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Front pages: Friday. November 10, 2017

 

Former Commonwealth Hall executives to sue UG for excluding their names from graduation list

The 2016/2017 executives of Commonwealth Hall, University of Ghana are set to sue the university for what they say is the unfair exclusion of...

Visitors pay GHc2 to see prisoners

Prison authorities at the Kumasi Central Prisons are taking GHc2 from each person who comes to visit an inmate in the facility, without issuing...

Two robbers jump to their death

A daring escape bid by two suspected robbers in handcuffs - jumping from a storey building at Sepe in Kumasi, turned tragic as they...

Defiled 9-year-old girl rendered barren

The 9-year-old girl who was gruesomely defiled by a man in the Komenda Edina Eguafo Abirem District in the Central Region has had her...

Man fakes his own death after wife hires hitman to kill him

A boxing coach in Houston staged his own death after discovering his wife had hired a hit man to kill him. Ramon Sosa, 50, began...

Hot Audio: Teacher attacked by land guards for sacking student

A Junior High School (JHS) teacher of Kiddies College at Gomoa-Budumburam in the Gomoa East district of the Central Region, Emmanuel Bekoe has been...

Man stabs ex-lover for snubbing him at funeral

A 38-year-old man has been hurled before a court for stabbing his ex-lover after she snubbed him at a funeral. The accused, Daniel Nunoo, who...

Adding value to trigger growth in Ghana's Tourism Industry

‘’Our heritage won for us; through the toil of our fathers’’ - These are powerful words from the national pledge of Ghana. The heritage...

Audio: Ankaful psychiatric nurses threaten strike

The Psychiatric Nurses Group (PNG) at the Ankaful Hospital in Cape Coast are threatening to go on strike if their demand for the removal...

Hot Audio: One dead, 4 injured in Assin Kushea gas explosion

One person is reported dead and four others injured after a gas explosion at Assin Kushea in Central Region. An eyewitness who only identified himself...

Front pages: Thursday, November 9, 2017

 

Video: Lion's attack on car caught on camera in South Africa

A visitor to a South African national park captured video of the moment an adult lion attacked a car in an apparent attempt to...

'Marijuana advocates need mental examination'

The Head of the Addictive Diseases Unit of the Department of Medicine at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital,  Dr. Logosu Amegashie is warning of...

Hot Audio+Photo: Woman gang raped, killed at Kasoa

A 45-year-old woman has been reportedly raped and killed at Kasoa Downtown  in the Central region. The deceased, Yaa Boatemaa was on her way to...

I did not benefit from any state lands – Georgina Wood

Former Chief Justice, Georgina Theodora Wood, has denied benefiting from the sale of prime government lands following a Joy News report on the dishing...

Hot Audio: Lack of public toilet collapsing our marriages – Koftown women cry

Some distressed women in Ada sub-town at Koforidua in the Eastern Region are complaining bitterly about how their marriages are collapsing due to bad...

The open-border-policy that’s shaping African travel

While most regions endeavor to close their borders, Africa is striving to do the reverse by incessantly implementing an open-border-policy and enhancing collaboration. Towards...

Audio: Fulani saga: Minister begs teachers to return to school

Eastern Regional Minister Eric Kwakye Darfour, has called on teachers and school children in the Kwahu Enclave, who reportedly abandoned their posts and left...

VIDEO: Fabewoso: Accountant forges Bank of Ghana stamp; steal over GH₵90m

An accountant at the Western regional branch of the Nursing and Midwifery Council is alleged to have forged the stamp of the Bank of...

Audio+Photos: Trotro driver killed by land guards over fare

A 52-year-old commercial driver, Yaw Alebey has been killed by land guards at Opeikuma in the Awutu Senya East Municipality of the Central Region. An...

Hot audio: Chief assaults man for burying son without permission

Paramount Chief of Breman Essaim in the Ajumako Enyan Essiam District of the Central Region Odeifo Asankwa III has been accused of slapping a...

Police officer transferred for lashing female suspect

Tarkwa-Nsuaem Divisional Commander of the Ghana Police Service, ACP Edmond Ohene Bosompem, has confirmed the transfer of the Dompim Station officer who allegedly assaulted...

Bawumia receives smart card license

Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia received his New Smart Drivers’ License on Tuesday, as he launched a new drivers’ license and vehicle registration smart...

PHOTOS: Mother throws newborn baby to his death from 17th floor of a building

A Thai woman has admitted to throwing her newborn baby from a 17th floor window because her married boyfriend left her to return to...

Security man in court for raping cook

Carlos Armah, a 24-year-old security man accused of raping a 19-year-old cook at an Osu-based restaurant, on Tuesday appeared before an Accra District Court. Armah,...

Free SHS challenges: Klo Agogo students ‘packed like sardines’ in dormitories

As part of an ongoing campaign by Joy News to highlight issues in the implementation of the free SHS programme, the spotlight falls on...

Plane makes emergency landing after wife discovers husband’s affair mid-flight

An airline passenger got a mile-high clubbing from his wife after she discovered midflight that he was cheating on her — and she grew...

Men seeking medical marijuana bombard gynaecologist’s office

A Pennsylvania gynaecologist says she has been inundated with calls from men trying to set up appointments after hearing she was permitted to prescribe...

Police arrest amputee for attacking teacher at Akyem Maase

The Akyem Tafo District Police Command has arrested Kwasi Essimeng John, an Amputee farmer who attacked and allegedly inflicted cutlass wound on a teacher...

Front pages: Wednesday, November 8, 2017

   

Ministry of Education gets clearance to recruit 22,802 staff this year

The Ministry of Education has received clearance from the Ministry of Finance to replace, recruit and re-appoint 22,802 teaching and non-teaching staff this year. The...

The world’s most beautiful road

“How are you getting back to the city?” asked Cole, our local connection in Cape Town, as we were finishing lunch at The Red Herring in the...

Numo Blafo moved from AMA

The Accra Metropolitan Assembly has appointed Gilbert Nii Ankrah as its new Public Affairs Officer. He replaces Numo Blafo III who has been reassigned to...

Man in trouble over GH¢78,000 theft

A man arrested over alleged theft of items costing GHȼ78,000.00, was on Tuesday put before a Kumasi Circuit Court, presided over by Madam Patricia...

Man Charged For Stabbing Ex-Lover

An Accra District Court on Tuesday adjourned to November 21, the case of Daniel Nunoo, 38, who stabbed his former lover, bolted leaving her...

Hot video: Kumchacha defends Obinim on 'G-String' direction

The Founder and Leader of the Heaven's Gate Ministries has mounted a spirited defense for his colleague, Bishop Daniel Obinim who has come under...

PHOTOS: Pantang residents demonstrate over citing of dump site

Residents living around Pantang in Accra have embarked on a demonstration to register their displeasure over a dumping cite behind the Pantang Mental Hospital. Led...

Hot Audio: Owusu Bempah denies saying Jesus is not the son of God

Contrary to claims Jesus Christ is not the son of God, the Leader and founder of Glorious Word Power Ministry International (GWPMI), Reverend Owusu...

Ghana launches West Africa’s first smart drivers' license today

The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Authority (DVLA) will today, Tuesday, November 7, 2017, begin issuing smart drivers' licenses across the country. Vice President Dr Mahamudu...