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MoMo vendor arrested over fake robbery attack

A mobile money operator has been arrested by Police in Koforidua for allegedly faking a robbery attack after Ghc10,000 loss. The teenage mobile money vendor...

68 inmates killed in prison riot

Ferocious clashes have left 68 inmates dead in an Ecuador prison, police said Saturday, in the latest unrest at a Guayaquil jail that was...

Boy dies as van crashes into wall during police chase

A 17-year-old boy has died after the van he was in crashed into a wall during a police chase. A white Citroen Berlingo van was...

OPASS student dies after punishment

A form two student of Ofori Panin Senior High School (OPASS) in the Eastern Region has died.The General Arts student, Andrews Appiah Tinkorang alias...

If you can’t provide relief items, at least visit tidal waves victims – Mahama

Former President John Mahama has reiterated calls on the government to show more sympathy to residents on Keta-Aflao stretch affected by severe tidal waves. Speaking...

Ambulance personnel escape armed robbery attack amidst gunshots

Two ambulances narrowly escaped a robbery attack after being shot at in the early hours of Saturday, November 13th, 2021, at around 1:00 am...

Three killed as armed robbers engage miners in gun battle at Adaboi

Three persons have been shot dead after suspected armed robbers attacked and exchanged fire with a group of Small Scale miners at Adaboi in...

Man found dead at Kasoa-Obom station

A man has been found dead at the Kasoa-Obom station in the Central Region. The deceased, who is yet to be identified, was found in...

Anti-LGBTQI bill: Ghana Catholic Bishops’ Conference appeals to Ghanaians

The Ghana Catholic Bishops’ Conference (GCBC) has appealed to all Ghanaians to support the Proper Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Family Values Bill of...

Headmaster of St. Charles Liwanga R/C JHS arrested

The Headmaster of St. Charles Liwanga R/C Junior High School (JHS) has reported himself to the police. The police are currently detaining him to assist...

Seven JHS pupils die after boat capsised on Oti River

Seven pupils of the St. Charles Liwanga Junior High School in the Saboba District of the Northern Region are feared dead after one of...

Five arrested as police raid gun manufacturing ‘enterprises’

The Bono East Regional Police Command has arrested five persons alleged to be in the business of illegally manufacturing guns at Kintampo in the...

Kasoa: 25 suspected internet fraudsters remanded [Video]

https://youtu.be/5AjLrJ2XsHA The Awutu Ofaakor Circuit Court in the Central Region has remanded into police custody for two weeks, 25 suspected internet fraudsters. This was...

Kumasi police investigate latest robbery at food joint

Police in Kumasi are investigating the latest robbery incident at the Ayigya suburb, where machete-wielding men attacked the Pico food joint in the Top...

Gone but not forgotten – Akufo-Addo remembers Rawlings a year on

President Nana Akufo-Addo has eulogised the late president Flt Lt. Jerry John Rawlings. In a tweet made in the afternoon of Friday, November 12, 2021,...

7 pupils drown when returning from headmaster’s rice farm

Seven pupils of the St Charles Liwanga Junior High School in the Saboba District of the Northern Region have drowned after one of the...

Two MPs in near fisticuffs over Keta tidal waves [Video]

A photo used by the Majority Caucus in Parliament on the issue of tidal waves, which has devasted communities in the Volta Region, nearly...

Tidal waves: Eminent Voltarians mobilise relief items for victims

Some eminent Ghanaians, who hail from the Volta Region, are mobilising funds for victims of Sunday’s tidal wave. Head of Marketing and Communications at Stanbic...

Mentally challenged man allegedly kills grandparents in their sleep [Video]

https://youtu.be/9FoClX2_qt4 A 48-year-old mentally challenged man, Fredrickson Erickson Kwadwo Kyere, has attacked and killed his grandparents at Sunyani Newton in the Bono Region. The deceased, identified...

Police give more details on missing Lands Commission employee

It has emerged in court that a lecturer at KNUST used his wife, Rhodaline Amoah-Darko’s phone to send messages to family members, friends and...

Husband of missing Lands Commission employee charged with kidnapping

The husband of a missing Lands Commission employee in Kumasi has been remanded in police custody by the Asokwa District Court in Kumasi. Dr Wilberforce...

Rawlings’ death: Mahama, Bawumia, other officials join family to mark first anniversary [Photos+Video]

https://youtu.be/1qLvmc0VSOs Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia and former President John Mahama, joined the family of late ex-President Rawlings to commemorate the first year of his...

First class graduate crushed to death

Two brothers met their untimely death on Monday, November 08, 2021, when they had head-on collision with a market truck after they were returning...

It’s been a difficult 12 months for us – Rawlings’ family

The family of the late Jerry John Rawlings says “it has been a difficult 12 months” because the former President is not physically present...

Breman Jamara: Tears as mothers whose kids were killed in building collapse recount incident [Audio]

JoyNews/AdomNews · Breman Jamara: Tears as mothers whose kids were killed in building collapse recounts incident Some women at Breman Jamera in the Odoben Brakwa...

Rawlings compares only to late British PM, Sir Winston Churchill – Amidu

Former Special Prosecutor, Martin Amidu, says no other Ghanaian President can compare to former President Jerry John Rawlings’ exhibition of the highest degree of...

Passage of LGBTQ+ Bill will affect Ghana’s fight against AIDS – Commission warns

JoyNews/AdomNews · Ghana’s fight against AIDS will suffer if Parliament passes anti-LGBTQ+ bill - Commission warns The Ghana AIDS Commission has warned that Ghana’s fight...

Breman Jamera classroom project: Chief’s emotional appeal 4 years after building collapsed on six pupils [Photos+Audio]

JoyNews/AdomNews · Chief’s emotional appeal 4 years after building collapsed on six pupils The chiefs and people of Breman Jamera in the Odoben Brakwa District...

Huawei, Rebecca Foundation begin coding and fintech training in rural areas

Huawei Ghana, in collaboration with Rebecca Foundation, has begun a digital technologies training in Coding and Financial Technology (Fintech) for Junior High School (JHS)...

SSNIT OBS saga: Court orders State to release 29 documents to Ernest Thompson, 4 others

The High Court in Accra has ordered the Prosecution to furnish the former Director-General of the Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT), Ernest...

Ndebugre wades into Anti-LGBTQI+ bill; reveals why he is not in support

A former Member of Parliament for Zebilla constituency, John Ndebugre, has described the anti-LGBTQI+ bill before Parliament for consideration as unnecessary and a waste...

Residents protest over bad roads at Kpando [Photos]

The streets of Kpando-Torkor in the Volta Region were filled with protesters over the bad state of roads in the area. This follows several attempts...

Family fights Ghana Airport Company over lands

A Family in La is currently battling the Ghana Airport Company (GACL) and the Ghana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) at the Accra High Court...

Full text: Message by Rawlings’ family at his memorial

On Thursday, November 12, 2020 the news of the death of President Jerry John Rawlings broke around mid-morning sending our nation into a state...

Koku Anyidoho reflects on passing of Rawlings, daughter; says November 2020 was a hard month for him

Former Deputy General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Samuel Koku Anyidoho, has said the month of November 2020 was a very “hard...

Public hearings on anti-LGBTQ+ bill suspended

The Constitutional, Legal, and Parliamentary Affairs Committee of Parliament has temporarily suspended public hearings in relation to the Anti-LGBTQ+ bill. On Thursday, during the first...

Missing journalist found dead

Tordue Salem, a reporter with Vanguard newspaper, has been found dead in Abuja. Vanguard reports that Salem’s body was discovered on Thursday, November 11, 2021,...

Man deliberately chops off both legs to claim insurance

A man deliberately chopped both his legs off by lying under a train in a bid to claim a £2.3million insurance payout, it has...

Court to rule on Lighthouse Chapel application

The Labour Division of the High Court in Accra has set November 25 this year to give its ruling on whether it will allow...

GIS issues recruitment fraud alert; sends message to qualified applicants

The Ghana Immigration Service (GIS) has issued an alert over fraudulent activities regarding its enlistment process by some members of the public. According to a...