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Kuabease-Juaben road construction underway

The construction work on a section of the Kubease-Nkyerepoaso road in the Juaben Municipality has commenced. This was revealed after the Municipality Chief Executive (MCE)...

Bank of Ghana supports EOCO with GH¢10m grant

The Bank of Ghana (BoG) Board has approved the disbursement of a GH¢10 million grant to the Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO) to...

UG launches project to advance women in STEM education

The Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ghana, Professor Nana Aba Appiah Amfo, has launched a project to advance women in Science Technology Engineering and...

Ghana Digital Center CEO donates to school children

Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Ghana Digital Center Limited, Kwadwo Baah Agyemang, is leaving a foot print and a remarkable social interventions in...

Special Prosecutor launches full investigation into issuance of customs rulings, benchmark values

The Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) is about to launch a full-blown investigation into all rulings and benchmark values applied by the Customs...

Lady accused of murdering Canadian boyfriend makes startling revelations

Safinatu Adizatu Mohammed, the embattled 23-year-old Level 100 student of the University of Ghana, who is accused of allegedly stabbing her Ghanaian lover who...

Special Prosecutor still investigating alleged Airbus bribery scandal

JoyNews/AdomNews · Special Prosecutor still investigating alleged Airbus bribery scandal Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) has revealed that it is still investigating the alleged...

Sack Ofori-Atta, Agyemang Manu, Afriyie-Akoto – Kufuor Foundation CEO tells Akufo-Addo

The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Kufuor Foundation, Prof Baffuor Agyemang-Duah, is the latest influential individual to join calls for a ministerial reshuffle in...

Ghana experiencing ‘mental health inflation’

National President, Ghana Psychological Association (GPA), Dr Collins Agyemang Badu, says Ghana is currently experiencing a “mental health inflation.” He attributed the problem to stress,...

Parts of Tamale, Sagnarigu flooded after heavy downpour

A heavy downpour last Friday night submerged parts of the Tamale metropolis and the Sagnarigu municipality, displacing hundreds of households. However, there has not been...

NPP Secretary escapes robbery attack

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) Secretary for Nhyiaeso in Kumasi, Micheal Essel-Mills, has reportedly escaped a robbery attack in his home at Santasi. The...

GIISDEC Board embarks on community engagement in Oti Region

The Board of the Ghana Integrated Iron and Steel Development Corporation led by its Chairman and Member of Parliament for Yendi, Alhaji Farouk Aliu...

Commonwealth-Mensah Sarbah Hall clash: Vandals Hall Master, Senior Tutor suspended

The Management of the University of Ghana has suspended the Hall Master and Senior Tutor of the Commonwealth Hall for their inaction that caused...

Largest ‘wee’ farm uncovered at Afram Plains, 5 arrested for cultivating 80 hectare cannabis farm

The largest cannabis farm ever has been discovered at Afram Plains in the Eastern Region.The 80-hectare cannabis farm was discovered in the Obuo Akroma...

Notorious robbers who attacked family in broad daylight arrested

The Police have arrested two members of a robbery gang that attacked a family at Suhum in the Eastern region in broad daylight on...

Ursula Owusu, Nana Cheddar’s pilgrimage to Axim [Photos]

Minister for Communications and Digitalisation, Mrs Ursula Owusu-Ekuful and businessman, Nana Bediako Cheddar, have embarked on a trip to Axim in the Western Region....

Man, 26, killed in mining pit

The search for gold in an abandoned mining pit of AngloGold Ashanti at Obuasi by a group of miners turned disastrous as one of...

Full text: Utility tariff increment announced by PURC

2022-2025 MULTI-YEAR MAJOR TARIFF REVIEW FOR NATURAL GAS, ELECTRICITY AND WATER SERVICES The Public Utilities Regulatory Commission (PURC), has concluded its regulatory process for the examination...

Charcoal seller allegedly commits suicide over GHS 3,000 debt

A 22-year-old charcoal seller, Kwabenya Gyata, has been found hanging dead in an abandoned public toilet at Gomoa Obiri in the Gomoa West District...

We’re committed to making Ghana safer – IGP reiterates as he receives new motorbikes

The Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Dr George Akuffo Dampare, has renewed his pledge to make the country the safest place. The police chief is poised...

Electricity, water tariffs up by 27.15%, 21.55%

The Public Utilities Regulatory Commission (PURC) has announced tariff increases effective September 1, 2022. Tariffs for electricity and water are expected to go up by...

Office of Special Prosecutor employing services of investigative journalists

The Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) has announced it is employing the services and expertise of investigative journalists. The move, according to the office, is...

Security agencies to permanently patrol river bodies to fight galamsey

The Chief Executive of the Minerals Commission, Martin Ayisi, has declared that as government’s permanent solution to the fight against illegal mining, the Ministry...

Akufo-Addo presents 1,500 motorbikes to Ghana Police Service [Video]

https://youtu.be/mhfdbxWyirM President Nana Akufo-Addo has presented 1,500 Apsonic motorbikes to the Ghana Police Service to aid their work. The presentation was done in a brief ceremony...

Ghana Card won’t be used for Election 2024 – Deputy EC Chairman

The Electoral Commission (EC) has assured Ghanaians that it has no intention to use the Ghana Card as a source of identification for the...

List of alleged corruption cases Special Prosecutor is probing

The Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) has furnished the public with cases which have engaged its attention so far. This forms part of the...

NIA resumes services at Elwak Sports Stadium

The National Identification Authority (NIA) says it has resumed its services at the Elwak Sports Stadium, Accra effective Monday, August 15, 2022. The resumption...

Illegal miners arrested; mining equipment destroyed on River Offin [Photos]

About nine illegal miners have been arrested and their equipment decommissioned on River Offin in the Atwima Mponua District of the Ashanti Region. They...

Special Prosecutor publishes half-year report

The Office of the Special Prosecutor says it has so far not been able to secure any conviction or acquittal in respect of cases...

4 arrested for refurbishing, selling abandoned LPG cylinders

The Kaneshie District Police has arrested four persons for refurbishing old and abandoned Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) cylinders for sale at Swanlake Masalachi in...

Mahama mourns with A.B. Crentsil’s family at one week observation [Photos]

The one-week observation of veteran highlife legend, Alfred Benjamin Crentsil, known in showbiz circles as A.B. Crentsil, has been held. The ceremony took place on...

Atewa Forest is a ‘no go area’ for mining; GIADEC and strategic partner must walk away immediately – A Rocha Ghana

A Rocha Ghana, an environmental NGO, has urgently reminded all investors and mining companies – especially the Ghana Integrated Aluminium Development Corporation (GIADEC) ‘preferred...

Labianca case: GRA dissociates itself from Col. Damoah’s comments against Special Prosecutor

The Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) has distanced itself from some comments made by the Commissioner of Customs concerning the findings of a case involving...

ECG begins repair works on transformers in Kroboland

Residents of the Yilo and Manya Krobo municipalities of the Eastern region may soon heave a sigh of relief, as the Electricity Company of...

NDC senior member passes on

A senior member of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Samuel Nuamah Donkor, has passed on. He was 63. His death was announced by his party...

Homowo is a beautiful festival – Bawumia

Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia was left impressed when he joined the chiefs and people of Ga Mashie (British Accra) to celebrate the Homowo...

Kakum Forest elephants destroy farmlands at Assin South

Rampaging elephants from the Kakum National Park Forest extension have raided more than three-acre farmlands estimated at GH¢60,000 in some farming communities in the...

I’m fully aware that things are difficult – Akufo-Addo

President Nana Akufo-Addo says he is fully aware that things are difficult for Ghanaians and so he is working to lift them out of...

General Legal Council barring re-marking justified – GBA President

The President of the Ghana Bar Association (GBA) says people criticising the General Legal Council (GCL’s) decision to ban re-marking of the entrance examination...

EOCO must take up Labianca case – Murtala Mohammed

A former Deputy Trades and Industry Minister has asked for the Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO) to take over the alleged corruption case...