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Tollbooth closure: Hawkers make fresh demands

Hawkers at Offinso in the Offinso South District of Ashanti Region are lamenting the government’s policy decision to scrap tolls on public roads and...

TVET is the solution to Ghana’s rising youth unemployment – Kwabena Duffuor

A former Finance Minister, Dr Kwabena Duffuor, has prescribed Technical and Vocational Training (TVET) as the effective solution to rising youth unemployment in Ghana. According...

We don’t have a science centre – Keta SHTS’ Francisca Lamini [Video]

National Science and Maths Quiz (NSMQ) finalist, Francisca Lamini from Keta Senior High Technical School (SHTS) has expressed her dire need for support to...

GRIDCO expects outages in Greater Kumasi to end by December 20

Engineers at the Ghana Grid Company Limited (GRIDCo) say a damaged central transmission line is the cause of the recent power outages in Greater...

UDS Senior Staff Association suspends strike

The Senior Staff Association of the University for Development Studies has suspended it's intended strike action after management heeded their concerns. The Union had threatened...

Be careful with anti-LGBTQI+ bill, it is needless – CHRAJ

The Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) has called for caution in the consideration of the anti-LGBTQI+ Bill currently before Parliament. According to...

Co-defendant for alleged kidnapper dies of cardiac arrest in custody

Chiemeka Arinze, one of the codefendants in the alleged kidnap trial of Chukwudimeme Onwuamadike, alias Evans, has died in the custody of Correctional Services. The...

Ghana is not a secular state – Sam George on Anti LGBTQI+ bill [Listen]

JoyNews/AdomNews · Ghana is not a secular state - Sam George On Anti LBTQI+ Bill Sam George, one of the Members of Parliament (MP) sponsoring...

He’s not the father of my daughter, pastor’s wife declares after divorce

A 45-year-old pastor, Adekunbi Osho, who accused his wife of blackmailing him with adultery, got his wish on Monday when an Igando Customary Court...

Man murders lover’s two-year-old daughter

A monster who murdered his partner's two-year-old daughter after kicking and stamping her to death has today been jailed for life. Grace Thorpe suffered a...

Serious prayer and tongue -speaking by passengers as aeroplane develops fault mid-air [video]

Passengers onboard an aeroplane that developed fault mid-air engaged in a desperate prayer session to seek God’s intervention. According to reports, the plane was from...

2 dead, 6 others injured in gory accident

Sector Commander, Federal Road Safety Corps in Bauchi, Yusuf Abdullahi, says no fewer than two persons lost their lives in a lone motor accident...

Owusu Bempah’s death threat case to begin in 2022

The Accra Circuit Court hearing the death threat case against Rev. Isaac Owusu Bempah and three others has set January 19, 2022 as the...

Immigration Service intercepts 1,490 slabs of suspected Indian hemp

The Ghana Immigration Service (GIS) has intercepted about 1,490 slabs of substances suspected to be Indian Hemp along the Togolese border in the Nyive...

‘Beyi W’ano’: Here is a message to teacher group against 1 teacher 1 laptop initiative

A teacher group that is opposing the government's one-teacher-one-laptop policy has been directed to seek clarity from its leadership. This is because the Teacher Unions...

NSS boss sends strong message to service personnel

The Executive Director of the National Service Scheme (NSS), Osei- Assibey Antwi, has advised personnel nationwide to use the service period as an opportunity...

NSMQ 2021: Lady in Keta SHTS squad scored 8As in WASSCE while in form 2

Francisca Lamini, the only female to have competed in the 2021 National Science and Maths Quiz (NSMQ 2021), sat for the West Africa Senior...

LGBTQI+: We’re not trying to criminalise intersex people – Sam George

The Ningo-Prampram Member of Parlimaet (MP), Sam Nartey George, who is also a proponent of the Promotion of Proper Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian...

GES partners Zoomlion to step up sanitation education in SHSs

Waste management company, Zoomlion Ghana Limited, in collaboration with the Schools Health Education Programme (SHEP) of the Ghana Education Service (GES) has begun a...

Motorbike thief bags 24 months in jail

The Ashaiman District Court has sentenced, John Gospel, a 19-year-old driver’s mate, to 24 months imprisonment for stealing a motorbike. The court, presided over by...

Court orders psychiatric test on woman who stabbed mum over ‘spiritual marriage’

An Adentan Circuit Court has ordered for a psychiatric examination to be conducted on a 24-year-old unemployed woman who stabbed her mother she claimed...

NIA postpones card replacement, update of personal records

The National Identification Authority (NIA) announces for the information of the general public that it has postponed until further notice its services for updating...

Court issues warrant for Sosu’s arrest

The Kaneshie District Court has issued a warrant for the arrest of Member of Parliament (MP) for Madina, Francis-Xavier Sosu. This was after the MP...

Increase in HIV infections in persons less than 25 years worrying – Commission

Director-General of the Ghana AIDS Commission, Kyeremeh Atuahene, has expressed concern about the rate at which young people between 15 and 24 years are...

COVID-19: Over 142,000 vaccines are being administered daily – GHS

Ghana’s daily vaccination rate has shot up to about 142,000. This is according to the Director-General of the Ghana Health Service (GHS), Dr Patrick...

COVID-19: GHS declares December as month of vaccination

The Ghana Health Service (GHS) has declared December as the ‘month of vaccination.' This was announced by the Director-General of the GHS, Dr Patrick Kuma-Aboagye, at...

Buses carrying 202 foreigners intercepted at Aflao

Buses conveying 202 foreigners were intercepted by the Aflao Immigration Service on Saturday, November 27. The foreigners, mostly citizens of Niger, were held up at the Aflao main...

New book calls on corporate leaders to be abreast with change management

VUCA World and the Future of Corporate Strategy and Leadership authored by Dr Victor Abbey, a retired military officer and corporate strategist, has called...

COVID-19: Omicron Variant not in Ghana – GHS

The Director General of the Ghana Health Service (GHS), Dr Patrick Kuma-Aboagye, has assured that Ghana has not recorded the Omicron variant of the...

E/R: IGP commiserates with police accident victims

The Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Dr George Akuffo Dampare, has commiserated with police personnel who sustained injuries in an accident on the Akuapem-Apirede to...

COVID-19: Unvaccinated persons are 7 times more likely to die – GHS

The Ghana Health Service (GHS) has stated that persons who are unvaccinated against Covid-19 are more susceptible to death if infected by the virus. According...

Anas Aremeyaw Anas wins 2021 Foreign Journalist Award in US

Ace Ghanaian investigative journalist, Anas Aremeyaw Anas, has been named the 2021 NABJ Percy Qoboza Foreign Journalist of the Year. He will receive the award at...

17 police officers involved in accident, 3 in critical condition

A commercial Mercedes-Benz Sprinter bus carrying police officers belonging to the Koforidua Regional police band has been involved in a road crash at Somanya...

Police officer arrested for harassing female victim

A police officer with the Operations Unit of the Bono Regional Police Command, seen in a viral video sexually harassing a woman, has been...

Muslim community prays for peace at Bawku

The Muslim community at Bawku in the Upper East Region has commenced the recitations of the Holy Quran in dedication to the total peace...

Visually challenged man wins best farmer in AAK District

Lydia Ama Aberesi, a 24-year-old blind farmer, emerged the overall best farmer in the Abura-Asebu-Kwamankese (AAK) District of the Central Region. Madam Aberesi and her...

ECG disconnects over 50 homes at Kasoa over power theft

More than 50 households at Kasoa in the Central Region have been disconnected from the national grid by the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG)...

Kumasi: Shocking as two coffins go missing from a carpentry shop [Video]

Residents of Mamponteng in the Ashanti Region have expressed their surprise about how some unidentified persons got away with two coffins in a carpentry...

279 Ghanaians, 107 foreigners arrested, mining equipment destroyed

A total of 279 Ghanaians and 107 foreigners were arrested in a joint security operation in the five regions of the North and in...

Mahama hands over renovated boys dormitory block to Ghanasco [Photos]

Former President John Dramani Mahama on Friday handed over to his alma mater, Ghana Senior High School (Ghanasco), a renovated Boys Dormitory block for...