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Akufo-Addo nominates 4 judges to Supreme Court

President Nana Akufo-Addo has nominated four judges for elevation onto the Supreme Court Bench. They are three Court of Appeal justices and a Justice of...

How this little girl’s wish was granted by Atta Mills

A story has been told of how the late President Atta Mills honoured a little girl's wish. The Director of Communications at the Presidency during...

Several houses burnt at Chereponi over land dispute [Photos]

About 16 houses have been set ablaze at Sogbum, a farming community in the Chereponi District of the Northeast Region, in a renewed dispute. This...

Akufo-Addo nominates 4 new Supreme Court judges

President Nana Akufo-Addo has nominated four new justices to the bench of the Supreme Court. The names of the four have been forwarded to Parliament...

Saglemi Housing case: State prosecutors buy time to file “outstanding documents”

Hearing of the case in which Alhaji Collins Dauda, a former Minister of Water Resources, Works and Housing and four others involved in the...

NABCo trainees send SOS message to govt as programme ends in 2 months

JoyNews/AdomNews · NABCo trainees send SOS message to govt as programme ends in 2 months Some trainees of the Nation Builder’s Corps (NaBCo) have appealed...

Teacher trainees chase govt over 7 months unpaid allowance; hint of potential food shortage

The Teacher Trainees Association of Ghana (TTAG) has expressed dissatisfaction about delays in the release of their monthly allowances which have been in arrears for seven months. They have...

Koku Anyidoho’s name on Atta Mills’ bust must be dropped – Prof Gyampo

A political scientist, Professor Ransford Gyampo, has called for the removal of Koku Anyidoho's name on a new bust erected in honour of late...

Registrar General’s Department to delete about 500k firms from Companies Register

The newly launched Office of the Registrar of Companies (ORC) is set to delete close to 500,000 companies from its database. This is for not...

Thieves steal feeding items from Adansi Asokwa Primary School [Video]

https://youtu.be/vF90DqjvdC0 Thieves have for the second time in eight days raided the Adansi Asokwa Primary School in the Ashanti Region and bolted with feeding items....

Revealed: When Adwoa Safo will return to Ghana

It has emerged that embattled Dome-Kwabenya Member of Parliament (MP), Sarah Adwoa Safo, is expected to return to Ghana within this week. This is...

Mid-Year Budget Review: Bawumia’s aide commends Finance Minister

The spokesperson to the Vice President has commended the Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, over his delivery of the 2022 Mid-Year Budget Review on Monday,...

Focus on domestication – GCPP urges govt

The leader of the Great Consolidated Popular Party (GCPP), Dr Henry Herbert Lartey, has stated that the country must focus more on production of...

Mahama, wife to commission maternity block at Bole to mark 30th marriage anniversary [Photos]

Former President John Mahama and his wife, Lordina, have paid a courtesy call on the Bolewura, Sarfo Kutuge Feso I at his Bole palace...

Screen Burkinabes in Ghana to prevent terrorist infiltration – Former Deputy Minister

A former Deputy Interior Minister, James Agalga, has asked authorities of the Ghana Refugee Board to thoroughly screen the Burkinabes who are seeking asylum...

Police staff killed in ghastly accident

A Staff of the Ghana Police Service met his untimely death at Tema Community 25 Estate Junction on the Dawhenya stretch of the Tema-Aflao...

Husband flees after allegedly chopping off wife’s three fingers [Photo]

A young man identified as Robert Arhin is currently said to be on the run after allegedly chopping off three of his wife's fingers. Mr...

Irate Essipon residents apprehend cable thief

The alertness of residents of Essipon in the Sekondi Takoradi Metropolis of the Western Region has led to the arrest of a young man...

Luv FM journalists and driver attacked by purported security men of Sewua hospital

Two journalists and a driver of Luv FM, a subsidiary of the Multimedia Group Limited, have been attacked by purported watchmen of the Sewua...

Cancellation of road tolls: Deputy Roads Minister sets record straight

Deputy Minister of Roads and Highways, Stephen Jalula has explained that the government’s policy to cancel the collection of road tolls remains in force. His...

Police Officer who impersonated IGP granted GH¢100k bail

A Police Officer, who allegedly impersonated the Inspector General of Police, Dr George Akuffo Dampare and Director-General of CID, COP Ken Yeboah, has been...

Four suspected armed land guards nearly lynched at Ashifla

Four persons suspected to be notorious armed land guards have escaped lynching at Ashifla in the Ga South Municipality. The men, armed with an AK-47...

K.T. Hammond’s wife appointed High Court judge

President Nana Akufo-Addo has appointed wife of Member of Parliament for Adansi-Asokwa constituency, Kobina Tahir Hammond Sahib, popularly called K.T. Hammond, as a Justice...

NSS releases codes for 2022/2023 service personnel

The Management of the National Service Scheme (NSS) has released for registration a total of 127, 999 Pin Codes for eligible Ghanaians for the...

The state of economy is a painful one for me to report – Ofori-Atta

Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta has admitted that the Ghanaian economy is not in normal times. The situation, Mr Ofori-Atta, has blamed on the covid-19 pandemic...

Agenda 111: 87 hospitals at different stages of completion – Ken Ofori-Atta

The Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, has revealed that about 87 hospitals under the government’s Agenda 111 initiative are under construction. According to him, about 87...

Free SHS under review or not: Ofori-Atta sets records straight

The Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, has said the Free Senior High School (SHS) and TVET education are not under review. Presenting the 2022 Mid-Year Budget...

Power theft: ECG disconnects power supply to Obaa hotel

The Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) has disconnected Obaa’s Golden Plaza, a hotel operating at New Abirem in the Birim North District of the...

Full text: Ken Ofori-Atta’s 2022 Mid-Year Budget Review speech

The Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, has presented the 2022 Mid-Year Budget Review to Parliament for approval. Below is the full statement delivered on July 25,...

Ken Ofori-Atta sends important message to NABCO trainees

The Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, has charged beneficiaries of the Nation Builders Corps (NABCo) to take advantage of the YouStart programme to build their...

Some Ghanaians frustrated as SIM card registration deadline beckons

Six days to the deadline for the registration of SIM cards, some Ghanaians have been left frustrated. A myriad of reasons have been hampering them...

Govt to re-introduce road tolls

Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta has revealed government’s innovative strategy to raise funds to facilitate the construction, rehabilitation and extension of the Tema Motorway. According to...

Go and wipe my name from Atta Mills’ statue – Koku Anyidoho tells naysayers

Founder of the Atta Mills Institute, Samuel Koku Anyidoho, has sent a message to persons questioning why his name was engraved on a statue...

Koku Anyidoho reacts to Atta Mills’ name missing on new monument

Founder of Atta Mills Institute, Koku Anyidoho, has reacted to late Prof John Evans Atta Mills' name missing on the new monument erected in his...

Finance Minister coming to mock God – MP on Mid-Year Budget Review [Video]

https://youtu.be/iHBuk0uxyow Member of Parliament (MP) for Tamale Central, Ibrahim Murtala Mohammed, has downplayed the content of Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta's 2022 Mid-Year Budget Review later...

Trained nurses storm Parliament to demand urgent employment

Some aggrieved trained nurses have picketed at the Parliament House ahead of the presentation of the 2022 Mid-year budget review by Finance Minister, Ken...

Food shortage to hit Colleges of Education – TTAG

The Teacher Trainees’ Association of Ghana (TTAG) has indicated that, food shortage would be hitting the Colleges of Education (soon. Speaking at the Grand Durbar...

Minority sends strong message to govt over Atta Mills’ statue [Video]

https://youtu.be/cKPk6puoNbw Minority in Parliament is furious with the government over the absence of late former President Atta Mills' name on a bust monument erected in...

Ghana to revert to May/June WASSCE

Ghana will revert to writing the West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) in May/June in 2024, the Director-General of the Ghana Education Service...

Mahama commemorates 10th anniversary of Atta Mills’ death [Photos]

Former President John Dramani Mahama on Sunday commemorated the 10th anniversary of his former boss, John Evans Atta Mills. Accompanied by stalwarts and supporters from...