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Spintex Road slum demolished

A slum community located in a prime area along the Spintex Road in Accra has been pulled down in a landmark demolition exercise carried...

Coalition of Concerned Teachers’ SOS message to govt

The Coalition of Concerned Teachers (CCT) - Ghana has outlined six areas that need the urgent attention of the government regarding education in Ghana. According...

Rebecca Akufo-Addo announces inclusion of childhood cancers on NHIS benefits package

The National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) has joined forces with the Rebecca Foundation to improve Childhood Cancer treatment in Ghana.  This was concluded on September...

Wedding photographer says there are 3 signs that a marriage won’t last

A wedding photographer is dividing the internet after sharing a marriage longevity theory that says there are three telltale signs on whether a couple will go the distance. In...

10-year-old autistic girl dies by suicide

A 10-year-old black and autistic student living in Utah died by suicide last Saturday, amid reports from the US Department of Justice that her...

Zoomlion to incorporate medical waste facilities into IRECOPs

Zoomlion Ghana Limited has announced plans to incorporate medical waste management facilities into its integrated recycling and compost plants (IRECoPs) currently being constructed in...

Covid: Mum in coma gives birth to ‘miracle’ baby girl [Photos]

A miracle 1lb baby born 14 weeks premature after her mum was put into an induced coma with Covid has defied all the odds....

Kofi Amoabeng reveals why he has no regrets over UT Bank’s collapse

The Chief Executive Officer of defunct UT Bank, Prince Kofi Amoabeng, has revealed he has no regrets venturing into the banking sector. Despite the...

Two teenagers drown in Volta River

Two teenagers have drowned in the Volta River in the Eastern Region. The victims, Stephen Amponsah, 16, and Richard Nii Noi, 17, joined their families...

CCTV captures hilarious moment ‘witch’ appeared in a house [Watch]

A viral video on the internet has captured a scary but hilarious moment a 'witch' appeared in a house in the middle of the...

Sosu’s trial: Bagbin sends another message to court

The Speaker of Parliament, Alban Sumana Bagbin, is said to have written to the Kaneshie District Court to say that Madina Member of Parliament...

KATH staff drags CEO to CHRAJ over Covid-19 funds

A staff at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) in Kumasi has petitioned the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) to investigate...

Kabaka Foundation aims to build hospital to serve as Medical Tourism Centre

The struggle by residents of Kwahu-Nkwatia and its environs to access healthcare will soon be a thing of the past. This is because the area...

Suhum: Kwadjo Asante charges BECE candidates to be confident

Kwadjo Asante, the Member of Parliament (MP) for Suhum constituency in the Eastern Region, on Monday, November 15, 2021, visited the various examination centres...

African writer, Chimamanda makes history as she is honoured in New York

Nigerian writer and feminist, Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie, has been honoured by the New York Library as she gets inducted as one of the 'Library...

Guan DCE dies after 11 days in office

The District Chief Executive (DCE) for the newly-created Guan District in the Oti Region, Marlon Anipa has passed on. His sudden demise occurred on Tuesday...

Rest well ‘my special one’ – Ofosu Ampofo eulogises Dzifa Attivor

Chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Samuel Ofosu Ampofo, has paid a glowing tribute to former Transport Minister, Dzifa Attivor. According to him, Madam...

20 pregnant girls write BECE in Effutu

More than 20 pregnant girls are among a total of 1,758 candidates writing the exams at centers ‘A’ and ‘B’ in Winneba. The total number...

Student who beat lecturer to coma breaks silence

Final year Microbiology student of the University of Ilorin, Nigeria, Salaudeen Waliu, has opened up on why he assaulted his female lecturer and supervisor, Zakariyau.  Recall...

12 teachers arrested over BECE malpractice

Eleven teachers and a headmaster have been arrested for alleged malpractice in the 2021 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE). They were arrested by security...

Male candidates dominate BECE in Northern Region

Statistics from the Northern Regional Educational Directorate indicate that male candidates outnumber their female counterparts in the ongoing Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE). Out of...

Don’t politicise tidal waves disaster – V/R House of Chiefs

President of the Volta Regional House of Chiefs, Togbe Tepre Hodo has entreated politicians to desist from capitalizing on the recent tidal waves that...

Rev Owusu Bempah, three others served witness statements

Reverend Isaac Owusu Bempah of the Glorious Word Power Ministries and some three other persons from his church, who allegedly assaulted police officers have...

Good news for NABCo trainees

The Secretariat of the Nation Builders Corps, NABco, has directed trainees of the programme to remain at post. It said the directive comes after a...

School Feeding boss urges caterers to live up to expectation

The National Coordinator of the Ghana School Feeding Programme (GSFP), Gertrude Quashigah, has strongly urged non-performing caterers to up their game or risk being...

Abortion complications killed 311 Ghanaian women in 2019 – GHS

A total of 311 women died in 2019 from complications of abortion, accounting for 9.2% direct maternal deaths in Ghana. The Ghana Health Service (GHS)...

2021 BECE: Wenchi Municipal records 18 absentees first day

A total of 18 students in the Wenchi Municipality of the Bono Region were absent on the first day of the Basic Education Certificate...

BECE 2021: Coalition of Concerned Teachers’ message to invigilators

Supervisors and invigilators participating in the 2021 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) have been urged to ensure they adhere to all rules and regulations...

Land guard inflicts wounds on cripple after sister urinates behind his house [Photos]

A Land Guard only identified as TT has allegedly inflicted cutlass wounds on a 30-year-old cripple at Weija Old Town. Reports indicate this was after...

Angry residents besiege Police station to demand release of suspect who shot MOMO vendor dead [Video]

Some angry youth of Sehwi Juaboso Nkwanta in the Western North Region have stormed the Juaboso police station to demand the release of a...

Police recruitment: Good news for qualified applicants

The Ghana Police Service wishes to inform all applicants who qualified under the Medical professionals and Lawyers categories of the 2021 Police recruitment exercise...

Saboba Tragedy: Minister warns teachers [Audio]

JoyNews/AdomNews · Saboba Tragedy: Minister sends strong warning to teachers Deputy of Education Minister, Rev. John Ntim Fordjour, has sent a strong warning to teachers...

Saboba boat disaster: More trouble for headmaster

The Director-General of the Ghana Education Service, Professor Kwasi Opoku Amankwa, has hinted that the headteacher at the center of the drowning of nine...

I can put my neck on it – Bagbin declares over Sosu’s attempted arrest

The Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin, has set the records straight on the privileges and immunities of Members of Parliament (MPs). Mr Bagbin, who...

Medikal finally shares one ‘horrific’ thing he witnessed in prison

AMG rapper Samuel Adu Frimpong, popularly known as Medikal, has finally disclosed one thing he would never forget when he was arrested and kept...

Six more die of suspected yellow fever

Six more persons have died from suspected yellow fever outbreak in the Savannah Region. This brings to 14 the number of persons — comprising a...

50 men storm radio station to expose pastor who allegedly snatched their wives

 A man of God has been dragged in the mud and exposed by some men who gathered at a radio station in Abuja to...

VRA sends strong warning ahead of Ameri Power Plant relocation to Kumasi

The Volta River Authority (VRA) has cautioned farmers working on a fifteen-acre of land allocated for the Ameri Power Plant to desist from cultivating...

Man, 75, loses Christmas savings in cruel WhatsApp scam

A granddad says WhatsApp fraudsters stole all the cash he had saved up to buy Christmas presents after he fell victim to a 'friend...

56% of Ghanaians confident in Ghana Police Service under Dampare – Survey

In observing the Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Dr George Akuffo Dampare’s first 100 days in office, the Bureau of Public Safety has released a...