The Suhum Circuit Court presided over by Her Honour Diana Adu Asare has convicted a 40-year-old father to 15 years imprisonment for defiling his 12-year-old biological daughter for three consecutive years. The convicted father, David Owusu, is a farmer who lived together with his wife, the victim and their other …

Many diseases like polio, HIV/AIDS tuberculosis, and coronavirus have either killed or maimed mainly due to infodemic or wrong information. In the 70s about 1000 children in Senegal were given jabs of polio medicines. Later 30 percent of the children were maimed all due to infodemic. What then is infodemic? …

A taxi driver identified as ‘Culture’ has been shot dead at Mmoatiakrom a community near Dunkwa-Offin in the Upper Denkyira East Municipality of the Central Region. The unfortunate incident happened in the late hours of yesterday, Tuesday, 12th January 2021. The Assemblymember for the area Hon, Kwame Nsowaa Salvation who …

The Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT) has revealed that per their research about 651,000 kids are expected to register for ‘My First Day at School’ when school reopens on Monday 18 January. They have explained that these children fall under 4years and any further delay in reopening the schools …

Some seven persons have been announced as those vying for the office of the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ghana. Prof. Ebenezer Oduro Owusu is the current Vice-Chancellor of the University but his tenure ends on 31st July 2021. The seven vying for the office include the two Pro-Vice-Chancellors of …

Members of the Teachers’ and Educational Workers’ Union (TEWU) will today, Wednesday, January 13, 2021, begin a nationwide strike to press home their demand for better conditions of service. TEWU says the failure of the Fair Wages and Salaries Commission to conclude negotiation on the demands by its members for …

The Police in Elmina in the Komenda-Edina-Eguafo-Abrem (KEEA) Municipality have arrested two persons who attempted to convince a Prison officer to smuggle suspected narcotics substance into Ankaful Maximum Prison. The suspects are Nana Yaw, 28, and Opiah Mensah, 17, both unemployed. Superintendent Vincent Ziniel, the Central Regional Public Relations Officer …

Relevant stakeholders in the education sector— Ministry of Education(MoE), Ghana Education Service(GES), National Council for Curriculum Assessment (NaCCA)— jointly discarded the old curriculum for  Primary schools and subsequently implemented a new curriculum. The new curriculum took effect from the 2019/2020 academic year with no textbooks to aid in effective teaching …

From Wednesday, 13th January 2020, all members of the Teachers and Educational Workers’ Union (TEWU) will lay down their tools over the government’s failure to finalise their conditions of service. According to TEWU their strike is due to the inability of the Fair Wages and Salaries Commission (FWSC) to conclude …

Residents of Doryumu-Abeka in the Shai Osudoku District are in a state of shock as to what led to a gruesome murder of a 20-year-old girl Juliette Obu. The residents were awakened Monday night to a single cry for help but only to find Juliette Obu in a pool of …

A Suhum Circuit Court in the Eastern Region has jailed a notorious quack abortion Doctor who had operated in the area for about 10 years now. Starr News Eastern Regional Correspondent Kojo Ansah in 2017, secretly filmed this quack doctor -Darko David through undercover investigation in a small dirty room …

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A farmer, Akwasi Boadi aka Tiger has allegedly slashed the ear of his fiancee for allegedly cheating on him. The farmer who has for some time being monitoring the fiancee after he was told she was cheating on him caught her with another man in a hotel. Akwasi Boadi according …

The Nkawie circuit court has remanded two illegal miners into prison custody for assault and stealing at Asuowin, in the Amansie West District. Emmanuel Boakye Mensah 19, and Kwabena Agyeman 24, were said to have attacked their victim at a drinking spot in the town at night and made away …

The Mother of a 12-year-old girl who was raped to death at Asonomaso Nkwanta in the Kwabre East District of the Ashanti Region has called on Ghana Police Service to ensure that justice is delivered to her daughter. The deceased Christabel Amponsah was raped on death on Thursday, December 31, …

School authorities of Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) have dismissed claims that seventeen (17) lives were lost during a fire outbreak on Sunday, January 10. In an issued statement signed by Deputy Registrar, University Relations, the institution urged parents and students to pay no attention to rumours …

Weeds have now taken over the compounds of some basic schools in the Western Region following the long closure due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Meanwhile, some of the school blocks have developed serious cracks on them. With barely a week to the reopening, the situation in some schools visited by the Ghana …

Multimedia wing Joy News journalist Raymond Acquah was almost killed by the deadly Covid-19 pandemic but thankfully, he pulled through after extensive care from staff of Nyaho Clinic in Accra. While many Ghanaians appear to have let their guard down over the pandemic, Mr. Acquah’s story simply means the threat …

There has been a reported incident of fire outbreak on the Campus of Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Sunday dawn. Though details of the fire outbreak are sketchy, initial reports on social media were that the fire outbreak happened at the Republic Hall, one of the halls …

The Electoral Commission of Ghana (EC) has filed its Response to the election petition filed by the Presidential Candidate of the National Democratic Congress, former President John Dramani Mahama, challenging the declaration of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo as the winner of the 2020 presidential election. Nana Akufo-Addo and the EC who are respondents to …

The Northern Regional Vector Control Director of Zoomlion, Mr Abdul Aziz Yelsuma has allayed the fears of parents, teachers, students and pupils that all schools in the region are safe for the scheduled January 15th 2021 reopening which was announced by the President H.E. NanaAddo Dankwa Akufo-Addo. According to the …

A 20-year-old ‘okada’ operator, William Cephas, who allegedly sped with a hawker on the back seat of his motorbike to a bush behind the Ho Airport, and raped her, is standing trial at the Ho District Magistrate Court ‘2’. The court, presided by Mr Akosah Agyare-Amoanpong Yaw, was told that prior …

The Ghana Education Service (GES) says it is committed to motivating teachers who accept to be posted at remote schools in the country. The Director-General of GES, Professor Opoku –Amankwa in an interview with Accra-based television UTV, indicated that it was no mistake the service decided to post trained teachers …

Residents of Gbane in the Talensi District in the Upper East Region were thrown into a state of shock when a young man shot himself in the head with a locally manufactured pistol because he was refused an alcoholic drink. The deceased, Jacob Gbamri, aka Lion, aged 29, had earlier …

After failing to find accommodation before reopening, hundreds of first-year students from the University of Ghana and their parents are stranded on the school’s campus. As the university student population outnumbers the available rooms and beds, the University of Ghana has been struggling for some time to accommodate its students …

Angry Youth of Ngleshie Amanfrom near Kasoa in the Ga South Municipality of the Greater Accra Region have besieged the Amanfrom District Police Command demanding the release of two Land guards from custody. This is believed to be linked to the shooting of a man by suspected land guards on …

A Watchman Charles Ayisala according to a report sighted on Crime Watch TV was arrested and imprisoned for stoning a man in self-defence. Crime Check reports that Charles Ayisala who is a forty-six-years-old man found an intruder who sneaked into one of the rooms Ayisala was keeping watch over and …

Gospel musician Nhyira Joan has been crowned Social Media Influencer of the year at the 2021 edition of Glam Style Awards. Glam Style awards ceremony was established to celebrate true inspirational success and honor hardworking entertainment industry players. Nhyira Joan got nominated after so many years of hosting a live …

Registrar of Peki College of Education, Mrs Nancy Dogbe, has cautioned that students of the college who fail to comply with the covid protocols would not be allowed to enter any of the classrooms. According to her, these were not normal times, adding that students of the college must play …

To ensure the various universities across the country are safe for reopening on the 9th of January, 2021, waste management giant, Zoomlion Ghana Limited, in partnership with the Ministry of Education, has begun the fourth phase of disinfection and fumigation exercise for schools in the Bono East Region.   The …