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Truck ablaze on Accra-Tema motorway

A truck was seen burning on the Accra-Tema Motorway earlier today. Snippets of the incident from social media show the vehicle in flames as passersby...

Zoomlion represents Ghana at RWM Let’s Recycle conference

Once again, the giants in waste management in Africa have lifted the flag of Ghana high. Aside exhibiting its footprints in the waste management...

The People’s Forum: Wassa Akropong traders call for construction of local market

https://youtu.be/Rp5O7S9XhM4?t=41 Traders at Wassa Akropong in the Amenfi East District of the Western Region are lamenting the poor state of their market. According to them,...

Government pursuing inclusive development initiatives for all communities – Bawumia

Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, says the Government, for the past five years, has been pursuing an inclusive development agenda to ensure holistic growth...

CID boss Ken Yeboah retires from Police Service [Photos]

"If given the opportunity, I will come back forever a policeman." These were the final words of the Director-General of the Criminal Investigations Department...

NDC extends deadline for picking of nomination forms

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has announced a two-day extension for the deadline for the picking of nomination forms. The process was initially scheduled to...

Huang, accomplices use ‘WeChat’ for galamsey activities – AG tells court

It has been discovered that Chinese galamsey kingpin, Aisha Huang and her accomplices, have been using ‘WeChat,’ social media platform for their correspondence regarding...

Champions Dishes, 2 other businesses caught in GRA’s web

The Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) on Thursday arrested some management members of three businesses in Accra for failure to issue Value Added Tax (VAT)...

DCOP Faustina Andoh-Kwofie replaces Ken Yeboah as CID boss

Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCOP) Faustina Agyeiwaa Kodua Andoh-Kwofie has been appointed as the Director General of the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the...

We will use Ghana Card for voters’ register – EC

The Electoral Commission (EC) says despite opposition from some sections of the populace, it will go ahead to use the Ghana Card for the...

Chaos at UEW as final year students hold lecturers hostage

There is chaos on the campus of the University of Education, Winneba (UEW) as final year students hold lecturers hostage. According to reports, the aggrieved...

Mankessim: How chief, sister’s fiancé killed 22-year-old lady

Details of circumstances that led to the gruesome murder of 22-year-old Georgina Asor Botchwey at Mankessim have popped up in court. Miss Botchwey, who...

Mankessim: Suspects confess to killing aspiring trainee nurse for money ritual

The police have revealed the motive the accused persons had prior to allegedly killing an aspiring trainee nurse. The suspects, a self-styled pastor, Michael Darko...

30-year-old man reportedly killed in a robbery attack at Ohwim

A 30-year-old man is reported to have been murdered in a robbery attack at Ohwim in the Ashanti Region. Reports say the deceased, Ibrahim Abdul-Wahab...

Mankessim: More details emerge about how aspiring nurse was kidnapped and killed

It has been days since news broke about her killing, and the public is shocked about how the event transpired. Since the police took over...

5 land guards arrested at Gomoa Nyanyano

Gomoa Nyanyano District Police Command has arrested five suspected land guards for allegedly terrorising developers with the aim of collecting digging fees. The suspects...

Phone dealer shot dead by suspected armed robbers in Kumasi

A phone dealer in his early thirties, Wahab Abdul, has been shot dead by suspected armed robbers at Ohwim in the capital, Kumasi. The robbers...

Wa killings: 4 more bodies found

Four bodies have been retrieved, and an intensive search is continuing for three missing persons in what is suspected to be ritual murders that...

We will create millions of jobs via ‘YouStart Programme’ – John Kumah

Government has resolved to create millions of jobs through the ‘YouStart Programme’. According to a Deputy Finance Minister, Dr John Kumah, the programme is...

Chief, pastor who allegedly killed and buried 22-year-old lady remanded

The Cape Coast District Court 2 has remanded the Tufohene of Ekumfi Akwakrom, Nana Onyaa Clark, and one other suspect in connection with the...

Ablakwa drops fresh bombshell on Aisha Huang

Ranking Member on the Committee on Foreign Affairs in Parliament, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, has said galamsey suspect, Aisha Huang, did not sneak into Ghana as...

Mankessim murder: Victim’s mother shares their last conversation

Grace Andoh aka Akua Anoah, the mother of a 22-year-old lady gruesomely killed and secretly buried at Mankessim in the Central Region, has expressed...

Chief warns politicians over bad Nkwanta-Kpassa roads [Photos]

The chief of Kpassa at Nkwanta North in the Oti Region, Ubor Konja Tassan VI, is up in arms with the government over the...

Wa killings: Another suspect arrested

Another suspect has been arrested in connection with the serial killings that hit Wa Municipality of the Upper West Region. The suspect was reportedly apprehended...

3 killed in fatal accident on Accra-Kumasi Highway [Video]

https://youtu.be/MnyfpdfVneo Three persons have been reported dead in a fatal accident near Fumesua in the Ashanti Region on the Accra-Kumasi Highway. The accident, which occurred at...

Mankessim murder: Son of prime suspect collapses at crime scene

JoyNews/AdomNews · More revelations about Mankessim Murder Son of the prime suspect in the killing of a 22-year-old aspiring trainee nurse at Mankessim in the...

Juaboso govt hospital to undertake mass burial

The Juaboso government hospital administration is set to organise a mass burial for 51 unclaimed bodies at the mortuary to create space for other...

Agogo Russia traders protest ‘forceful’ eviction [Video]

https://youtu.be/R3DMBC7gP7Y Some traders at Agogo Russia in the Asante Akyem North Municipality of the Ashanti Region have faced off with local authorities over what they...

Portions of Obetsebi-Lamptey road to be closed for 8 days

The road from the Obetsebi-Lamptey Roundabout to the Central Mosque at Abossey Okai will be temporarily closed to traffic from today, September 22 to...

Mentally challenged man attacks 2 over fowl

Two men are battling for their lives after they were inflicted terribly with machete wounds by a man believed to be mentally challenged. One of...

Collapsed mud house kills 10-year-old; injures mother

A collapsed mud and thatch-roofed house has killed a 10-year-old girl, Iddrisu Fakhira, at Kinkango, a farming community in the Bunkpurugu/Nakpanduri district of the...

Akufo-Addo calls for global support to fight terrorism in West Africa

President Nana Akufo-Addo has warned the global community of the growing threat of terrorist activities in West Africa. Speaking at the 77th UN General Assembly...

BOST dismisses fuel shortage claims

The Bulk Oil Storage and Transportation (BOST) Company is fighting off claims suggesting there is an imminent fuel shortage in Ghana. Some analysts have, in...

Every bomb that hits Ukraine hits our pockets – Akufo-Addo to UN

President Nana Akufo-Addo has recounted the devastating effect of the Russian-Ukraine war on African countries. According to him, as African countries struggle to revive their...

Full text: Akufo-Addo at 77th UN General Assembly

Mr President, I congratulate you on your election to lead us through this 77th gathering of the General Assembly of the United Nations. I...

Wa killings: Another body found

Another person has been found dead in Wa in the Upper West region after the string of suspected serial killings in the area. The body...

Girl, 6, drowns in uncovered manhole at Nkwanta South [Video]

https://youtu.be/UpkAN95PpEQ A six-year-old class one pupil has drowned in an uncovered manhole in the Nkwanta south municipality of the Oti Region. The deceased, identified as...

Unemployed nurses embark on massive demo [Video]

https://youtu.be/aZWtuVECVc8 The Northern Chapter of the 2019 batch of the Nursing Assistant Clinical and Preventive Services has hit the streets of Tamale to demonstrate against...

Cedi depreciation: Over 70 ‘black market’ dealers arrested [Video]

https://youtu.be/MzVBnFRR2e8 A joint operation by the Bank of Ghana (BoG) and the Ghana Police Service has led to the arrest of over 76 illegal foreign...

Shocking details emerge about pastor arrested over murder and secret burial of trainee nurse at Mankessim

It has been revealed that the pastor arrested in connection with the murder and secret burial of a 22-year-old lady at Mankessim is the...