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No casualty in Accra-Nsawam train derailment

The technical team of the Ghana Railway Company Limited has described Thursday, September 12, 2019, train derailment as a minor one. The minor derailment occurred...

SHS girl goes naked as she twerks to Medikal’s ‘Wrowroho’

A female teen believed to be a student of Beposo Senior High School has gone viral for the wrong reasons. This was after she went...

Ghana Police to conduct nationwide swoops

The Ghana Police Service has served notice it intends to conduct swoops nationwide as part of measures to ensure total security in Ghana. “The preventive...

Police arrest 213 with condoms, marijuana in swoop

The Western Naval Command in a joint military-police operation around European Town and the Albert Busumtwi-Sam fishing Habour in Sekondi have arrested 213 suspects...

Accra-Nsawam train derails from track

An Accra-Nsawam bound train suffered what the technical team from the Ghana Railway Company Limited described as a minor derailment on Thursday, September 12, 2019. The train...

Woman narrates what she saw when she died during childbirth

A woman, who reportedly died during childbirth, has taken to her Twitter platform to share her experience on what the afterlife entails. According to the lady, identified as Oma Okechukwu,...

Audio: Mobile money vendor killed by friend at Gomoa Nyanyarno

A mobile money vendor has allegedly been killed by his friend at Gomoa Nyanyarno in the Central region. The deceased, whose name was given as...

Assault on photojournalist: Accra Mayor apologises to JoyNews

The Accra Mayor has apologised profusely to The Multimedia Group team and especially the veteran photojournalist who was assaulted during the coverage of a...

Takoradi kidnappings: Police raid criminal dens, 217 suspects arrested

The Western Regional Police Command with support from other security agencies on Thursday, September 12, 2019, arrested 217 suspected criminals within the Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolis. The...

World trapped in immoral, unethical capitalism – Rawlings

Former President Jerry John Rawlings says the world is still trapped in a phase of immoral, unethical and unconscionable capitalism which has contributed to...

Video: How Police-Military team arrested over 100 suspected criminals at Buduburam

A joint Police and Military team on Thursday morning stormed Kasoa Budumburam in the Central region and arrested over 100 suspected criminals. Information gathered by...

Photos: 4 killed in Bolgatanga after building collapses on them

Four people died Thursday morning at Yorogo, a suburb of Bolgatanga in the Upper East Region after a building collapsed on them during a...

Kidnapped Nigerian university professor found dead

The decomposing body of a Nigerian university professor allegedly kidnapped last week by unknown gunmen has been found, five days after his abduction, the...

Ghanaian carpenters don’t have equipment to work with rosewood – Minister

The Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, Kwaku Asomah-Cheremeh, has explained why impounded rosewood is not being used for furniture in the country. He said...

We are living in fear; military swoop not solution – Gomoa Buduburam chief cries

The joint police and military swoop at Gomoa Buduburam Thursday morning is not enough to guarantee security, Chief of Gomoa Buduburam, Nana Kojo Essel...

Joint Military/Police personnel invade Gomoa Buduburam

Personnel from the military and police have raided Gomoa Budumburam/Liberia camp in the Central region to round up suspected criminals. The Thursday morning swoop was...

We have achieved 85% success in galamsey fight – Lands Minister

The Minister of Lands and Mineral Resources, Kwaku Asomah cheremeh, has rated the success chalked by the government in the fight against illegal mining,...

Students Loan Trust owed GHS75m; names of defaulters to be published in newspapers

More than 55,000 people owe the Students Loan Trust Fund (SLTF) GH¢75 million, representing default in the repayment of the loans students took to...

Accra Children’s Book Festival cancelled for 2019

The Accra International Book Festival (AIBF) has confirmed the cancellation of the 2019 Accra Children’s Book Festival. The biggest children’s book festival in Ghana was...

Minister calls for Zoomlion’s IRECOP in Ashanti Region

The Ashanti Regional Minister, Hon. Simon Osei Mensah has placed a distress call for Zoomlion to speed up the process in establishing...

NPP MP proposed increase in VAT to tackle sanitation challenges

The Chairman of the Parliamentary Select Committee on Environment, Science and Technology and Innovation has proposed an increment to the Value Added Tax (VAT). Yaw...

Police to summon assemblyman who assaulted Joy News’ photojournalist

The Jamestown police have secured a warrant to arrest the assemblyman for the area after he assaulted Joy News’ photojournalist.  Joseph Addo also known as Zola...

Mother sells twin babies to settle debt, buys new smartphone

A single mother in China was recently arrested after a police investigation revealed that she had sold her twin newborns for 65,000 yuan ($9,100)...

NAMDO issues death alert to motorists who ply this dangerous bridge

The National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO) has, in a statement, issued a death alert to motorists who ply the Sokode-Akforu –Bame road in the...

Ranking: Popular TV host names 5 powerful ministers who must be axed by Akufo-Addo [Video]

Adom TV journalist and co-host on Asempa FM’s Ekosii Sen show, Omanhene Kwabena Asante, has gone a step further with his demands on President...

CLOGSAG to embark on nationwide strike

The Civil and Local Government Staff Association of Ghana (CLOGSAG) has served notice that it will embark on a nationwide strike if government...

Dep. Agric. Minister pledges support for visually impaired farmers

The Deputy Minister for Agriculture, George Oduro, has pledged support for the visually impaired family at Assin Larteh in the Central region who has...

Audio: Killers of Gomoa Akraman chief performed rituals – Witness

A 35-year–old resident of Gomoa Akraman in the Gomoa East District of the Central region, who witnessed the murder of the Akraman Gyaasehene, has...

Man kills his brother for being too stingy

A 24-year-old man, Ebenezer Olorunleke, has been arrested by the Ekiti State police command for killing his brother and stealing his properties including a...

Church burglar dies after getting stuck during operation

A church burglar has died after getting stuck in a church’s burglar-proof during an overnight operation in Abule Egba, Lagos. The suspect, had Wednesday...

Video+Photos: Snakes takeover Agona Nyarkrom Basic School

Pupils of the Agona Nyarkrom Roman Catholic Junior High School A&B in the Agona West Municipality of the Central region have threatened to boycott...

Y’asem Nie: Trotro drivers share hustle in Accra [Video]

"I will never let my child or any family member choose driving as a profession." These were the words of a distraught commercial car...

Pastor and wife in court for burying pig alive in church premises

A 33-year-old pastor’s wife, Blessing Okechukwu, has appeared before an Ajegunle Magistrates’ Court in Lagos for allegedly burying a live pig in her husband’s church compound,...

Dismissed Police Officer, others in multiple robbery cases denied bail

Two Circuit Courts in Koforidua have dismissed bail application brought before it by defence Counsels for a dismissed Police Officer and two others facing...

Photos: Man caught posing as 81-year-old to fly to US

A 32-year-old man was detained at New Delhi's Indira Gandhi International Airport for carrying a fake passport while posing as a man more than...

Nigerian kidnapping suspect freed … Police say he was wrongly accused and beaten

Just five days after the rescue of two Canadians from the hands of Nigerian and Ghanaian kidnappers, another Nigerian, Ibrahim Azamal was arrested for...

Video: Elmina citizens curse Gov’t, BOG for collapsing Nduom’s businesses

A group calling itself the Concerned Citizens of Elmina have rained curses on government and the Bank of Ghana (BoG) for closing down GN...

Woman drowns in reservoir

A 45-year-old woman, identified as Maame Adwoa, slipped and fell into a community reservoir when she attempted to fetch water leading to her...

3 women, 36 others arrested for drug peddling

A swoop conducted by the Jamestown Police, have led to the arrest of three women and 36 men, suspected to be trading in Narcotics. The...

Audio: Kasoa Police burdened by growing population – DCE

The District Chief Executive (DCE) for the Gomoa East Municipality, Solomon Quarm is of the view that the fast growing nature of the Gomoa...