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Akufo-Addo leaves Accra for United Nations General Assembly

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo is scheduled to deliver his maiden address to the United Nations General Assembly on Thursday, September 21. According to a...

New GhanaCard is an improvement over previous one – Akufo-Addo

President Nana Dankwa Akufo-Addo has expressed that the new national identification card tagged ‘GhanaCard’ with its unique features and functions posit as a vast...

“GazPROM LNG supply deal important for Ghana’s economy’ – Akufo-Addo

The President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has described the Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) sales agreement reached between the Ghana National Petroleum...

President Akufo-Addo receives new ‘Ghana Card’

The President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has received his National Identification Card, dubbed the new “Ghana Card”, at a ceremony held...

Hot Audio: Student with dreadlocks denied SHS admission

A parent seeking a Free Senior High School admission for his ward at Accra Girls Senior High School has been denied because she had...

Renewed National ID scheme kicks off today

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo will today, September, 15, 2017 kick off the renewed National Identification System promised by the governing New Patriotic Party(NPP). President...

KATH hard hit by absence of 150 doctors

Authorities of the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) are reeling under pressure over delayed replacement of 150 medical officers for horsemanship. The absence of the...

Audio: I wish free SHS succeeds – Former Education Minister

Former Minister of Education, Professor Jane Naana Opoku Agyemang is praying for the sustainability of the free Senior High School (SHS) policy rolled out...

Joy News’ Manasseh Azure Awuni escapes unhurt in car crash

Joy News’ Investigative journalist Manasseh Azure Awuni was Wednesday evening involved in an accident at the GIMPA road, between GIMPA and the University of Ghana boundary...

Photos: Danger looms as huge rock is waiting to fall on commuters

Residents of Akwamufie and its environs in the Eastern region are appealing to Ghana Highway Authority to help get rid of a huge rock...

PHOTO: Pupils Mob Samira

Second Lady Samira Bawumia was given a rousing welcome to Ashaiman when she visited some schools to encourage fresh pupils on their first day...

Audio: Free SHS: Private SHS urged to review fees

Private Senior High Schools has been urged to review their fees to enable government include them in the free SHS policy. According to deputy Information...

Legalise marijuana – Ghana Standards Authority boss

Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Ghana Standards Authority (GSA), Prof. Alex Badioo, has called for the legalization of marijuana. The CEO made the call when...

Free SHS: Headmistress accused of charging fees denies allegation

The Headmistress of the University Practice Senior High School (UPSS) in Cape Coast, Central Region, has debunked claims by some parents that the school...

Government releases GHC10,000,000.00 to settle School Feeding debt

Madam Otiko Afisa Djaba, the Minister of Gender, Children and Social Protection (MoGCSP), has disclosed that government has released an amount of GHC10,000,000.00 towards...

Ex-convict calls for improved living conditions for prisoners

A 43-year-old Ex-convict, Nana Kwabena Koduah was popularly known as Sofo Chelsea, is appealing to the government to consider increasing the feeding fee of...

Boy, 10, dies over alleged medical negligence at Tema General Hospital

A 10-year-old boy has died after he suffered some complications following a 75 milligram of Naklofen drug administered to him at the Tema General...

Probe into Korle Bu ‘stray bullet’ incident poor – Lab scientists

The Ghana Association of Medical Laboratory Scientists (GAMLs) has bemoaned the lack of urgency and progress in police investigations into the shooting of a...

Nana Addo picks Sammy Awuku as YEA Board Chairman

The President in consultation with the Council of State has appointed a nine- member Board of Directors for the Youth Employment Agency. The Board is...

Murrow alumnus challenges prison and hospital conditions through film

“Be confident and touch on issues which others are afraid to.” Seth Kwame Boateng couldn’t shake Secretary of State John Kerry’s advice to his...

Audio: Korle Bu Hospital boost security after shooting incident

There is heavy security at the Korle- Bu Teaching Hospital following the shooting of a laboratory technician by an unknown person Monday. Surgeons at the...

Hot video: Former DCE want Zoomlion contract cancelled

Former Municipal Chief Executive for Amenfi Central, Kwakye Ackah is calling on government cancel contracts awarded to some companies under the Jospong Group. According to...

Veep launches training programme for NCA NSS personnel

A two-month intensive training programme has been launched for one hundred and seventy (170) National Service Personnel attached to the National Communications Authority (NCA)...

AFAG welcomes Free Senior High School

AFAG wishes to congratulate the NPP government for the implementation of the free Senior High School campaign pledge. This is a great day in...

Report: Closing the health gap for Africa within a generation is achievable

Closing the health gap for Africa within a generation is achievable if opportunities afforded by a rapidly growing workforce are seized and if health...

New GIS recruitment fake – Head of Public Affairs

Ghana Immigration Service (GIS) has stated categorically that it has not received clearance from government to undertake any recruitment exercise of fresh personnel for...

Chief chases out land-guards

Chief of Kokrobite in the Greater Accra Region, Nii Ofei III, has declared war on land-guards who have been terrorising residents and destroying properties...

Hot Audio: Free SHS without my support will collapse – Akua Donkor

The founder and leader of the Ghana Freedom Party (GFP), Akua Donkor is predicting a collapse of the flagship free Senior High School policy...

First penile implant surgery in Ghana by Ghanaian surgeon

Peace and Love Hospital and Derry Court Medical Practice in collaboration with Dr. Samuel Amanamah specialist Sexopathologist with Kumasi South Hospital, performed the first...

First penile implant surgery in Ghana by Ghanaian surgeon

Peace and Love Hospital and Derry Court Medical Practice in collaboration with Dr. Samuel Amanamah specialist Sexopathologist with Kumasi South Hospital, performed the first...

Audio: Gaming Commission officials storms police station over release of illegal gamblers

Officials of Ghana’s Gaming Commission have stormed the Assin Fosu town police station over what they describe as unlawful release of suspected illegal gamblers...

Small scale miners to hold demonstration over ban

Small scale miners in the Ashanti Region are set to demonstrate on Tuesday, September 12, to protest the continued ban on their activities. The government...

Police question Manasseh over Jospong scandal

The Police Criminal Investigative Department has interrogated Joy News’ Manasseh Azure Awuni, the architect behind robbing the Assemblies investigations. He was interrogated not as a...

How a Ghanaian used Photoshop to create fake PhD awards

But say, you have been living under a rock for the past few weeks, you most probably know how Sebastian, a Ghanaian student in...

GJA Elections: Candidates blow alarm on rigging moves

The Roland Affail Monney led Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) has been accused once again of subtle moves aimed at manipulating the upcoming association elections. In...

MP angry over demolition of historic old Parliament building

The Member of Parliament for Adaklu, Kwame Agbodza, has called on the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ), to halt the further...

Minority flays govt over propaganda free SHS

The Minority in Parliament has criticized government over what it described as propaganda that has characterized the implementation of the free Senior High School...

Audio: Akuapim Traditional Council bans drumming and noise making

The Akuapim Mampong Traditional Council has entreated the general public as matter of urgency to endeavour to adhere to all traditional rules by avoiding...

GJA contestants cry foul

Some candidates vying for various positions in the upcoming elections of the Ghana Journalists’ Association (GJA) have alleged that the polls could be rigged. The...