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Dalberg Implement: Integrating Strategy Design with Execution

Dalberg (www.Dalberg.com) is a strategic advisory firm that combines the best of private sector strategy skills and rigorous analytical capabilities with deep knowledge and...

Freddie and Kwame Blay sue Okudzeto Ablakwa and media outlets for defamation

In two separate lawsuits, former New Patriotic Party (NPP) Chairman Freddie Blay and his son, Kwame Blay, have sued Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa for defamatory...

Two elderly suspects excrete 150 wraps of cocaine at airport

Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have arrested two passengers traveling to Doha on a Qatar Airways flight at the screening...

‘Galamsey’ activities blamed for Nkawkaw flooding

The Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) for Kwahu West, Lawyer Yaw Owusu Addo, has attributed the recent flooding in Nkawkaw to the activities of illegal...

Atimpoku-Asikuma road reopens after severe flooding

The Ministry of Roads and Highways has announced that the Atimpoku-Asikuma road, which had been affected by severe flooding following a heavy downpour on...

Land guards’ alleged plot on Okyeman Environmental Protection brigade exposed

The Okyeman Environmental Protection Brigade has raised alarm over an alleged plot by land guards associated with estate developers in Adoagyiri and Okanta to...

UGMC successfully performs 6 kidney transplants

The University of Ghana Medical Centre has announced the successful completion of its first six kidney surgeries. In a press statement on Sunday, the Centre...

Mortuaries, funeral agency react to viral video of Asante Akyem mourners carrying corpse

The Mortuaries and Funeral Facilities Agency (MoFFA), established under the Health Institutions and Facilities Act, 2011 (Act 829) of the Ministry of Health, has...

Confusion as Lil Win receives ‘miraculous healing’ months after accident

Comic actor Lil Win, who has been recovering in the hospital following a severe car accident last month, astonished onlookers today by receiving what...

NHIA fulfills payment promise for dialysis patients

The National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) has announced the payment for its free dialysis coverage for certain vulnerable patient categories for the month of...

Ghanaian man tragically shot dead in US buried

Edward Nana Kwame Fordjour, a Ghanaian man who was tragically shot dead in the United States, has been laid to rest in a solemn...

Critically ill man dies after being allegedly abandoned at UDS campus

A critically ill man died in front of the University of Development Studies (UDS) Tamale Campus after being abandoned by his brother and allegedly...

Kpatia health center gets maternity ward

Kpatia Health Centre has received a new maternity ward following a report by Adom News last year highlighting the inadequate infrastructure, particularly in the...

One shot dead in Yunyoo in renewed communal clash

A male adult has been killed with more than 10 houses torched in a renewed chieftaincy and land clash between two Konkomba factions at...

60-year-old man accused of attempting to kill people spiritually burnt to death

Six individuals have been apprehended by the Ahanta West Municipal Police Command in the Western Region for allegedly setting ablaze a 60-year-old man, Isaac...

Man sentenced to 25 years in hard labour for stealing a motorbike

24-year-old Kwame Adjei has been sentenced to a term of twenty-five years in imprisonment in hard labour on his own plea. The accused was a...

15-year-old girl battles for her life after brutal attack by 21-year–old suspected ‘rapist’

A fifteen-year-old girl is in critical condition at the Sogakope District Hospital following a brutal attack by a 21-year-old man who allegedly attempted to...

Kenya: Launch of the National School Deworming Campaign

The Ministry of Health in collaboration with the Ministry of Education will on 4th July 2024 launch  the 12th round of the National School Based Deworming...

Kenya: The Ministry of Health to Host the 21st Health Sector Intergovernmental Consultative Forum

The Ministry  of Health is this week hosting the 21st Health Sector Intergovernmental Consultative Forum at Kenya School of Government in Nairobi.  This forum unites...

Kenya Secures $407 Million Global Fund for Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), Tuberculosis (TB) and Malaria

Kenya and the Global Fund have signed a $407,887,067 grant to combat HIV, TB, and malaria.  Previous grants have led to significant achievements, including a...

Don’t let Ghana Publishing Company collapse; commit resources to it – Otumfuo

Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, the Asantehene, has urged the government to allocate more resources towards revitalizing the Ghana Publishing Company Limited. During a meeting with...

IGP has not been sacked – Police

The Ghana Police Service has reacted to reports that, the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Dr. George Akuffo Dampare has been sacked. It described as...

Tax policies on products with negative health impacts beneficial – FDA

The Chief Executive of the Food and Drugs Authority, Delese Mimi Darko, says tax policies on products like tobacco and alcohol, with negative public...

NHIA praises F. Alpha and Omega Specialist Hospital for exemplary services

The National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) is extremely happy with the F. Alpha and Omega Specialist Hospital in Madina, management's voluntary registration of more...

It is a taboo to sell kenkey in Aburi on Thursday – Chief

It is a taboo to sell kenkey in Aburi on Thursday, Adonten Asokwahene, Nana Okyere-Kwame has said. This, he explained is because the gods who...

Plot to attack Okyeman environmental protection brigade uncovered

The Okyeman Environmental Protection Brigade has uncovered a plot orchestrated by land guards working for certain estate developers in the Adoagyiri and Okanta areas. The...

Government to introduce strategies to retain medical professionals – Okoe Boye

The Minister for Health, Dr. Bernard Okoe Boye has unveiled plans aimed at curbing the increasing trend of Ghanaian medical professionals emigrating for better...

IGP leaked tape: Supt. Asare, Supt. Gyebi caught lying, committee cites them for contempt

The Parliamentary committee which probed the leaked tape regarding the alleged scheme by some senior police officers to remove the Inspector-General of Police from...

Uganda: Government assurances committee wants police probe into Gulu Hospital’s Intensive Care Unit (ICU)

The Parliament Committee on Government Assurances and Implementation is investigating the circumstances surrounding the dismantling of the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at Gulu Regional...

2023 RTI Report: 322 institutions submit annual reports to RTI Commission – Information Minister

The Right to Information (RTI) Commission in 2023 received the annual reports of 322 out of an expected 683 institutions, Fatimatu Abubakar, Information Minister,...

TECNO awards GH¢100,000 in scholarships to University of Ghana students

TECNO, a leading smartphone brand in Africa and a globally recognized brand with operations in over 70 countries across five continents, has reaffirmed its...

Dazel finalizes squad for Paris after two-week camp

Springbok Women's Sevens Head Coach, Renfred Dazel, expressed satisfaction at the end of their two-week Olympic Games camp in Potchefstroom and said all planned...

Which choice for CSR? Indomie, Kalypo, Condom; University don calls for policy implementation

While corporate social responsibility (CSR) is an important intervention by organisations to help society, a project and applied management specialist, Professor Daniel Frimpong Ofori,...

348 KNUST students receive scholarships

Some 348 needy students of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) in Kumasi, have benefited from the 2024 Hulede Foundation Scholarship. This...

Heavy rain floods Nkawkaw, residents homeless and properties destroyed

Floodwaters have taken over parts of Nkawkaw in the Eastern region after three hours of heavy rain. Some residents are homeless and properties worth thousands...

JoyNews Impact Makers Awards: Eunice Asiedua Agyepong emerges 2024 overall winner

Eunice Asiedua Agyepong, a young teacher at Noka M/A Basic School in the Eastern Region, emerged as the overall winner at the second edition...

Photos from 2nd edition of JoyNews Impact Makers Awards

The second edition of the JoyNews Impact Makers Awards is underway at the Accra International Conference Centre (AICC). The event will recognise and honour ordinary...

Heavy rains cause severe damage on Ho-Juapong road; motorists and travellers stranded

A portion of the Ho-Juapong road has split into two after heavy rains flooded it, making it impassable. According to reports, the incident was caused...

High Court blocks Daniel Ofori from enforcing Supreme Court impugned decision

An Accra High Court presided over by Her Ladyship Justice Ellen Lordina Serwaa Mireku, has granted an interlocutory injunction restraining Daniel Ofori from enforcing...

Church urges calm amid protests over new pastor appointment

The Assemblies of God Church Ghana has urged its members at the Bohyen Branch in the Ashanti Region to remain calm following a recent...