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Ghana will have a female president one day – Akufo-Addo

JoyNews/AdomNews · Ghana will have a female president one day – Akufo-Addo President Nana Akufo-Addo has predicted that the country is bound to have a...

Akufo-Addo commits to ending child marriage in Africa

Child marriage has been one of the unending challenges confronting many communities, especially rural areas, in the country and other parts of the continent. On...

Tricycle rider dies in collision with ambulance

A tricycle rider has died in a horrific side-impact collision with an ambulance in Koforidua, the Eastern regional capital. The New Juaben North constituency-embossed ambulance...

Okudzeto Ablakwa pays surprise visit to a 111-year-old constituent

Member of Parliament for North-Tongu, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, has won the hearts of social media users after he surprised one of the oldest women...

Bagbin quits Ghana Bar Association

Speaker of Parliament, Rt. Hon. Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin announced that he is no longer part of the Ghana Bar Association on September 23,...

Over 23,000 people test positive for HIV in six months

A total of 23,495 people tested positive for HIV in the first half of this year, according to statistics from the National STIs and...

Tema Traditional Council bans social gatherings

The Tema Traditional Council (TTC) has banned social activities within the Tema Traditional area for the month of October. The ban is in honour of...

Ghastly accident recorded on Mallam-Kasoa Highway [Video]

https://youtu.be/e0wSH9nmcWA Two vehicles have been involved in a ghastly accident at Kalabule Junction on the Mallam-Kasoa Highway. The accident, which occurred on Friday morning, involved a...

Muslim community hit with sad news

The Western Regional Chief Imam, Sheikh Alhaji Mohammad Sani Abdullahi Bawa, has died. Alhaji Bawa, according to reports, passed on on Thursday, September 22,...

Galamsey: 100 river guards begin training at Eastern Naval Command

About 100 persons, drawn from various parts of the country, have begun a month training as part of efforts to protect Ghana's river bodies...

It is dangerous to politicise appointment of judges to court – Afenyo-Markin

Deputy Majority Leader in Parliament, Alexander Afenyo-Markin, has described as dangerous attempts by some political actors to politicise the appointment of judges to the...

Vehicle burns beyond recognition in Tamale [Photos]

A Benz saloon car with a trade number plate DV 947G-22 has burnt beyond recognition in Tamale in the Northern Region. The incident occurred on...

House fire kills 2; injures another in Volta region

A 26-year-old woman at Ahiatsikope, near Dzodze in the Volta Region, Joyce Fianu, and her nine-year-old niece were burnt to death when fire gutted...

Ambulance Service reacts to video of people raising funds at accident scene to buy fuel

The National Ambulance Service has commenced investigations into a viral video which captured by-standers raising funds at an accident scene to fuel an ambulance on the...

Close down schools at Bawku over insecurity – GES urged

The Conference of Heads of Basic Schools (COHBS) in the Bawku Municipality in the Upper East Region has called for the immediate closure of...

Furniture deficit hinders quality education at Asante Mampong

Furniture deficit, coupled with other infrastructural challenges, has been identified as a threat to quality education in the Asante Mampong Municipality of the Ashanti...

Zoomlion committed to offer tailor-made solutions to waste management – Dr Agyepong

The Executive Chairman of the Jospong Group of Companies, Dr Joseph Siaw Agyepong, has assured that Zoomlion Ghana Limited remains committed to deliver tailor-made...

Fetish priest jailed for possessing counterfeit money

Koforidua Circuit Court has sentenced a 43-year-old fetish priest to 15 years imprisonment with hard labour for possessing counterfeit money in an attempt to...

Court remands 3 KNUST students over campus violence

The Asokore Mampong District Court, on September 23, 2022, remanded into Police custody three students of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology...

See something, say something: 21 foreign nationals with suspicious behaviour arrested at Ejisu

At least 21 foreign nationals have been arrested by the police at Ejisu in the Ashanti Region following their suspicious behaviour. The arrest followed...

UEW: Police fire tear gas to disperse protesting students [Video]

https://youtube.com/shorts/BftulECD7uA?feature=share Police on Friday fired tear gas to disperse some level 400 students of the University of Education, Winneba (UEW) who were on a protest. The...

Man allegedly shoots ex-wife to death [Video]

https://youtu.be/QbA9WVVQu7I A middle-aged man, identified as Kwame Amankona, has killed himself after reportedly shooting his ex-wife to death at Kutre No. 2 at Berekum of...

 NADMO blames salt mining company over drowning of mother and 3 children

The National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO) has blamed the drowning of a mother and her three children in the Viepe-Torkor lagoon at Laklevikope on...

The single mother who works as a ‘trotro mate’ to cater for seven children

Single mother of seven, Yaa Dufie, has been working as a bus conductor for nine years after her husband’s death to cater for her...

NABCo beneficiaries receive one out of 10 months allowance owed them

Government has paid one out of the 10 months allowance owed to the Nation Builders Corps (NABCo) beneficiaries. The President of the NABCO Trainees...

Give me my flowers when I can still smell them

Funerals permitting, I start my Saturday mornings resting peacefully with my radio. Joy FM's “Home Affairs” which starts soon after the 6 a.m. news...

WACAM leads public forum on responsible mining

A community based human rights and environmental mining NGO, WACAM, has led a public forum on responsible mining in Accra. The two-day forum on the...

Dad boils 8-year-old daughter’s hand over phone

As punishment for destroying a neighbour’s mobile phone, a father, who identified himself to classfmonline.com as Bright Mawuena, forced the left hand of his...

Drones to fight ‘galamsey’ missing?

JoyNews/AdomNews · Drones to fight galamsey missing It has emerged that the about 200 drones purchased to fight illegal mining, popularly known as 'galamsey' in...

Truck ablaze on Accra-Tema motorway

A truck was seen burning on the Accra-Tema Motorway earlier today. Snippets of the incident from social media show the vehicle in flames as passersby...

Zoomlion represents Ghana at RWM Let’s Recycle conference

Once again, the giants in waste management in Africa have lifted the flag of Ghana high. Aside exhibiting its footprints in the waste management...

The People’s Forum: Wassa Akropong traders call for construction of local market

https://youtu.be/Rp5O7S9XhM4?t=41 Traders at Wassa Akropong in the Amenfi East District of the Western Region are lamenting the poor state of their market. According to them,...

Government pursuing inclusive development initiatives for all communities – Bawumia

Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, says the Government, for the past five years, has been pursuing an inclusive development agenda to ensure holistic growth...

CID boss Ken Yeboah retires from Police Service [Photos]

"If given the opportunity, I will come back forever a policeman." These were the final words of the Director-General of the Criminal Investigations Department...

NDC extends deadline for picking of nomination forms

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has announced a two-day extension for the deadline for the picking of nomination forms. The process was initially scheduled to...

Huang, accomplices use ‘WeChat’ for galamsey activities – AG tells court

It has been discovered that Chinese galamsey kingpin, Aisha Huang and her accomplices, have been using ‘WeChat,’ social media platform for their correspondence regarding...

Champions Dishes, 2 other businesses caught in GRA’s web

The Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) on Thursday arrested some management members of three businesses in Accra for failure to issue Value Added Tax (VAT)...

DCOP Faustina Andoh-Kwofie replaces Ken Yeboah as CID boss

Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCOP) Faustina Agyeiwaa Kodua Andoh-Kwofie has been appointed as the Director General of the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the...

We will use Ghana Card for voters’ register – EC

The Electoral Commission (EC) says despite opposition from some sections of the populace, it will go ahead to use the Ghana Card for the...

Chaos at UEW as final year students hold lecturers hostage

There is chaos on the campus of the University of Education, Winneba (UEW) as final year students hold lecturers hostage. According to reports, the aggrieved...