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of the Tamale Technical University chapter of the Technical University Teacher’s Association of Ghana (TUTAG) have withdrawn all services effective Wednesday, May 10....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

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...