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Ashanti Regional Police Commander, others promoted

Seven Deputy Commissioners of Police (DCOP) have been promoted to the rank of commissioners. This brings the number of Commissioners of Police to 14. In...

Assin South MP slams Ghanaian gays in Canada

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) Member of Parliament for Assin South in the Central Region, Rev John Ntim Fordjour, has lashed out at some...

PHOTOS: Over 400 Jehovah's Witnesses pass out at Convention after toxic gas attack

Over 400 witnesses passed out Friday at a Jehovah’s Witness convention in Angola after they were attacked with toxic gas. About 7,000 worshippers were at...

Intercourse isn't everything for most women – study

Many of us equate "sex" with "intercourse" and use those words interchangeably. Yet highly satisfying sex doesn't have to be limited to penetration --...

Head of SSNIT’s IT department interdicted

The Economic and Organised Crimes Office (EOCO) has interdicted head of SSNIT’s Management Information Systems, Dr Caleb Afaglo for presenting fake documents for the...

PHOTOS: Loveless monkey adopts chicken at Israeli zoo

A lonely monkey at an Israeli zoo has found a way to soothe her maternal urges: by adopting a chicken. Niv, an Indonesian black macaque,...

Free SHS 'fever' grips Kumasi

Residents of Kumasi are in high expectation for the introduction of government’s free senior high school (SHS) policy. According to them, the yet-to-be-introduced government programme...

US Embassy warns citizens against going to Nima, Avenor, Agbogbloshie

The US Embassy in Accra has warned its nationals to avoid some communities in Accra that have recorded violence recently. A security message posted on...

SSNIT saga: Lawyer's advise against backdating payment for software ignored

Joy News has intercepted a letter that reveals management of the Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) was counseled against backdating payment for...

Ken Agyapong’s Flagstaff House bribery allegation damming – GII

Ghana Integrity Initiative is calling for immediate investigations into the bribery allegations being leveled against presidential staffers at the Flagstaff House. According to the Executive...

GPL: Bolga All Stars are the first team to be relegated this season

The Stars of the East will compete in GN Bank Division One league next term after losing 2-1 to Kotoko - ending their one-season...

Farmer on remand for harming grandson

A Tarkwa Circuit Court has remanded a 48 year-old farmer for allegedly causing harm to his 13 year-old grandson, whose left leg has been...

Gov’t owes disability share of Common Fund 8 months arrears

The government has failed to pay the share of the District Assembly Common Fund allocated to Persons with Disability (PWD) for the past eight...

Gambia beats Ghana, Nigeria in jollof rice competition

Gambia has been adjudged the winner of the Jollof Rice Competition organised by the Ghana Tourism Authority (GTA) as part of activities marking the...

Hawk with snake in claws caused 40-acre Montana fire

Firefighters in Montana believe they identified the source of a massive fire after finding the charred carcass of a hawk carrying a snake. Black Eagle...

How does it feel to live with a swollen head for 10yrs? – The story of 12-yr-old Suleman

This is little Suleman, a 12 year old boy who was diagnosed with a tumor known as neurofibromatosis. He has been living with this...

Photos: Nurse grabs policeman’s testes

Three police officers who reportedly went firing bullets and beating residents after a drinking tour of the Upper East regional capital, Bolgatanga, have had...

Ghana to enjoy reliable and cheap electricity

Ghana will enjoy uninterrupted and reliable electricity due to the arrival of the world’s largest Powership, the 470 MV Karadeniz Powership Osman Khan ,says...

Your ‘sheepish’ rants don’t scare me; grow up – Asenso-Boakye to A Plus

Deputy Chief of Staff Francis Asenso-Boakye has accused musician A Plus of “sheepishly” using social media to attack him and colleague Deputy Chief of...

Akufo-Addo’s deputy Chief of Staff corrupt, stupid – A Plus

Vociferous musician and satirist, Kwame Asare Obeng, widely known as A Plus, has labeled Francis Asenso-Boakye and Samuel Abu Jinapor, deputies to the Chief...

Christian Council calls for further engagements on Free SHS Policy

The Christian Council of Ghana (CCG) has called on the Government to, as a matter of urgency, engage stakeholders on their roles in the...

Fallen cattle, cause of near-fatal crash at Gomoa Dabenyin

While police are yet to establish the cause of the weekend’s road crash at Gomoa Dabenyin in the Central Region, residents blamed it on...

Blood shortage to hit Accra

A lot of people are likely to die every day in Accra due lack of blood at the National Blood bank. This is because a...

I 'sacrificed' my fingers for power – Duncan-Williams

The Presiding Archbishop and General Overseer of the Action Chapel International  Nicholas Duncan-Williams revealed how his lost his fingers. According to him, growing up he...

Photo: Bishop, pastor wife in 419 mess

Forty-one-year-old Ginika Obi, bishop and general overseer of City of Liberation and Comfort International Ministry, located at Kilometer 3, Enugu-Port Harcourt Expressway, Enugu, who...

Gomoa Techiman: Govt directs demolition of basic school building

The dilapidated primary school building at Gomoa Techiman in the Central Region, which children precariously study in would be pulled down in the coming...

Infographic: All you need to know about $72m SSNIT software scandal

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

Hot audio: Waist trainers could cause kidney failure – Doctor reveals

A medical doctor is warning of dire consequences for women who constantly wear waist cinchers or trainers for an hour glass body shape. According to...

'Chief predicts collapse of Ekumfi pineapple factory'

Paramount chief of the Edina Traditional Area, Nana Kwadwo Conduah XI is predicting the collapse of factories under the flagship One District One factory...

Sierra Leone: The ‘Coolest Bastard’ who cut 497 bodies in mudslide disaster

His West African colleagues call him ‘The Boss of the Pancreas’ simply because of his love for very challenging health cases. The pancreas is the...

Togo: Opposition declares ‘Black Friday’ but Gov’t gives it little weight

The coalition of opposition political parties in Togo has declared today, Friday, August 25, 2017, ‘Black Friday’ as it steps up the gear to end...

Two NDC gurus under fire over $66m SSNIT scandal

Some top members of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) seem to be robbing each other’s name in the mud in what appears to be...

Photos: Stranded Ghanaians in Sierra Leone appeal for urgent evacuation

Some Ghanaian living in Sierra Leone are appealing for government support to help them return home. The Ghanaian immigrants mainly fishermen who traveled to seek...

Clear the mess at Lands Commission – President directs new board

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has charged the newly constituted Board of the Lands Commission to clear the mess at the Commission to ensure...

Ghanaians warned against travelling to Togo Friday

The Ghana Immigration Service has warned Ghanaians against travelling to Togo on Friday due to a possible protest in Lome by that country’s Coalition...

Hot audio: 'Fishermen in Central region now eat fried rice and jollof at sea'

Fishermen especially in the Central region don’t consume their own catch due to use of poisonous substance for fishing. They rather buy fried rice, jollof...

Five fun places for tourists in Ghana you may not know about

If anyone asks you to name 5 places in Ghana for tourists to have fun and experience the warmth of this country to the...

Photos: Police man arrested with weed

A police officer has been busted with large quantities of the substance suspected to be Indian Hemp at the Gomoa Simbrofo Junction on the...

Ghana now exporting power to La Cote d’Ivoire

Ghana is now exporting electricity to her West African neighbours, La Cote d’Ivoire after just seven months of the Nana Akufo-Addo-led administration, Minister of...