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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...

If your children are your retirement plan, you may be disappointed – Financial Expert

A Financial Expert, Paul Mante, has cautioned parents who intend to depend on their children for subsistence during retirement to discard such notion because...

Chief Imam, others mourn with Mahama [Photos]

 The National Chief Imam, Sheikh Nuhu Sharibatu, has commiserated with former President John Mahama over the demise of his brother, Emmanuel Adam Mahama. Mr...

Constitution Day is not an idle holiday – Interior Minister [Video]

The Interior Minister, Ambrose Dery, has dismissed claims that January 7, set aside by government to celebrate Ghana’s constitutional rule is an idle holiday. Interacting...

Trickling credit: mobile phone users in Ghana pay for unknown subscriptions

“My credit finishes too early” has become a mantra among many mobile phone users in Ghana. Have you been experiencing faster mobile credit depletion...

NCA rolls out measures to decongest SIM card re-registration centres

The National Communications Authority (NCA) has announced measures to deal with the congestion associated with the ongoing nationwide SIM re-registration exercise. NCA in a...

KATH sacks staff who dragged management to CHRAJ

 Awuni Akyireba, staff at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) in Kumasi who petitioned the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) to investigate the...

Sissala West MP pays fees of 42 UEW students

Sissala West Member of Parliament (MP), Mohammed Adams Sukparu, has paid the fees of 42 constituents at the University of Education, Winneba (UEW). The beneficiaries,...

Buildings on lands earmarked for dual-carriage construction to be demolished

The Minister for Roads and Highways, Kwasi Amoako Attah, has warned that any project that stands in the way of the construction of dual-carriage...

JoyNews’ investigations uncover how a child could be rented for ₵800 to work on cocoa farms [Video]

Eight hundred cedis is how much it costs to get a child to work on a cocoa farm at Elluokrom in the Western North...

Man found hanging dead at Awudome cemetery

An unidentified man, believed to be in his early 40s, has allegedly committed suicide by hanging, at Awudome Public Cemetery in Accra. The deceased...

Ghana marks 4th Constitution Day

In December 2018, a bill was laid before the Parliament of Ghana to amend the Public Holiday Act, 2001 (Act 601) to provide for...

Police analyse December 31 prophecies for possible prosecution

The Ghana Police Service says it has begun analysing videos of public prophecies from crossover services on December 31, 2021. This, according to the...

NCA meets telcos over long queues associated with SIM re-registration

The Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Chamber of Telecommunications, Ken Ashigbey, has revealed that the National Communications Authority (NCA) has met with mobile...

Cocoa Carriers reject 20 pesewas increase in pay for a bag of cocoa

Cocoa Carriers across the country on Thursday 6th January 2022 rejected a proposal by the management of the Cocoa Marketing Company and Ghana Cocoa...

23 students involved in accident along Dodowa-Shai Hills road [Video]

https://youtu.be/S94WSA4cpW0 Twenty-three students heading to Anum Secondary School have been involved in an accident along the Dodowa-Shai Hills road. Principal Emergency Medical Technician, Issah Kpanbey,...

eTranzact reaches out to Korle-Bu children

eTranzact, the premiere electronic payment provider in Ghana, brought smiles to children at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital during the festive season. Anonymously dressed up...

My administration welcomes criticisms – Akufo-Addo

President Nana Akufo-Addo says he tolerates all kinds of criticisms in his bid to better the lives of Ghanaians.  Describing it as part of...

KTU student, girlfriend remanded for brandishing weapon on social media

A student of Koforidua Technical University (KTU) and his girlfriend have been remanded in police custody for brandishing a gun on social media and...

Police arrest British national for assaulting fire officer and journalist

A British national who allegedly assaulted an officer of the Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS) and a journalist working with a Sunyani-based local radio...

4 suspected to have tied, clubbed man to death arrested

Police in the Central Region have arrested four persons suspected to have tied a 23-year-old man and clubbed him to death. Nana Kofi Amangu, Kwamena...

2 drown in Black Volta as their boat catches fire

Two people on Wednesday got drowned when a boat they were traveling on caught fire on the Black Volta. They were on board with 12...

COVID-19: Methodist Church approves 2 hours for church services

The Methodist Church Ghana has announced that starting from January 2022, services in the various societies should not exceed a maximum duration of two...

Husband of fake pregnancy suspect drops bombshell

“I saw my wife’s physical belly from the first month to the tenth month when we moved from our residence in Colombia, a suburb...

Five suspected armed robbers killed, six others arrested

The Police says it has killed five suspected robbers in a series of special Anti-Robbery intelligence-led operations. Some six others were also arrested in the...

My life is in danger – Akua Donkor reacts after thieves raided her property again

Founder and leader of the Ghana Freedom Party (GFP), Akua Donkor, has cried out after thieves raided her property for the second time. Madam Donkor...

Couple beat 4-year-old daughter to death for bedwetting

A couple based at Enchi-Yakase in the Western North Region has been caged by the police for beating their four-year-old daughter to death for...

2022 is the year of roads – Akufo-Addo

President Akufo-Addo has declared 2022 as the third year of roads. In a tweet on Wednesday, the President announced that his government will continue to...

Five cops interdicted for extortion

Five Policemen from the Asamankese Division in the Eastern Region have been interdicted for allegedly extorting money from a victim identified as Tamimu, 31,...

Bawku disturbances: 12 suspects denied bail

An Accra Circuit Court did not grant bail to the 12 accused persons arrested for their involvement in the renewed chieftaincy clashes in Bawku. In...

Sammy Awuku offers lady scholarship as Adom FM launches appeal for her admission fees

Director-General of the National Lottery Authority (NLA), Sammy Awuku, fulfilled the dream of a young lady who had gained admission to the Accra College...

Two traditional leaders remanded over attempted assassination

The Ofaakor District Court has remanded two traditional leaders over an attempted assassination of Gomoa Fetteh chief. The two, Nana Essel Amoquandoh III and Nana...