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Waiting times for UK visas are coming down – British High Commissioner

JoyNews/AdomNews · ‘Waiting times for UK visas are coming down’ – Harriet Thompson The British High Commissioner to Ghana, Harriet Thompson, says the waiting times...

4 dead, scores seriously injured in accident at Buduatta junction

Four persons have died with scores injured after a fatal accident at Buduatta junction on the Accra-Cape Coast highway. The collision was between a sprinter...

NHIS now covers childhood cancers, sickle cell drug – Bawumia

Treatment for childhood cancers and the cost of Hydroxyurea, a drug used for the treatment of sickle cell anaemia, are now covered by the...

Asesewa hospital staff demand removal of administrator

Staff of the Asesewa Government Hospital want their administrator removed over alleged corruption and incompetence. In a petition to the management, the medics and paramedics...

One of the key hindrances in fulfilling God’s purpose is corruption – Bawumia

Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has said one of the key hindrances in fulfilling God’s purpose is corruption. He emphasised that corruption inhibits economic growth...

Why Ghana went from hero to zero for investors

Ghana is learning the hard way why oil can be a blessing and a curse. The onset of commercial crude production helped turn the West...

Chiefs don’t have power to shut down radio stations – Media Foundation for West Africa

The Executive Director of the Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA), Sulemana Braimah, says chiefs do not have any legal authority to close down...

71% of Ghanaians give their MP’s ‘failing grade’ for 2021 – Afrobarometer report

Under the current ‘hung’ parliament, Members of Parliament (MPs) have become “much more” effective when it comes to scrutinising government spending, a recent Afrobarometer...

ECG disconnects Boomerang nightclub from power grid

Boomerang nightclub has been disconnected from the national power grid and served notice to appear before the ECG Project office, where managers of the...

Bagbin elected President of Commonwealth Parliamentary Association

The Speaker of Parliament, Rt. Hon Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin, is the new President of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association International (CPA). He was unanimously...

Greater Accra tops noise making – EPA

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) received a total of 271 noise pollution complaints for the year 2021.Out of the number, Greater Accra had 176...

CHRAJ investigates Akufo-Addo’s Gender Ministry nominee

The Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) is investigating allegations of conflict of interest against the Deputy Minister-designate for Gender, Children and Social Protection,...

KNUST SRC President ordered to step aside

The Students' Representative Council (SRC) President of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Michael Adofo Abuah, has been asked to step...

Mother of boy whose step mum beat to death cries uncontrollably as she breaks silence [Video]

"I am unable to pay the bills at the hospital, please help me so that I would be able to bury my son," these...

Fairtrade Africa holds General Assembly in Accra

Fairtrade Africa has organised its General Assembly (GA) last week in Accra, Ghana for Fairtrade certified producer organisations across the continent. The General Assembly...

Happiness 3.0: Key to living life as an expression of happiness

The Art of Living, an international non-religious and non-profit organisation that focuses on building mental health, held a lively and insightful evening with Gurudev...

Anglogold Ashanti holds symposium on 10-year socio-economic development plan

AngloGold Ashanti Obuasi Mine on Wednesday, August 24, held a Development Partnership Symposium for the Implementation of its 10-Year Socio-Economic Development Plan (SEDP) in...

NLA boss Sammy Awuku eulogises Obour

The good works of Ghana Post Managing Director (MD), Bice Osei Kuffour aka Obour, particularly for reforming, restructuring the postal and parcel courier service,...

Farmer gets 4 years for attacking colleague with machete

A 26-year-old farmer at Onyinafonso, a suburb of  Asamankese in the Eastern Region, has been sentenced to four years imprisonment for causing harm to...

GIISDEC’s masterplan to enrich Ghana’s Iron and Steel Industry

The Board Chairman of the Ghana Integrated Iron and Steel Development Corporation (GIISDEC), Farouk Aliu Mahama, has assured that his outfit is poised to...

Oyerepa FM shuts down in compliance with Kumasi Traditional Council’s order

A radio station in Kumasi, Oyerepa FM, has halted broadcast today, Friday. This is in compliance with an order from the Kumasi Traditional Council that...

Mr Eazi pays courtesy call on Accra Mayor

Renowned Nigerian afro-pop musician and shareholder of Betpawa, Oluwatosin Oluwole Ajibade, aka Mr Eazi, has paid a courtesy call on the Chief Executive of...

One dead, others injured in clash between two communities at Chereponi

One person is reported dead with several others injured following renewed clashes between two communities in the Chereponi District of the North East Region. The...

JHS pupils undergo cleansing after colleague invoked curses on them

Chiefs and Elders of Akwasiho in the Kwahu East District of the Eastern Region have officially poured libation to cleanse pupils over curses invoked...

Date for Bernard Avle’s wife’s funeral announced

Justine Avle, wife of celebrated broadcaster Bernard Avle, will be buried on September 8 at a private ceremony. The pre-burial service will take place at...

Check out profile of Inusah Fuseini’s son

Abdul Inusah is the son of a top Ghanaian politician and lawyer Inusah Fuseini who had served as a Member of Parliament for Tamale...

Dan Botwe reacts to death of Hackman Owusu-Agyemang’s wife

A leading member of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Dan Botwe, has commiserated with Council of Elders Chairman, Hackman Owusu-Agyemang, over the death of...

NPP’s Hackman Owusu-Agyemang hit with sad news

Chairman of the New Patriotic Party's (NPP) Council of Elders, Hackman Owusu-Agyemang, has lost his wife. The wife, Mrs Comfort Owusu-Agyemang, is said to...

Merge flood control responsibility with Ghana Hydrological Authority – IET tells govt

The President of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), Ghana, Egnr. Henry Kwadwo Boateng, has urged the Minister for Works and Housing, Francis...

Attacks on MPs will get worse – Adam Bonaa

Security analyst, Adam Bonaa, has said attacks on Members of Parliament (MPs) will get worse if they do not change their mode of campaigning....

Nullify banishment before I can come and apologise – Odike to Kumasi Traditional Council

The Founder and Leader of the United Progressive Party (UPP), Akwasi Addai ‘Odike’ has explained his inability to appear before the Kumasi Traditional Council...

Kumasi Traditional Council orders Oyerepa FM to halt broadcast over Odike [Listen]

The Kumasi Traditional Council has requested that Oyerepa FM, a radio station situated in Kumasi, stops broadcasting on Friday, August 26, until further notice. When...

Man arrested for bathing wife with acid

A 35-year-old man, identified as Ishmael Atitso Agbeko, is in the grips of the Kasoa police for bathing his lover with acid. The suspect allegedly...

Police take over Ofaakor palace after violent clashes left one injured [Video]

https://youtu.be/J8wGtHG5Y_I There is heavy security deployment at Kasoa Odupong Ofaakor palace following violent clashes that have left one person injured. The victim, identified as Kwame Odeneho,...

Human trafficking shoots up, Gender Ministry worried over trend

Ghana is recording an upsurge in cases of human trafficking, according to data available to the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection. Records show...

Ghana intensifies measures to eliminate leprosy

The National Leprosy Control Programme (NLCP) says it has intensified contact tracing for people exposed to leprosy to aid the fight against the disease...

Tarkwa SHS launches 60th anniversary

As part of its 60th anniversary celebration, Tarkwa Senior Secondary School (TARSCO) Past Students Association (TARPSA), in conjunction with the Board of Directors of...

The People’s Forum: Light fishing killing us – Gomoa Fetteh fishermen lament

Fishermen at Gomoa Fetteh in the Central Region are lamenting over the illegal activities of trawlers and unorthodox fishing methods. According to them, the use...

Maamobi residents paint Accra red [Photos]

Scores of Maamobi residents in the Ayawaso North Municipality in the Greater Accra Region have hit the streets to protest a planned demolition exercise...

Customs boss reacts to tax evasion allegations

In October 2021, then Deputy National Security Coordinator, Edward Asomani, wrote a letter to the Commissioner-General of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA). It was...