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Medical Laboratory Professional Workers’ Union threatens to join COLA strike

The Medical Laboratory Professional Workers’ Union (MELPWU) has declared its support for Organised Labour’s call for the payment of a Cost of Living Allowance...

GPRTU reacts to purported increase in transportation fares

The Ghana Private Road and Transport Union (GPRTU) has urged the public to disregard any recent report about upward adjustments in transportation fares. According to...

PURC defers tariff announcement

The Public Utilities Regulatory Commission (PURC) has deferred its tariff announcement for the 2022 to 2027 Multi-Year Major Tariff.In a statement issued by the...

37-year-old woman gives birth to quintuplets at Agormanya

A 37-year-old woman has given birth to quintuplets at the St Martin De Porres Hospital at Agormanya in the Eastern Region. The quintuplets, who were...

CSOs blame Finance Ministry for SHS food shortage

The Ministry of Finance (MoF) has been pointed out by Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) to be operating in the education sector as the causal...

This is how much govt owes Kate Gyamfua over burnt excavators [Listen]

JoyNews/AdomNews · This is how much govt owes Kate Gyamfua over burnt excavators New Patriotic Party’s National Women’s organiser, Kate Gyamfua, says the government owes...

Bawumia pays tribute to Bibiani Anhwiaso MCE killed in accident

Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia is saddened by the death of the Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) of Bibiani Anhwiaso Bekwai assembly. Hours after Alfred Amoah...

Demolition exercise to protect transmission towers and lives of encroachers – GRIDCo

The Ghana Grid Company Limited (GRIDCo) has explained that its ongoing demolition exercise is to get rid of encroachers occupying its Right of Way. GRIDCo...

Afrobarometer survey: Majority of Ghanaians believe the country is heading in wrong direction

The latest Afrobarometer survey on Economy, public services and taxation has revealed that majority of Ghanaians believe the country is heading in the wrong...

COLA strike: Organised labour, govt should negotiate in good faith – NLC

The National Labour Commission (NLC) has intervened in the stalemate between Organised Labour and the government over the demand for 20% Cost of Living...

Doctors, nurses and other health workers to withdraw services over COLA

Doctors, pharmacists, nurses and other health workers across the country have served notice they will withdraw their services if the government fails to pay...

Cut down on number of ministers – Majority Leader suggests to Executive

The Majority Leader in Parliament, Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu has suggested a reduction in the number of ministers of state. He opined that fewer ministers than currently...

Cargo truck falls off pontoon at Dambai

A cargo truck with the registration number As 32-27 loaded with boards has fallen from the pontoon at Dambai in the Krachi East Municipality...

Pentecost elder survives gory car accident [Photo]

Deputy Director of the Evangelism Ministry of The Church of Pentecost, Elder Evans Ayim, escaped unhurt from a gory motor accident that occurred on...

Charles Bissue withdraws from NPP general secretary race

Charles Bissue, a general secretary aspirant of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), has withdrawn from the contest a few days to the national...

Teacher testifies against Assin North MP in perjury trial

A teacher at Yamoransa in the Mfantseman Municipality of the Central Region, Richard Takyi-Mensah, has testified against James Gyakye Quayson. Mr Takyi-Mensah is the first...

5 suspected fraudsters on the run after being granted bail

Five of 12 suspected cyber fraudsters, who were granted bail by the Bole district magistrate court presided over by His Worship Edward Essel, are...

MMDCEs go red over colleague killed in ghastly accident on Accra-Kumasi highway

JoyNews/AdomNews · MMDCEs go red over colleague killed in ghastly accident on Accra-Kumasi highway Metropolitan, Municipal and District Chief Executives (MMDCEs) nationwide have been asked...

I paid for everything except the knife used for CS – Man who lost son recounts awful NHIS experience

A 37-year-old man, Bernard Ofori, has recounted how he was compelled by health officials at the 37 Military Hospital to pay huge sums of...

Notorious motorbike thief lynched at Nkwanta South

A notorious motorbike thief, Kiss Boy, who had allegedly been terrorising residents of Nkwanta South in the Oti Region, has been lynched. The lifeless body...

COLA: Public sector workers to withdraw their services on this date

The Public Services Workers Union is set to strike from July 19 to demand a 20 percent Cost of Living Allowance. The union will be...

Police certified riding ambassadors inaugurated

As part of the road safety campaign of the Ghana Police Service, the Police Certified Riding Ambassadors (POCRA) initiative has been inaugurated to help...

Pay GRA ¢10k for your frivolous application – Supreme Court to Barker-Vormawor

A seven-member Supreme Court panel on Tuesday slammed #FixTheCountry Convener Oliver Barker-Vormawor for his role in a case filed by the group and two...

Police admit planting an informant in Oliver Barker-Vormawor’s cell

The Ghana Police Service has opened up about allegations of planting a ‘stranger’ in the cell of a convener of the #FixTheCountry Movement, Oliver...

COLA: Senior Staff Association of Universities in Ghana declares strike [Listen]

All senior staff of public universities across the country have been directed by their leadership to lay down their tools . The action is to...

COLA Strike: Negotiations must be fair – Eduwatch

A Revenue and Financing Fellow with the Africa Education Watch (Eduwatch) has said that the ongoing discussions between government and striking teacher unions over...

NAGRAT, GNAT walk out of negotiations; Teachers still on strike

Representatives of the Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT) and the National Graduate Association of Teachers (NAGRAT) have walked out of the negotiation with...

ECG to undertake planned maintenance in parts of Accra on July 13

The Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) has announced that it will carry out planned maintenance work to improve service delivery in some areas of...

Articulator truck driver who allegedly caused accident that killed Bibiani-Anwhiaso-Bekwai MCE missing

The Police in the Eastern Region are searching for the driver of the Articulated truck who allegedly caused the accident that killed the Municipal...

MCE for Bibiani-Anwhiaso-Bekwai, driver killed in crash

The Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) for Bibiani-Anhwiaso-Bekwai in the Western North region, Alfred Amoah, and his personal driver have been reported dead in a...

Majority Leader proposes scrubbing of the Presidential system in checking corruption

Majority Leader in Parliament, Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, is proposing the adoption of the Westminster system of government for Ghana, where a Prime Minister leads government...

Galamsey pit kills two miners at Manso Muano

Two people have drowned in a galamsey pit at Manso Muano in the Amansie South District of the Ashanti region.The incident occurred on Monday,...

Don’t blame Education Minister for food shortages in schools – Eduwatch

Executive Director of African Education Watch (Eduwatch), Kofi Asare, has advised Ghanaians not to blame the Education Minister, Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum, for the...

UPNMG procures motor bikes for regions to cater for transportation needs

The Union of Professional Nurses and Midwives, Ghana (UPNMG), in response to the transportation needs of its various branches, has procured motor bikes for...

GRIDCo demolishes illegal structures under high tension lines at Bawaleshie [Photos]

Officials of the Ghana Grid Company (GRIDCo) and a team of security personnel on Tuesday, July 12, 2022, embarked on a massive demolition exercise...

Speaker tasks 5 committees of Parliament to investigate concerns of school feeding caterers

Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin, has tasked 5 committees of Parliament to investigate the concerns of school feeding caterers. The Speaker also charged the committees...

IMF bailout: Why govt can’t cancel free SHS, school feeding – Kate Gyamfua explains

The incumbent National Women's Organiser of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), Kate Gyamfua, has stated that government can't afford to cancel the free...

Marry a woman with a Ghanaian mindset, not a western mindset – US-based Ghanaian

US-based Ghanaian, Wofa Kay, has stated that he always prefers a Ghanaian woman to an American because he does not believe in the western...

Strike: Teaching and learning halted at Labone Senior High School

The Teacher Union's strike is in full force here at the Labone Senior High School as teaching activities have halted. However, second year students, who could...

6 arrested for lynching man they said looked like a murderer

The Central Region Police Command has arrested six persons suspected to be linked to a lynching incident at Aburansa. According to eyewitnesses, some residents beat...