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My timeline for Agenda 111 was overly ambitious – Akufo-Addo admits

Like all major construction projects, it's evident that the initial schedule we gave for the completion of Agenda 111 was overly ambitious, President Nana...

SONA22: Russia-Ukraine war: Bombs may be dropping on cities but hitting pockets in Ghana – Akufo-Addo

President Nana Akufo-Addo has said that the Russia and Ukraine war has had a direct impact on the lives of Ghanaians as far as...

2 mourners die, 5 in critical condition in separate accidents at Gomoa

Two mourners have died instantly while five others are in critical condition in two separate accidents in the Gomoa East and West Districts of...

Births and Deaths registry go digital; no more football ages – Akufo-Addo declares

President Nana Akufo-Addo has revealed that operations of the Births and Deaths Registry have finally been digitised to make sure that documents issued from...

SONA 2022: 80 warehouses to store food completed – Akufo-Addo

President Nana Akufo-Addo has announced the completion of some 80 warehouses across the country. According to him, there is no doubt this intervention has hugely...

Full speech: Akufo-Addo’s State of the Nation Address 2022

I hope you will forgive me if I begin by asking Members of the House to join me to salute the management, technical and...

SONA 2022: Ghana’s Covid-19 management has been exemplary – Akufo-Addo

President Nana Akufo-Addo has touted the management of the Covid-19 pandemic situation in Ghana as exemplary. He has also acknowledged lives have been saved by the...

GH¢1bn fraud: Banks line up staff for prosecution

The Bank of Ghana has revealed that some of the persons involved in the GH¢1bn fraud that hit the banking sector in 2020 are...

Celebs react to approval of E-Levy bill

On Tuesday, March 29, Parliament approved the controversial E-Levy Bill. The Bill was adopted at a reduced rate of 1.5% from the initial 1.75% amid...

Replacement of NIA cards commences nationwide

All regional offices of the National Identification Authority (NIA) have begun card replacement and update services which, until now, could only be accessed at...

Oppong Nkrumah hands over school block to Akyem Ayirebi Presby JHS

Ofoase Ayirebi Member of Parliament (MP) Kojo Oppong Nkrumah has handed over an ultramodern three-unit classroom block he constructed for pupils of Akyem Ayirebi...

Book on Boakye Djan launched

A book detailing the life of Major Kojo Boakye Djan (retd), one of the key architects of the June 4, 1979 revolution, was launched in...

Get vaccinated, continue observing Covid-19 protocols despite easing of restrictions – UG Management

The University of Ghana (UG) management has charged students and staff of the School to continue observing all Covid-19 preventive protocols, despite the easing...

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...