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Nigeria, Mexico renew effort for hibiscus export

With untapped huge potential in commercial agribusiness, Thursday, Nigeria and Mexico renewed effort to boost hibiscus export. Nigeria is the largest hibiscus exporting country to...

NHIS: If you paid for any of these, it’s a violation of your membership rights

The National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) has been in operation for well over 15 years since its establishment in 2006 under the Insurance Act,...

Plaintiff enforces order of substituted service against ‘disputed’ GJA president

The plaintiff in the case involving the current Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) President, Albert Kwabena Dwumfour and the former President Roland Affail Monnie, has...

Shocking: 99-year-old woman’s dying wish causes massive stir

A great-grandmother had a singular request for her grave: a 5½-foot-tall, nearly 600-pound penis statue. Catarina Orduña Pérez’s family erected the monument in “recognition of...

Fire officer injured while dousing fire at CMB [Photos +Video]

Fire has destroyed several property at CMB, Abuja market in Accra. The inferno ravaged the market on the dawn of Sunday, July 31. A fire officer,...

Three injured in accident on KNUST campus [Photos]

A Toyota Corolla with registration number AW 5256-21 has been involved in an accident on the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST)...

Professor Takyiwaa Manuh joins CDD-Ghana as Senior Fellow

Professor Takyiwaa Manuh has been appointed by the Ghana Centre for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana) as a Senior Fellow, effective August 1, 2022. Prof. Manuh is...

Ukraine grain tycoon killed in Russian shelling of Mykolaiv

One of Ukraine's richest businessmen has been killed with his wife in "massive" Russian shelling of the southern city of Mykolaiv. Oleksiy Vadatursky, 74, and...

CCTV captures thief in broad daylight operation

An elderly man has been exposed on CCTV using unusual means to steal from a phone shop. The man successfully got away with two phones,...

Woman inflicts serious wounds on daughter over 50p toffee

An eight-year-old girl (name withheld) is battling for her life after her mother, Janet Awo, assaulted her over 50 pesewas toffee. The incident happened at...

Fierce fire spreads rapidly in California’s north

A wildfire in California has exploded in size to become the largest blaze in the state so far this year. The McKinney Fire, which started...

Adopt visa application refund policy – Afaglo urges govt

Though Ghana has been described as the gateway to Africa, the country still lacks certain policy directions in relation to visa application refund policy. Currently,...

How Speaker Bagbin consulted the ‘old lady’ on Adwoa Safo’s fate

Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin, has deferred the decision on the fate of Sarah Adwoa Safo and two other legislators referred to the Privileges...

British High Commissioner enstooled queen mother of Gbese [Photos]

The British High Commissioner to Ghana, Harriet Thompson, has been enstooled as Development Queen mother of Gbese in Accra. Madam Thompson will serve with the...

All set for 2022 Bible and Governance Conference awards

The 2022 edition of the Bible and Governance Conference awards has been slated for August 4, at the Justice D.F. Annan auditorium (Job...

Extend SIM re-registration exercise to 2023 – MoMo agents tell govt

The Mobile Money Agents Association of Ghana (MMAAG) has called on government to consider another extension of the deadline for the SIM card re-registration...

How State Housing bounced back and collected over 30-year-old debt after near collapse [Listen]

JoyNews/AdomNews · How State Housing bounced back and collected over 30-yr-old debt after near collapse Managing Director of State Housing Company Limited, Kwabena Ampofo Appiah,...

SIM card re-registration extended to Sept 30

The nationwide SIM cards re-registration exercise has been extended to September 30, 2022 The Minister for Communications and Digitalisation, Ursula Owusu-Ekuful announced this at a...

Bawumia and NPP gurus mourn with Dr Boadi Nyamekye [Photos]

Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has led high-ranking government officials to grace the one-week ceremony of the late father of lead Pastor of The...

We are in a system of beneficiaries and victims – Sulemana Braimah

Executive Director of the Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA), Sulemana Braimah, has described the reaction of Members of Parliament (MP) regarding the ongoing...

Let religion be a force of unity, not a force to divide us – Bawumia

The Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, has made a clarion call to Ghanaians not to allow religion to create division amongst them. Religion, Dr...

Deadline for SIM re-registration not needed – Technology Analyst

A Technology Analyst, Maximus Ametorgoh, has called for the deadline for SIM re-registration to be scrapped. According to him, he does not see the...

Dean of Obuasi Press Corps passes on; Okyeame Darkwah pens heartfelt tribute in his honour

I fall asleep in the full and certain hope that my slumber shall not be broken; and that, though I will be all-forgetting, yet...

Tanker drivers declare strike

Members of the Tanker Drivers Association will effective Monday, August 1, 2022, embark on a sit-down strike. The strike action, according to the unions, is...

Suspected ritualist slits throat of tricycle rider

A suspected ritualist has slit the throat of a tricycle rider aka yellow yellow believed to be in his early 20s at Gumo in...

Military vehicle and ‘trotro’ crash on Dawhenya road [Video]

https://youtu.be/oxlIj7wVCKs A military vehicle and a commercial bus (trotro) have been involved in an accident on the Dawhenya road in the Greater Accra Region. The incident...

GIS intercepts 2,497 slabs of suspected Indian hemp

Officers at the Nyive Sector Command of the Ghana Immigration Service (GIS) in the Volta Region have intercepted 2,497 slabs of substances suspected to...

Kofi Boakye’s son graduates as best recruit from Police Training School

Kwaku Aduenin Boakye, son of the Director-General of Prosecution and Legal of the Ghana Police Service, COP Kofi Boakye, has graduated from the Police...

Central region is third richest in Ghana – Survey

Contrary to the assertion that the Central Region is the fourth poorest in Ghana, the narrative has changed for good but unfortunately on the...

Road accidents: Ghana records a reduction in first quarter of 2022

Ghana, between January and June 2022, recorded a decrease in reported road crashes as compared to the same period in 2021, the National Road...

Two arrested over ‘murder’ of Canada-based Ghanaian on vacation

The Police have arrested Safina Mohammed Adizatu, a student and Michael Fiifi Ampofo Arku, a Technical Officer for their alleged involvement in the murder...

The cocaine addict who refuses to bath [Video]

A 30-year-old man, Bismark Appiah, has shared his cocaine addiction story with Step One TV. Speaking to Barima Agyemang in his upcoming documentary on drug...

Woman grabs private part of presidential candidate during campaign [Video]

Video of Roots Party's presidential candidate, Professor George Wajackoyah being sexually assaulted while campaigning has gone viral on social media. Local news platforms reported that this occurred...

Pupils of Wulensi D/A primary school bemoan sitting on bare floor to learn

Lack of furniture continues to be a huge challenge confronting several schools in the Northern Region and the situation is more profound in hard-to-reach...

One soldier killed, two injured by terrorists

It has emerged that terrorists who attacked the Army Check-point at Zuma Rock on Thursday night killed one soldier while two other soldiers sustained...

Man jailed for bathing lover with acid over divorce

The Bibiani Circuit Court, presided over by his Honor Joshua Caleb Abaido, has sentenced a 25-year-old man, Francis Ennin to 10 years imprisonment. He was...

Decomposing body of man, 57, found in his room

Police have retrieved a nearly decomposed body of an a-57-year-old man in his room at Odumase in the Sunyani West Municipality. The body of Kwaku...

A Plus graduates from GIMPA

Political activist, Kwame Asare Obeng, popularly known as, A Plus, has successfully graduated from the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA). This was...

SIM card registration deadline – Govt will lose any suit if… Gary Nimako warns

JoyNews/AdomNews · Gary Nimako joins calls for extension of SIM card registration An external solicitor for the National Communications Authority (NCA), is hinting government could...

John Kumah disowns fake soldier who claims to be his brother [Video]

Ejisu Member of Parliament (MP), John Kumah, says he does not have any relation to a fake soldier arrested over a Ghana Armed Forces...