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Akoto Ampaw reacts to $5 million bribery allegation against him

Private Legal Practitioner, Akoto Ampaw, has dismissed his involvement in a bribery allegation levelled against him by one lawyer Akwasi Afrifa. According to him, the...

CJ bribery scandal: Lawyer speaks after meeting CID

The lawyer involved in the $5 million bribery allegations made against the Chief Justice, Kwesi Anin-Yeboah, says he has done nothing wrong. Kwasi Afrifa Esq...

SSNIT to delete 13,000 names from pensioners payroll from this date

The Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) has announced that from Wednesday, September 1, it will embark on an exercise to delete the...

Groupe Nduom wins GH¢174 million judgement

The Commercial Division of an Accra High Court On Thursday 15, July 2021, presided over by Justice Shiela Minta ordered Health Network Company (Healthnet)...

Haruna Attah recounts how Sam Jonah saved his life

Ghana’s former Ambassador to Namibia, Haruna Attah, has revealed that a kind gesture from the former CEO of AngloGold Ashanti, Sam Jonah, saved his...

Govt approves payment for school feeding caterers

The government has given approval for funds to be released for the payment of arrears for caterers under the Ghana School Feeding Programme (GSFP). The...

Statistical Service extends Housing and Population Census again!

The Ghana Statistical Service has once more extended the period for this year's Population and Housing census. The 2021 Population and Housing census was...

Fumso residents live in fear as strange crocodiles invade community

Residents of Fumso in the Adansi Asokwa District of the Ashanti Region are living in fear, with some fleeing the community as strange crocodiles...

Thousands queue for GAF recruitment

Thousands of Ghanaian youth have besieged the El-Wak Sports Stadium with their credentials, hoping to be recruited into the Ghana Armed Forces. The long queue...

Danger as parts of Ellembelle road cave in [Video]

Parts of the road linking Nzema Aiyinasi and Menzezor in the Ellembelle District of the Western Region have caved in. The disaster occurred after a...

Govt declares Tuesday, July 20 as public holiday

The government, through the Interior Ministry, has declared Tuesday, July 20, 2021, as a public holiday as Muslims celebrate their annual Eid-ul-Adha. This was announced...

Social media users blast Presidential Staffer over Mahama’s daughter

Social media users have scolded a staff at the Jubilee House, Nana Hesse Ogyiri, over the "unhealthy comments” he made about John Mahama's daughter,...

Manasseh Azure Awuni grabs top award

Investigative journalist Manasseh Azure Awuni has received the coveted Millennium Excellence Award for Journalism and Media Personality. The recognition was conferred on him by the...

Prophet Badu Kobi sends stronger message to people who bet [Audio]

JoyNews/AdomNews · Prophet Badu Kobi on betting General overseer of Glorious Wave Church International, Emmanuel Badu Kobi, has explained why his prophecies about football did...

SHS 3 students go on mid-semester break

The Ghana Education Service (GES) has announced a mid-semester break for Senior High School (SHS) three students, nationwide. The break, according to the outfit will...

Tinkong: Teacher commits suicide over hardship

A teacher has allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself with a piece of cloth at Tinkong in the Akuapem North Municipality in the Eastern...

Don’t use God’s prophecy to bet – Prophet Badu Kobi

The Founder and General overseer of Glorious Wave Church International, Prophet Emmanuel Badu Kobi, has said no man of God is infallible. He explained that,...

COVID-19: 4 die as Ghana’s death toll hits 810

The Ghana Health Service has revealed that four persons have succumbed to the novel coronavirus disease (Covid-19). According to the Service’s most recent update, all...

2 jailed 11 years for selling Beninois to undercover police officer

Two persons, who lured a 20-year old Benin national to Ghana to be sold for $160,000 to a police decoy, have been sentenced to...

Police, NIC impound 66 vehicles with fake insurance

The Eastern Regional Office of the National Insurance Commission (NIC), in collaboration with the Oda Divisional Police Motor Transport and Traffic Department (MTTD), has...

Blind loyalty, backward-looking culture bane of Ghana’s development – Governance expert

Ghanaians must do away with blind loyalty and unquestioned obedience to authority if they want to develop under a democracy, a governance expert has...

Chief Imam to mark Eid in new mosque complex

The National Chief Imam, Sheikh Dr Osman Nuhu Sharubutu, has announced that this year’s national Eid-ul Adha prayers will be marked inside the newly...

Victoria Hamah sends strong message to Mahama’s daughter

Former Deputy Communications Minister, Victoria Hamah, has welcomed Farida Mahama, daughter of former President Mahama to the ‘world’ —  a world she said is...

Health alert: ‘Stop buying vegetables displayed on the floor’

The Tema Metropolitan Nutritionist, Samuel Atuahene Antwi, at the weekend, cautioned Ghanaians to be circumspect in purchasing fruits and vegetables displayed in the open...

Woman, 64, clubs 100-year-old husband to death

A 64-year-old woman, Nyamba Ayenliwuli, is in the grip of the police for allegedly hitting her 100-year-old husband, Aponwuni Ayenliwuli, with a pestle, leading...

25 teenage girls get pregnant monthly in Kpone-Katamanso

About 25 teenage girls get pregnant monthly in the Kpone-Katamanso Municipality. On average, six teenage girls get pregnant weekly; as a result, 151 teenage pregnancies...

Poor academic performance by pregnant students worrying – GES Director

Birim Central Municipal Director of Ghana Education Service (GES) has expressed worry over the low academic performance of pregnant students in the Municipality and...

Covid-19 ICU cases doubling at an alarming rate

There is a severe warning from the country’s National Case Management Coordinator for Severe and Critical covid-19 cases, Dr Christian Owoo, that Ghana’s critical...

One suspect in Canadian girls kidnapping case identified

Elvis Ojiyorwe, a suspect standing trial with three others on kidnapping charges, was identified by one of the Canadian girls abducted in Kumasi in...

More pressure should be placed on Privileges Committee to bring Kennedy Agyapong to book – Ken Ashigbey

The Ghana Chamber of Telecommunications Chief Executive Officer, Dr Ken Ashigbey, has called for stringent measures to be taken against Assin North Member Parliament...

First Lady returning allowances sign of high emotional intelligence – Kpebu

Private Legal Practitioner, Martin Kpebu, has lauded the decision by the First Lady, Rebecca Akufo-Addo, to reject and refund emoluments paid to her. Her decision...

Reporters Without Borders calls for prosecution of Kennedy Agyapong

Reporters Without Borders has urged Ghanaian authorities to prosecute Assin Central Member of Parliament (MP), Kennedy Agyapong, for threatening a journalist with The Multimedia...

I don’t do ‘galamsey’ but I have party friends who are … [Video]

General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party, John Boadu, has outrightly dismissed claims of his involvement in illegal mining locally known as galamsey. According to...

Three perish, others injured in accident on Obuasi – Dunkwa highway [Video+Photos]

https://youtu.be/m0Fndq-7BU8 Three people have been reported dead in an accident at Ampunyasi Nkwanta on the Obuasi-Dunkwa highway. The accident involved a Samreboi bound Kia Grandbird bus...

Bird Flu hits Accra, Central and Volta Regions

The Ministry of Food and Agriculture has announced the outbreak of the Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza disease, also known as Bird Flu, in three...

Akufo-Addo should condemn Kennedy Agyapong’s attacks on Erastus Asare Donkor – Dr Wereko-Brobbey

A policy analyst has asked President Akufo-Addo to publicly condemn the Assin Central MP, Kennedy Ohene Agyapong’s life-threatening attack on Luv FM journalist, Erastus...

Group calls for dismissal of presidential staffer over abusive sexual comments

A woman empowerment organisation, Damsel Foundation, has called on President Akufo-Addo to dismiss one of his staff, Nana Hesse Ogyiri over alleged abusive sexual...

3 grabbed for possessing firearms

The Rapid Deployment Force unit of the Volta Regional Police Command has arrested three men in possession of firearms and other ammunition. Laptops and...

Finance Minister to present mid-year budget review on July 29

Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, is expected to present the Mid-Year Review of the Budget Statement and Economic Policy of government and Supplementary Estimate for...

KNUST students protest high hostel rent, petition management

Students of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) have embarked on a demonstration against what they described as, ‘killer increment’ in...