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CHASS to receive 50% of free SHS funds

Deputy Finance Minister, Abena Osei-Asare, has given assurance that government is ready to disburse the funds to allow the smooth implementation of the free...

4 Jospong officials quizzed by Police over questionable contracts

The police administration says it is ready to prosecute persons against whom adverse findings will be made in the ongoing investigations into the Jospong...

Parents frustrated with SHS online registration

Some parents in Kumasi have expressed their frustration over their inability to place their wards in the Senior High Schools of their choice online,...

More women patronise gambling

Weekend Today’s investigation has revealed that more and more Ghanaian women are resorting to gambling and various gaming centres with the hope of making...

Prison Service concerned over its inability to pay bills

The Ghana Prison Service has expressed concern over its inability to pay medical bills, inmates ration bills, and utilities due to the delay in...

Hot audio: Revealed: Afia Schwarzenegger’s ‘maid’ behind exposé

After comedienne Afia Schwarzenegger was allegedly caught red-handed in bed with another man by her husband, it has emerged that her house helped leaked...

President Akufo-Addo names Ekow Blankson as acting Chief Fire Officer

The President, Nana Akufo-Addo has appointed Deputy Chief Fire Officer in charge of Operations, Edwin Ekow Blankson as the acting Chief Fire Officer.His appointment...

SSNIT scandal: Other corrupt deals identified – EOCO Boss

The Economic and Organised Crimes Office (EOCO), has given itself a week more, to conclude investigations into how the Social Security and National Insurance...

Breaking News: Owners of broken down vehicles to pay for towing

Owners of broken down vehicles will now pay for the cost of towing themselves after the service has been provided.That's the latest government decision...

Hot Audio: Bad roads affecting our sex life – Tema Manhean men cry

Some residents in Tema Manhean, a popular suburb of the Tema Metropolis are appealing to the government to as a matter of urgency fix...

I have a clearing contract with Cocobod and not a supply contract – McDan

The Chief Executive Officer of McDan Shipping Company, Mr Daniel McCauley has explained that he has a clearing contract with the Ghana Cocobod and...

Drivers urged to buy fuel in liters

An economist is cautioning vehicle owners to be very vigilant at fuel pumps to get value for money.Dr. Samuel Kwesi Bediako Asare revealed that,...

Chief Fire Officer, Dr. Albert Brown Gaisie reassigned

The Head of the Ghana National Fire Service, Chief Fire Officer Dr. Albert Brown Gaisie has been resigned to National Security.The President, Nana Akufo-Addo...

Minister gives landlords three months ultimatum to add toilet facility to their houses

Landlords in the Upper East region who do not have toilet facilities have from now to December to provide those facilities or risk having...

Queen Mother threatens bloodshed over lands

The Queen Mother of Kwabenya, Naa Korkoi Dugbatey II has called on His Excellency Nana Akufo Addo to make a swift intervention and halt...

Soldiers allegedly attack residents at Sowutuom

Residents of Landing Hill area, near Sowutuom in the Ga Central Municipality of the Greater Accra Region have accused six soldiers of molesting five...

Breaking: Police invite Jospong Boss

Information available to Joy News indicates that the Executive Chairman of the Jospong Group of Companies has been invited by the police for questioning...

Denmark’s Queen Margrethe II to visit Ghana

Denmark’s Head of State, Queen Margrethe II, is to pay a two-day visit to Ghana from November 23 to 24, 2017.A statement issued by...

Int’l Court rules on Ghana-Cote D’Ivoire maritime dispute on Sept. 23

The International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea is set to deliver its judgement in the dispute concerning the delimitation of the maritime...

Operation Vanguard arrests 32 Galamseyers in Eastern Region

The Eastern Regional Operation Vanguard team has arrested 32 illegal miners, popularly known as galamseyers, at a village called Okagya, near Kwabeng in the...

Jumia Travel gets new CEO

Jumia Travel has announced the appointment of a new Chief Executive Officer, Joe Falter as it new Chief Executive Officer.Falter takes over from Paul Midy who...

Hot Audio: Chinese illegal miners arrested in E/R; Cash, guns seized

Nine Chinese and two Ghanaians have been arrested by a combined team of Forestry Commission staff and Operation Vanguard taskforce in the Kweikaru Forest...

Hot Video: Captain Smart exposes more rot at SSNIT

It emerged this week that the Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) spent at least $70 million on the acquisition of faulty software,...

Electricity disconnection renders EC helpless in replacement of voter ID cards

A disconnection of electricity power supply to the office of the Electoral Commission (EC) has rendered it helpless and unable to replace missing voter...

Rawlings saves lives of two ‘dying’ children

Former President, Flt lt Jerry John Rawlings and the chiefs and people of Vume in the Volta Region have celebrated the successful treatment of...

Anti-corruption groups disagree with GJA over recent comment on corruption fight

Five anti-corruption civil society organizations have expressed disagreement with the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) over a statement it issued cautioning investigative journalists not to...

Dagbon crisis: Andani, Abudu gates to resume peace talks

The representatives of the Abudu and Andani Royals have agreed to resume peace talks after a long period of deadlock.The mediation talks hit a...

Woman loses daughter due to delay in paying GhC10 for folder

A 35-year-old woman in the Bawku West District of the Upper East Region has called on the Management of the National Health Insurance Scheme...

HOT VIDEOS: Anti-Christ flawed on Kofi TV

A man who described himself as a Bible scholar angrily stormed out of live TV when he was challenged to back his blasphemous comments...

Hot Audio: Parents threaten naked demo over wrong SHS placement

Some frustrated parents have besieged the premises of the Education Ministry to seek placement for their wards following the challenges that have plagued the...

Don’t burn galamsey tractors – Chief appeals to government

The President of the Central Regional House of Chiefs, Obrempong Nyanful Krapah XI, has appealed to the government’s taskforce on illegal mining known as...

Students who fail in English and Maths not qualified for free SHS

Students who fails in English and Mathematics in the just ended Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) will not be placed in any Senior High...

Teacher Unions threaten protest over $72m SSNIT deal

Teacher Unions in the country have threatened to hit the streets if those found culpable in the $72 million SSNIT’s software deal are not...

Alhaji Chocho hails Nana over Galamsey fight

Alhaji Mustapha Oti Boateng, Eastern Regional Vice President of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Mission, has hailed President Akufo-Addo for his efforts in fighting galamsey, and...

Asantehene gives Major Mahama’s family GHC50k

The Asantehene Otumfuor Osei Tutu II has donated 50,000 Ghana cedis to the family of the late Major Mahama.The money, according to Otumfuo, is...

Declare married gay Ghanaian ‘persona non grata’ in Ghana – Lawyer

A legal practitioner has called on Ghanaian authorities to declare the former school prefect of Achimota School who left Ghana to marry his gay...

Over 36,000 JHS graduates rush to snatch SHS slot as deadline nears

There is a scramble across the country over senior high school placement as more than 36,000 Junior High School (JHS) graduates compete for limited...

VIDEO: Lesbian recounts horrible gang rape ordeal

A 21-year-old resident of Mataheko in Accra says she has been forced to change her birthday because it was the day she suffered rape...

JoyNews gets results: MTN Ghana Foundation to rescue dilapidated primary school

MTN Ghana Foundation has approved funding for construction of a six-unit classroom block for Nhyiaeso District Assembly Basic School in the Ashanti Region.The foundation...