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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...

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...