GENERAL NEWS

Unknown gunmen have shot and killed a headteacher in his home at Cape Coast in the Central Region. The deceased, Yaw Eyifa Gorman, popularly known as Dr Sting, was shot in his car after he returned home from a census training on Saturday evening. Narrating the incident to JoyNews, one …

The Ghana Armed Forces (GAF) says its officers deployed to curb illegal mining on water bodies and forest reserves, will not hesitate to destroy all equipment found at illegal mining sites. The GAF made this known in a statement signed by its Public Relations Director, Eric Aggrey Quarshie. It said visits …

The Minister for Roads and Highways, Kwasi Amoako-Atta, says the second term of the Nana Addo government will see to the completion of 20 interchanges nationwide by the end of 2024. This will be out of the 25 interchanges expected to be constructed by the Akufo-Addo and the New Patriotic …

For the third time in a week, the military task force clamping down on illegal mining in the Eastern region has raided the mining site of the NPP National Women’s Organiser, Kate Gyamfua. This time, the Operation Halt team razed down a structure that serves as offices of the mining …

A United States-based Ghanaian Professor, Kwaku Asare has criticized Gender Minister, Sara Adwoa Safo for the error she made in dismissing the director of the school feeding programme. Prof Asare said in a statement that “this is just not an acceptable letter from a minister of state. “You compare it …

The Minister for Gender, Children and Social Protection, Sarah Adwoa Safo has recalled her earlier letter terminating the appointment of head of Ghana’s School Feeding programme, Gertrude Quashigah. Adwoa Safo on 18th May 2021 issued a letter terminating the appointment of head of Ghana’s School Feeding programme. She directed Gertrude …

A 33kv Electricity cable connected to a Pylon (High Tension) belonging to the Electricity Company of Ghana, has been set ablaze by an unknown persons. The Pylon, which is fenced with a wire mesh adjacent to the Ghana Grid Company GRIDCo close to the Tema Oil Refinery, is suspected to …

Dr Papa Kwesi Nduom and his Groupe Nduom are fighting off money laundering and fraud claims made against them by US-based Birim Group. In a motion filed on 5 April 2021 for the dismissal of the case in a court in Illinois, United States, Groupe Nduom said the aspersions and …

A former Director-General of the Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT), Mr Ernest Thompson and four others have pleaded not guilty to causing financial loss of more than $15.3 million to the state. They denied any wrongdoing when they appeared before the Accra High Court on Thursday, 20 May …

The European Commission has indicated the selection of Ghana as a possible manufacturing hub for covid-19 vaccines in Africa. This was after the two day working visit by the President of the Republic Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to Brussels, Belgium, from the 19th to 20 May, a statement signed by …