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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...

Hot Audio: The shocking story of three lesbians

On Joy FM’s Home Affairs Programme on Saturday, three girls, in a bare it all interview, told of how they got introduced into lesbianism...

Photos: Man lynched for killing a brother at Walewale

A man has been beaten to death at Zanguvugu, a town in Walewale in the Northern region for allegedly butchering his brother to death.According...

No land for ‘one district, one factory’ project in Cape Coast – Chief

The paramount chief of the Oguaa Traditional Council, Osabarima Kwesi Atta II, has emphatically stated that the area does not have land to give...

Salt industry has lots of potentials for Ghana

Vice Chairman of the Public Interest Accountability Committee (PIAC), Kwame Jantuah has observed that the salt industry in the coastal belt of the country...

MFWA slams GJA for ‘gagging’ journalists

The Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) has slammed the Ghana Journalists Association for attempting to gag journalists from reporting on corruption issues in...

Boy, 6, dies over lack of Ambulance

A six-year-old boy has lost his life due to the unavailability of an Ambulance at St. Martins Hospital at Agomanya in the Lower Manya...

Hot Video+Photos: Former SP of Achimota School marries gay lover in America

Former school prefect of Achimota School has left Ghana to marry his gay lover in the US.Stephen Kabutey Ofoi Ceasar's bold decision follows moves...

Meteo Agency warns of heavy rains in Northern Ghana

The Ghana Meteorological Agency has warned of a 60 percent chance of moderate to heavy rains in the Northern Sector of the country.These expected...

GJA must not undermine investigative, anti-corruption reporting – MFWA

The Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) says it is shocked by a statement issued by the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) criticising the media's...

Kasoa Tanker fire disaster preventable- Fire Service

The Fire Service is calling for fire safety education for tanker owners, drivers and users of fuel tankers.The Deputy Public Relations Officer Prince Billy...

GES extends placement of BECE candidates

The Ghana Education Service (GES) has extended the placement of this year’s Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) candidates into Senior High Schools across the...

Boy, 6, dies at Lower Manya over lack of ambulance

A six-year-old boy has lost his life due to the unavailability of an Ambulance at St. Martins Hospital at Agomanya in the Lower Manya...

Men abusing aphrodisiacs to satisfy women – Medical practitioner

Medical practitioner and chief executive officer for victory regenerative centre in Kumasi, Dr. Martin Asante has attributed the increasing use of aphrodisiac by most...

Ghana to leverage on ECOWAS market to grow

Foreign Affairs Minister, Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey has said the Government is looking at both internal and external strategies to reform the economy and market...

Muslim youth urged to stay away from crime

Muslim youth in the Upper West Region have been advised to stay away from crime and other social vices and volunteer information on suspected...

Social Welfare, AIDS Commission abandon 7-year-old HIV boy

Three months after Starr News reported on the plight of a 7-year-old HIV KG pupil abandoned by his family in the New Juaben Municipality...

He told me ‘I’m the law, I’ll go scot free’ – Girl raped by policeman narrates her ordeal

“I asked him why he did what he did, and if he knew it could end him in jail. He said nothing can be...