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Court prosecutes sanitation offenders

The Abeka Sanitation and Motor Magistrate Court has prosecuted 21 residents of Lapaz and its environs within the Okaikoi North Sub-metro of the Accra...

Woyome’s review application dismissed

The Supreme Court yesterday dismissed another application by businessman, Mr Alfred Agbesi Woyome, to stop his upcoming oral examination in relation to the GH¢51.2...

Disband all vigilante groups – US Envoy

Mr Robert P. Jackson, the United Sates Ambassador to Ghana, has urged the government of Ghana to take concrete steps to rein vigilante groups...

Charlotte Osei in trouble as EC staff call for her impeachment over fraud, abuse of office

Joy News has intercepted a petition filed by staff of the Electoral Commission against the Chairperson, Charlotte Osei, calling for a full-scale probe into...

YEA beneficiaries to demonstrate over unpaid allowances

A group calling itself the Coalition of Youth Employment Agency (YEA) beneficiaries has served notice of a demonstration against the management of YEA over...

President, CJ petitioned to impeach EC Chairperson

Some concerned workers of the Electoral Commission (EC) have petitioned the President and Her Ladyship, the Chief Justice to begin impeachment processes against the...

Hot video: 9-year-old gospel-singing sensation

Bismarck Donkor is only nine but everywhere he performs, he gets the same reaction: people are awestruck by the little boy’s great big voice. The...

Hot video: 'I'm the greatest victim of irresponsible journalism in Ghanaian media'

President Akufo-Addo says he has been the greatest victim in the domain of irresponsible journalism in a section of the Ghanaian media. According to him,...

Woyome's day of reckoning will come – Akufo-Addo

There will eventually be a day of reckoning for businessman Alfred Agbesi Woyome as far as the litany of legal issues concerning that matter...

Fire guts JOB 600 building

Fire has gutted the 10th floor of the Job 600 building which serve as offices for Members of Parliament and their research assistants. Acting Director...

Audio: Pregnant midwife found dead while in labour

A 30-year-old pregnant midwife, who also works at the Atebubu district government hospital in the Brong Ahafo region has been found dead. According to reports,...

Man swindles fiancée of GH¢165,000

A man, who betrayed the trust of his fiancée by allegedly swindling her of her cash of GH¢165,000, has been arrested to face the...

I will marshal all arsenals to fight galamsey – Akufo-Addo

President Akufo-Addo has reiterated his resolve to fight illegal mining popularly known as galamsey in the country. According to him, not even his quest to...

Accident leaves ‘gravediggers’ unconscious

Scores of people who were on their way to a cemetery at Kormantse-Nkum in the Central Region to dig a grave have been involved...

PHOTO: Major Mahama's mother receives his master's degree certificate

The mother of the late Major of the Ghana Army who was lynched in Denkyira-Obuasi has received his master's degree certificate on his behalf. The...

2 Ashaiman Illegal petrol fire victims die

Two persons among a family of four who were seriously burnt by wild fire, purportedly caused by illegal petroleum products dealer at Taifa, a...

Judges threaten strike over unpaid allowances

Five hundred members of the Association of Magistrates and Judges are threatening to embark on a nationwide strike over unpaid allowances. Another issue they are...

Koforidua roads develop potholes 6 months after construction

Major parts of roads in Koforidua in the New Juaben Municipality of the Eastern Region have developed deep potholes in less than 6 months...

Let’s all be innovation enablers – First Lady urges Africans

First Lady Rebecca Akufo-Addo has urged all Africans to help create and promote innovation in communities in a bid to solve real and difficult...

President Akufo-Addo accounts to Ghana on July 18

As President Nana Addo Danquah Akufo-Addo?s Administration builds momentum, Ghanaians would, on Tuesday, July 18, have the opportunity to assess the significant role, achievements...

Hot audio: Man cursed for sleeping with his pastor's wife

Sleeping with another man’s wife knowingly or unknowingly attracts some curses or punishments but this becomes worse if the woman happens to be the...

Aggrieved traders at Kotokuraba market protest unfair stalls distribution

Some Assembly members and traders at the Kotokuraba Market in Cape Coast in the Central region are protesting what they describe as the unfair...

PHOTOS: Alhaji Chocho paves Koforidua Regional Hospital road

The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Chocho Industries Limited, Alhaji Dr Mustapha Oti Boateng, has paved and handed over a 231 metre-length road...

Ghana's record keeping 'weak' – Kweku Baako

Editor-in-Chief of New Crusading Guide, Abdul Malik Kweku Baako has described Ghana as a country which is weak in record keeping. Speaking at the 13th...

Audio: Ghana could suffer terror attack if… – Security analyst

Security expert at the University of Cape Coast, Dr Kingsley Adjei has warned Ghana may be a target of terror attack in West Africa. His...

Revealed: Former Gov’t officials behind Central Medical Stores arson (VIDEO)

Officials of the government paid for and ordered the arson that occurred at the Central Medical Stores in Tema in 2015, it has emerged. The...

Hot Audio: Angry fishermen threaten naked demo

Some Angry fishermen in the Gomoa West District of the Central Region have threatened to storm the Flagstaff house naked if the Ministry of...

Killer dog killed in Takoradi for attacking a six-year-old boy

The Alsatian dog that purportedly mauled a six-year-old boy, Bismark Adzie, to death on June 20, 2017 at New Amanful in the Ahanta West...

Portrait of a guardian angel: How one man saved a boy’s life

It is said that not all superheroes wear a cape and I am convinced that this saying is true. Meet Kofi Kissinger, a man...

VIDEO: 17-year old leads gang to rob businessman at gunpoint in traffic

A seventeen (17) year old is in the grips of the East Legon Police for leading a robbery attack on a White businessman at...

VIDEO: I won’t preach in Denkyira-Obuasi; I’m not ‘Apostle Paul’ – Kumchacha

Self-acclaimed prophet, Nicholas Osei well known as Kumchacha, has served notice that, he will not make any attempt of staging even an evangelism at...

ECG to install prepaid metres nationwide to curtail losses

The Electricity Company of Ghana ECG will soon be compelled to install prepaid meters across the country to reduce inefficiencies in the system and...

Government to scrap 'failed' NHIS capitation program

Senior Minister Yaw Osafo Maafo has disclosed that government would soon abolish the National Health Insurance Capitation Policy. The policy was first piloted in the...

39 basic school girls pregnant in Wa East district

Thirty-nine (39) basic school girls have been impregnated in the Wa East District of the Upper West Region in the first half of 2017,...

Poverty Still High In Ghana – UNICEF Report

A report released by UNICEF has revealed that even though Ghana has been able to eradicated extreme hunger and poverty, the situation of general...

Hot video: Tano bridge collapse: Pregnant woman, students escape death

Three students at the Nobekaw Junior High School (JHS) in the Asunafo South District of the Brong-Ahafo Region escaped death narrowly when part of...

Hot video: Wife of late Kotoko equipment officer speaks

Wife of the late deputy equipment officer of Kumasi Asante Kotoko has narrated how she heard the sad news after last Wednesday's accident involving...

Embattled Lawyer Francis-Xavier Sosu honoured with humanitarian award

Celebrated human rights and public interest lawyer, Francis-Xavier Sosu, has been presented with a humanitarian award by the Marshal UK & The Vine Complex...

Pray, fast to avert curses – Korankye Ankrah to Denkyira Obuasi residents

The Apostle General of the Royal House Chapel International has restated that residents of Denkyira Obuasi in the Central Region would have to pray and...

Mahama visits Barbara Mahama, children; gives ‘chop money’

Former President John Dramani Mahama has paid a visit to the family of late Major Adam Mahama at their Burma Camp residence in Accra. The...