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Southern Africa’s Frontier Energy Developments to be Unpacked at Invest in African Energy (IAE) 2024

Frontier developments in the southern African region will be on display at the upcoming Invest in African Energy (IAE) 2024 forum in Paris, connecting...

3 dead, 9 injured in armed attack at Zuarungu

Three people have lost their lives, while nine others have sustained injuries in a random gunfire attack on a Yutong bus with registration number...

One feared dead as stationary truck runs into bystanders at Anloga Junction

One person is feared dead after a long truck run into a billboard at Anloga Junction in Kumasi. About three others sustained injuries after being...

Two jailed for robbery in Wa

A Wa circuit court has sentenced two persons accused of robbery to a combined prison sentence of 33 years. The accused, Ibrahim Kassim, 30, and...

Empowering Communities: Health Promoters in Chitungwiza Undertake Comprehensive Training to Combat Cholera

Sheba Usanda, a dedicated community health promoter (CHP) at Zengeza Clinic since 2010, recently participated in vital training sessions on cholera prevention and control....

World Health Organization (WHO) and Government of Ireland collaborate to strengthen health system resilience in Tanzania

The World Health Organization (WHO) and the Government of Ireland have signed an agreement to pilot a new project that will improve ongoing efforts...

Saglemi trial: Court accepts Speaker’s request to excuse Collins Dauda

A request from the Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin, to the Accra High Court (Financial and Economic Division), seeking an excused duty for Collins...

Spokesperson for The New Force, Shalimar Abbiusi arrested

Spokesperson for The New Force political movement, Shalimar Abbiusi has reportedly been arrested. According to reports, she used a forged document to obtain a resident...

Dam Spillage: UPSA Vice Chancellor donates to North Tongu flood victims

The Vice-Chancellor of the University of Professional Studies, Accra (UPSA), Professor Abednego F.O Amartey, has donated relief items flood victims of North Tongu in...

Jospong Group to support dialysis patients at Korle Bu with over GH¢500,000

As part of its Corporate Social Responsibility activities in thanksgiving to God for his unconditional mercies to the group for the year 2023, the...

Housekeeper jailed for stealing $16,000 from employer

The Accra Circuit Court One has sentenced a 27-year-old housekeeper to two and half years imprisonment in hard labour for stealing $16,000 from his...

We will not export lithium in raw state – Lands Minister

The Minister for Lands and Natural Resources, Samuel Abu Jinapor has assured Ghanaians that government will not allow the export of lithium in its...

Man jailed for ‘mistakenly’ robbing lover at gunpoint

The Wa Circuit Court has sentenced two persons accused of robbery to a combined prison sentence of 33 years. Ibrahim Kassim, 30 and Salifu Dauda,...

Upper East: Agric Director clears air on contract between Farmerline, rice farmers

The Builsa South Agriculture Director in the Upper East region, has admitted there was no written contract between rice farmers and Farmerline company for...

Starlink operations illegal in Ghana – NCA warns

The National Communications Authority (NCA) has announced that the operation of Starlink in Ghana is illegal. In a press release issued on December 7, 2023,...

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia embraces the future of football: The sports industry’s greatest minds congregate in Jeddah for World Football Summit

The second edition of World Football Summit Asia (www.Asia.WorldFootballSummit.com) will take place in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on the 12th-13th of December 2023, bringing together key...

Jinapor slams Sophia Akuffo over Lithium deal comment

The Lands and Natural Resources Minister, Samuel Abu Jinapor, has described as most unfortunate comments by the former Chief Justice, Sophia Akuffo on Ghana’s...

Construction work begins on deplorable Sehwi Bibiani roads after years of neglect

Construction has commenced on the long-neglected roads in Merewa, Manse, Abooso, and Nkronua, farming communities within the Bibiani Anhweaso Bekwai Municipality of the Western...

NSS announces payment of arrears from January to May

The Management of the National Service Scheme (NSS) has announced government has released funds for the payment of arrears on the allowances of NSS...

School placement: We have resolved over 60% of challenges – Free SHS Secretariat

The Free Senior High School (SHS) Secretariat says it has resolved 60 to 70 per cent of placement issues for first-year students across the...

Establishment of Ghana Lithium Mining Company not feasible – Lands Minister

Lands and Natural Resources Minister, Samuel Abu Jinapor says the establishment of a Ghana Lithium Mining Company is not feasible. Speaking at a press conference...

Man, 26, allegedly confesses to killing, burying mother

26-year-old Gideon Kojo Asomani Addo, initially arrested for iron rod theft at Koforidua-Kyekyewere near Nyamekrom in Eastern Region, has confessed to killing and burial...

Side chick sues lover’s wife for stalking her on social media

In a bold move that unfolded in court, a woman from Harare recently dragged her boyfriend’s wife to court, accusing her of breaching the...

Lithium mining lease to be laid in Parliament – Lands Minister

The Minister for Lands and Naatural Resources, Samuel Abu Jinapor, has assured that the mining lease agreement between Ghana and Barari DV Ghana Limited...

Kikibee CEO’s murder: Girlfriend granted GH₵200K bail 

An Accra High Court has granted GH₵200,000 bail with one surety to the alleged girlfriend of Benett Agyekum Adomah alias Kikibee. Mam Yandey Joof, a...

Traditional priest to serve a day in prison for harming unemployed woman

An Accra Circuit Court has sentenced a traditional priest to one-day imprisonment for causing harm to an unemployed woman at Teshie in Accra.   Michael...

Gov’t suspends controversial import restriction L.I

JoyNews can confirm that Government of Ghana is suspending the laying of the controversial Legislative Instrument seeking to restrict the importation of at least...

Conference of the Parties (COP28): African Development Bank President invites business leaders to invest in Africa to accelerate decarbonization

The President of the African Development Bank (www.AfDB.org), Akinwumi Adesina, called on African business leaders to take advantage of investment opportunities in Africa and...

Historic Okomfo Anokye cola tree grows anew

The tree stump of the historic Okomfo Anokye Cola Tree at Feyiase in the Ashanti region which was left in the soil has begun...

Shaping Retails Future – Trends Recap 2023 (By Mike Smollan)

By Mike Smollan, Chief Growth and Innovation Officer, Smollan (https://Smollan.com). As per the Edge Global Insights Report 2023 - overall, the retail industry this year has...

Lionel Messi: Argentina forward named Time magazine’s athlete of the year

Argentina and Inter Miami forward Lionel Messi has been named Time magazine's athlete of the year. Messi joined Miami in July and scored 11 goals...

Farmers in Upper East decry low market for paddy rice

Farmers in the Upper East Region have decried the poor market for paddy rice after this year’s harvest and the challenges they are facing...

Armed robbers attack passengers in Wa

Six suspected armed robbers have attacked and robbed several passengers of their monies and other valuables when they were returning from the Funsi market...

Computer engineer fined GH¢840K for double sale of land at Tse Addo

An Accra Circuit Court has sentenced a comput­er engineer to a fine of GH¢840,000 for making a con­flicting grant of land at Tse Addo...

Bodies exposed as grave looters invade Takoradi cemetery

Residents of Takoradi and its environs in the Western Region, are living in fear following reports of grave looting in the area. Reports indicates several...

Conference of the Parties (COP28): Africa could lose $25 billion per year as new European Union (EU) carbon tax comes into effect, warns African...

African Development Bank Group President Dr Akinwumi Adesina (www.AfDB.org) has warned that a new EU carbon border tax could significantly constrain Africa’s trade and industrialization...

Mortuary workers’ meeting with NLC, govt ends inconclusively

The meeting between the Mortuary Workers Association of Ghana (MOWAG), the government and the National Labour Commission (NLC) on Wednesday, December 6, 2023, in...

PRINCOF bemoans inadequate lecture halls, residential facilities in 46 Colleges of Education

None of the 46 public Colleges of Education in Ghana currently has enough lecture halls and residential facilities to cater to the large numbers...

Anyimadu-Antwi justifies delay in the passage of anti-LGBTQ+ bill

Chairman of the Constitutional, Legal, and Parliamentary Affairs Committee of Parliament, Kwame Anyimadu-Antwi, has explained the delay in passing the anti LGBTQI+ bill. This...

Dismissed judge sues Judicial Service, Chief Justice and Attorney General

The Jasikan Circuit Court judge, Alfred Kwabena Asiedu, dismissed for alleged misconduct in a divorce case, has filed a lawsuit against the Judicial Service...