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Beautiful photos drop as Akufo-Addo commissions Tamale Interchange

President Akufo-Addo, on Tuesday, commissioned the Tamale Interchange, the fourth interchange built by the government since 2017. The interchange forms part of the Government of...

Adwoa Safo trends after E-Levy passage

Member of Parliament (MP) for Dome Kwabenya, Sarah Adwoa Safo, who has been on leave in parliament for more than two months has been...

Ghanaians react to passage of E-levy Bill

Ghanaians on social media are astounded by the passage of the Electronic Transaction levy (E-levy) Bill in Parliament. The Majority-sided Parliament on Tuesday approved the...

E-levy: Checkout transactions to be affected and exempted

Parliament is now waiting on President Akufo-Addo to give his assent to the Electronic Transfer Levy (E-Levy) Bill. A Majority-sided House approved the E-Levy after...

Two ex-convicts arrested for serial burglary in Denu

The Denu police command has arrested two ex-convicts, Joseph Senahia, 22; and Wisdom Agorsu Atorsu, 23, for committing various crimes. A manhunt has also...

New Juaben Traditional Council bans noise-making, funerals

The New Juaben Traditional Council has placed a one-month ban on noise making and all other social and religious activities associated with noise making. The...

Military maps out strategy to tackle ‘galamsey’

The Ghana Armed Forces (GAF) has mapped out new strategies, in collaboration with the Minerals Commission and the Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources,...

Churches, houses demolished in Gomoa East

Authorities in the Gomoa East District of the Central Region have supervised a demolition exercise on Tuesday. Over 10 buildings including residential and church facilities...

Community police assistant jailed for fraud, impersonation

An Adentan Circuit Court has sentenced a 28-year-old Community Police Assistant (CPA) to four years imprisonment over charges of impersonation and defrauding by false...

Bid for Apiate redesign begins

The government has opened a design competition to allow registered building industry firms and individuals to come up with a redesigned plan for Apiate,...

GJA, NMC, RTI Commission to redevelop International Press Centre

The Ghana Journalists Association (GJA), National Media Commission (NMC) and the Right to Information Commission (RITC) have committed to redeveloping the International Press Centre...

Russia/Ukraine war affects fertilizer price – COCOBOD

The Russia and Ukraine war keeps impacting global food supply chains and Ghana’s major export earner, cocoa, is not left out. Chief Executive of Ghana...

Fire guts Akatsi Municipal Hospital

The main surgical theatre of the Akatsi Municipal Hospital in the Volta Region was on Saturday razed by fire. The fire, which started around 1100...

COVID-19: Nose mask patronage drops drastically

The wearing and patronage of nose masks in the country’s capital, Accra, has dropped considerably, less than 24 hours after President Nana Akufo-Addo directed...

Musama Disco Christo Church distances itself from ‘sodomy’ pastor [Listen]

The Musama Disco Christo Church (MDCC) has distanced itself from the Musama Church International (MCI) after their head pastor at Gomoa Amoanda branch, Isaac...

Nigeria govt orders closure of offices at 1:00pm ahead of Black Stars match

The government of Nigeria has directed that all offices in the country be closed at 1:00pm today. A press statement issued by the Civil Service...

Sachet and Packaged Water Producers announce price increment

The National Association of Sachet and Packaged Water Producers (NASPAWAP) has announced price increment for bottled and sachet water effective April 1, 2022. The move,...

Thieves destroy ECG transformer to steal copper windings

Thieves have vandalised and stolen parts of a newly installed transformer of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) that serves residents of Dunyo, a...

Akufo-Addo celebrated as he turns 78

It is all joy on social media platform Twitter as President Nana Akufo-Addo turns 78 years today. Describing Nana Akufo-Addo for who he is, Ghanaians...

Police grab 3 family members for burying baby alive

Police in the Central Region have arrested three members of one family, including a 70-year-old man, for allegedly burying a two-year-old boy alive on...

Opuni’s witness unwell

Charles Tetteh Dodoo, a defence witness in the case involving Dr Stephen Opuni and others, has presented an excuse duty letter to an Accra...

Police involved in bullion van robberies denied bail

The four policemen at the centre of recent bullion van robberies in Accra have been remanded into police custody for one week by an...

Akufo-Addo to present State of the Nation Address on Wednesday

President Nana Akufo-Addo is set to present the State of the Nation Address (SONA) in Parliament on Wednesday, March 30, 2022. This sessional address, which...

Universities to go off govt payroll: Okudzeto Ablakwa predicts

JoyNews/AdomNews · Okudzeto Ablakwa reacts to government decision to wean universities off government payroll Former Deputy Minister of Education and Member of Parliament for North...

My life is in danger – Businessman linked to bloody Tarkwa ‘galamsey’ group clash cries

A Tarkwa- based businessman, Emmanuel Kutubebi, says his life is in danger following violent clashes between two 'galamsey' factions at Bonsa tollbooth in the...

COVID-19: Okudzeto Ablakwa questions PCR testing at KIA

The Member of Parliament for North Tongu has described as surprising, President Nana Akufo-Addo’s reluctance to completely suspend the Covid-19 testing process at the...

Fire Service saves accident victims

The intervention of the Ghana National Fire Service at the accident and fire scene at Adiewoso on the Agona Nkwanta-Elubo Road in the Tarkwa...

I haven’t abandoned the economy – Bawumia

The Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, has responded to critics who have, in recent times, asked about his whereabouts at a time when the...

Saudi Arabia-based Ghanaian lady reveals both employer and son wanted to have sex with her

A Ghanaian lady based in Saudi Arabia, Gifty Gyamfua, has revealed that her male employer and his son made sexual advances on her, but...

Bolt clears air over blocking of 100 drivers in Sekondi-Takoradi for protesting

A leading ride-hailing company Bolt has dismissed claims that it has blocked 100 drivers in Sekondi-Takoradi for difficulties in operating on the platform. According to...

Former Legon VC gives govt low grade on free SHS

Former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ghana, Professor Ivan Addae-Mensah, has rated the Akufo-Addo-led government's free Senior High School (SHS). The academic scored the government...

Education Ministry sends important message to parents over SHS placements [Listen]

The Ministry of Education has sent an important message to parents across the country following the release of 2021/2022 Computerized School Selection and Placement...

Musama International Church reacts to pastor’s alleged sodomy act [Listen]

JoyNews/AdomNews · Mosama International Church reacts to pastor's alleged sodomy act The Muzama International Church has confirmed one pastor Isaac Arthur, arrested over an act of...

‘Resurrected’ lady passes on

The twenty-six-year-old lady, whose death was falsely announced last Friday at Fadama in Accra, has eventually passed on. She died on Saturday, a day after...

An oath of celibacy, the life of a Catholic Priest and those who fail the test

A long procession of loud, yet eager group of merrymakers- more than 300 of them- have taken over the alleyways. There is brass band music....

Pastor caught red-handed in attempt to have sex with 25-year-old man

Head pastor of Musama International Church, Gomoa Amoanda branch, Isaac Arthur, has been arrested in an attempt to have sex with a 25-year-old man....

My salary as a worker in Spain was more than a lecturer’s in Ghana – Spain-based Ghanaian

A Ghanaian based in Spain, Abdul Aziz Seidu, has revealed that his take home as a waiter in Spain was GHC8,000 which he claimed...

Armed men allegedly take over Textiles Ghana as MD dismisses some workers

Armed policemen have reportedly taken over the premises of Textiles Ghana Limited after the Managing Director of the company, Fatoumata Doro, dismissed some workers....

Ghana TVET Service Director-General assures Minister of full support

The Director-General of the Ghana TVET Service, Mrs. Mawusi Nudekor Awity, has pledged her outfit’s unflinching support to the Minister of Education, Dr Yaw...

Beyi W’ano: Minister reports ‘corrupt’ chiefs to NIB over cattle invasion of forest reserves

It has emerged that some chiefs in the Bono Region take bribes from Fulani herdsmen who have invaded forest reserves in the region. According to...