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M*sturbation: Addicted man pleads for help

A 25-year-old man, who claims to have been masturbating for 11 years now, wants to quit the act. The young man, who made a passionate...

COVID-19 vaccines safe, effective – FDA assures public

The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) says adequate safety and quality assurance has been done in authorising the two COVID-19 vaccines to be administered...

Another LGBTQI office pops up in Accra [Listen]

JoyNews/AdomNews · Kwabenya Traditional Council identifies ‘new’ LGBTQI The Kwabenya Traditional Council in the GA East Municipality of the Greater Accra Region has said it...

Parah Foundation provides water for Tinkong Tenurase village

The Parah Foundation, the Missions wing of the Remi Gharbin Ministries, has provided a mechanised borehole for the people of Tinkong Tenurase village in...

Power outage to hit parts of Accra, check out affected areas

Parts of the Greater Accra Region will today, February 23, 2021, experience a power outage from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm. The Electricity Company of...

I’m gay, fear forced me to deny it – Ghanaian journalist comes out on live TV

A Ghanaian journalist and LGBTQI+ activist has, for the very first time, openly declared he is gay. According to Ignatius Annor, he had kept his...

Govt reaffirms position on LGBTQI [Audio]

JoyNews/AdomNews · Government reaffirms position on LGBTQI Government has no intention to change Ghana’s position on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBTQI) rights. Information Minister-designate, Kojo...

Why a man married his wife’s niece will shock you [Video]

A man and wife are on the verge of divorce after the man elevated his wife's niece to the status of a rival. What started...

Traders whose items were destroyed by fire last year send a reminder to Akufo-Addo

Over 3,000 traders, whose items were destroyed in the inferno that razed down the Odawna market in November last year, are reminding President Nana...

Kejetia traders resist eviction from central market [Photos]

Traders at the Kumasi Central Market have embarked on a protest over claim they are being forcibly ejected without proper relocation arrangement by the...

Covid-19: Hospitals release autopsy reports for research

The Ga East and 37 Military Hospitals have released their Covid-19 autopsy reports for research purposes. The research conducted by 10 medical professionals was...

Death of 13-year-old girl: Family suspects rape and murder

The family of 13-year-old Akua Georgina has challenged reports she allegedly committed suicide in their compound at Konongo-Odumasi. The victim was found hanging by a...

Prof Gyampo wades into LGBTQI debate

A senior lecturer at the Political Science Department of the University of Ghana, Professor Ransford Gyampo, has condemned in no uncertain terms activities of...

My wife of 5 years doesn’t know I’m gay, I have no feelings for her – Man reveals [Audio]

JoyNews/AdomNews · My wife of 5 years doesn’t know I’m gay, I have no feelings for her – Man reveals A 35-year-old man, who claims...

Meet the Ghanaian engineer behind NASA’s robotic arm for Mars

Standing at the porch of his house in Ghana, as a young boy, Ashitey Trebi-Ollennu was fascinated by the planes that flew in and...

Why Akoto Ampaw wants Mahama’s review application dismissed [Audio]

JoyNews/AdomNews · Why Akoto Ampaw wants Mahama’s review application dismissed Lead Counsel for the 2nd Respondent in the 2020 Presidential Election Petition, Akoto Ampaw, has...

Police officer arrested for shooting into crowd on Accra-Tema Motorway

A police officer, who allegedly fired his pump action gun into a crowd of mourners and thereby injuring one person on the Accra-Tema Motorway,...

Opuni-Frimpong sends message to religious leaders over LGBTQI+

Former General Secretary of the Christian Council of Ghana, Dr Kwabena Opuni-Frimpong, has called on religious bodies and other stakeholders to rise against the...

Be mindful of what you say about your country – Archbishop Duncan- Williams tells citizens

Archbishop Nicholas Duncan-Williams, Founder of Action Chapel International, has urged Ghanaians to be mindful of their utterances as they have the tendency to destroy. According...

Aftermath of church building collapse: Boy, 6, battles for his life

Justice Kekeli Biedo, a 6-year-old boy, is battling for his life at the St. Anthony Hospital in Dzodze after part of an uncompleted Church...

Security Council locks down Ho Central Mosque

The Ho Municipal Security Council has closed down the Ho Central Mosque for two weeks while litigation over the Regional Imam position is being...

JoyNews gets results: Rebecca Foundation supports struggling mother to raise daughter with special needs

The Rebecca Foundation has moved swiftly to support the sick and frail-looking 40-year-old woman, Georgina Yawa Ankrah, following a JoyNews report on...

Four more people arrested in connection with Yong Dakpeme Yili chieftaincy clash

Four more people have been arrested in connection with the Yong Dakpeme Yili chieftaincy clash. The four were arrested at a hide-out in the remote...

GES to set up call centres to address SHS placement issues

The Ghana Education Service (GES) is appealing for calm as it prepares to release this year’s Senior High School (SHS) placement. A statement, copied to...

Assin South MP joins calls for closure of LGBTQI office

Assin South Member of Parliament (MP) is calling for the closure of an office allegedly opened by the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual Transgender and queer...

Deputy Clerk of Parliament has passed

A Deputy Clerk of Parliament has died.Robert Apodolla died on Friday, February 19 after a short illness.He was one of the clerks who had...

Suspected thief beaten to pulp at Assin Fosu

A middle-aged man has been beaten to pulp in a botched robbery operation. The young man, whose name was only given as Issah, a native...

Coronavirus: 60 health workers at Savelugu Hospital test positive

Some 60 health workers at the Savelugu Hospital in the Northern Region have tested positive for Covid-19. This follows mass testing of staff of the...

Fisherman dies on Winneba waters

A 59-year fisherman, on Thursday, February 18, met his untimely death after suddenly collapsing into the fishing vessel he was working on in Winneba...

Tension mounts among Muslims in Ho

There is tension mounting among members of the Zongo community in the Volta Regional capital, Ho, over who takes the leadership of the Muslim...

Tears as police officer shot dead on duty and his mother are buried [Photos]

A police officer, Constable Eugene Yelnona, 27, stationed at the National Protection Unit, who was shot dead a couple of weeks ago while on...

Bolgatanga: Motorbike rider burns beyond recognition in ghastly accident, one other killed [Photos]

Two young men riding a motorcycle were killed in an accident that occurred on the Bolgatanga-Navrongo Highway in the Upper East Region. The yet-to-be-identified men...

Catholic Bishops send message to Akufo-Addo over gays, lesbians

The Ghana Catholic Bishops' Conference (GCBC) has called on President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to close down the newly-opened Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and...

Reporter gets robbed at gunpoint during live segment

An Ecuadorian television reporter and his camera crew got the scare of their lives when they were held at gunpoint by a masked robber,...

Three foreigners dead in gory accident at Gomoa Okyereko

Three foreigners were on Friday confirmed dead in a fatal accident at Gomoa Okyereko on the Winneba-Highway in the Central Region. The three, a male...

Ebola not recorded in Ghana – GHS

The Director-General of the Ghana Health Service (GHS), Dr Patrick Kuma-Aboagye, has confirmed that no case of Ebola has been recorded in...

Atubiga apologies to NDC [Audio]

JoyNews/AdomNews · Stephen Atubiga apologises to NDC A member of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Stephen Atubiga, has rendered an unqualified apology following a summon...

Coronavirus: Amanfro Polyclinic to get isolation centre

The Member of Parliament (MP) for Bortianor Ngleshie Amanfro, Matthew Sylvester Tetteh, is set to cut the sod for the building of an isolation...

Coronavirus: 15 students at Tarkwa test positive

A total of 15 students from basic, junior, senior and tertiary institutions in the Tarkwa-Nsuaem Municipality of the Western Region have tested positive for...

23 houses set ablaze amid gunshots over alleged chieftaincy issue in Tamale

Heavy police presence is currently being witnessed at Yong Dakpemyili, a community in the Tamale metropolis over alleged chieftaincy dispute. There were multiple gunshots discharged...