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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...

Adom News gets result: Nkwanta fire station gets water facility

The Nkwanta South Ghana National Fire Service station in the Oti Region has been provided with water facility to run their daily services and...

Police charge Agradaa’s lawyer with assault

Lawyer for the embattled founder of Heaven Way Champion International Ministry, Patricia Asiedua Koranteng, also known as Nana Agradaa, has been charged by the...

Why former Presby moderator resigned from National Cathedral board revealed

The Presbyterian Church of Ghana has said the latest reports about the resignation of the immediate past moderator of the Presbyterian Church, Rev. Professor...

Christian Council urges govt to suspend debt exchange programme

The Christian Council of Ghana has called for a suspension of the domestic debt exchange programme expected to stabilise the country’s debt. The Council in...

Security man, 38, found dead in his room

A 38-year-old security man has been found dead under bizarre circumstances at Kpandai Zongo, a surburb of the Northern Region. The decomposing body of Abubakar...

Driver shot as robbers attack OA bus on Techiman-Kintampo highway

A driver of an OA bus is battling for his life after sustaining gunshot wounds during a robbery attack on the Techiman-Kintampo highway. The intercity...

Loans are being accepted to complete National Cathedral – Rev Dr Joyce Aryee

A member of the Board of Trustees of the National Cathedral project, Rev. Dr Joyce Aryee, has disclosed that loans are being accepted for...

Pastor stops funeral after family uses his photo for obituary [Video]

https://youtu.be/765OQQSO1lg?t=518 Tension is brewing at Akrofoum near Anhwiaso in the Adansi Asokwa District of the Ashanti Region after a family used a pastor's photo for...

National Cathedral Board of Trustees sends important message to Bishop Dag Heward-Mills

The Board of Trustees of the controversial National Cathedral project has responded to the presiding Bishop of the Lighthouse Group of Churches, Bishop Dag...

Thief who raided police commander’s room, stole flat screen TV arrested

A notorious thief who broke into Sawla District police commander's room to steal has been arrested during a separate operation. The thief, Kwabena John, on...

PAC sitting: School Feeding boss accused of absconding with govt vehicle [Audio]

JoyNews/AdomNews · Ashanti Regional School Feeding boss absconds with govt vehicle The Ashanti Regional Coordinator of the National School Feeding Programme who allegedly absconded with...

Sick retiree storms bank for bond returns

A 77-year-old sick retiree, Peter Kojo Nyasepe, has vowed to stay at his bank’s premises until he receives his interest on his bonds at...

Disabled jailed for human trafficking

A man at the centre of a BBC Africa Eye investigation has been found guilty of trafficking disabled people in Kenya and ordered to pay a...

I suspended business because of lapses at DVLA – Driving school owner

The owner of Joerees Drive Tech driving school has complained about how rots at the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Authority (DVLA) have affected his...

Nii Odoitso Odoi Kwao, La Leshie Mantse donates to La market

La Leshie Mantse, Nii Odoitso Odoi Kwao families have supported the La market women with a cash donation. To the charity oriented family, the undisclosed...

Cause of fire that killed police officer, family revealed

A faulty air-condition is suspected to have caused the inferno that killed the late Sergeant Owusu Asante Baafi at Apromase near Kumasi on Monday...

SMAC Foundation partners two ministries to support autistic kids [Photos]

Hope has been restored in the lives of autistic kids at the Klicks Africa Foundation Centre through the benevolence of Adom TV presenter, Afia...

Two remanded for destroying teacher’s farmland with sand winning activities

Two persons, who allegedly destroyed three acres of pineapple and maize farmland belonging to a teacher after embarking on sand winning, have been remanded...

Alleged Crossdresser killed in Upper East

A young man, Bugbil Roger Adaboo Toure, has allegedly been killed for wearing female clothes at Kongo in the Nandom District of the Upper...

Mother hangs 4-year-old son, commits suicide

A young mother has committed suicide, after hanging her four-year-old boy in an uncompleted building at Ajoa, a community in the Ahanta West Municipality...

3 nurses blow over GH¢17k study leave cash

The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of Parliament has directed the managements of three hospitals to lodge a complaint with the police for the arrest...

PAC directs Korle Bu to refund unearned salaries

The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of Parliament on Wednesday asked the Management of the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital to refund GH¢36,000 paid as unearned salaries...