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Bolgatanga is HIV hotspot in Upper East Region – GHS

The Bolgatanga Municipality in the Upper East Region remains a hotshot for HIV infection, health experts have said. Sulemana Majeed, Regional HIV Coordinator, who disclosed...

Navy vessels arrive at Takoradi Port

The Ghana Navy has acquired four new Navy fighter ships to boost efforts at making Ghana’s maritime space safer and unattractive to pirates and...

Family announces burial date for Dzifa Attivor

The final funeral rites of former Transport Minister, Dzifa Attivor, have been scheduled for February 17 to 20, 2022. Preceding the burial, Mrs Attivor...

Threat of death, assault top crime records in Ajumako

Threat of death and assault dominated the criminal cases recorded in the Ajumako-Enyan-Essiam District in 2021, the Ajumako District Police Command has said. With a...

COVID-19: KIA records over 2,000 positive cases in a month

The Kotoka International Airport (KIA) has recorded a total of 2,772 COVID-19 positive cases among international arrivals in the last month.The cases are out...

Eight farmers cited in JoyNews ‘Children in Cocoa Labour’ expose arrested [Audio+Video]

Eight farmers captured in the latest JoyNews Hotline documentary, using children as labourers on their farms have been arrested. A joint team of police...

SIM registration: Group calls for extension of deadline

A group has called on the government to extend the deadline for the ongoing nationwide SIM card re-registration exercise. The group, Save Consumers Ghana (SACOG),...

Driver shot dead, 3 injured as robbers attack passengers

One person has reportedly been shot dead with three others injured in a robbery attack on the Assin Awisam-Dunkwa stretch in the Central Region....

Check out date police recruitment training begins

The Ghana Police Service says it will commence the 2021 Recruitment Training for successful applicants on Friday, January 14, 2022. All successful applicants...

Man shoots himself dead at Asante Akyem

A man identified as Nana Opuni Kwargyan has shot himself to death in his home at Dawereso Nkwanta in the Asante Akyem North Municipality. The...

Nurse assists neighbour to deliver twins in taxi [Video]

A general nurse has earned the admiration of many people after she assisted a pregnant woman to deliver twins in a taxi. Juliet Acheampong...

Alan Kyerematen mourns with Chief of Staff [Photos]

Trade and Industry Minister, Alan Kyerematen on Saturday commiserated with the Chief of Staff, Akosua Frema Opare Osei over the demise of her brother....

Five suspected teen robbers arrested

Police in Sunyani have arrested five teenagers who allegedly robbed a taxi driver at gunpoint on the Nsoatre-Berekum highway in the Bono Region. The...

Curfew hours renewed in 3 troubled areas

The Ministry for the Interior has renewed the curfew hours in three troubled areas of the country. The areas are Bimbilla in the Northern...

NLC invites UTAG, Fair Wages over ongoing strike

The National Labour Commission (NLC) has invited the University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG) and the Fair Wages and Salaries Commission (FWSC) for a...

Your freedom is not without bounds – Otumfuo tells journalists

Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II has asked media practitioners to disabuse their minds of the notion that their freedom is without bounds. Speaking at the...

FDA recalls batches of coagulated milk products from Nestle after consumer complaints

The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) says it has undertaken a comprehensive regulator action to ascertain why customers’ milk were coagulated despite not being...

Tema records 584 fires in 2021

The Tema Region of the Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS), which comprises 13 fire stations, recorded a total of 584 fire incidents between January...

SHS students, others, feared dead in Bibiani-Anhwiaso road accident

About 13 persons including Senior High School (SHS) students are feared dead in an accident that occurred on the Bibiani-Anhwiaso road in the Western...

Why we sacked Covid-19 expenditure whistleblower – KATH Management

JoyNews/AdomNews · KATH management defends sacking of Covid-19 expenditure whistleblower Management of the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) has been defending its sack of an...

Ghana Legend Asamoah Gyan visits Akufo-Addo ahead of book launch

Former Black Stars captain, Asamoah Gyan has formally paid a visit to President Nana Akufo-Addo ahead of the launch of his book.  He paid a...

Opuni trial: Case adjourned as court system breaks down

The continuation of the trial in which Dr Stephen Kwabena Opuni and two others are standing trial has been forced into adjournment following the...

Sammy Awuku begs youth to take down billboard mounted in honour of him

Director-General of the National Lottery Authority (NLA), Sammy Awuku has appealed to a youth group in Akwapim North in the Eastern region to pull...

ASEPA boss apologises over Akufo-Addo’s relatives using ‘Presidential jet for shopping trip’ allegation

The Executive Director of Alliance for Social Equity and Public Accountability (ASEPA), Mensah Thompson, has rendered an unqualified apology to the Ghana Armed Forces (GAF). Aside...

Ablakwa sets up fund towards accessing ambulance services in North Tongu

The MP for North Tongu, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, has started a fund for the establishment of the Ambulance services in his constituency. In a Facebook...

Beyi W’Ano: How security recruits are exploited – Security Analyst reveals

A security analyst, Adib Saani, has raised concerns with the ostensible exploitation of prospective applicants, hoping to join the country's security services. According to reports,...

Road Safety Authority to implement use of speed-monitoring cameras

Acting Director, Regulatory Inspectorate and Compliance at the National Road Safety Authority (NRSA), Kwame Kodua Atuahene, has hinted at the placement of cameras at...

More Cuban scholarships in the offing for Ghanaians – Ambassador

Cuba has pledged to support Ghana’s education sector to help increase the country’s economic transformation agenda. The Cuban Ambassador, Mrs Anette Chao Garcia, during her...

Two injured as fire guts hotel

Two persons have been injured after fire razed parts of Grand Eco Cabanas Hotel at Pepie near Abono in the Bosomtwe District of the...

Judge goes wild on police over poor investigation

There was drama in the courtroom of Koforidua Circuit Court “B” when the Presiding Judge, Kwame Polley described as “twea” poor police investigation into...

Family of 6 drowns on return from wedding

A man, his wife, three children and an in-law have all died in an accident at Hwediem near Nkwawie in the Atwima Nwabiagya South...

Robbery gang busted in Western Region [Photos]

The combined efforts of the police and members of Wassa Appiahkrom and Ayiem communities has led to the arrest of nine robbery suspects. Police reports...

NUGS backs UTAG’s intended strike

The National Union of Ghana Students (NUGS), has welcomed the decision by the University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG), to embark on an indefinite...

Notorious armed robber arrested at Sandema

The Ghana Police Service has arrested a notorious armed robber who has been involved in series of robberies at Sandema and its environs. Abdulai Issaka...

GAF reacts to Akufo-Addo’s relatives using ‘Presidential jet for a shopping trip’ allegation

The Ghana Armed Forces (GAF) has debunked allegations that the Presidential aircraft of the Force was used by relatives of the President for a...

Water shortage hits Cape Coast; GWCL blames galamsey activities

Water shortage has hit Cape Coast and surrounding towns in the Central Region due to illegal mining activities affecting River Pra. According to the Ghana...

Covid-19: Ghana records 3 more deaths within 24 hours

The Ghana Health Service (GHS) has revealed that three more lives were lost between January 3 and 4. As of January 3, the country’s death...

2,797 women were diagnosed with cervical cancer in 2021

A total of 2,797 women were diagnosed with cervical cancer in Ghana last year.   This was disclosed by a Family Medicine Resident with the...

COP Tiwaa Addo-Danquah appointed EOCO boss

COP Maame Yaa Tiwaa Addo-Danquah, a former Director-General of the Criminal Investigations Department (CID), has been appointed the Executive Director of the Economic and...

UTAG to strike on Monday

The University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG) has announced that its members would be withdrawing their services on Monday, January 10. According to UTAG, the...