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Children having sex at 16 are law abiding – UCC Lecturer
Senior Lecturer at the Department of Population and Health of the University of Cape Coast (UCC), Dr Kobina Esia-Donkor has called for a review...
AUDIO: No investigation work in Parliament – Anas clarifies
Undercover journalist, Anas Aremeyaw Anas says he has not embarked on any work in Ghana’s Parliament.
Denying the claims on Joy FM’s Morning Show Thursday, ...
Photos: 4 Chinese, 5 Ghanaian illegal miners arrested by Operation Vanguard
The Joint Task Force of Operation Vanguard has arrested four Chinese nationals and five Ghanaians engaged in illegal mining at the Prestea/Huni Valley and...
“Roadmap on lifting small-scale mining ban out soon” – President Akufo-Addo
President Nana Akufo-Addo, has assured that, shortly, Government will put out a statement setting out a comprehensive roadmap, including the lifting of the ban...
CSIR predicts hunger in next five years if …
Director-General of the Center for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Professor Victor Kwame Agyemang has predicted that Ghana could face hunger in the next...
Operation Vanguard nabs Chinese, 7 Ghanaian illegal miners
Some seven illegal miners have been arrested by the Central FOB of Operation Vanguard at Mfanteman in the Upper Denkyira East Municipality on Monday...
Major Mahama Trust Fund Board inaugurated
The Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, has inaugurated a seven-member Governing Board for the Major Mahama Trust Fund with a charge to the members...
Drug dealer jailed 10 years in Tarkwa
A Tarkwa Circuit court has sentenced a drug dealer, Iddrisu Yobi, to 10 years imprisonment for possessing cannabis sativa (Indian hemp) weighing 902.59 grammes...
Man jailed for raping 9-year-old girl
A 19-year-old jobless man has been sentenced to 7 years imprison, in hard labour by a Tarkwa Circuit court for raping a nine-year-old girl.
The...
Over 1,000 illegal miners nabbed – Amewu lauds Operation Vanguard
More than 1,000 individuals engaged in illegal mining have been arrested between August 2017 and May 2018 after the government deployed a task force...
PHOTOS: Tarkwa-Nsuaem MP donates to people with disabilities
Member of Parliament (MP) for Tarkwa Nsuaem in the Western Region, George Mireku Duker has donated items to disabled persons within his municipality.
He presented...
Domama school collapse kills one, injures many others
A 17-year-old girl has died after a school building collapsed during a heavy downpour at Domama Wassa in the Western Region.
The deceased, Susanna Bokgro,...
Akufo-Addo meets Otumfuo over reports of denigrating comments
Joy News is reliably informed President Akufo-Addo travelled to Kumasi on Monday night to meet with the Asantehene over reports that members of his...
VIDEO: Eagle Prophet delivers Ernest Opoku from fornication
Ghanaian gospel musician Ernest Opoku has come under public backlash after the Chief Executive Officer of NAYAS Film Productions, Gladys Boaku, aka Nayas 1,...
Falling concrete block kills WASSCE candidate
A 20-year-old final year student of Holy Trinity Cathedral Senior High School (HOTCASS) met his untimely death when a falling concrete block landed on...
Crabbe barred from contesting NPP chairmanship race – John Boadu
Suspended Second Vice Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Sammy Crabbe, cannot be allowed to contest in the party’s upcoming election to choose...
Photo: The lady addicted to dating married rich men
A 26-year-old lady identified as Lacey Jay has come out to open up on her addiction to rich married men.
And in her confessional statement,...
Am I ‘so stupid’ to undermine Otumfuo? – Gabby Otchere-Darko
Mr Gabby Asare Otchere-Darko, nephew to President Nana Akufo-Addo, has said he is not stupid enough to undermine Asante monarch Otumfuo Osei Tutu II...
AUDIO: Baako scolds Amewu over “out of order” comments against Mahama
Editor-in-Chief of the New Crusading Guide Newspaper, Kwaku Baako Jnr, has condemned Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, John Peter Amewu for calling ex-President...
Special Prosecutor asks for more details on BOST ‘scandals’
The Special Prosecutor, Mr Martin Amidu, has requested for further and better details on the various allegations of fraud and financial impropriety levelled against...
1,096,404 jobs not voodoo; its real – Employment Minister asserts
Many people, especially the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) have questioned the credibility of figures released by government as jobs created within its stay...
PHOTOS: NPP bigwigs go on their knees to beg ‘furious’ Asantehene
It was a tense moment at Manhyia Palace on Wednesday as executives of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) went on their knees to apologise...
Set seven days apart to discuss non-political issues too – MP challenges media
The Member of Parliament (MP) for Agona East in the Central Region, Queenster Pokuah Sawyerr has challenged the media in Ghana to set aside...
Mahama ‘opened floodgates’ for Chinese illegal miners – Amewu
The Minister of Lands and Natural resources, John Peter Amewu, has accused former President John Dramani Mahama of being responsible for the influx of...
HOT AUDIO: Asiedu Nketia is a comedian – Sam Pyne
The Ashanti Regional Secretary of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), Sam Pyne, has taken a swipe at the General Secretary of the opposition...
Man loses his car to robbers, finds police using it after 2 years
A thirty-two-year-old banker who was nearly killed by car snatchers found a police officer using the car he lost to the robbers two years later.
Samuel...
Atwima Kwanwoma Rural Bank exceeds BoG's minimum capital requirement
The Atwima Kwanwoma Rural Bank has exceeded Bank of Ghana’s minimum capital requirement of GHS1 million by more than 200 percent.
The capital of the bank...
Operation Vanguard a failure – Ken Agyapong
The joint military-police taskforce, Operation Vanguard (OV), formed to help fight illegal small-scale mining (Galamsey) menace in the country, should be disbanded because the...
HOT VIDEO: Operation Vanguard in bed with illegal miners – Ken Agyapong alleges
New Patriotic Party Member of Parliament for Assin Central is asking President Akufo-Addo and the Minister for Lands and Natural Resources, John Peter Amewu,...
Fabewoso: Captain Smart weeps over growing graduate unemployment
Host of anti-corruption segment on Adom FM’s morning show, Captain Smart, has bemoaned what he describes as the graduate unemployment situation in the country.
ALSO...
Gov't clandestinely replaces 1% tax relief with other taxes – Importers boss alleges
Importers are accusing government of charging cut throat prices at the Tema and Takoradi ports.
According to them, the introduction of new taxes by the...
Lack of logistics has left us handicapped – Operation Vanguard
The Anti-Galamsey Taskforce, Operation Vanguard has requested for more resources from government to extent its operations to the Central Region.
The joint Police/Military deployment was...
PHOTOS: EPA sweats over possible contamination of water sources by cyanide
Preliminary investigations by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) have revealed excessive use and presence of cyanide in water bodies due to illegal mining activities...
Shoot-to-kill policy dangerous – MP
Member of Parliament for the Builsa South Constituency, Dr. Clement Apaak, has described as dangerous, the shoot-to-kill policy against illegal miners popularly called galamseyers.
Parliament...
When spirituality takes the place of common sense
John Mbiti, a renowned theologian described Africans as “notoriously religious”.
This assertion by Mbiti perfectly describes the majority of Ghanaians. We are often very quick...
Ghana lift maiden WAFU Women's Cup with win over Ivory Coast
Ghana are champions of the maiden WAFU Women's Cup after the Black Queens earned a hard-fought 1-0 victory against host nation Ivory Coast.
Janet Egyir...
Ghana appreciates your sacrifices – Akufo-Addo to Military
Government appreciates the sacrifices of the men and women in uniform, and will continue to provide the necessary logistics to enable them discharge their...
Three illegal miners arrested, 1000 Chang fa Platforms seized
In all, three suspected illegal miners have been arrested by the Operation Vanguard Taskforce in collaboration with the National Small Scale Miners.
More than one...
Full text: Akufo-Addo delivers 2nd SONA full of achievements, commitments
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has delivered his second State of Nation Address replete with achievements his first year and commitments to do more.
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I dare you to prove my appointees are corrupt – Akufo-Addo
President Akufo-Addo has challenged those accusing his appointees of being corrupt to prove with incontrovertible evidence.
He said a year on, it has become evident...