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VIDEO+PHOTOS: Day 2: Wake Keeping held for late Asantehemaa

A ‘wake keeping’ service was held as part of customs for the final funeral rites of the late Asantehemaa, Nana Afia Kobi Serwaa Ampem...

Third 'mysterious' death in a week at KUMACA

A first-year-student of Kumasi Academy Senior High School (KUMACA) has died from Meningitis bringing the death toll recorded under similar circumstances in the school to three...

Photos: Fire guts Tamale Central market

Fire has gutted parts of the Tamale Central Market in the Northern regional Sunday. The fire, which started at about 7:00 am from one shop...

Pastors to die in seven 7 to prove who is genuine

Two men of God has challenged themselves to die and resurrect in seven days to prove who is the genuine. Avram Bin Moshe and Agyapasei...

Ten in court for improper disposal of refuse

The Abeka Sanitation and Motor Court has fined eight persons an amount of GH¢ 360 each or in default three months’ imprisonment with hard...

A/R: Motor rider dies in a crash

A motor rider believed to be in his early twenties has been crashed to death after he collided with a Benz sprinter commercial vehicle...

Thugs attack Tamale-based radio station

A Tamale-based radio station, Justice FM, operating on the frequency 98.5, was on Friday, December 1, 2017, attacked by some thugs. The main console, microphones,...

Castrate rapists – Queen mother

The Queen mother of Gomoa Akyempem in the Central Region, Nana Asa Botchway III, is pushing for men found guilty of defilement to be...

'I paid GH¢6,500 for trip to Spain but was left in Libya' – Returnee migrant

The harrowing experience of a Ghanaian migrant who paid GH¢6,500 for a trip to Spain but was abandoned in Libya by his agent has...

Ghanaian prisoners beaten to pulp in Libya for making phone call

Fifteen Ghanaian prisoners have been beaten to pulp in a prison in Libya for possessing phones. The fifteen were identified and subjected to serious beatings...

One injured in 'battle' over cutlass on Farmers’ Day

A farmer has been severely injured at New Juaben during the Farmers’ Day celebration in the Eastern Region following mad rush for cutlass. According to...

PHOTOS: Priestesses and priests pay homage to Asantehene

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VIDEO+PHOTOS: Asantehemaa’s final funeral rites (Day 1)

The final funeral rites of the late Asantehemaa, Nana Afia Kobi Serwaa Ampem II kicked off today with performances from traditional priests and...

2 KUMACA students die 'mysteriously', 3 hospitalised

At least two first-year students of Kumasi Academy (KUMACA) in the Ashanti Region have died under mysterious circumstances, Myjoyonline.com has learnt. Three others are said...

E/R: Scores injured as VIP bus crashes into trailer at Teacher-Mante

Scores of Passengers on board a VIP bus are in critical condition following a head-on collision on with a Trailor Truck Friday dawn. The accident...

Farmers Day: MP promises farmers free cutlasses in 2018

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) Member of Parliament for the Gomoa East Constituency, Mr Kojo Asemanyi, has pledged wholeheartedly to distribute farming equipment specifically...

2 drug smugglers flee arrest; 76 slabs of suspected cocaine seized

The Police at Axim in the Western Region have impounded a total of 76 slabs of substances believed to be narcotics. The substances were being...

AMA orders closure of stores for Saturday clean up

The Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA), has ordered the closure of all stores and markets on Saturday, December 2, 2017, for a clean-up exercise expected...

People suspect freemasonry because they don’t know much about it – Kufuor

Former President John Agyekum Kufuor, a Freemason and Senior Grand Warden of the United Grand Lodge of England, has stated, the Craft of Freemasonry...

Civil servant remanded for defiling girl, 15

A 47-year-old civil servant has been remanded into police custody by an Accra circuit court, for allegedly defiling a 15-year-old Junior High School graduate,...

Ghana will be destroyed if homosexuality is legalized – Muslims warn

The Ghana Muslim Mission has warned that the country would attract the anger and destruction of Allah if the Government of Ghana gives in...

Gov't warned: Libyan returnees will become armed robbers if…

An international relations expert has said that the 127 Libyan returnees would become security threats to the country if the government fails to integrate...

Kumasi gears up for Asantehemaa’s funeral

Preparations are underway for the final funeral rites of the late queen mother of Asanteman, Nana Afia Serwaa Kobi Ampem II. According to Manhyia Palace,...

Ghanasco, Vittin students share water with animals

Students of Ghana Secondary School (Ghanasco) and Vittin Secondary Technical in the Tamale South constituency of the Northern region are threatening to demonstrate against...

Hot Audio: Three dead, several injured in Noyiri accident

Three passenger have been confirmed dead in a gory accident that occurred along the Bandankwanta and Tinga road in the Bole -Bamboi district of...

PHOTOS: Fulani menace: Mpaemu chief, queen mother’s houses torched

Four houses at Mpaemu a small village near Hweehwee in the Kwahu East District of the Eastern Region have been burnt allegedly by some...

Father smuggles son, 3 through desert to Libya

A three-year-old boy was among the 168 Ghanaian migrants who embarked on a perilous journey to North African country, Libya. The young boy was said...

HOT AUDIO: 'People went mad everyday in prison' – 168 Libya returnees land in Accra

Some 168 Ghanaian detainees in Libya for illegal migration have arrived in Ghana after government facilitated their release from the Libyan authorities. The returnees landed...

Fight against corruption: Let’s give gov’t a little more time – US Ambassador

US Ambassador Robert Porter Jackson has called on Ghanaians to be a little more patient with the government as it prepares to fight against...

23 prostitutes fined GHC11,000 in Accra

The 23 suspected prostitutes who were arrested by the Cantonments police last Sunday night have been fined GH¢11,040 by an Accra Magistrate Court. The convicts...

Freemason is about charity – Kufuor helps launch new book

Freemasons describe their society as a beautiful system of morality, veiled in allegory and illustrated by symbols. But these symbols including a compass and an...

Fabewoso: Central Medical Stores fire deliberate- Health Ministry staff

A former member of the Central Medical Stores (CMS) management committee has said the fire at the facility was "deliberate". Alhaji Inua Yusif maintained that,...

NSS starts mandatory insurance policy deductions…

The National Service Scheme(NSS) will still go ahead to implement the mandatory GH₵ 15 deduction from the allowances of  all National Service Personnel (NSP) across...

Audio: Accra Mall to be closed down

Officials of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) have stormed the premises of the Accra Mall to shut down the facility over some 2.3million tax...

Alleged gay man beaten mercilessly in Kumasi

A man believed to be in his early thirties was beaten pitilessly over the weekend at Alabah, a suburb of Kumasi when he attempted...

Hot video: 'Chiefs, lawyers and prostitutes to die in 2018'

Founder and Leader of the Church of Rabbi, Prophet Kwabena Tawiah has predicted many chiefs, lawyers and prostitutes will die next year. In an exclusive...

HOT AUDIO: Savelugu-Nanton hospital patients share wards with dead bodies

Patients at the Savelugu-Nanton hospital in the Northern Region are compelled to share wards with dead bodies in a testament to deplorable state of...

Akufo-Addo condemns slave auctions in Libya

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has added his voice to the worldwide condemnation towards the current slave trade in Libya. President Nana Addo, whose father...

168 Ghanaians detainees in Libya not part of slave trade

The Foreign Affairs Ministry says some 168 undocumented Ghanaian detainees discovered in Libya were not victims of the reported slave trade. In a statement Tuesday, the...