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GJA elects regional and national executives today

Over 800 members of the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) will head to the polls today to elect new regional and national executives for the...

I was five months pregnant when I found out my boyfriend was gay

I was five months pregnant when an innocent venture into my iCloud feature showed me the websites currently open on my boyfriend’s phone. Some of them dating...

Speaker Bagbin pays surprise visit to state institutions [Photos]

Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin, has paid a surprise visit to the National Buffer Stock Company and the School Feeding Programme to ascertain their...

Paramount chief of Asante Agona passes on

The elders of Agona Traditional Area, on June 20, were at the Manhyia Palace to officially inform Asantehene Otumfuo Osei Tutu II about the...

One dead, others injured in accident at Sakora Wonoo

One person has been confirmed dead, with two others injured in an accident at Sakora Wonoo in the Kwabre East Municipality of the Ashanti...

Unidentified man found dead under bridge

An unidentified man, believed to be in his 70s, has been found dead under a bridge at Bontodiase at Asante Akyem Agogo. Residents, who...

Samira Bawumia supports basic schools at Kasoa with books [Video]

https://youtu.be/CqvSTnqt7Hk The Samira Empowerment and Humanitarian Project has presented books to basic schools at Kasoa in the Awutu Senya East District of the Central Region. The...

Pillion riders reject crash helmet for fear of Covid-19 – Okada operators

Okada business operators in Accra have revealed some pillion riders, despite the risks they are exposed to in accidents, reject the use of crash...

Chief locks up local revenue collection offices to demand share of national cake

The traditional council of Pakyi Number 1 and 2 close to Kumasi has led an exercise to lock up local revenue collection offices in...

Collapsed building kills 12-year-old girl at Shama

A 12-year-old girl, Maame Yaa, met her untimely death when a building collapsed on her at Shama Junction in the Shama District of the...

National Cathedral: What is wrong with using taxpayers’ money? NPP man quizzes

A former New Patriotic Party (NPP) Constituency Chairman for New Juaben North, Kwadwo Boateng-Agyemang, has expressed disgust over the outcry the National Cathedral project has...

Akufo-Addo terminates Juliana Cudjoe’s appointment

The appointment of the President of the Greater Accra School Feeding Caterers Association, Juliana Cudjoe, as a member of the Accra Metropolitan Assembly, has...

Justice Honyenuga dismisses Opuni’s application for stay of proceedings

The former Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of COCOBOD’s application to temporarily suspend his trial at the High Court has failed. Dr Stephen Kwabena Opuni was...

UK regulator fines Ghana International Bank £5.8 million

The regulator of financial services firms and financial markets in the UK, Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has fined the Ghana International Bank (GIB) £5.8...

I was sexually abused by a fetish priest in my quest to end spiritual attachment – Lady confesses [Listen]

JoyNews/AdomNews · I was sexually abused by a fetish priest in my quest to end spiritual attachment -Lady confess A 24-year-old lady stunned listeners of...

Irate Navrongo youth demonstrate over uncompleted stadium

Some irate youth of Navrongo in the Kassena-Nankana Municipality have called on President Akufo-addo to complete the stalled Navrongo sports stadium project in the...

Mampong Queenmother graduates from KNUST [Photos]

The Queen mother of Mampong Traditional Area, Nana Agyakoma Difie II, has graduated from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST). She was part...

Girl, 7, presents copy of her book to Asantehene [Photos]

A seven-year-old girl, Rachel Yram, has presented a copy of her book titled More Nice City to the Asantehene Otumfuo Osei Tutu II. This...

Farmers start harvesting from cashew seedlings after 3 years

Farmers at Nkwanta South of the Oti Region who received the cashew seedlings some three years ago have started harvesting to make profits. With cashew...

Girl found dead in drain at Ablekuma Manhean with hands tied

The lifeless body of a teenage girl has been found in a drain at Ablekuma Manhean in the Ga West Municipality of the Greater...

No compensation for CSIR land encroachers – Minister

There will be no compensation for developers who built on the 200 acres land belonging to the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR). This,...

Justice Sector Support Activity leads advocacy on review of Evidence Act, C.I 87

Legal Resources Centre (LRC), implementation lead of USAID, Justice Sector Support Activity, has organised a roundtable discussion on the advocacy for review of the...

Okyenhene blesses over 1,000 pupils with GH₵20 gift each [Video]

https://youtu.be/BABKk07wbBk The faces of about 1,000 pupils at Kyebi in the East Akim Municipality of the Eastern Region are beaming with smiles through the benevolence...

I have not endorsed any flagbearer hopeful – Kufuor

Former President John Agyekum Kufuor has dismissed reports suggesting his endorsement of a candidate as the next New Patriotic Party (NPP) flagbearer. The office of...

Births and Deaths Registry head office relocated

The head office of the Births and Deaths Registry has been relocated to Shiashie in the Ayawaso West Municipality. This was disclosed in a statement...

Covid-19: 245 cases recorded in 13 schools

The Ghana Health Service (GHS) has announced that 13 schools have so far recorded new cases of the coronavirus. This development has forced the...

Man, 73, another in court over GHC58K recruitment fraud

A 73-year-old businessman, Emmanuel King Opare, and 55-year-old teacher, Elizabeth Manukure, both residents of Akuapem Mamfe, have been put before Koforidua Circuit Court 'A'...

Armed robbers attack Bridget Otoo’s shop again

Armed robbers on Wednesday raided journalist Bridget Otoo's cement shop. This would be the second time her shop has been attacked; the first was in...

I’m tempted to believe Ghana will not work again – Former MP

A former Member of Parliament (MP) for Obuasi in the Ashanti Region, Edward Ennin, says he has lost hope in the believe that Ghana...

Govt is not a financial institution – Agric Minister on why farmers can’t be funded [Audio]

JoyNews/AdomNews · Agric Minister On Commercial Banks Minister for Food and Agriculture, Dr Owusu Akoto Afriyie, has stated it will not be a realistic plan...

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...