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There is no dignity – MoFFA boss on posing of corpses at funerals

The Registrar of the Mortuaries and Funeral Facilities Agency (MoFFA), Dr Yaw Twerefuor, has expressed reservations about posing of corpses at funerals, particularly to...

Man put before court for allegedly causing damage to trader’s eye

An Accra Circuit Court has granted a 24-year-old unemployed man bail in the sum of GH₵50,000.00 with three sureties for causing a trader to...

Business in Saboba under threat as flood cuts off bridge in Saboba

Business at Saboba in the Northern region is under threat following flooding of the Kpalba bridge. The Yendi-Kpalba route to Saboba is considered shorter and...

Over 100 rendered homeless after heavy rainstorm in Yeji

Over 100 residents in Yeji in the Pru East District have been rendered homeless following heavy rainstorm that lasted for two hours. This unexpected...

KMA asks traders occupying weak structure at CBD to vacate for demolition

The Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA) has asked traders occupying a weak commercial building in the central business district of Adum to vacate immediately. Structural investigation...

OSP seizes Cecilia Dapaah’s cash, freezes her accounts again

The Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP), says it has complied with the High Court ruling directing it to return Cecilia Dapaah’s seized cash...

Roads Ministry to fix faulty traffic lights across the country

The Ministry of Roads and Highways has announced plans to fix all faulty traffic lights across the country. The Public Relations Officer for the...

Ghana Police Service needs a total overhaul – Ex officer

A former police officer, Twum Barimah is calling for a total overhaul of the Ghana Police Service after a tape in which some officers...

21-year-old man jailed for stealing techno phone

A 21-year-old unemployed man has been handed a six-month prison sentence for stealing a Techno mobile phone in the Nkwanta South District Court of...

IGP leaked tape: More senior officers petitioning probe committee – Atta Akyea

The Chairman of Parliament’s ad-hoc committee investigating the leaked tape discussing the ouster of the IGP, Samuel Atta Akyea has revealed that some senior...

What is wrong? Mahama only encouraged NDC lawyers – Ayariga

Bawku Central Member of Parliament (MP), Mahama Ayariga, has expressed shock at the outcry former President John Mahama's comment about the judiciary has generated....

DVLA to phase out PVC cards

The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Authority (DVLA) has announced that from March 2024, all Polyvinyl Chloride (PVC) cards, will be declared invalid. According to...

GN Bank Case: Supreme Court to decide Dr Nduom’s motion for Interim Asset Management Committee

Lawyers for Dr Papa Kwesi Nduom have asked the Supreme Court to hear and decide their motion for an injunction and to grant them...

New iPhone, new charger: Apple bends to EU rules

Apple’s latest iPhone will almost certainly feature a USB-C charge point when it is unveiled on 12 September. The firm’s phones currently use its proprietary...

Akyem Hemang chiefs issue 10-day ultimatum to police to halt galamsey

Chiefs and people of Akyem Hemang, a farming community in the Fanteakwa South District of the Eastern Region, have issued a 10-day ultimatum to...

Ban on galamsey yielding positive results – Akufo-Addo

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has said, the ban on illegal mining, also known as galamsey, is yielding positive results in Ghana's bid to...

KATH clarifies report of fake doctor arrested on its premises

The management of the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) has described as false the claim that the young man who was arrested at the...

Ghana stands ready to unlock second disbursement – Economist on IMF bailout

An Economist, Dr. Patrick Assuming is optimistic Ghana will be able to receive the second tranche of $600 million from the International Monetary Fund...

Leaked tape probe: COP Alex Mensah was consumed by inordinate partisan ego – Inusah Fuseini

A former Chairman of Parliament Legal and Constitutional Affairs says one of the witnesses in the leaked tape saga to oust IGP Dr George...

US First Lady Jill Biden tests positive for Covid-19

US First Lady Jill Biden tested positive for COVID-19 on Monday and is experiencing mild symptoms, the White House says. The 72-year-old, who is...

Govt considers takeover of NIB by ADB

Government is considering moves for ADB to take over the National Investment Bank (NIB).  Joy Business reports that this is part of measures to help...

LEAP beneficiaries to receive between GH¢256, GH¢424 in joint cycle

The Ministry of Gender, Children, and Social Protection (MoGCSP) on Monday commenced payments to beneficiaries under its Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty (LEAP) Programme. In a...

PAC to summon GTEC over delays in accrediting tertiary programmes

The Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee, James Klutse-Avedzi, has hinted that the Committee is contemplating inviting the Ghana Tertiary Education Commission (GTEC) to...

Ace Anan Ankomah: The distinguished, true and real legal luminary that is Prof Kofi Date-Bah

THE ACADEMIC During my formative years as an eager student at the Legon Faculty of Law in the late 1980s, I found myself captivated by...

Journalist allegedly dies in police custody

A 29-year-old journalist has been allegedly found dead in police cell at Mankessim Jedu Divisional Police Command in the Mfantseman Municipality of the Central...

CETAG suspends strike

The Colleges of Education Teachers Association of Ghana (CETAG) has announced a suspension of its industrial strike action. The decision is the outcome...

Cedi expected to trade steadily this week; sells at ¢11.50 to a dollar

The Ghana cedi is expected to trade steadily this week as the Bank of Ghana intervenes in the market to cool off the pressure...

One dead, another injured in motorbike accident on Bolgatanga-Navrongo highway

One person has died and another is in critical condition after their motorbikes collided on the Bolgatanga-Navrongo highway in the Upper East Region on...

Supt Asare drags another police officer into IGP leaked tape saga

An Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP), named only as Asante, has been alleged to be the one who assisted Daniel Bugri Naabu to record...

Nkwanta South Assembly to foot medical bills of collapsed bridge victims

The Municipal Chief Executive for Nkwanta South, Bright Lenwah has said the Assembly will foot the medical bills of victims who fell into the...

Reincarnation rites for newborn babies in Akyode

Reincarnation is the belief that the soul or spirit, after death, begins a new life in a new body to complete its task on...

How Rawlings’ status fostered humility and hard work in Zenator and siblings

The Member of Parliament for the Korle Klottey constituency, Zenator Agyeman-Rawlings, has disclosed the significance of maintaining humility and a strong work ethic, drawing...

Suspected fake doctor arrested at Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital

A 26-year-old man has been arrested for posing as a medical practitioner at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital in Kumasi. William Cyril Cohen, who was...

IGP agreed with Bugri Naabu to record our conversation – Supt Asare backs COP Alex Mensah’s allegation

Police Superintendent George Asare has sided with Commissioner of Police (COP) George Alex Mensah’s suspicion that the secret tape of their conversation with Bugri...

IMF bailout, DDEP to blame for stalled interchanges – Roads Ministry

The Head of Public Relations at the Ministry of Roads and Highways, Nasir Ahmed Yartey, has indicated that the stalled road interchanges across the...

Goaso Krontihene found dead after going missing

The Krontihene of the Goaso Traditional Areas in the Ahafo Region, Nana Yenhyira Kojo Kuma, has been found dead in the bush. Nana Yenhyira Kojo...

GBA condemns Mahama’s judiciary comments

The Ghana Bar Association (GBA) says comments by John Mahama that the judiciary has been packed with NPP-aligned judges is unfortunate and must be...

Plot to remove IGP: Bugri Naabu concocted stories against me – Supt Asare

One of the police officers implicated in the alleged plot to remove the Inspector General of Police has accused the former Northern Regional chairman...

ACTT unveils innovative plumbing systems design program in Accra

African Centre for Technical Training (ACTT), a technical and vocational skills training and development institute in Ghana, marked a significant milestone on August 31st,...