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Halt National Cathedral project and audit expenditure – Govt told

Global CEO of the HuD Group, Dr Yaw Perbi, is urging government to halt the construction of the national cathedral project and subject it...

Seven arrested for cybercrime activities

Seven people have been arrested by the Police for their various roles in cybercrime activities. The Police Service is also on a manhunt for 11...

Volta Region to host 66th Independence Day celebration 

The Volta Region has been selected to host the 66th Independence Day National Celebration. Mr Lord Commey, Director of Operations at the Office of the...

No money in Marine Drive Project account – Tourism Ministry

The Ministry of Tourism has disclosed to the Public Accounts Committee that the project account of the Marine Drive Project is empty. The Chief Director...

Akrobeto’s shocking reaction to his death prophecy [Listen]

Popular Ghanaian actor, Akwasi Boadi, otherwise known as Akrobeto, has reacted to a death prophecy about him. A prophet claimed in a video that he...

Man who robbed Police Commander sentenced to four years imprisonment

The Bole Magistrate Court presided over by His Worship Adward Essel has sentenced a 37-year-old farmer Kwabena John to four years imprisonment. This was after he...

STC dismisses two staff members implicated in ‘Money Over Human Lives’ investigative piece

The State Transport Company (STC) Driving School, a subsidiary of Intercity STC, has dismissed two staff members, a receptionist and a Driving Instructor implicated...

NSS releases posting for trained teachers

The Management of the National Service Scheme (NSS) has released postings for Fifteen Thousand, Five Hundred and Seventeen (15,517) trained teachers to undertake their...

Repair works begin on aircraft for anti-galamsey activities

The fight against ‘galamsey’ is intensifying as government teams up with the Ghana Chamber of Mines and the Ghana Airforce (Western Command) to repair...

8 sex trafficked girls rescued, 7 repatriated to Nigeria  

Eight girls trafficked to Ghana to be sex workers have been rescued, with seven of them repatriated to Nigeria by the Ghana Police Service...

We’ve been transparent on National Cathedral spending – Board of Trustee member

There has been nothing shady about the spending on the National Cathedral project, a member of the Board of Trustees, Rev Dr Joyce Aryee,...

National Cathedral: Check out amount generated through MoMo from Ghanaians

The Board of Trustees for the National Cathedral has so far received over GHC29m through mobile money transfers for the project. A member of the...

Ministry of Foreign Affairs spends ¢7.9m on a ¢1.4m project because contractor fell ill – Chief Director

The Foreign Affairs Ministry said a project that was initially supposed to cost government GH¢1,435,728.99 was executed at GH¢7,967,886.57 because the contractor did not...

Okudzeto Ablakwa drops more shocking details about Kusi Boateng

Member of Parliament for North Tongu Constituency has made further allegations against Reverend Kusi Boateng, Secretary of the Board of Trustees of the National...

Govt set to repair 3 aircrafts at €700,000 to help fight ‘galamsey’

The fight against illegal mining is about getting more intensive and rigorous as the government teams up with the Chamber of Mines and the...

Minority raises concerns over utility tariff hikes

The Minority in Parliament has expressed worry over the recent price hikes in utility tariffs by the Public Utilities Regulatory Commission (PURC). PURC on Monday...

Okudzeto Ablakwa sends strong message to critics

Member of Parliament for North Tongu, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, has indicated that his latest investigations into the National Cathedral Project are not of bad...

Noise about National Cathedral project not surprising – Rev Dr Joyce Aryee

Member of the Board of Trustees for the National Cathedral, Rev. Dr Joyce Aryee, has stated that the negative speculations about the National Cathedral...

Okudzeto Ablakwa urges efficient utilisation of revenue

Member of Parliament for North Tongu, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, has called for the proper allocation of revenue in accordance with its policies. He stated that...

Okoe Boye states condition under which NHIS can cover all sickness 

Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA), Dr Bernard Okoe Boye, has disclosed that all ailments can be covered under...

Woman arrested for using maggot-infested ingredients to prepare shito

A 58-year-old woman has been arrested in Koforidua in the Eastern Region for allegedly using unwholesome ingredients to prepare hot black pepper sauce, well...

Pastor incurs wrath of traditional leaders over spiritual baths

General Overseer of Grace Land Chapel international at Awutu Bereku, Prophet K.B.Y Ensonyameye aka Spiritual IGP, has been caught in the web of Awuku...

Killer of Cape-Coast based musician sentenced to death

The man, who killed a Cape Coast based musician through stabbing in February 2021, has been sentenced to death by hanging. The Cape Coast High...

Tamale High Court rules on Savelugu Parliamentary election

The Tamale High Court has dismissed two cases brought before it on the 2020 parliamentary results of the Savelugu and the Zabzugu seats.  In the...

What to do when police stop you for car search – Expert advises drivers

The manner in which traffic stop searches are conducted by police officers has taken centre stage in the past few days. This was after a...

Residents react to test run of Kumasi International Airport

A test run on the runway of the newly-constructed Kumasi International Airport has commenced for standardisation considerations. The exercise comes ahead of the facility’s full...

Man, 25, in hot water after failing to pay sex worker

A 25-year-old man at Mankesim in the Central Region is in the grips of the police for failing to pay a Nigerian sex worker...

Accident on Offinso-Techiman Highway kills two

Two persons are reportedly dead after a speeding vehicle crashed into a stationary truck on the Offinso-Kodie road in the Ashanti Region. The accident occurred...

Afoko recounts how father died two months after his arrest

Gregory Afoko, who is standing trial for allegedly murdering former New Patriotic Party Upper Regional Chairman, Adams Mahama, has shared a story of how...

Apiate explosion a year on; 124 housing units under construction [Photos]

The Deputy Minister for Lands and Natural Resources, Benito Owusu-Bio, has disclosed that all 124 housing units of Apiate which forms part of the...

Tagoe Sisters recount how they escaped death in ghastly accident that killed popular evangelist

https://youtu.be/_nFQdMmy8DA?t=1562 "It was a horrifying moment and we didn't even think we would survive that accident." These were the words of gospel musician, Elizabeth Korkoi...

Man electrocuted while fixing polytank leakage at Assin Fosu

A man, believed to be in his 30s, identified as Kwabena Nnede, escaped death by a whisker after he was electrocuted at Assin Fosu...

Ghana Health Service rolls latest COVID-19 campaign

The Ghana Health Service will from Friday, January 20 to January 24, roll out the latest phase of a nationwide mass vaccination exercise to...

JoyNews’ Bono East Regional Correspondent attacked by thugs, vehicle vandalised

JoyNews’ Bono East Regional Correspondent Anass Sabit has reportedly been attacked by some thugs at Hausa Line, a suburb of Techiman in the Bono...

Armed robbers snatch taxi cab from driver at Buoho

A 57-year-old taxi driver, Akwasi Asamoah, has been robbed of his Daewoo Matiz taxi cab, with registration number GE-6640-22, at gunpoint at Sasa, near...

Stop the unnecessary partisanship and demand for development – Prof. Yarhands to residents of Ashanti

A professor at the Akenten Appiah-Menka University of Skills Training and Entrepreneurial Development has asked people in the Ashanti Region to demand development and...

Allow a neutral body to investigate the alleged planting of weed in vehicle by Police officers – CHRI

The Director of the Africa Office of the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI) has called for an independent fact-finding body to take over investigations...

WAEC announces date for release of 2022 BECE results

The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has announced the results for the 2022 Basic Education Certificate Exams (BECE) will be released on Wednesday, January...

Officer responsible for missing CFA 190,000 cannot be found – IGP

There was a shocking revelation at the Public Accounts Committee sitting on Thursday when the Inspector-General of the Police (IGP), Dr George Akuffo Dampare,...

29-year-old man found dead in his room at Sehwi

The issue of suicide is becoming rampant in the Sehwi environs as another person allegedly hangs himself at Bibiani in the Western North Region. The...