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EC Chair, deputies file suit to halt impeachment proceedings

Chairperson of the Electoral Commission Jean Mensa and her two Deputies Dr. Bossman Eric Asare and Samuel Tettey have filed a suit at the...

BBC Komla Dumor Award 2022 launched

The BBC is seeking a rising star for the BBC World News Komla Dumor Award, which is now in its seventh year. Journalists from across...

Three students of Ejisu SHTS stabbed in three separate incidents

Three students of Ejisu Senior High Technical School have been stabbed in three separate incidents between Monday and Tuesday. On Monday, an 18-year-old form two...

Gold dealer shot dead, robbers make away with 324 grams of gold

A gang of suspected robbers on Monday murdered a gold dealer at Jacobu in the Ashanti Region. According to the Police, the deceased was transporting...

Let peace prevail at Bawku – Akufo-Addo appeals to Bawku Naaba, others [Audio]

President Nana Akufo-Addo has pleaded to the Bawku Naaba, Asirfi Azorka Abugrago II, to help government ensure peace in the area. President Akufo-Addo made an...

One-month-old baby survives Apiate explosion

A 19-year-old mother, Janet Amartey, is grateful for the life of her one-month-old baby who escaped death after a building collapsed on her at...

Why lady divorced her husband after 9 days will shock you

A woman, who got married this month, is trending on Facebook after she announced on the platform that her marriage is over. Chinyere Sandra ended...

Man causes stir inside bank over multiple debits [Video]

The actions of a man whose identity is not immediately known has got netizens cheering in support after his video went viral. The Nigerian man...

UK to remove Covid-19 all testing requirements for travellers

The UK Government has announced plans to remove all Covid-19 testing requirements for fully vaccinated passengers entering England.From 4 am on February 11th, 2022,...

Hopeson Adorye sends harsh message to Ken Attafuah over Ghana Card [Audio]

A leading member of the New Patriotic Party, Hopeson Adorye, has slammed the Executive Secretary of the National Identification Authority (NIA), Professor Kenneth Attafuah,...

Rice millers, others worried over suspension of benchmark value discount policy

The Rice Millers Association of Ghana has expressed dissatisfaction over the indefinite suspension of the benchmark reversal value discounts. The Ghana Revenue Authority on January...

Ejisu Municipal Assembly investigates use of skidder to dangerously cart log

Ejisu Municipal Assembly is investigating the circumstances under which a skidder was used to dangerously cart timber at a busy traffic intersection on the...

Seth Terkper reacts to e-levy endorsement reports

A former Finance Minister, Seth Terkper, has dismissed media reports which suggest his endorsement of the controversial Electronic Transaction Levy (E-Levy). According to him, he...

How Bagbin’s new outfit boosted Parliament’s Facebook page for the first time [Listen]

The Director of Public Affairs of the Parliament, Kate Addo, has said for the first time, the Parliament of Ghana has had massive reactions on...

Apiate explosion: This is how much govt is losing weekly over Maxam shutdown

Most mining companies that receive supply of explosives from Maxam may have to cut production if moves to get Maxam to resume production is...

NABCO trainees under Chieftaincy Ministry ‘retired’

Personnel of the Nation Builders Corp (NABCO) serving under the Ministry of Chieftaincy and Religious Affairs have been permanently retired. This is per a letter...

UTAG strike: We can’t build Ghana on an empty stomach – Lecturer tells govt

A political scientist at the University of Ghana, Dr Kwame Asah-Asante, has expressed worry over the government’s posturing in the strike by the University...

E-levy: We are in power; it will be passed and you can’t do anything – Nhyiaeso MP [Audio]

JoyNews/AdomNews · We'll Pass E - Levy And You'll Do Nothing - Nhyiaeso MP To Minority Member of Parliament (MP) for Nhyiaeso, Dr Stephen Amoah,...

Man, 38, arrested for threatening to kill ECG staff

A resident of Nzema in the Kwadaso Municipality of the Ashanti Region, Frank Mensah, is in the grips of the police for threatening to...

Pupils forced to learn under palm branches at Tokuroanu

Pupils and teachers of St. Francis Anglican M/A Junior High School (JHS) at Tokuroanu in the Krachi-East Municipality of the Oti Region are being...

NDC executive loses 2 daughters to fire incident

The Builsa North National Democratic Congress (NDC) Organiser, Robert Agaae, has reportedly lost his two daughters to a fire incident. Though the cause...

2021 AFCON: CAF sends heartfelt message to families of deceased spectators

CAF President Dr Patrice Motsepe has conveyed heartfelt condolences to the families of the eight supporters who lost their lives at Olembe Stadium during...

NDC Women’s Organiser passes on

The Ketu South Constituency Women's Organiser of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Eli Amegashitsi, has died. Member of Parliament (MP), Dzifa Abla Gomashie, confirmed...

Victims count their losses as fire consumes compound house in Tamale

Residents of Kobilimago, a suburb of Tamale Metropolis are counting their losses after fire razed down a compound house. The fire that started around 7:00...

Govt will continue to engage on E-levy – Oppong Nkrumah

Information Minister, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, has stated that government will continue to engage on the the proposal to introduce a levy on electronic transactions. He...

Dog of murdered journalist still waits for her outside home in heartbreaking photo

The dog of a dead journalist has been pictured still waiting for her outside her home, days after she was shot dead. Mexican journalist Lourdes Maldonado Lopez was gunned...

Why Speaker of Parliament is trending on social media

Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin, is trending on social media due to his new outfit. On Tuesday, the Speaker ditched his usual ceremonial outfit...

2 quack doctors arrested

The police, in collaboration with the Medical and Dental Council (MDC), have arrested a 29-year-old man, alleged to be a quack doctor. The suspect...

Don’t focus only on Ghana for music promotion – Gospel musicians told

UK-based gospel artiste, K.K. Mensah, has urged his colleague gospel musicians in the diaspora to rethink their promotional strategy after releasing their songs. The budding...

Scary as Ejisu commuters panic as heavy log-lifting machine drive through busy traffic intersection

Some residents in the Ejisu Municipality in the Ashanti region are incensed at a dangerous scene of a heavy-lifting machine carrying timber in a...

Victims of Apiate explosion want to commit suicide – PAG reveals

The Psychiatric Association of Ghana (PAG) says its preliminary assessment of victims of the explosion at Apiate in the Western Region has revealed some...

Police on manhunt for friends who helped woman assault rival

Police in Bimbila have arrested a lady whose name has been given as Munira for flogging another lady mercilessly. According to a resident of Bimbila,...

Our main priority is fires that are easily preventable – Fire Service

Director of Public Relations for the Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS), ACFO Timothy Osafo Affum, has raised concerns over the numerous fire outbreaks experienced...

Ghana to sign vaccine production agreement in Germany on Feb 16 – Akufo-Addo

President Akufo-Addo has announced that the government will be signing an agreement in Germany towards the production of Covid-19 vaccines in Ghana. According to him,...

No need to reinvestigate banking sector crisis – Special Prosecutor told

Anti-Corruption crusader, Vitus Azeem, says the Special Prosecutor’s decision to investigate the 2017 to 2020 financial sector crisis amounts to double investigations as the...

Minority demands total withdrawal of E-levy until…

The Minority in parliament is demanding a total withdrawal of the E-levy until parliament engages extensively with stakeholders. The Minority has argued that it...

Jospong appointed member of UG ANYSC Corporate Advisory Team

Executive Chairman of Jospong Group of Companies (JGC), Dr Joseph Siaw Agyepong, has been appointed member of the University of Ghana's (UG) Annual New...

Fake ‘mallam’ jailed 5 years for fraud

A Cape Coast Circuit Court has sentenced Jibril Yahaya, 27, to five years imprisonment in hard labour for posing as a mallam and defrauding...

Assin Worakese Traditional leaders seize 450-acre land leased to Cocobod for Cocoa Research Station

Traditional leaders at Assin Wurakese in the Assin Fosu Municipality of the Central Region have asked the Ghana Cocobod to vacate a 450-acre land...

Apiate Explosion: Survivors likely to resort to unhealthy coping mechanisms – Psychiatrist

President of the Ghana Psychiatrist Association, Dr. Ruth Owusu Antwi, has called for swift psychological interventions to be given to victims of the Apiate...