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Prof Jane Naana Opoku Agyemang

Social media reacts to Jane Naana Opoku-Agyeman’s appointment

Social media is currently buzzing for former Education Minister, Prof. Jane Naana Opoku- Agyeman following her appointment as John Mahama's running mate ahead of...

Covid-19 in schools: Sick or dead students cannot write exam – Govt told

The Minority Caucus in Parliament has called on the government to prioritise the lives of all final year students currently in school. The call by...
Dr Leticia Obeng, Ghana's first female scientist

Meet Ghana’s first female scientist

Dr Letitia Obeng is a First Woman Scientist in Zoology, and was the first Ghanaian woman to graduate with a bachelor’s degree in science,...

Manasseh Azure Awuni: The NPP, Ewe votes and the 2016 victory

Jesus said in Matthew 12:34 of the Holy Bible that “out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.” This can help to...

I’m having sleepless night – Dzifa Gomashie

National Democratic Congress (NDC) Member of Parliament for the Ketu South constituency, Dzifa Gomashie, says she is having sleepless night over the presence of...

George Floyd’s murder: One of officers charged is Nigerian!

The black cop charged with aiding and and abetting the murder of George Floyd had been confirmed to be Nigerian descent. J. Alexander Kueng, 26, has a...

Mercedes to race in black cars for 2020 F1 season

Mercedes will run a new black livery in Formula 1 in 2020 as a signal of their commitment to greater diversity and inclusion in...
Economy is not doing well, fix it - Mahama charges Akufo-Addo

NDC unveils election 2020 campaign team

The leadership of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has, at its Functional Executive Committee meeting, held on Monday, June 29, 2020, appointed members of...

Voter registration: Akufo-Addo speaks on soldiers deployed to Volta region

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has broken his silence on the military personnel deployed to the country’s borders. Addressing Ghanaians ahead of the voter registration...

K.T. Hammond backtracks on comment about people of Volta region

Member of Parliament (MP) for Adansi-Asokwa constituency, Kobina Tahir Hammond, says he was misquoted in the reportage of him claiming people from the Volta...

Military in Volta Region: NDC gives govt one day ultimatum [Audio]

The Minority in Parliament has given a day’s ultimatum to government to withdraw military personnel from Ketu South in the Volta Region. Emmanuel Bedzrah, Chairman...
Laboratory scientists working in a lab

Scientists discover Covid-19 goes beyond just being a respiratory disease, it does more damage

Scientists are only starting to grasp the vast array of health problems caused by the novel coronavirus, some of which may have lingering effects...

NDC condemns increased military deployment in Volta, Oti Regions ahead of voter registration exercise

There seems to be a stark disagreement among leading members of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) on the rationale behind the deployment of...

NPP primaries: Sam Pyne justifies Asante Akyem North elections [Audio]

JoyNews/AdomNews · Sam Pyne justifies Asante Akyem North elections Ashanti Regional Secretary of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Sam Pyne, has described as legal the...

Accra floods would have been worse if… Atta Akyea

JoyNews/AdomNews · Accra floods would have been worse if… Atta Akyea But for the intervention of President Nana Akufo-Addo, the whole of Accra would have...

Only 5 out of 41 defeated NPP MPs show up in Parliament [Listen]

JoyNews/AdomNews · Don’t abandon your work- Speaker of Parliament tells defeated NPP MPs Speaker of Parliament, Prof. Mike Oquaye, has appealed to fallen New Patriotic...

Florida police caught using mug shots of black men for target practice

A South Florida family is outraged at North Miami Beach Police after mug shots of African American men were used as targets at a...

Parliament turns ‘ghost town’ over NPP primaries

Parliament has adjourned until Tuesday following a near-empty Chamber on Thursday. The no-show by almost all Members of Parliament (MPs) was due to...
GRA

Challenges with ICUMS resolved – GRA Commissioner-General

Acting Commissioner-General of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA), Rev. Ammishaddai Owusu-Asamoah, has intimated that challenges encountered in the deployment of the Integrated Customs Management...
cocaine

Suspected Cocaine: GRA probes missing 100grams

The Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) has begun investigations into the circumstances surrounding the disappearance of over 100 grams of substances suspected to be high-value...

Instagram ‘will overtake Twitter as a news source’

Photo-sharing app Instagram is set to overtake Twitter as a news source, research suggests. The 2020 Reuters Institute Digital News report found the use of...
parliament

Re: Don’t pay former MPs; some necessary clarifications

It is unfortunate that in the Ghanaian democratic experiment, members of the second arm of Government, the Legislature (specifically and especially MPs), have since...
ndc and npp

EC, NPP, NDC and Democratic Entrenchment and Consolidation in Ghana

One of the issues many people, especially party communicators are failing to bring to the perspectives shaping the debates and the discussion on the...
parliament

Second round of Covid-19 testing to begin in Ghana’s Parliament next week

JoyNews/AdomNews · MPs, parliamentary staff to undergo Covid-19 testing again Members of Parliament (MP), press corps, staff and other regular visitors to the House will...
parliament

COVID-19: Infected persons in Parliament, including journalists defying orders to stay away [Listen]

JoyNews/AdomNews · COVID-19: Infected persons in parliament defying orders It has emerged that some people who have tested positive for the novel coronavirus in...
coronavirus

Covid-19 deaths in Ghana: Exclusive photos from graveyard of 5 deceased patients

The Public Health Directorate of the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) today carried out a ‘supervised’ burial of five persons who died of Covid-19. The five...

20 photos that capture the mood at NDC’s 28 years anniversary ceremony [Photos]

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has marked her 28 years of existence as a political party with a flag-raising ceremony in Accra. The ceremony, which...
Haruna Iddrisu

NDC promises to register Ghanaians without restrictions should it win

Minority Leader, Haruna Iddrisu, has given an assurance that a National Democratic Congress (NDC) government will make it natural for the Electoral Commission (EC)...
kente

Why did US Democrats wear kente to honour George Floyd?

When House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer, and other top Democrats took a knee Monday on Capitol Hill to honor...
parliament

Parliament approves EC’s CI

Parliament has approved the Constitutional Instrument (CI) that would empower the Electoral Commission (EC) to reject the existing voter identification card in the impending...

Tema Interchange is handiwork of Mahama not yours – Kwakye Ofosu to Akufo-Addo

Deputy Communications Minister, Felix Kwakye Ofosu has chided President Akufo-Addo for not crediting former president John Mahama for being the brain behind the Tema...

Parliament freezes approval of EC’s CI after ranking member is accused of doctoring report

Parliament has halted the approval of the Electoral Commission’s (EC) Constitutional Instrument (C.I. 126) laid before it to exclude the old voters identity card...
Tema Motorway Interchange

Akufo-Addo commissions Tema Motorway interchange today

President Akufo Addo will later today (Friday) commission the Tema Motorway interchange project. There’s however, political controversy over who should take credit for the $57million...

Covid-19 Lockdown Expenditure: NADMO official sends message to NDC [Video]

Communications Director for the National Disaster Management Organization (NADMO), George Ayisi, has asked the National Democratic Congress (NDC) to stop the propaganda about the...

Parliamentary Service now an appendage of NPP – Ato Forson fumes [audio]

Member of Parliament for Ajumako Enyan Essiam, Cassiel Ato Forson, is accusing Parliamentary Service of being an appendage of the ruling New Patriotic Party...

NDC petitions Auditor General over govt’s Covid-19 expenditures

The Minority Caucus of Parliament has officially petitioned the Auditor General’s Department to conduct a special audit into how the ¢280.3 million, allocated for...

Coronavirus could ‘drag on US economy for a decade’

The drag on the US economy from the virus pandemic will last almost a decade, according to projections by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO). It...
coronavirus

China’s Wuhan finds no new COVID-19 cases after millions tested

The number of lives lost to coronavirus in the UK has neared 50,000, according to data released this morning.  Devastating figures from the Office for...

Cameroon: Journalist ‘severely beaten’ by soldiers

A Cameroonian journalist working for the German broadcaster Deutsche Welle is receiving treatment after being beaten by soldiers in country's Anglophone area where separatists...
MP for the Asawase Constituency Muntaka Mubarack

Akufo-Addo’s $1m per constituency promise was a scam – NDC

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) says President Nana Akufo-Addo has “monumentally failed” to honour his promise of providing every constituency with $1 million per...