Burning Issues: I’m worried about challenges at TOR – NPP presidential hopeful

Kwadwo Poku Nsafoa, one of the candidates in the New Patriotic Party's presidential race, has raised concerns about the financial losses incurred by the...

1D1F: Full list of companies who have received GHS14.4m govt funds

The Minister of Trade and Industry, Kobina Tahir (KT) Hammond, has given a detailed account to Parliament of entities which have benefitted from the...

Angry Ashaiman residents chase MCE over poor roads [Video]

The Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) of Ashaiman, Albert Boakye Okyere, has been chased out by his residents at Ashaiman in the Greater Accra Region...

Galamsey menace: Minority calls for public inquiry, halt to community mining

https://youtu.be/KugHIowORu8 The Minority in Parliament is calling for a public inquiry into the activities, reports and fallouts of the erstwhile Inter-Ministerial Committee on Illegal Mining...

KNUST College of Health Sciences donates PPEs to 22 teaching sites

The College of Health Sciences (CHS) at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) has supplied Personal Protective Equipment (PPEs) and other...

Govt building new modernised public JHSs nationwide – Education Minister

The government, through the Ministry of Education, has begun building modernised Junior High Schools (JHS) across the country, sector minister, Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum,...

Agric Minister promises to reform sector

The Minister of Food and Agriculture, Dr Bryan Acheampong, is promising to reform the agricultural sector. According to him, his administration will work assiduously to...

Calm returns to Nkrankwanta after youth ransacked Immigration office

Calm has returned to the Nkrankwanta community in the Dormaa West District of the Bono Region following the destruction of office items belonging to...

Saglemi Housing Trial: Defence to study witness statements filed by State 

An Accra High Court has adjourned the trial involving Alhaji Collins Dauda, a former Minister of Water Resources, Works and Housing and four others...

Four arrested in connection with viral video on abuse of female victim

The Police have arrested four suspects at Kupelga in connection with the viral video in which a female victim is seen being subjected to...

Kpando: Second suspect involved in firearm brandishing during football match arrested

Police have arrested Selorm Buta alias Dangotey, the second suspect in connection with the possession of firearms without lawful authority during a football match...