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Thursday declared public holiday

The Ministry of Interior has declared Thursday, September 21, 2017 as a public holiday.The holiday, Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Day, commemorates the birthday of Ghana’s...

Policeman slaps Legon lecturer

A lecturer at the University of Ghana is demanding disciplinary action against a police officer who allegedly slapped him during a misunderstanding Sunday night...

Ghana Home Loans launches 10th anniversary Housing Fair

Ghana Home Loans has officially launched its 20th edition Housing Fair at the forecourt of its head office, Airport Residential Area, Accra.The fair is...

Revealed: Hot video: SSNIT ‘blows’ GH₵79 million on pocket dairies

Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) has reportedly spent a whopping GH¢79 million on pocket dairies in 2016.SSNIT, which is struggling to pay...

Ghanaian men are afraid to propose to us – Military women cry out

A group of military women have blamed their singleness on the timidity of some Ghanaian men, saying they (men) lack the courage to propose...

August 4 is new Founders Day

President Akufo-Addo is set to propose to Parliament to adopt August 4 as Founders Day for the Republic.The proposal will also request parliament to...

Scammed mobile money vendor collapses

A scammer nearly caused the death of a mobile money vendor in Takoradi after he had been duped of GH¢6,000 in a fake transaction.The...

Audio: Fire guts VIP bus en route to Kumasi; 29 escape death

A VIP bus en route to the Ashanti Regional capital Kumasi caught when it developed a mechanical fault in a town near Nkawkaw SundayFortunately,...

Nurse’s post over death of 10yr old boy sparks social media outrage

A mean-spirited post about the death of a 10-year-old boy at the Tema General Hospital, by a supposed nurse, has sparked outrage on social...

Photos: Four dead in canoe disaster on White Volta.

The National Disaster Management Organization (NADMO) has retrieved four dead bodies after a boat carrying five people sunk in the White Volta around Bimbini...

Stop sabotaging President’s Free SHS policy – Tema Mantse

Dr. Nii Adjei Kraku ll, the Paramount Chief of Tema, has decried a trend of extortions in second cycle institutions in the wake of...

“We are excited with the Free SHS”- Togbe Afede

Togbe Afede XIV, Agbogbomefia of Asogli State and President of the National House of Chiefs, has lauded government for implementing its flagship Free Senior...

ECOWAS must play lead role in Togo – Togbe Afede

Togbe Afede XIV, Agbogbomefia of Asogli and President of the National House of Chiefs, has reiterated the call on the Economic Community of West...

Hot Audio: Girl stripped naked in school for bed wetting

A woman, believed to be in her 40s has allegedly stripped her 11 year-old girl naked in her school at Assin Krofofordo in the...

Okyenhene wants Akyem-Abuakwa chiefs to retire at 75

The Okyenhene, Osagyefuo Amoatia Ofori Panin, is pushing for a mandatory abdication of chiefs on attainment of the ripe age of 75 years.He said...

Stop sabotaging President’s Free SHS policy – Chief

Dr. Nii Adjei Kraku ll, the Paramount Chief of Tema, has decried a trend of extortions in second cycle institutions in the wake of...

Minister in trouble over Komenda Sugar Factory

Deputy Minister for Trade and Industry, is in fresh trouble over what an ex-worker of the Komenda Sugar Factory in the Central Region, described...

24 inmates test HIV positive at Kumasi prison…

A total of 24 inmates at the Kumasi Central Prison have tested positive for HIV, the Ashanti Regional Prisons Commander, DDP Lord Nii Boye...

108 Ghanaians deported from Benin

One hundred and eight Ghanaians have been deported from Benin following the takeover of their residence by the Beninoise government for the construction of...

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...