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Cleaner in school placement exposé works at GNAT Hostel – GES PRO

https://youtu.be/cMIpj3ui2II The Public Relations Officer of the Education Ministry, Kwasi Kwarteng, has revealed that janitors and security personnel who were captured as middlemen in the...

This audio from Christian Atsu’s wife will break your heart [Listen]

JoyNews/AdomNews · Wife of Christian Atsu breaks silence Wife of late Black Stars player, Christian Atsu Twasam, is struggling with the sudden demise of her...

Don’t use judiciary to gag Okudzeto Ablakwa – North Tongu chiefs

The Chiefs and people of North Tongu Constituency have condemned what they described as an attempt to gag and intimidate their Member of Parliament...

Archbishop of Canterbury pays courtesy call on Mahama

Archbishop of Canterbury, Rt Hon Justin Welby, has paid a courtesy call on former President John Dramani Mahama. The head of the Anglican Church is...

More trouble for Kusi Boateng

The Alliance for Social Equity and Public Accountability (ASEPA) has filed a criminal complaint against Rev. Victor Kusi Boateng. ASEPA accused Rev. Kusi Boateng, who...

Burkinabe asylum seekers refuse to return home

Some Burkina Faso nationals currently seeking asylum in Sapeliga in the Bawku West District in the Upper East Region have vowed not to return...

Harmattan: Meteorological Agency urges wearing of nose mask

The Ghana Meteorological Agency (GMA) has called on people allergic to dust to wear nose masks following a surge in dry and dusty atmospheric...

I’m against legalising same-sex marriage in Ghana – Asamoah Boateng

The Minister-designate for Chieftaincy and Religious Affairs has taken a stance on the LGBTQI debate. According to Stephen Asamoah Boateng, he is opposed to same-sex...

AWW violence: I didn’t sanction security deployment – Bryan Acheampong

A former Minister of State in charge of National Security, Bryan Acheampong, has said he played no role in the security operations associated with the...

Industrialisation is the only way to grow economy – KT Hammond

The Minister designate for Trade and Industry, Kwabena Tahiru Hammond, says he will revitalise small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to make them afloat and...

Prof. Jane Opoku-Agyemang mourns Christian Atsu

The 2020 running mate of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Professor Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang, has joined many paying glowing tribute to late Black Stars...

Immigration Service reacts to officer’s involvement in alleged extortion

Management of the Ghana Immigration Service (GIS) says it has taken note of a widely circulated incident in which a group of persons, including...

Okada riders, spare parts dealers, others storm Mahama’s office

A joint union of motorcycle operators, spare parts dealers and some driver unions have thronged the office of former President John Mahama to declare...

Ghana Meteorological Agency gives update on hamarttan weather

The Ghana Meteorological Agency has issued a notice about the dry harmattan condition in the country. The agency in a statement noted that meteorological satellites...

Nigerian ‘galamseyer’ found dead in his room at Sehwi Danyame

A Nigerian national, believed to be in his forties, has been found dead in his room at Sehwi Danyame in the Juaboso District of...

Darkness has engulfed our land – Ada Traditional Council mourns Atsu

The Ada Traditional Council has described the death of footballer, Christian Atsu, as a big blow to the land. According to the council, darkness has...

Crime Check founder shares chats with Atsu about his late wife

The Chief Executive Officer of Crime Check Foundation, Ibrahim Oppong Kwarteng, has shared a screenshot of a message he received from the late Ghanaian...

Atsu’s family reveals current state of his widow [Audio]

JoyNews/AdomNews · ATSU FAMILY SPEAKS The spokesperson of the Atsu family, Robert Ann, has said Marie-Claire Rupio, the wife of Christian Atsu, needs the support...

Large scale agriculture for buffer, export will be the focus – Agric Minister-designate

Minister-designate for Food and Agriculture, Bryan Acheampong, has assured Ghanaians that for the next two years, he will see to the transformation of the...

4 soldiers, 1 Immigration officer grabbed for extorting moneys from miners

A total of 13 persons including four soldiers and an immigration officer have been arrested at Konongo in the Ashanti Region for allegedly engaging...

First anniversary of Atta Mills Memorial Heritage commemorated

The first anniversary of the establishment of the John Evans Atta Mills Memorial Heritage, which seeks to preserve his heritage and legacy, has been...

Sad scenes at Christian Atsu’s family home in Accra

The family house of Christian Atsu was thrown into a state of mourning as the family awaited the body of the late Ghana winger....

Bolgatanga High Court issues arrest warrant for Mamprugu overlord 

The Bolgatanga High Court has issued a warrant for the arrest of the Nayiri of the Mamprugu traditional area, Naa Bohagu Mahami Abdulai Sheriga,...

Illegal miners destroy 1,000 hectares of farmlands at Ofoase

Illegal miners have taken over close to 1,000 hectares of farmlands at Ofoase in the Asante Akyem South municipality, polluting the River Anuru, the...

Akufo-Addo to deliver 2023 SONA on this date…

President Nana Akufo-Addo is scheduled to deliver the 2023 State of the Nation Address (SONA) in parliament on February 28. The address is in line...

Gold4Oil: Ghana takes delivery of another 40k tonnes

Ghana has taken delivery of the second consignment of fuel under the gold-for-oil policy. The 40,000 metric tonnes of oil arrived at the Tema port...

Squatters at Kaase-Angola displaced after dawn fire [Photos]

More than 50 squatters have been displaced, and several other shops razed after a dawn fire ripped through a section of a wood market...

Ghanaians celebrate the dead than the living – Ade Coker mourns Atsu

JoyNews/AdomNews · Ade Coker mourns Christian Atsu Former Greater Accra Regional Chairman of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Joseph Adeo Coker, is pained at...

J.E.A. Mills Memorial Heritage to mark anniversary

The John Evans Atta Mills Memorial Heritage, founded a year ago to immortalise the memory and achievement of the third President of the Fourth...

Christian Atsu was building a school for an orphanage – Manager reveals

It has emerged that late Black Stars winger, Christian Atsu Twasam, was building a school for an orphanage in Ghana. According to reports, the building...

 Leader of Pension Bondholders reacts to claims of death threats

The leader of the pensioners who picketed the Finance Ministry, Dr Adu Anane Antwi, has denied reports that he received death threats for their action...

Soldiers sent to arrest Mamprugu overlord, Bawku Naba clash with Nalerigu youth

Armed soldiers deployed to Nalerigu to arrest a purportedly enskinned Bawku Naba and the Overlord of Mamprugu clashed with the town’s youth at midnight. The...

Christian Atsu’s manager pens down emotional goodbye message

Manager of late Black Stars winger, Christian Atsu Twasam, has sent an emotional goodbye message to his player who died following February 6 tragic...

80-year-old man burnt to death by cigarette he was smoking

A man in his late 80s died unexpectedly at Larteh Akuapem in the Eastern Region. According to the narrative, the deceased, Paa Kwame, had been bedridden...

I made a mistake buying tractors for farmers – Mahama

Former President John Dramani Mahama says he made a mistake buying tractors for farmers during his tenure as President. Given the chance again, he says...

21 abortions recorded per day among teenage girls in 2022 – GHS

According to data from the Ghana Health Service (GHS), there were 7,618 recorded abortions among teenage girls in 2022. In context, this translates to...

Fire guts wooden structures at Spintex

Fire gutted a number of wooden structures, 10 metal containers and two high-tension electrical poles at Spintex, near the Coca-Cola roundabout on Saturday evening. The...

Chief Justice commissions Circuit Court in Juaben

Chief Justice Kwasi Annin-Yeboah has commissioned an ultra-modern circuit court at Juaben in the Ashanti Region as part of the judicial reforms to promote...

Ada: Fishing crew missing at sea

A local fishing crew, numbering about eight, is reportedly missing on high seas. The fishermen set off from Azizanya, a suburb of Ada in the...

Coups not solution to Africa’s problems – Akufo-Addo

President Nana Akufo-Addo has urged the international community to send a clear message to coup plotters that coups have never been, and will never...