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Ghana re-affirms position to leave no one digitally behind

The Minister for Communications and Digitalisation, Ursula Owusu-Ekuful, has reaffirmed Ghana’s commitment to leaving no one digitally behind. This she said can be achieved by...

Weweso JHS pupils save up ‘chop money’ to buy sanitary pads

Some pupils of Weweso M/A Junior High School (JHS) in Kumasi have revealed they save up portions of money given to them for food...

Sad news for Ghanaian doctors trained in war-hit Ukraine

The Medical and Dental Council has encouraged Ghanaians studying medicine and dentistry in Ukraine to roll onto the government’s initiatives for them to continue...

Tamale Airport Phase II Project completed

The Tamale Airport Development Phase II Project has been completed and is awaiting inauguration by the President this year. The expansion works, costing $70 million,...

Apiate explosion: One more victim passes on

One more person involved in last January's Apiate disaster has passed on. The victim suffered a spine injury and has been in hospital all this...

Akufo-Addo is a better president than Kwame Nkrumah – Agya Koo [Video]

Actor Kofi Adu, popularly known as Agya Koo, says none of Ghana's past governments have been able to develop the country like President Nana...

Parliament approves fees for ‘access’ to information

Parliament has passed the law spelling out the various fees to be paid by persons seeking Information under the Right to Information law. This is...

Don’t starve media of information – GJA to police

The Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) has expressed concern about the decision by the Ghana Police Service to centralise the sharing of information to the...

KNUST riot: Katanga Hall Alumini petition Education Minister

The Katanga Hall Alumni Association of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) has petitioned the Education Minister over the arrest of...

Bawku conflict: IGP, Interior Minister, Chief of Defense Staff meet factions

 A high powered delegation on Sunday, September 25, 2022, visited Bawku in the Upper East region to meet factions involved in the Bawku conflict...

Residents jubilate as python is shot dead at Ajumako Ochiso [Photos]

Residents of Ajumako Ochiso in the Ajumako Enyan Essiam District of the Central Region are jubilating after shooting to death a 14-foot python. According to...

MOSES Foundation confers Generational Leadership-Legend 2022-Living Legend Award on Sir Sam Jonah

The MOSES Foundation Ghana, a Pioneering Old Students Leadership Institute, established to mobilize the Global Nation of Old Students in fostering National Cohesion, mobilizing...

GAF clears air on ‘soldier’ who stole GHS23K

The Ghana Armed Forces (GAF) has described as an impostor, a man in military uniform, Private Asare Boateng, who stole GHS23,000 from a civilian. GAF...

UNESCO is a strategic partner in implementing National Youth Policy – NYA CEO

The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the National Youth Authority, Pius Enam Hadzide, has asserted that the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation...

Medical and Dental Council sends SOS message to students studying in Ukraine

The Medical and Dental Council of Ghana is urging students who are currently studying Medicine and Dentistry in Ukraine to take advantage of government’s...

Use of contraceptives low in Ghana – UNFPA

The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Ghana has said though the country has made progress in the use of contraceptives since 1988, the rate...

UEW gives deadline to settle GPA issues after students’ protests

The University of Education, Winneba (UEW), has given stakeholders up to October 7, 2022, to resolve students' concerns about their cumulative Grade Point Average...

Mankessim murder: Suspects should be sentenced to death – PNC

The People's National Convention (PNC) is advocating for death penalty for suspects found guilty of ritual murder. This move, it explained, is to serve as...

Speaker Bagbin gives back on his birthday

Rt. Hon. Speaker Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin has urged parents to raise their wards on God-fearing tenets because children are blessings from God. The Speaker,...

Ghana will have a female president one day – Akufo-Addo

JoyNews/AdomNews · Ghana will have a female president one day – Akufo-Addo President Nana Akufo-Addo has predicted that the country is bound to have a...

Akufo-Addo commits to ending child marriage in Africa

Child marriage has been one of the unending challenges confronting many communities, especially rural areas, in the country and other parts of the continent. On...

Tricycle rider dies in collision with ambulance

A tricycle rider has died in a horrific side-impact collision with an ambulance in Koforidua, the Eastern regional capital. The New Juaben North constituency-embossed ambulance...

Okudzeto Ablakwa pays surprise visit to a 111-year-old constituent

Member of Parliament for North-Tongu, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, has won the hearts of social media users after he surprised one of the oldest women...

Bagbin quits Ghana Bar Association

Speaker of Parliament, Rt. Hon. Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin announced that he is no longer part of the Ghana Bar Association on September 23,...

Over 23,000 people test positive for HIV in six months

A total of 23,495 people tested positive for HIV in the first half of this year, according to statistics from the National STIs and...

Tema Traditional Council bans social gatherings

The Tema Traditional Council (TTC) has banned social activities within the Tema Traditional area for the month of October. The ban is in honour of...

Ghastly accident recorded on Mallam-Kasoa Highway [Video]

https://youtu.be/e0wSH9nmcWA Two vehicles have been involved in a ghastly accident at Kalabule Junction on the Mallam-Kasoa Highway. The accident, which occurred on Friday morning, involved a...

Muslim community hit with sad news

The Western Regional Chief Imam, Sheikh Alhaji Mohammad Sani Abdullahi Bawa, has died. Alhaji Bawa, according to reports, passed on on Thursday, September 22,...

Galamsey: 100 river guards begin training at Eastern Naval Command

About 100 persons, drawn from various parts of the country, have begun a month training as part of efforts to protect Ghana's river bodies...

It is dangerous to politicise appointment of judges to court – Afenyo-Markin

Deputy Majority Leader in Parliament, Alexander Afenyo-Markin, has described as dangerous attempts by some political actors to politicise the appointment of judges to the...

Vehicle burns beyond recognition in Tamale [Photos]

A Benz saloon car with a trade number plate DV 947G-22 has burnt beyond recognition in Tamale in the Northern Region. The incident occurred on...

House fire kills 2; injures another in Volta region

A 26-year-old woman at Ahiatsikope, near Dzodze in the Volta Region, Joyce Fianu, and her nine-year-old niece were burnt to death when fire gutted...

Ambulance Service reacts to video of people raising funds at accident scene to buy fuel

The National Ambulance Service has commenced investigations into a viral video which captured by-standers raising funds at an accident scene to fuel an ambulance on the...

Close down schools at Bawku over insecurity – GES urged

The Conference of Heads of Basic Schools (COHBS) in the Bawku Municipality in the Upper East Region has called for the immediate closure of...

Furniture deficit hinders quality education at Asante Mampong

Furniture deficit, coupled with other infrastructural challenges, has been identified as a threat to quality education in the Asante Mampong Municipality of the Ashanti...

Zoomlion committed to offer tailor-made solutions to waste management – Dr Agyepong

The Executive Chairman of the Jospong Group of Companies, Dr Joseph Siaw Agyepong, has assured that Zoomlion Ghana Limited remains committed to deliver tailor-made...

Fetish priest jailed for possessing counterfeit money

Koforidua Circuit Court has sentenced a 43-year-old fetish priest to 15 years imprisonment with hard labour for possessing counterfeit money in an attempt to...

Court remands 3 KNUST students over campus violence

The Asokore Mampong District Court, on September 23, 2022, remanded into Police custody three students of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology...

See something, say something: 21 foreign nationals with suspicious behaviour arrested at Ejisu

At least 21 foreign nationals have been arrested by the police at Ejisu in the Ashanti Region following their suspicious behaviour. The arrest followed...

UEW: Police fire tear gas to disperse protesting students [Video]

https://youtube.com/shorts/BftulECD7uA?feature=share Police on Friday fired tear gas to disperse some level 400 students of the University of Education, Winneba (UEW) who were on a protest. The...