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EX-NPP Cabinet Minister indicts Akufo-Addo for failing to sack Adwoa Safo, attacks Bagbin for behaving like MPs

Kwadwo Adjei Darko, New Patriotic Party (NPP) Member of Parliament (MP) for Sunyani West from 1997 to 2009, has taken a swipe at President...

National Theatre partners Methodist Church to train youth in performing arts

https://youtu.be/bXhzp5Mo11E National Theatre has partnered the Methodist Church Ghana in a youth development programme to train persons in performing arts. The partnership is to offer...

There is no Ebola outbreak in Ghana – GHS

The Ghana Health Service (GHS) has downplayed media reports claiming a case of Ebola has been recorded in the country. The Director-General of GHS, Dr...

COVID-19 expenditure: Minority engaging in propaganda – Deputy Finance Minister

JoyNews/AdomNews · Minority doing propaganda with COVID expenditure Deputy Finance Minister, Abena Osei Asare, has accused the Minority group in parliament of engaging in propaganda...

Policeman knocked down by taxi while on duty provided with prosthetic leg [Photos]

General Corporal Isaac Opoku Asumam has become the second officer to benefit from the GH₵ 6.1 Million Police Emergency Medical Intervention Fund (PEMIF) after being...

Freeze sale of Tamale state lands – Minority Leader to Akufo-Addo

Minority Leader, Haruna Iddrisu has called on President Akufo-Addo to instruct the Lands Minister to freeze the further sale of state lands in the...

Three tollbooth workers die after being rendered redundant

The Chairman of the Ghana Tollbooth Workers Union (GTBU) has revealed that three of his members have died after the cessation of the collection...

Contraceptive pills cannot abort pregnancy – GHS

Deputy Upper East Regional Director of the Ghana Health Service (GHS) in charge of Clinical Care, Dr Abdul-Razak Dokurugu, says an overdose of contraceptive...

A-G threatens Ablakwa with lawsuit

The Attorney-General, Godfred Yeboah Dame, has demanded that North Tongu Member of Parliament, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, retracts and apologizes for saying he has been...

Finance Ministry is not running away from accountability – John Kumah

Deputy Finance Minister, John Kumah, says the Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, is not running away from accounting for the Covid-19 expenditure. According to him, the...

Monkeypox cases shoot up to 18 – GHS

The Ghana Health Service (GHS) has confirmed that positive monkeypox cases have increased to 18. Speaking at a Covid-19 briefing on Wednesday in Accra, the...

AngloGold Ashanti reacts to ‘unemployment’ demo by Obuasi youth

AngloGold Ashanti Ghana (AGAG) has reacted to unemployment concerns raised by the Obuasi Youth Community Mining Association through a demonstration. A group of irate...

School feeding Caterers in Ashanti region begin cooking for wards

Some caterers in the Ashanti region have begun cooking for pupils at primary schools. This comes after the government settled the 68-day arrears owed to...

Floods on Takoradi-Agona-Tarkwa highway an engineering problem – Western Region Minister

The Western Region Minister, Kwabena Okyere Darko-Mensah has attributed the perennial flooding incident on the Takoradi-Agona-Tarkwa highway to an engineering problem. According to him, wetlands...

Presidential spouses emoluments case adjourned again

The Supreme Court has, for the second time, adjourned the case against presidential spouses and vice-presidential spouses being paid allowances to July 27. The first...

Couple conspires to defraud company of $650k

Husband and wife, both shareholders of Onango Ghana Limited, have confirmed to the Police that they took $650,000 from the company of which they...

Greater Accra Minister leads security forces to reclaim CSIR lands

Greater Accra Regional Minister, Henry Quartey, has led a team of security personnel to reclaim lands belonging to the Council for Scientific and Industrial...

Covid-19 expenditure: All 16 questions and how they were answered by Ken Ofori-Atta

With the Finance Minister Ken Ofori Atta appearing before Parliament today, he is expected to answer some 16 questions filed by some lawmakers. Aside from...

Checkout how much govt has spent on Planting for Food and Jobs

Agric Minister, Dr Owusu Afriyie Akoto, has disclosed that GH₵2.6 billion has so far been invested into government’s flagship programme in Agriculture, Planting for...

Supreme Court throws out Ato Essien

The Supreme Court yesterday dismissed an application filed by founder and Chief Executive Officer of defunct Capital Bank, William Ato Essien, seeking special leave...

Two arrested for tampering with ECG metres at Kpong

Two individuals who tampered with the newly installed prepaid meters by the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) at Kpong in the Krobo district of...

50,000 Krobo customers being migrated to prepaid meters – ECG

Some 50,000 customers are billed to be migrated from postpaid to pre-paid metering in the Krobo area following a resolution of a standoff between...

MPs refund ‘double salaries’

The Controller and Accountant-General’s Department (CAGD) has confirmed that monies paid to some Members of Parliament (MPs) as overpaid salaries have been refunded. The Kintampo...

Minister leads soldiers to pull down all private property on 200 acres of CSIR land

Greater Accra Regional Minister, Henry Quartey, has reported that “on Wednesday, June 22, 2022, I led members of the Regional Security Council (REGSEC) to...

It is not wrong for women to pay bills – Manasseh Azure tells McDan

Award-winning investigative journalist, Manasseh Azure Awuni, has stated that though women are entitled to the monies they earn, it is not wrong for them...

MP to sue govt over National Cathedral contract

The Member of Parliament (MP) for Ashaiman is heading to court over the government’s decision to sole-source the architectural design contract for the National...

Use of Omo, DDT, other illegal fishing methods will not be tolerated under my watch – Hawa Koomson [Listen]

JoyNews/AdomNews · HAWA KOOMSON ON ILLEGAL FISHING Minister for Fisheries and Aquaculture Development, Mavis Hawa Koomson, has vowed to wage war against illegal fishing practices...

No compensation for Kejetia flooding victims – Sam Pyne

The Chief Executive of the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly says victims of Kejetia Market flooding cannot be compensated. Samuel Pyne, who serves as the board chairman...

Cement blocks used as chairs by Pechie Basic School pupils

Pupils of Pechie Basic School in the Krachi West Municipality of the Oti Region are forced to sit on cement blocks and on the...

Caged, neglected, plight of the Ghanaian prisoner

Everybody is a potential prisoner yet almost everyone enjoying freedom loses cognizance of the fact that we must rise up together and demand prisoners...

Govt to establish Grain Development Authority

The government, through the Ministry of Food and Agriculture, is working on the establishment of a Grain Development Authority. The outfit, according to Agric...

Obuasi youth hit the street over ‘worsening’ unemployment rate [Photos]

Scores of residents within Obuasi in the Ashanti Region have embarked on a demonstration over what they described as worsening unemployment among the youth...

Many passengers in critical condition after head-on collision involving bus and truck at Nkawkaw

Many passengers are battling for their lives after a head-on collision between a commercial bus carrying passengers and an articulated truck.The accident occurred around...

There’s grand scheme to rig GIMPA SRC election for Samini – Disqualified aspirant alleges

The Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration’s Students Representative Council (GIMPA-SRC) election appears to be attracting tension over what a section of the...

NSS acquires 20,000 acre land for commercial farming

The National Service Scheme (NSS) has acquired 20,000 acres of farmland in the Kumawu area of the Ashanti Region for a commercial farming estate....

National Cathedral Secretariat clears air on Sonnie Badu payment brouhaha

The Executive Director of the National Cathedral Secretariat has refuted claims that it made some payments to gospel musician, Sonnie Badu. Dr Paul Opoku-Mensah, in a...

Police retrieve body of woman with slit throat at Assin Fosu

The remains of a teenager suspected to have been murdered and dumped on the Assin Fosu - Yamoransa highway was Monday retrieved by the...

Man drowns in stream at Adumasa

A man believed to be in his 40s has reportedly drowned in a stream at Adumasa in the Oforikrom Municipality of the Ashanti region....

National Cathedral: Executive Director reacts to allegations of private ownership

The Executive Director of the National Cathedral of Ghana has reiterated that the project is state-owned and not a private entity as alleged by...

Check out rare photos of Adomi Bridge while under construction

Between 1955 and 1956, one of Ghana’s most iconic road infrastructure was built. Treasured as a national landmark, the arch bridge built from the Lazer...