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Food shortage forces some final-year SHS students in Ashanti Region to skip school

Final-year students of some senior high schools in the Ashanti Region are yet to report to school though their teachers are back from the...

Residents of Assin Fosu Pumpside in fear over attempted kidnapping

Some residents at Pumpside in the Assin Fosu Municipality of the Central Region are living in fear following an alleged attempted kidnapping of a...

You can use Atta Mills’ name to chop but… Koku Anyidoho told

Founder of Atta Mills Institute, Koku Anyidoho, has been given permission to make money with the name of the late President. But, the family has...

Asomdwee Park brouhaha: Koku Anyidoho weeps [Listen]

JoyNews/AdomNews · Koku Anyidoho weeps over Asomdwe Park brouhaha Founder and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Atta Mills Institute is distraught following claims by...

Lands Minister sets up committee to investigate alleged military brutalities of illegal miners

The Lands and Natural Resources Ministry has set up a committee to probe the alleged military brutalities on some illegal miners, who were reportedly...

About ¢5bn in bribes paid in both private and public sectors in 2021 – GSS

About ¢5 billion in bribes were paid in both the private and the public sector, a survey by the Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) has...

Ghanaian universities to admit medical students displaced by Ukraine war – Education Minister

JoyNews/AdomNews · Ghanaian Universities To Admit Medical Students Displaced By Ukraine War - Education Minister Minister for Education, Dr. Yaw Osei Adutwum has said Ghanaian...

We don’t recognise Atta Mills Institute – Samuel Atta Mills

The family of late President John Evans Atta Mills has said they don’t recognise the Atta Mills Institute headed by former aide, Koku Anyidoho. Brother...

Publish your daughter’s autopsy report – Samuel Atta Mills fires Koku

JoyNews/AdomNews · Samuel Atta Mills on late Mills' autopsy report Brother of late President John Atta Mills has challenged founder of the Atta Mills Institute,...

Fans react massively to Prosper Ogum’s resignation

Multiple reports confirming the resignation of the head coach of Asante Kotoko, Prosper Ogum, as the gaffer of the team, has stirred massive reactions. This...

We will move Atta Mills’ body from Asomdwe Park if… -Family

JoyNews/AdomNews · Atta Mills famiy to move body out of Asomdwe Park Family of late President Atta Mills is threatening to exhume the body of...

Rex Omar reacts to High Court decision to set GHAMRO board aside

The ‘Board Chairman’ of Ghana Music Rights Organisation (GHAMRO), Rex Omar, has addressed Ghanaians, especially the music industry after a High Court decision to...

Parliament approves $750 million loan

Parliament has approved a $750 million loan requested by the Finance Ministry. This was after the Chairman of the Finance Committee, Kwaku Kwarteng laid the...

I am no longer close to Akufo-Addo; he isn’t listening to God – Rev Owusu Bempa [Video]

Rev. Isaac Owusu Bempah says he is no longer having a close relationship with President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo because the president is no longer listening to God. Citing...

10 new justices of the High Court sworn into office

President Nana Akufo-Addo on Monday inducted into office 10 new Justices of the High Court, charging them to dispense justice without fear or favour,...

We shall deal with you – Atta Mill’s family threatens Koku Anyidoho

Brother of former President, John Evans Atta Mills has threatened to deal ruthlessly with Samuel Koku Anyidoho after he tampered with the grave of...

My step sisters poisoned my mum so I could send them money – Scotland-based Ghanaian

Scotland-based Ghanaian Esinam Jessica Adjika has alleged that her stepsisters caused her mother’s disability so that she would send money often for her treatment. According...

Lawsuit looms over National Cathedral project

Officials of Waterstone Realty Limited, the company accusing the government of indifference and threatening a lawsuit to recover compensation over its office complex which...

DCOP Kwesi Ofori bids farewell to Ghana Police

The Director-General of Ghana Police’s Public Affairs Directorate, DCOP Kwesi Ofori, has retired from active service. His retirement takes effect from Wednesday, July 20, 2022,...

State loses GH¢27bn to tax exemptions – Finance Minister confirms in Parliament

The Minister of Finance, Ken Ofori-Atta, has confirmed that the country lost about GH¢27 billion to tax exemptions granted some businesses between 2008 and...

Nursing trainees ditch clinical practicals over non-payment of allowances

Due to financial difficulties, several nursing trainees continue to forego their clinical practice at hospitals, which hinders the effective training of nurses and midwives. For...

Let my ex-lover rot in jail, her acid attack has ruined me – Angry man

Twenty-four-year-old Derick Ofusu Gyan whose girlfriend is currently serving a five-year jail term for pouring acid on him has denied claims that he has...

Asogli State bans funerals

In anticipation of the Te za 2022, the Asogli State Council has imposed a month-long ban on funerals within its jurisdiction. Secretary to the Council,...

Marburg virus: GMA issues health alert

General Secretary of the Ghana Medical Association (GMA) has warned the populace to be vigilant and cautious as the country has recorded cases of...

E/R: GES supervisor dies in gory motorbike accident

A Circuit Supervisor with Abuakwa North Municipal Education Directorate of the Ghana Education Service has died in a horrific motor accident whilst on his...

Pregnant woman, 2-year-old son killed after car crashes into shop at Juaboso

A pregnant woman carrying her son to school have both been killed in an accident involving multiple cars. The victim and her uniformed two-year-old son...

JB Danquah’s murder trial put on hold

The substantive case in which Daniel Asiedu is facing trial over the murder of JB Danquah-Adu has been put on hold for a mini-trial.This...

Scrap SSNIT – TUC tells govt 

The Trades Union Congress (TUC) has called for the total overhaul of the Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT). The Union insists the trust...

Suspect admits to killing J.B. Danquah-Adu

Daniel Asiedu, popularly known as Sexy Don Don, the prime suspect in the murder of the then Member of Parliament ( MP) for Abuakwa...

16 injured in Metro Mass Transit bus accident

Sixteen people are currently receiving treatment at the Tamale Teaching Hospital after a Metro Mass Transit bus they were travelling in was involved in...

Where is Atta Mills’ body? – Family angry with govt [Listen]

JoyNews/AdomNews · Family angry with govt after Koku Anyidoho 'tampers' with grave Family of former President John Evans Atta Mills is furious with government for...

AMA sanctions street preachers for making noise, operating without permit

The Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) has issued notices to 10 street preachers and five persons engaged in the sale of products using public address...

Commuters on Accra-Tema railway welcome reopening of service

Commuters on the Accra- Tema railway line have welcomed the resumption of the rail services. The rail service resumed on Monday following a JoyNews Tracker report Derailed, which...

Public confidence in economy drops to 2014 levels – Afrobarometer survey

Majority of Ghanaians have lost confidence in the economy as half of them fear for the worse, according to the latest Afrobarometer survey. About 87...

WHO experts to assist Ghana fight Marburg virus

The World Health Organisation (WHO) will in the coming days deploy a team of experts to assist Ghana fight the outbreak of the Marburg...

I tested my husband twice before bringing him to the US – Lady reveals

US-based Ghanaian, Sandra Quaye, has revealed that when her then-boyfriend proposed love to her, she gave him two tests to pass before accepting it,...

Man nearly set ablaze over alleged theft [Photos]

A 30-year-old man, Michael Amanor, has escaped being set ablaze for allegedly stealing a 32-inch TV set at  Kasoa Amusukope in the Awutu Senya...

Why irate Suame Magazine artisans threw sachet water at Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu and entourage

Artisans at Suame Magazine in Kumasi have been reacting angrily to the visiting Member of Parliament of the area, Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu and his entourage,...

Ambulance Service admits charging ¢600 to convey pregnant woman who died in transit

Chief Executive of the National Ambulance Service (NAS) has admitted officers demanded GH₵600 from the husband of a pregnant woman who died whilst in...

Police arrest a gang of six robbers in Bono East Region

The Ghana Police Service says it has arrested six suspected robbers at Techiman in the Bono East Region.  The Police said the arrest followed an...