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Forgive Rawlings – Archbishop Palmer Buckle

The Archbishop of the Cape Coast Archdiocese, Most Rev. Charles Gabriel Palmer-Buckle has called on Ghanaians to forgive late former President Jerry John Rawlings. "Beloved, if...

Rawlings’ mass: Asiedu Nketia ‘weeps’ [Photo]

General Secretary of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Johnson Asiedu Nketia was part of the dignitaries who graced the requiem mass held for...

Photo: Nana Konadu Agyemang Rawlings weeps

Former First lady was at the requiem mass held for her husband, late former President Jerry John Rawlings at the Holy Spirit Cathedral in...

Requiem mass for Rawlings at Holy Spirit Cathedral [Photos]

President Akufo-Addo on Sunday led government delegation to bid farewell to late President Jerry John Rawlings. He was accompanied by First lady, Rebecca Akufo-Addo, Vice...

Livestream: Requiem mass for Rawlings at Holy Spirit Cathedral

The four-day state funeral of former President Jerry John Rawlings begins today, Sunday, January 24, 2021, with a service at the Holy Spirit Cathedral. This...

Coronavirus: Oti Region confirms two new cases

The Oti Region has confirmed some new cases of Covid-19. This was announced in a press release signed by the Director of Health Services...

GRA targets GH₵60 billion tax revenue for 2021

The Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) has set a provisional tax revenue target of GH₵60 billion for 2021, representing a 32. 3 percent increase over the...

Bring Rawlings’ body home – Group appeals

The people of Anlo have petitioned Torgbui Agbesi Awusu II, the Awadada of Anlo to demand that the body of former President Jerry John...

Some of us cannot accept JJ just died – Victor Smith weeps

A former spokesperson for the late President Jerry John John is struggling to accept the death of his boss. Ambassador Emmanuel Victor Smith said the...

Operation Calm Life personnel extorted ₵1000 from me – Man alleges

One Abeku Adams Ekumfi on Facebook has shared the story of how his friend was forced to give ₵1000 to members of Operation Calm...

Akatsi police arrest members of cattle rustling syndicates

Akatsi Police have arrested two suspected members of a cattle rustling syndicate and saved some of the animals. The suspects, identified as Gariba Ali and...

64-year-old woman burnt alive

Police in Nakpanduri in the Bunkpurugu District of the North East Region is on a hunt for two suspects who set a 64-year-old woman...

Coronavirus: Ghana records more than 600 daily infections

Ghana's COVID-19 active cases have seen a further surge to 2,799 on Saturday following the confirmation of 635 new cases of infections.This is from...

Rawlings’ state funeral begins today

The funeral rites of late former President Jerry John Rawlings begins today, Sunday, January 24, 2021. He will be laid-in-state from today to January 26,...

Akufo-Addo’s speech at the 58th ECOWAS Ordinary Session

Opening Statement By The President Of The Republic Of Ghana, And Chair Of The ECOWAS Authority, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, At The Virtual Summit...

Places in Western Region you should consider visiting in 2021

Every year, people do not only hope that the year turns out to be a fruitful one, they also look forward to exploring the...

Angry residents attack Akatsi Police

Angry residents of Suipe-Kpelikope, a farming community in the Akatsi South Municipality of the Volta Region, have attacked some police officers, who were to...

Drama as Cecilia Marfo snatches microphone from Joyce Blessing on stage and tells her something shocking [Video]

Patrons of the Unity Group of Companies' annual thanksgiving service were thrown into a state of shock when Cecilia Marfo stormed the stage while...

Death-trap school building collapses on boy, 13 [Video]

 A death-trap school building of the New Nsuta Junior High School (JHS) in the Obuasi Municipality of the Ashanti Region has collapsed on a...

Taxi driver shot dead at Mmoatiakrom

A taxi driver, identified as Culture, has been shot dead at Mmoatiakrom, a community near Dunkwa-On-Offin in the Upper Denkyira East Municipality of the...

Minority Group lashes Akufo-Addo over ministerial nominees

The Minority Group in Parliament is not satisfied with the reduction in the number of ministers from 126 to 86 and says President Nana...

Articulated truck kills truck pusher at Mankessim

A 40-year-old truck pusher, popularly known as Taller, has met his untimely death after an articulated truck run over his head at Mankessim in...

2 injured after building collapse at Adabraka [Video]

https://youtu.be/lWi3pFQlw-I Two persons are currently battling for their lives at the Greater Accra Regional Hospital after part of an uncompleted two-storey building collapsed on them. The...

200 arrested at Tesano for breaching Covid-19 protocols

Police at the Tesano Police Station have arrested 200 persons in the area for failing to wear facemask in public areas. Speaking to JoyNews, the...

Six dead, others injured in fatal accident at Mpaha junction

Six persons have been confirmed dead with five injured in a fatal accident at Mpaha junction in the Central Gonja district of the Savannah...

Man kills friend over GH¢10 debt at Assin Awisem

Bright Ofori, also known as T.I, unemployed, has been remanded into prison custody by the Twifo-Praso Magistrate’s court for allegedly killing his friend, Mohammed...

‘I used to call myself Covid police until I let my guard down’

Several citizens began flouting the Covid-19 safety protocols when the country saw a decline in cases in the last quarter of 2020. However, after the...

Coronavirus: Two students of St. Francis Xavier Minor Seminary test positive

JoyNews/AdomNews · 2 students of St. Francis Xavier Minor Seminary in Wa test positive for Covid-19 Two students of the St. Francis Xavier Minor Seminary...

Security man allegedly kills brother’s wife, stabs sister [Video]

A security man, believed to be in his 30s, has allegedly killed his brother’s wife and stabbed his sister who is currently...

Speaker Bagbin announces President’s ministerial nominees

The Rt. Hon. Speaker Alban Bagbin has announced to the House names of ministerial nominees from the President Nana Akufo-Addo listed for appointment in...

Covid-19: GHS announces 658 new cases

Ghana continues to witness a steady rise in its Covid-19 active cases in recent weeks with the country confirming 658 new cases on Friday. This...

Man allegedly kills his girlfriend for texting another man

A man has been arrested over the murder of his girlfriend, Orie Evusi who was declared missing four days ago.  The suspect, Happyman had been...

Nigeria blasphemy: Jailed 13-year-old boy wins Kano appeal

A 13-year-old boy, who was handed a decade-long jail sentence for blasphemy last year, will now walk free. He was convicted by an Islamic court...

Suspected West Hills Mall employment fraudster arrested

A man suspected to be a member of a syndicate of fraudsters who use Accra’s major malls to extort money from young, unsuspecting job...

Cloth for Rawlings’ funeral pops up; check out name [Photo]

A new textile print has been introduced for the funeral of former President Jerry John Rawlings. The theme for the wax print is Odupɔn bi...

New ministers: Why Hawa Koomson is trending on Twitter [Read]

Member of Parliament for Awutu Senya East, Mavis Hawa Koomson, is making waves again on social media after President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo presented...

UCC student wows girlfriend with ‘kokonte’ [Watch]

A student from the University of Cape Coast (UCC), who returned to school recently, has been seen in a video that is fast going...

Boy, 13, burns beyond recognition in Buipe toll bridge fire

Another fire outbreak at the Buipe Toll Bridge in the Central Gonja District of the Savannah Region has burnt a 13-year-old boy, Ibrahim Musah,...

Buried body exhumed in Wa

The buried body of a 30-year-old man has been exhumed at Kpaguri in the Wa Municipality of the Upper West Region. The body was said...

Profile: Samuel A. Jinapor, Lands and Natural Resources Minister-designate

Samuel A. Jinapor is a politician, a dedicated member of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), and a qualified Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme...