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Nigeria goes digital, set to include DNA data for ID cards

Nigeria has moved from National Identification and Registration of citizens via card-based version to strictly digital, the Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, and...

Address me as Ya-Na Abukari II – Overlord of Dagbon

The Dagbon State has clarified that the King and Overlord of the land should be addressed as Ya-Na Abukari II and not Ya-Na Abukari...

All you need to know about Joe Mettle’s wife

Multiple award-winning Ghanaian gospel star, Joe Mettle, tied the knot with longtime fiancée Salomey Selasie Dzisa in a traditional wedding ceremony on August 13,...

‘Akufo-Addo hijacks Mahama’s Greenhouse Project and names it after himself’

All is set for President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to commission some 75 Greenhouses and Entrepreneurship Innovative Centre at Dawhenya Irrigation site today, but The Herald's...

Widower installs ultra-realistic life-size sculpture of his wife at family home

An Indian man melted the hearts of millions in his home country after unveiling a life-size and almost lifelike sculpture of his late wife...

Education Minister discloses when schools will reopen

Minister of Education, Dr Matthew Opoku Prempeh, has said the reopening of schools in Ghana will be dependent largely on how the coronavirus behaves...

Lady who deliberately infected men with HIV begs for forgiveness (video)

A Kenyan lady, Harriet Vihenda Akunava took to social media to beg for forgiveness for infecting people with HIV. While many thought she was joking, the...

Presidency throws out petition for Jean Mensa’s dismissal

President Nana Akufo-Addo has rejected a petition to have the Chairperson of the Electoral Commission (EC) dismissed. The Alliance for Social Equity and Public Accountability...

NPP sends message to Ghanaians over Mahama

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has expressed reservations about former President John Mahama’s promises to Ghanaians ahead of the December polls. According to the party,...

FIPM fights for innocent prisoners

A pressure group - Free Innocent Prisoners Movement (FIPM) - is calling on the President, Nana Akufo-Addo to support the Free Innocent Prisoners movement...

Teen who raped, inserted knife into 4-year-old girl’s private part sentenced! (Video)

An 18-year-old man, Kwaku Mensah, has been sentenced to 18 years imprisonment for defiling a four-year-old girl at Dabiasem in the Suaman...

MTN invests $2.5m into artificial intelligence to fight MoMo fraud

MTN Ghana has announced that it is investing US$2.5 million to beef up its artificial intelligence so they can win the fight against mobile...

Evangelist fined GH¢1,500 for defying Covid-19 protocols

The Judicial Committee of the Sunyani Traditional Council (STC) has imposed a GH¢1,500.00 fine on an evangelist for defying Covid-19 protocols. The evangelist, popularly known...

UG Chancellor elected to African Academy of Sciences Fellowship as Honorary Fellow

Chancellor of the University of Ghana, Mary Chinery-Hesse, has been appointed an Honorary Fellow of the African Academy of Sciences. This was communicated by Prof....

GES commended for timely sanctions against marauding students

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Sub-Platform 4 (SDG4), a civil society organization, has commended the Ghana Education Service (GES) for the timely sanctions against...

UK based educationist condemns politicisation of education in Ghana

Following the intolerable behaviour of some final year students that went viral on social media, many educationists have called for a proper, strict and...

Kennedy Agyapong helps bring stranded Ghanaians in Lebanon home [Video]

Some stranded Ghanaians in Lebanon have successfully arrived in the country following businessman, Kennedy Agyapong's support. The group, numbering about 300, arrived at the Kotoka...

Parliament approves $80 million loan amid myriad of concerns

Parliament has approved an 86-million-dollar loan facility from the Israeli Discount Bank for the purchase of armoured vehicles for the Ghana Armed Forces but...

70-year-old sentenced to death for defiling 12-year-old girl

An Islamic court in the Nigerian city of Kano has sentenced a 70-year-old man to death for defiling a 12-year-old girl. In recent weeks, there...

The Big Debate: Kwaku Boahen and MASLOC boss clash over projects in Ashanti region

National Democratic Congress’ (NDC) Kwaku Boahen and New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) Stephen Amoah have clashed over projects undertaken by their respective parties in the...

The Big Debate: Anyone who compares NDC to NPP is suffering from ‘unconscious incompetence’ – MASLOC CEO

Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Microfinance and Small Loans Centre, Stephen Amoah, has said persons who compare the National Democratic Congress (NDC) to...

Mahama’s message to Kamala Harris on her nomination as US Vice Presidential Candidate

Former president John Mahama has sent a congratulatory message to Kamala Harris, Vice Presidential Candidate of the Democrat party in the United States of...

Royal Blues: Gifty Anti stopped from eating her favourite dish [Audio]

JoyNews/AdomNews · Gifty Anti makes shocking revelation about her family Award-winning female television personality, Oheneyere Gifty Anti, has made a shocking revelation about her family...

Check out number of people arrested for not using Madina-Adentan footbridges

The Motor Traffic and Trasport Directorate (MTTD) at Madina has disclosed that about 90 people have been arrested and fined for failing to use...

19-year-old Ugandan student contests presidency

A 19-year-old Ugandan, Hillary Humphrey Kaweesa, is hoping to make history by unseating the incumbent President Yoweri Museveni in the upcoming presidential elections. Mr Kaweesa has picked...

What Prof Gyampo thinks about foreigners, minors in new register

Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Ghana, and Head of the Youth Bridge Research Institute, Professor Ransford Gyampo, has reacted to the...

Pastor’s wife recounts how 15-year-old robber murdered husband [Listen]

JoyNews/AdomNews · Pastor’s wife recounts how 15-year-old robber murdered husband Wife of 44-year-old pastor with the Jehovah Nissi Church at Ejisu has recounted how he...

Man in trouble for attempting to steal ‘okada’

A 29-year-old man, who allegedly attempted to rob an ‘okada’ rider at Ridge, in Accra, has been arrested by the police. The suspect, Awowin Akonvu,...

The Big Debate: Kwaku Boahen makes ‘rib-cracking’ comment about Free SHS

Kwaku Boahen, a member of the communications team of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), has made a hilarious comment about the government's educational...

EC ready to deal with foreigners, minors in new register

The Electoral Commission (EC) has announced over 16.9 million total voters have been registered in the just ended mass exercise. The total number, EC boss, Mrs...

Tension at Juapong after killing of businessman by robbers [Audio]

The youth of Juapong in the Volta region are picketing against the police after a businessman in the area was shot dead by suspected...

NPP Chairman suspended!

The Central Regional Executive Committee of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) has suspended the Awutu Senya West Constituency Chairman, Charles Amoansah. His suspension follows a...

Prof Gyampo shares Rawlings’ ‘relationship’ with Akufo-Addo govt [Listen]

JoyNews/AdomNews · Prof Gyampo shares Rawlings' 'relationship' with Akufo-Addo gov't Prof Yaw Gyampo is of the view that the Akufo-Addo-led government has been able to...

The Big Agenda: ‘Disrespectful EC back to square one with new ‘bloated’ voters’ register’

SEND Ghana, a Civil Society Organisation (CSO), has pegged what it describes as a failed and bloated register to disrespect of administrators of the...

Man shot dead at Nkwantakese

A 26-year-old man identified as Kofi Doyini has been shot dead at Nkwantakese, a farming Community in the Afigya Kwabre North district of the...

This account of 4-year-old girl defiled with knife inserted into private part will make you cry [listen]

JoyNews/AdomNews · This account of 4-yr-old girl defiled with knife inserted in private part will make you cry The four-year-old girl, who has been defiled...

Three MPs, others honoured

Member of Parliament for Abirem in the Eastern Region, John Osei-Frimpong, has been honoured for his contributions towards growth and development in his constituency. He...

Ho police launch hunt for swindler

Michael Brako Danso, described by the police as a self-styled job recruitment agent in the Agotime-Ziope District of the Volta Region is on the...

T’di ‘Missing’ Girls Trial: Judge cautions jury against absenteeism

Court of Appeal judge Richard Adjei Frinpong, sitting in as an additional High Court judge, was not pleased with the absence of one of...

Government cleared all legacy arrears – Education Minister

Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh, the Minister of Education, on Wednesday said the government has cleared all legacy arrears left by the previous administration to...