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Hot Audio: Francis Sosu’s client ‘admits’ he made accusations out of depression in secret recording

Joy News has intercepted a secret recording in Francis Agyare, the client of embattled Francis Xavier Sosu, admitting that he accused the lawyer of...

VIDEO: Major Mahama told us he would be great one day – Soldiers pay tribute to comrade

The atmosphere at Burma Camp Thursday night was grief-stricken as various tributes were poured out in honor of the fallen solider, Major Maxwell Adams...

W/R: GAF shuts down drinking bars over officer’s death

The Ghana Armed Forces have shut down all drinking bars and food joints within the Apremudo Barracks in Takoradi in the Western region.The move...

Injunction Slapped On University of Education Governing Council

An order of interlocutory injunction has been issued against the University of Education, Winneba restraining the supposed Principal Officers appointed by the defunct Governing...

Hot audio: Denkyira Boase residents should be whipped – Prophet 1

Founder and leader of the Ebenezer Miracle Worship Center in the Ashanti regional capital Kumasi is yet to come to terms with the brutal...

Nduom wins another award in UK

Celebrated Ghanaian entrepreneur and President and Chairman of Groupe Nduom (GN), a multinational conglomerate, Dr. Papa Kwesi Nduom, has won another international award in...

PHOTOS: Jerry Justice Foundation donates to Power of Love Children’s Home

The Jerry Justice Foundation has donated to Power of Love Orphanage home in Tema, to aid the non-profit organization take better care of the...

Audio+Photos: One dead in accident near Kintampo waterfalls

One person has been confirmed dead in a gory accident at Kintampo near the waterfalls in the Brong Ahafo region.The accident according to the...

Audio: Snakes invade Gomoa Tekyiam gov’t school

Dangerous reptiles, particularly pythons and other snakes, have invaded the Gomoa Tekyiam D/A government school in the Gomoa East District of the Central Region.The...

Petitions and court won’t resolve GJA crisis

The Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) is currently going through hard times as a result of misunderstandings surrounding the election of its executives.To surmount the...

Audio: EOCO investigates payroll fraud in YEA

The Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO) has taken over investigations into alleged payroll fraud at the Youth Employment Agency (YEA).Director of the Monitoring...

Don’t blame me for Sosu’s woes, he’s being punished by God – Agyare

Francis-Xavier Sosu was last week handed a four-year ban from practising as a lawyer after pleading guilty to two charges. One of the charges,...

I nearly resigned over NDC pressure – Retired Chief Justice Wood

Ghana’s immediate past Chief Justice Georgina Wood has disclosed she almost threw in the towel during the late Prof. John Evans Atta Mills administration....

Disputed Alavanyo-Nkonya land to be used as Military training camp

The government has acquired the disputed 10 mile square land that lies between Alavanyo and Nkonya communities in the Volta Region which has been...

To my King – A tribute by the wife of Major Maxwell Mahama

The wife of Major Maxwell Adam Mahama, Mrs Barbara Mahama, has written an emotional tribute to her late husband.In the tribute, she described her...

Denkyira-Obuasi residents will die of hunger if gov’t doesn’t intervene – MP

The Member of Parliament for the Upper Denkyira West, Samuel Nsowa Djan has sent a distress call to government to intervene by providing relieve...

Anti-graft agency criticises Attorney General for accepting GHC10,000 Chinese gift

The Ghana Integrity Initiative (GII) has frowned on a decision by the Attorney-General’s Department to accept a GHȻ10,000 grift from the Chinese Mission in...

Ahafo Chiefs back creation of Ahafo Region out of Brong Ahafo

The Omanhene (Paramount Chief) of Yamfo Traditional Area, and Chairman of the Ahafo Council of Chiefs in the Brong Ahafo Region, Nana Ansah Adu...

Audio: Fear grips Sayeegu residents following indiscriminate shooting

Residents of Sayeegu and Sambrik near Nakpanduri in the Northern region are living in fear following sporadic shooting in two communities on Monday.The two...

Disputed Alavanyo-Nkonya land to be used as Military training camp

The government has acquired the disputed 10 mile square land that lies between Alavanyo and Nkonya communities in the Volta Region which has been...

Hot Audio: Church elder’s wife tells mistress, husband is impotent

A church elder’s wife who is prevailing on her husband to refuse responsibility for a pregnancy has told the woman involved, that the elder...

Francis-Xavier appeals 4-year ban by Legal Council

The Human Rights Lawyer who was suspended for four years by the General Legal Council, has appealed against the decision.Francis-Xavier Sosu believes the Council...

Wife rubs ginger and hot pepper on drunk husband’s p*nis

A 48-year-old married woman Georgina Asor, who is fed up with her husband Kwaku Seidu’s drunkenness, in a bid to discipline him has rubbed...

Enterprise provides GH¢8.5m support for First Lady’s project

The fund, an initiative of the First Lady, Mrs Rebecca Akufo-Addo, seeks to finance the building of a modern maternity wing to provide relief...

Seven ways to spot a Ghanaian abroad

Just like the MTN slogan ‘’Everywhere you go’’,...

Late Major Mahama to be given state burial

 The late Major Maxwell Mahama who was lynched by some residents of the Denkyira-Oboase would be given a state burial.This was contained in a...

Kintampo Waterfall report: Afeku has insulted our intelligence – Ablakwa

The Member of Parliament for North Tongu, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa says the Minister of Tourism, Culture and Creative Arts, Catherine Afeku has insulted the...

Don’t cry of witch-hunt when we start prosecutions – YEA Boss

The Chief Executive Officer Youth Employment Agency (YEA) is urging the public especially members of the opposition political parties not to accuse government of...

Audio: Police readies for Major Mahama’s funeral

The Ghana Police Service say they are well prepared for the funeral ceremony of the late Major Maxwell Mahama, which is scheduled for Friday...

Youth Employment Agency sheds off 16,839 names from payroll

The Youth Employment Agency says it has deleted the names of 16,839 from its 63,000 beneficiaries payroll after an audit found their employment to...

JB’s murder…: Police dump informant

THE INFORMANT who divulged sensitive information that led to the arrest of the suspect accused of murdering Joseph Boakye Danquah-Adu, then Member of Parliament...

Soldiers had wanted to wipe out Denkyira-Obuasi – Major Mahama’s family

Some military personnel close to slain Major Maxwell Adam Mahama had wanted to rally soldiers to storm and kill residents of Denkyira-Obuasi, a spokesperson...

Soldier lynching killer weapons revealed

Investigators working on the death of Major Maxwell Adam Mahama, who was lynched by a mob at Denkyira-Obuasi in the Upper Denkyira West District...

Georgina Wood retires today

The Chief Justice Her Ladyship Georgina Theodora Wood will start her retirement on Wednesday June 7, 2017 after serving a ten-year term.She is the...

VIDEO: Must the Church Pay tax? – Afia Pokua clashes with Captain Smart

The debate has resurfaced again on whether the churches in the country should pay taxes to the state from the incomes they earn.This debate...

VIDEO: Death of Captain Mahama a disgrace to the country – Kufuor

Former President John Kufuor has bemoaned the increasing number of lawless acts recorded across the country in recent months.He explained that Ghana is a...

CHRAJ receives GHȻ1.2m for anti-graft campaign

The Commission for Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) has been allocated GHȻ1.2 million out of a total budgetary allocation of GHȻ4.5 million for...

PHOTO: Otiko Djaba weeps at Major Mahama’s ‘one week’ observation

Minister for gender, Otiko Djaba, on Monday, broke down and wept at the "one week observation" of the Major Maxwell Mahama, the Ghana army...

3 arrested over lynching of ‘witch’ at Nabdam

The Upper East Regional Police Command has confirmed the arrest of three persons in connection with the lynching of a 67-year-old woman accused of...

Man who delivered ‘final blow’ to Captain Mahama arrested

The police have arrested a man who they say delivered the "final blow" that killed Captain Mahama when he was killed by a mob...