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Akufo-Addo launches Ghana Enterprise Agency

President Nana Akufo-Addo, has launched the Ghana Enterprises Agency (formerly NBSSI), the National Micro, Small and Medium-Scale Enterprises (MSMEs) and Entrepreneurship Policy, and the...

Drobo chiefs petition NMC over Jaman Radio’s alleged attacks

The Drobo Traditional Council in the Jaman South Municipality of the Bono Region has expressed its displeasure over what they described as a deliberate...

Govt justifies purchase of Sputnik V vaccines

Government says it rather successfully negotiated downwards the price of the Sputnik V vaccine from a higher price to 19$. A statement issued by the...

Prophet Nigel Gaisie predicts own death [Audio]

Popular Ghanaian Prophet, Nigel Gaisie, claims God he knows when he would die as a result of a revelation made to him by God. "I...

Health Ministry to respond to allegations of over-priced Sputnik vaccine

The Ministry of Health (MOH) has revealed it will in due course respond to allegations surrounding the purchase of Sputnik vaccines into the country....

Truck full of yam plunges into Oti River [Video]

A truck full of yam has plunged into the Oti river at Dambai in the Krachi East Municipality of the Oti Region. The incident, according to...

Mother cries for help to locate missing boy in Offinso

A young woman is pleading for assistance in locating her four-year-old son. The boy has been missing for nearly two weeks at Offinso in the...

Three arrested over burglary at Awutu Akrampa

The Awutu Breku District police command has arrested three persons in connection with a burglary at Akrampa in the Awutu Breku of the Central...

Four dead, others injured in head-on collision at Kwanwoma

Four persons have died with two injured in a head-on collision involving two trucks at Kwanwoma in the Ashanti Region. According to a witness, one...

Journalism student who was declared missing found dead

A student of GH Media, who was declared missing some weeks ago, has been found dead. Priscilla Tsegah, alias Kiki, was declared missing after her...

I’ll not recuse myself – Judge to Opuni

A second push by lawyers for former Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) Chief Executive Officer, Dr Stephen Opuni, to have the judge hearing his criminal...

N/R: Man to commit suicide if police fail to arrest rapists who killed her daughter

An 18-year-old girl has died after an alleged rape at Safam, a farming community in the Savelugu Municipality of the Northern Region. She is said...

16,000 agribusinesses remain closed in Ghana – New survey reveals

COVID-19 has affected almost all sectors of the economy and agribusiness is no exception. New data on the impact of the pandemic on agribusinesses in...

Tema residents cough blood, suffer nose bleeding [Video]

Residents at Tema Community 7 in the Greater Accra Region are complaining about what they term as excess poisonous smoke from an industry within...

Retired police officer allegedly defiles granddaughter at Kasoa Ofaakor

A-72-year-old retired policeman, Chief Inspector Larbie, has been arrested by theKasoa Domestic Violence and Victims Support Unit of the Ghana Police Service for allegedly...

Fight against terrorism a collective one; ECOWAS will assist Burkina Faso – Akufo-Addo

The Chairperson of the Authority of Heads of States and government of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo,...

First witness in treason trial appears in court

Colonel Isaac Amponsah, in charge of the Military Academy Training School, one of the first witnesses in the alleged treason trial involving Dr Frederick...

Forestry Commission to plant 5 million trees under Green Ghana project

JoyNews/AdomNews · Forestry Commission to plant 5 million trees The Forestry Commission, through the Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources, has launched the Green Ghana...

Your statement is full of grammatical errors – #Fixthecountry convenor fires police

JoyNews/AdomNews · Ernesto Yeboah fires Ghana Police Service Pressure group #FixTheCountry is treating the order by the Ghana Police Service not to demonstrate with 'the...

Reasons for #FixTheCountry protest not compelling – Police

The Ghana Police Service says the reasons given by some Ghanaians for a need to hit the streets to demand better living conditions are...

Shortage in gas supply to blame for Monday’s power outage – GRIDCo

The Ghana Grid Company Limited (GRIDCo) has attributed Monday night’s power outage in some parts of the Greater Accra Region to shortage in gas...

Corruption Watch: Exposé in ‘Pay or Die documentary’ a tip of the iceberg – Public Health expert

JoyNews/AdomNews · Health expert wants NHIS policy reviewed Retired Public Health expert, Dr Oben Apori, is not surprised pregnant women are made to pay for...

30-year-old man arrested for allegedly killing taxi driver

Police in the Ashanti Region have arrested a murder suspect, Emmanuel Asare Bediako, aged 30, at Amanfrom CPC in Kumasi. Mr Bediako is suspected to...

Police send strong message to #FixTheCountry protesters

The Ghana Police Service has said the #FixTheCountry protesters can still not hold their demonstration despite a Supreme Court ruling in their favour. According to...

Jobs created by Akufo-Addo will shock you

Deputy Minister-designate for Employment and Labour Relations, Bright Wireko-Brobby says the Akufo-Addo government has created over 3.8 million jobs since 2017. According to him, the...

One shot dead, 6 injured in robbery at Gomoa Manso [Photos]

One person has been shot dead in a robbery at a sand winning site at Gomoa Manso in the Gomoa Central District of the...

Woman stabs lover to death after being denied grasscutter soup

Police at Abesim in the Sunyani Municipality have arrested Hilda Asumani, a 27- year-old hairdresser, for allegedly stabbing her boyfriend, Prince Yaw Aboagye, to...

Govt given 7 days to reconstitute expired university councils

The Minority in Parliament has given government a seven-day ultimatum to constitute new governing councils for all public universities across the country after their...

CLOGSAG threatens to strike over pension contributions

Members of the Civil and Local Government Staff Association of Ghana (CLOGSAG) say they will lay down their tools in two weeks if the...

NLC summons striking Universities’ Senior Staff

The National Labour Commission (NLC) has summoned the striking Universities' Senior Staff (SSA) to appear before it on Wednesday, June 9, 2021. The meeting has...

Drama in court as Ghanaian wife of convicted Chinese illegal miner pleads for leniency

There was drama at the court complex in Kumasi when the Ghanaian wife of a convicted illegal Chinese immigrant stormed the venue with their...

Residents burn fetish priest’s houses over murder of 12-year-old boy

Residents of Ndowukope in the Akatsi North District of the Volta Region and their Assembly member have burnt a shrine and other houses belonging...

Akufo-Addo unveils 500 waste trucks as govt partners Jospong

The President, Nana Akufo-Addo, has announced that the next phase of Ghana’s waste management is to convert trash to energy. He indicated this will add...

Why lady poured salt in food lover’s mother cooked will shock you [Video]

A Kumasi-based woman, identified simply as Linda, has gone the extreme to prevent third party involvement in her relationship. Heavily pregnant Linda poured a full...

Alleged coup plot: Court told how accused persons were secretly filmed

An Accra High Court has been briefed on how the Defence Intelligence Department of the Ghana Armed Forces secretly filmed meetings of the alleged...

Afriyie-Ankrah’s take on Kissi Agyebeng as Special Prosecutor

The National Democratic Congress’ (NDC) Director of Elections, Elvis Afriyie-Ankrah, has expressed reservations about the nomination of Kissi Agyebeng as the next Special Prosecutor. According...

Three miners perish in gory accident at Ayanfuri [Photos]

Three workers at the Perseus Mining company have perished in a gory accident at Ayanfuri in the Upper Denkyira West District of the Central...

Good news for #FixTheCountry campaigners

A Supreme Court panel, presided over by Justice Yaw Appau, has set aside a High Court order that indefinitely barred the fix the country...

What killed popular Ghanaian journalist

Popular veteran journalist, Sekyere Poproro Boateng, has passed on. Wofa Sekyere Boateng, as he was affectionately called, passed on on Monday, June 7, 2021, aged...

Ken Agyapong to lead demo against NIA boss [Listen]

JoyNews/AdomNews · Ken Agyapong to lead demo against NIA boss Executive Secretary of the National Identification Authority (NIA), Professor Kenneth Agyeman Attafuah, has incurred the...