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Akufo-Addo’s colleague opens up about their working relationship

A colleague of President Nana Akufo-Addo, Yaw Nsarkoh, has opened up about his working relationship with Him. To him, the recent economic challenges among other...

ECG to undertake maintenance works, check out affected areas

The Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) has announced that it will from Tuesday, January 17, 2023, undertake maintenance works in some parts of Accra. The...

Major Mahama trial: Accused person reveals what he did to deceased in video

Bernard Asamoah, alias Daddy, an accused person in the trial of the 14 alleged murderers of the late Major Maxwell Adams Mahama, has told...

I have always known Rev Kusi Boateng as Adu Gyamfi – National Cathedral CEO [Audio]

JoyNews/AdomNews · I Have Always Known Rev Kusi Boateng As Adu Gyamfi - National Cathedral CEO The Executive Director of the National Cathedral project,...

NCA approves sale of Vodafone Ghana to Telecel

The National Communications Authority (NCA) says it has granted conditional approval for the transfer of 70 percent of government’s shares in Ghana Telecommunications Company...

PURC increases electricity and water tariffs; check out details

The Public Utilities and Regulatory Commission has increased electricity and water tariffs by 29.96% and 8.3% respectively. The new rates take effect from February 1,...

NSS poised to support education in Ghana

The Executive Director of the National Service Scheme (NSS), Osei Assibey Antwi, has affirmed the preparedness of the scheme towards the development of education...

Easy access to quality justice delivery our priority – Chief Justice

Easy access to quality justice delivery, at all levels, is the top priority of the judicial system, Justice Anin Yeboah, the Chief Justice, has...

Activities to mark first anniversary of Apiate explosion announced

Apiate, a town between Bogoso and Bawdie in the Western Region, will from Wednesday, 18 January 2022, commemorate the first anniversary of the explosion...

Minority calls for immediate suspension of Debt Exchange Programme

The Minority in Parliament has called for the immediate suspension of the government's Domestic Debt Exchange (DDE) Programme. To the Caucus, the programme has...

2-year-old girl killed in church building collapse at Kwadaso

A church building has suddenly collapsed, killing a two-year-old girl and also causing body injuries to a 45-year-old man. The lifeless body of the deceased,...

Man grabbed over alleged contract killing attempt at Ekwamasi

A man at Ekwamasi, a town in the Ajumako Enyan Essiam District of the Central Region, Kofi Badu, has been arrested for contracting someone...

IGP heads to Kumasi over death of Policeman, family in fire incident

The Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Dr George Akuffo Dampare, has visited Kumasi following the tragic death of a policeman and his family in a...

Individual bondholders threaten demo over Debt Exchange Programme

The Ghana Individual Bondholders Forum says they will organise a demonstration against the government if it goes ahead and include investments in the ongoing...

Policeman, family killed in fire outbreak

A police officer with the Anti-Robbery Unit of the Ashanti Regional Police Command has been killed after fire gutted his residence at Apromase. The policeman died together...

Education Ministry to appoint Dean of Disciplinary Affairs in SHS

The Ministry of Education (MoE) says it will soon appoint a Dean of Disciplinary Affairs in the various senior high schools in the country.  Their...

Court orders National Security, Attorney General to apologise to journalist

The Accra High Court has ordered three State institutions to apologise to Emmanuel Ajarfor Abugri, editor of ModernGhana.com news portal, for human rights violations. The parties...

Man arrested over COCOBOD recruitment scam

Bernard Frimpong Boateng, unemployed, who allegedly collected GHC21, 800 under the pretext of facilitating the recruitment of three persons into COCOBOD but failed has...

Fire destroys four shops at Hohoe

A raging fire has destroyed four shops at Hohoe in the Volta Region. The fire, according to reports, started at about 3:30 am on...

NABCO beneficiaries to picket at Finance Ministry over unpaid allowance

Beneficiaries of the Nation Builders Corps (NABCO) say they will picket at the Finance Ministry to demand allowances due them under the just-ended programme. They...

Chiana SHS students case: Koku Anyidoho commends Akufo-Addo

Former Deputy General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Koku Anyidoho, has said that the eight students who were sacked for insulting President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo should...

National Cathedral: Okudzeto Ablakwa’s latest exposè about secretary will blow your mind

Painstaking and diligent parliamentary oversight with the gracious guidance of the omniscient and omnipotent has led to what can only be akin to Tsar...

Debt Exchange programme a necessary evil – Gabby to bondholders

A member of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) has described government’s debt exchange programme as a ‘necessary evil’. According to Gabby Otchere-Darko, though the...

Nduom cries for former employees

The Chairman of Groupe Nduom, Dr Papa Kwesi Nduom, has alleged that the National Pensions Regulatory Authority (NPRA) is treating his former employees unfairly. According...

Ghana is in a very difficult place – Gabby Otchere-Darko

A leading member of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), Gabby Otchere-Darko, has asserted that Ghana is in a ‘very difficult place’ with regards...

Jamestown chieftaincy clashes: 10 suspects arrested

Some 10 persons have been arrested by the Police at Jamestown, Accra, after a violent clash that took place in the area on Sunday. A...

Man chops off father’s hand and leg at Assin Tomfokor

A 32-year-old man, identified as Kwaku Nyankomago, is in police grips for physically assaulting his biological father with a cutlass at Assin Tomfokor in...

2 Chinese, 4 Ghanaians arrested over galamsey at Enchi

Two Chinese and four Ghanaians have been arrested at Asemkrom in the Aowin Municipality of the Western North Region for their involvement in illegal...

477 sanitation offenders were prosecuted in 2022 – AMA

The Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) through its Public Health Department successfully prosecuted 477 environmental health and sanitation offenders last year. This represents 61% out of...

Scores rendered homeless as fire destroys homes at Sofoline in Kumasi

Scores have been rendered homeless after fire destroyed some homes at Sofoline in Kumasi, Ashanti Region. The incident happened late Friday night. A three bedroom house...

Akufo-Addo leaves for Abu Dhabi, London

President Nana Akufo-Addo left Ghana on Saturday, January 14, 2023, to lead Ghana’s delegation to the Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week, in Abu Dhabi, in...

2 arrested in connection with fuel tanker hijack on Accra-Kumasi highway

Two suspects have been arrested in connection with the fuel tanker hijacking incident on the Accra to Kumasi highway on Thursday. The suspects were arrested...

Read suicide note left by MoMo vendor before he died

A 29-year-old Mobile Money (MoMo) vendor, Richard Boadi Abunya, has allegedly committed suicide at Sehwi Bodi in the Western North Region. Mr Abunya, who was...

GRIDCo speaks on Saturday’s power outage

The Ghana Grid Company (GRIDCo) has blamed the widespread power outages (dumsor) experienced in most parts of the country on Saturday morning on “significant disturbance” in...

I will keep my money under the pillow than to buy GoG bond – IBF convener

Yaw Owusu Brefo, a convener of the Ghana Individual Bondholders' Forum (IBF), says he would rather keep his money hidden under his pillow than...

I cannot bear to watch the indignities being visited on my former employees – Nduom

The Chairman of Groupe Nduom, Dr Papa Kwesi Nduom, has alleged that the National Pensions Regulatory Authority (NPRA) is treating his former employees unfairly....

One injured in violent youth clash at Obuasi [Video]

A 21-year-old galamseyer, Samed Ibrahim, has sustained injuries in a violent clash between youth groups at Obuasi Estate and Gausu in the Ashanti...

Estate developer in court over alleged GH¢385k fraud

An estate developer has been charged with defrauding by false pretence for allegedly taking GH¢385,000 from his colleague after promising to secure him a...

Unemployed graduate develops technology to improve driver-mate communication

In most minibuses, often referred to as ‘trotro’ here in Ghana, the traditional method of communication between a bus conductor and a driver has...

Court sentences 40-year-old over death threat  

A Jasikan Circuit Court has sentenced a 40-year-old man, Sampson Kwame Asong, to five years imprisonment for threatening to kill a drinking spot owner...