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Audio: Assin Adadientem chief bares teeth at Forestry Commission

The chief of Assin Adadientem in the Assin South district of the Central region, Nii Lantei Tuaka II has taken a swipe at the...

Revealed: More accountants forge Bank of Ghana stamp

It has emerged that some four accountants at the Western regional branch of the Nurses and Midwifery Council also forged stamps of the Bank...

A/Region: Rabid dog attacks hike; Vets warn against killing sick dogs for food

Health experts in the Ashanti Region have cautioned the public against killing suspected rabid dogs for food. Bosomtwe District Director of Health, Dr Moses Barima...

PHOTO: First Lady enstooled as Development Queen of Great Ningo

The First Lady Mrs. Rebecca Akufo-Addo has been enstooled as the Development Queen of Great Ningo under the stool name Naa Na Djangmahkuor I. The...

Hot audio: Angel Obinim 'resurrects' 24-year-old at point of death

Founder and Leader of the International Godsway Church, Bishop Daniel Obinim is reported to have healed a 24-year-old who seemingly was at the verge...

Hot audio: Corruption fight can't be won; its a way of life -Duncan Williams

Founder of Action Chapel International, Archbishop Nicholas Duncan Williams, says wining the fight against corruption is conditioned on a total change in Ghanaian attitudes. In...

Critics of my ‘pantie, bra’ spiritual direction are fools – Obinim

Founder and Leader of the International Godsway Church, Bishop Daniel Obinim has launched a scathing attack on people who criticized his directive to church...

Police Hospital to hold mass burial, gives families 21 day ultimatum

The families of some 120 unknown deceased persons have been given 21 days ultimatum from November 8 to show up at the Police Hospital...

Suspected cable thief electrocuted in Takoradi

A Thirty year old man has been electrocuted at the premises of the Takoradi Technical University (TTU) for allegedly attempting to steal underground high...

VIDEO+PHOTOS: Help us build a museum to showcase our ancestral artifacts’ – Chief to Tourism Ministry

The Nkosuohene of Worawora in the Biakoye district of Volta region Nana Owusu Afari has pleaded with the Ministry for Tourism, Arts and Culture...

Electrician jailed for two years for forging VRA/NEDCO documents

A 28-year-old electrician, Awal  Mohammed, a resident at Amanten in the Brong Ahafo region was on last Thursday jailed for 2 years for forging the...

Police Hospital to embark on mass burial exercise

The Police Hospital has announced a mass burial for some 120 unknown and unclaimed bodies as part of routine measures to decongest the police...

Salvation Army rehab; giving life, hope to the hopeless

For more than 10 years, he crawled when he could walk and even run. His life during that difficult period was lived on a...

Tension rises at Asawase over police killings

Tension is mounting at Aboabo in the Asawase Constituency, in the Ashanti Regional capital, following the killing of two alleged armed robbers in the...

Hot Audio: 21-year-old man in coma after land guards' attack

A 21-year-old man, Kwame Osei is in a critical condition after he was attacked by some land guards in Opeikuma Anigyiekrom in the Awutu...

Nigerian prostitutes flee Tamale

Some Nigerian commercial sex workers in Tamale, the Northern Regional capital, have started leaving the city owing to the declaration of ‘war’ on prostitution...

Govt has not won fall army worm fight – MOFA

The Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MOFA) has said it cannot win the fight against fall armyworm invasion in the country. Rather, the Ministry has...

Former Commonwealth Hall executives to sue UG for excluding their names from graduation list

The 2016/2017 executives of Commonwealth Hall, University of Ghana are set to sue the university for what they say is the unfair exclusion of...

Visitors pay GHc2 to see prisoners

Prison authorities at the Kumasi Central Prisons are taking GHc2 from each person who comes to visit an inmate in the facility, without issuing...

Defiled 9-year-old girl rendered barren

The 9-year-old girl who was gruesomely defiled by a man in the Komenda Edina Eguafo Abirem District in the Central Region has had her...

Hot Audio: Teacher attacked by land guards for sacking student

A Junior High School (JHS) teacher of Kiddies College at Gomoa-Budumburam in the Gomoa East district of the Central Region, Emmanuel Bekoe has been...

Audio: Ankaful psychiatric nurses threaten strike

The Psychiatric Nurses Group (PNG) at the Ankaful Hospital in Cape Coast are threatening to go on strike if their demand for the removal...

Hot Audio: One dead, 4 injured in Assin Kushea gas explosion

One person is reported dead and four others injured after a gas explosion at Assin Kushea in Central Region. An eyewitness who only identified himself...

'Marijuana advocates need mental examination'

The Head of the Addictive Diseases Unit of the Department of Medicine at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital,  Dr. Logosu Amegashie is warning of...

I did not benefit from any state lands – Georgina Wood

Former Chief Justice, Georgina Theodora Wood, has denied benefiting from the sale of prime government lands following a Joy News report on the dishing...

Hot Audio: Lack of public toilet collapsing our marriages – Koftown women cry

Some distressed women in Ada sub-town at Koforidua in the Eastern Region are complaining bitterly about how their marriages are collapsing due to bad...

Audio: Fulani saga: Minister begs teachers to return to school

Eastern Regional Minister Eric Kwakye Darfour, has called on teachers and school children in the Kwahu Enclave, who reportedly abandoned their posts and left...

VIDEO: Fabewoso: Accountant forges Bank of Ghana stamp; steal over GH₵90m

An accountant at the Western regional branch of the Nursing and Midwifery Council is alleged to have forged the stamp of the Bank of...

Audio+Photos: Trotro driver killed by land guards over fare

A 52-year-old commercial driver, Yaw Alebey has been killed by land guards at Opeikuma in the Awutu Senya East Municipality of the Central Region. An...

Hot audio: Chief assaults man for burying son without permission

Paramount Chief of Breman Essaim in the Ajumako Enyan Essiam District of the Central Region Odeifo Asankwa III has been accused of slapping a...

Police officer transferred for lashing female suspect

Tarkwa-Nsuaem Divisional Commander of the Ghana Police Service, ACP Edmond Ohene Bosompem, has confirmed the transfer of the Dompim Station officer who allegedly assaulted...

Bawumia receives smart card license

Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia received his New Smart Drivers’ License on Tuesday, as he launched a new drivers’ license and vehicle registration smart...

PHOTOS: Mother throws newborn baby to his death from 17th floor of a building

A Thai woman has admitted to throwing her newborn baby from a 17th floor window because her married boyfriend left her to return to...

Numo Blafo moved from AMA

The Accra Metropolitan Assembly has appointed Gilbert Nii Ankrah as its new Public Affairs Officer. He replaces Numo Blafo III who has been reassigned to...

Hot video: Kumchacha defends Obinim on 'G-String' direction

The Founder and Leader of the Heaven's Gate Ministries has mounted a spirited defense for his colleague, Bishop Daniel Obinim who has come under...

PHOTOS: Pantang residents demonstrate over citing of dump site

Residents living around Pantang in Accra have embarked on a demonstration to register their displeasure over a dumping cite behind the Pantang Mental Hospital. Led...

Hot Audio: Owusu Bempah denies saying Jesus is not the son of God

Contrary to claims Jesus Christ is not the son of God, the Leader and founder of Glorious Word Power Ministry International (GWPMI), Reverend Owusu...

Ghana launches West Africa’s first smart drivers' license today

The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Authority (DVLA) will today, Tuesday, November 7, 2017, begin issuing smart drivers' licenses across the country. Vice President Dr Mahamudu...

Judges to chase 'sakawa' boys

Judges, Magistrates and Prosecutors are being trained on cyber crime and electronic evidence prosecution to handle ‘sakawa’ and other related computer crimes. According to the...

Reptiles take over abandoned Bunso Presidential Lodge

Even as snakes and other venomous reptiles take over the official Presidential Lodge at Bunso in the East Akim Municipality in the Eastern Region,...