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Voters Register: EC inaugurates committee to expunge double names

The Electoral Commission (EC) has inaugurated an adjudication committee to help expunge the names of multiple registrants from the new voters' register. The 16-member multi-stakeholder...

WASSCE 2020: CHASS bares teeth at rioting students

The Conference of Heads of Assisted Secondary Schools (CHASS), in a stern warning to rioting final year students, says recalcitrant students will not go...

Covid-19 National Trust Fund presents PPEs to 13 health facilities

The Covid-19 National Trust Fund has presented assorted Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and other items worth thousands of Ghana cedis to 13 health institutions...

Family of woman who died of Covid-19 rejects report

The family of a woman who tested positive for Covid-19 in the Bekwai Municipality of the Ashanti Region has rejected laboratory result that she...

National Youth Authority condemns SHS rioting

The National Youth Authority has condemned the bad behaviour exhibited by some of the students writing the ongoing West Africa Senior School Certificate Examination. In...

Why Ghana School of Hygiene final year students stormed Sanitation Ministry [Video]

Final year students of the Ghana School of Hygiene (GSH) on Tuesday picketed the Ministry of Sanitation and Water resources to demand unpaid...

18 Foreigners before court for cybercrime

Some 18 foreigners, who allegedly entered the country illegally to engage in cybercrime, have been put before the Wa Circuit Court. The accused, believed to...

Mahama surprised with new chieftaincy title [Photos]

Former president John Dramani Mahama has been given a new title by the Chief of Bole, Bole Wuraa Sarfo Kutuge Feso I and his...

Committee submits report on death of final year KNUST SHS student

The four-member committee set up to investigate the death of a final year KNUST SHS student has today submitted its report to the Ashanti...

How Nkrumah was overthrown by young soldier he tried to empower

At a hall in Adisadel College in Cape Coast in 1955, stood the 19-year-old-tall-young-brilliant Akwasi Amankwa Afrifa awaiting the a handshake and congratulatory words...

SHS students conscientised by the NDC to insult Akufo-Addo – NPP Chairman

Constituency Chairman for the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in New Juaben North, Kwadwo Boateng Agyemang has alleged that the National Democratic Congress (NDC) was...

NDC calls for the arrest of NPP thugs in Ajumako Bisease

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has called on the Inspector General of Police (IGP) to investigate, arrest and prosecute alleged New Patriotic Party (NPP)...

SHS students assault school officials, Daily Graphic reporter over strict supervision during WASSCE [photos]

Students of Bright Senior High School at Kukurantumi in the Eastern Region have attacked officials of the West African Examination Council (WAEC)...

No SHS student has died of Covid-19 – Dr Oko-Boye tells Parliament

The Deputy Health Minister has told Parliament that no Covid-19 related death has been recorded in any senior high schools since finalists returned to...

Full Speech: NDC press briefing on violent disruption of registration process at Ajumako Bisease

PRESS CONFERENCE HELD AT AJUMAKO BISEASE ON 6th AUGUST, 2020 DELIVERED BY COMRADE KWESI DAWOOD, CENTRAL REGIONAL COMMUNICATIONS OFFICER OF THE NDC. VIOLENT DISRUPTION OF...

You can’t silence the church – Clergy to Akufo-Addo

The Association of Pentecostal and Charismatic Clergy (APCC) has accused the ruling New Patriotic Party of launching a sustained attack against the Church and...

EC announces date for Voters Register mop-up exercise

The Electoral Commission (EC) has announced the date for its planned mop-up exercise for the ongoing voters' registration exercise. The Commission will officially end the...

WR: Rituals father performed for impregnating daughter will shock you [Video]

A 35-year-old man, Kwasi Abu, has allegedly impregnated his 15-year-old daughter at Wassa Abre-hyia in the Western region. The girl, who has been...

Rawlings’ first Veep could not resist beautiful girls – Prof. Ahwoi

Late Vice President of the Republic of Ghana, K.N. Arkaah could not resist young beautiful girls. This is according to Professor Kwamena Ahwoi in...

Sammy Gyamfi files complaint against Kennedy Agyapong

The National Communications Officer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Sammy Gyamfi has filed a complaint against politician Kennedy Agyapong. The complaint filed at...

Why ‘Apraku My Daughter’s’ body is still in the morgue [listen]

JoyNews/AdomNews · Why ‘Apraku My Daughter’s’ body is still in the morgue Prophet Kumchacha, a close friend of Emmanuel Kwaku Apraku, known by many as...

Kennedy Agyapong’s warning to Sammy Gyamfi

Politician and businessman, Kennedy Agyapong, has offered advice to Sammy Gyamfi, National Communications Officer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC).  In Mr Agyapong’s view, the...

Nanny rescues her boss’ child during Beirut explosion [Watch]

A caring nanny has received praises on social media after a video of her rescuing her boss’ daughter surfaced on the internet. The nanny risked...

Check out manufacturing process of new Uber-like cars by Kantanka [Video]

Kwadwo Safo Junior, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Kantanka Group of Companies, has released videos showing how its new brand of Uber-like...

Tweneboa Kodua SHS students apologise over WASSCE rampage [Video]

Final year students of the Tweneboa Kodua Senior High School (SHS) at Kumawu in the Ashanti region have rendered an unqualified apology...

First Lady donates towards Tema Homowo

The First Lady, Mrs. Rebecca Naa Okaikor Akufo-Addo on Wednesday presented some items to the Tema traditional Council towards this year’s Homowo festival. Among the...

NADMO issues alert as Burkina Faso prepares to spill dams

The National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO) has triggered what it calls ‘Operation ThunderBolt 2020’ following signals from Burkina Faso that the Bagre and Kompienga...

Ndewura Jakpa Senior High Technical students vandalise school properties in protest against social distancing in exam hall

Students of Ndewura Jakpa Senior High Technical in Damongo in the West Gonja Municipality have vandalised school’s properties in protest against the 1.5-meter social...

Desist from mob justice – IGP cautions as he visits Kafaba

The Inspector General of Police (IGP), James Oppong-Boanuh, has cautioned citizens of the Savannah Region to desist from mob justice. He made this remark on...

Adom FM’s Ballot Box train goes to Ablekuma South on August 7

After a successful community interaction between the electorate and their political leaders in the Asuogyaman District in the Eastern region, the next stop for...

What Kweku Baako thinks about Prof. Ahwoi’s ‘Working with Rawlings’ book

Editor-in-Chief of the New Crusading Guide Newspaper, Kweku Baako Jnr, is of the view that National Democratic Congress' (NDC) stalwart, Prof. Kwamena Ahwoi's 'Working...

Tears of joy as stranded Ghanaians in Lebanon arrive home after Ken Agyapong’s support

Some Ghanaians, who were stranded in Lebanon in the Middle East and appealed for support, have finally arrived in Ghana. Majority of them were young...

EC investigates multiple registration at centres

Chairperson of the Electoral Commission (EC), Mrs Jean Adukwei Mensa, has set up an Adjudication Review Committee to investigate cases of multiple voter registration...

Suspected thief killed during standoff between police and angry mob at Tamale

A middle-aged man has been killed at Choggu-Manayile in Tamale, the Northern regional capital during a standoff between police and an angry mob. While the...

Voters register: Kennedy Agyapong ‘exposes’ Sammy Gyamfi

Assin Central Member of Parliament has dismissed claims by Sammy Gyamfi that violence has marred the voters’ registration exercise in his constituency. Mr Gyamfi, National...

Priestess shows no remorse in court over lynching of 90-year-old Akua Denteh

Hajia Sirina Mohammed, 40, charged with murder at the Bole Magistrate Court for masterminding the lynching of 90-year-old Akua Denteh, has said she was...

The economy we inherited could never have survived Covid-19 – Akufo-Addo

President Nana Akufo-Addo has said the economy his government inherited from the erstwhile National Democratic Congress (NDC) could not have sustained expenditures incurred during...

Kwakye Ofosu replies Ahwoi over recruitment to ‘talk back’ at Rawlings

Former Deputy Minister of Communications, Felix Ofosu Kwakye, has disputed claims that he was recruited to 'talk back' at former President Jerry Rawlings. According to...

I have paid all depositors of defunct banks – Akufo-Addo

President Nana Akufo-Addo says the government has paid all depositors of collapsed banks. According to the president, no single depositor has been left out...

Woman’s abortion attempt backfires, gives birth to a ‘strange’ child

A man has shared the story of how his wife’s attempt to get rid of an unwanted pregnancy backfired, causing her to birth to...