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Gospel musicians lack wisdom – Prophet Badu Kobi

Founder and leader of the Glorious Wave Ministry, Prophet Badu Kobi, has said celebrities especially gospel musicians, are struggling because they lack wisdom and...

Market women collapse after fire gut shops at Kasoa

The Kasoa old market Square in the Central region has been gutted by fire. According to reports, over 100 shops are reported to have been...

Polygamy rife in Brong-Ahafo Region

Many girls from 10 to 15 years are into polygamous marriages in Banda, Jaman North and Asutifi South Districts of the Brong-Ahafo Region. These marriages...

IGP reshuffles Dampare, Yohuno, others

The Inspector General of Police, (IGP) David Asante Appeatu has carried out another reshuffle among senior officers of the Service. Among the officers who have...

Polygamy rife in Brong-Ahafo Region

Many girls from 10 to 15 years are into polygamous marriages in Banda, Jaman North and Asutifi South Districts of the Brong-Ahafo Region. These marriages...

Photos: Angry residents threaten to set gov't vehicles ablaze

Residents of Hiawuanwu in the Ejura-Sekyedumase Municipality have threatened to set any government vehicle ablaze due to poor road network on the Kumasi-Atebubu highway. According...

PHOTOS: Missionary provides Mechanized boreholes for Ketu South Community

The people of Gamadzra in the Ketu South District of the Volta Region now have access to potable drinking water. The CEO of DANITEC Incorporated...

Hot video: Give teenagers condoms to reduce unwanted pregnancies – Counselor Lutterodt

Controversial relationship expert, George Lutterodt has said that many teenagers can prevent unwanted pregnancy if given a condom. Speaking to Gifty Andoh Appiah on The...

PHOTOS+Audio: Fire kills two at Axim

A 72-year-old woman, Madam Esi Akyere and her 52-year-old son, Kwamena have been burnt beyond recognition by a fire that gutted their house on...

Data key to national dev’t – Akufo-Addo

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has stated African leaders can only succeed with the availability of information and data. According to President Akufo-Addo, the rapid...

'Allegations against me bogus, frivolous, lies' – Charlotte Osei

The Chairperson of the Electoral Commission, Mrs. Charlotte Osei has described a petition by some unidentified persons of the EC asking for her removal...

One of Akua Donkor's suspected robbers acquitted and discharged

One of the four persons standing trial for allegedly embarking on a robbery attack on the Founder and Leader of the Ghana Freedom Party...

Don’t postpone leave – Workers advised

Workers have been advised to desist from trading off or postponing their annual leave so as to make some extra income. Workers who escape their...

Hot audio: Widow of slain police man cry for help

Wife of late Constable Daniel Owusu, the police officer shot by armed robbers during a car theft at La Paz in Accra is appealing...

Hot video: Man who drove from France to Ghana want to drive Kantanka vehicle to South Africa

A Ghanaian living in France drove over 7k Km to Ghana with his BMW 7.The motive for his journey, Nicholas Afedzie Donkor said was to...

50 CEPS officials interdicted over tax fraud

At least 50 staff of the Ghana Revenue Authority have been interdicted for allegedly aiding some private companies to evade duties and taxes. The interdicted...

Hot Audio: Boy, 6, loses both legs over GHC2.20p

A six-year-old pupil, Peter Mensah has lost both legs in an accident at Offinso-Sanproso in the Ashanti Region. According to an eye witness, Opoku Alexander,...

Audio: Pregnant woman beaten to pulp by soldier

A pregnant woman has been assaulted by a military man at Kwabenya-Abuom (Stone) junction in the Dome Kwabenya constituency in the Greater Accra region...

1.8 Million Children engaged in child labour – Survey

The Sixth Ghana Living Standards Survey estimates that over 1.8 million children are engaged in child labour, out of which 1.2 million of them...

Made-in-Ghana Ambassador: Let’s focus on herbal medicine use

Ambassador for the Made-in-Ghana campaign, Emelia Arthur, is appealing to the Ministry of Health and its stakeholders to endorse the usage of our herbal...

Rev. Korankye Ankrah clears air on Denkyira-Oboase curse claim

Rev. Sam Korankye Ankrah, Apostle General of Royalhouse Chapel International has clarified excepts of a sermon he preached that generated public debate about the...

Hot Audio: Woman wants blood covenant with estranged lover broken

A 26-year-old mother of two is in a fix over her relationship with a man he entered a blood covenant. Afia Konadu says she met...

Hot Video: Angry Makola women mob Kennedy

It was a sight to behold when hundreds of market women from Makola market in Accra mobbed the Member of Parliament for Assin Central...

Only 36 per cent of pregnant women deliver at hospitals

Only 36 per cent of pregnant women in the Northern Region patronise health facilities for delivery, Ms Georgina Amidu, Communications for Development Officer at...

VIDEO: Lapaz shooting: Kennedy Agyepong calls on IGP to arm all police officers

New Patriotic Party Member of Parliament for the Assin Central constituency in the Central region has called on the Inspector General of Police to...

I personally invited Radio Gold – Mustapha Hamid

Information Minister, Mustapha Hamid has dispelled rumours that they deliberately did not invite pro-National Democratic Congress (NDC) radio station, Radio Gold from the maiden...

PHOTOS: Fuel tanker goes up in flames on Assin-Fosu Highway

A fuel tanker has caught fire on the Assin Fosu-Kumasi highway causing heavy vehicular traffic. The incident occurred when a diesel tanker hit a Metro...

Brong-Ahafo records 62 deaths in 327 road crashes

The Brong-Ahafo Region from January to June this year has recorded 62 deaths in 327 road crashes. The total number of accidents for the period...

VIDEO: How Gov’t officials masterminded Central Medical Stores arson

Details have started emerging on how some officials of government allegedly paid for and ordered the arson that occurred at the Central Medical Stores...

Woman killed over AIDS

The police are on the heels of a man at Teshie who is believed to have left a chilling note, accusing a deceased woman...

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...