Some 150 students of the Accra High School have been rushed to the Adabraka Polyclinic after eating meals served them at school. Information available to 3news.com indicates the students complained of stomach upset after taking the meals and were subsequently rushed to the hospital Monday dawn. They are all suspected …
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Make me proud – Akufo-Addo to final year free SHS students
President Akufo-Addo has charged final year students and first beneficiaries of his flagship Free Senior High School programme to make him proud by passing decisively, their upcoming final exams scheduled for May and June 2020. Addressing the Management and the students body of the St. Mary’s Senior High School in …
Read More »HOT VIDEO: Woman caught in an attempt to kidnap a young boy at school premises
In a video sighted by mynewsghana.net on Facebook, a woman suspected to be a kidnapper nearly kidnapped a young schoolboy at his school premises. If not for the lucky intervention of the boy’s father and some people who were around at that time, the little boy would have been kidnapped …
Read More »Attack of ADB bullion van leads to death of police officer
Another police officer has been shot dead in the line of duty at Sefwi-Wiawso in the Western-North region. According to a police sitrep sighted by Myjoyonline.com, Sergeant Emmanuel Chikudoh was killed during an attack of bullion van belonging to Agricultural Development Bank (ADB). On Tuesday morning at about 11:00 am …
Read More »Be careful of what you eat – College of Medicine president
The president of the Accra College of Medicine is advising the public how to survive into the new year. Professor Afua Hersey spoke said people should be health cautions stressing they “should be careful of what they are eating”. She spoke to JoyNews at the 9th Annual Psychiatry Debate, themed …
Read More »9 arrested over GUTA, NUTAG clash
Police have arrested nine persons following clashes between some Ghanaian and Nigerian traders at Tip Toe Lane, near the Kwame Nkrumah Interchange in the Greater Accra Region. Those arrested are five Nigerians and four Ghanaians. The rioters pelted the police personnel who had visited the scene to restore calm with …
Read More »‘Errand boy’ in trouble for forging documents
A 36-year-old businessman, Frank Nti Adjei, is sweating under the heat of the law for allegedly forging the signature on a tenancy agreement in the name of her boss while he was an errand boy. He is accused of forging a property document worth GH?66,646 in the absence of the …
Read More »No basis to condemn free SHS policy – Akufo-Addo
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo says infrastructure and other logistical challenges are not enough basis to condemn the free senior high school (SHS) policy. He said the government was assiduously tackling the challenges, and encouraged teachers and students to give off their best to ensure that the policy succeeded. President …
Read More »‘Pastor’ steals musical instruments from another church to start his
A self-acclaimed pastor Matthew Osika has been arrested by the Berekum Police in the Bono Region after stealing musical instruments of the Methodist church in other to establish his own church. The instruments MyNewsGh.com gathered, belonged to Amankokwaa Methodist Church in the Berekum West District but some criminals broke into …
Read More »‘Pastor’ steals musical instruments from another church to start his OWN
A self-acclaimed pastor Matthew Osika has been arrested by the Berekum Police in the Bono Region after stealing musical instruments of the Methodist church in other to establish his own church. The instruments MyNewsGh.com gathered, belonged to Amankokwaa Methodist Church in the Berekum West District but some criminals broke into …
Read More »HOT AUDIO: Gifty Osei Tried To Scam #BossNation through MOMO
Report indicate that , A Mobile Money vendor with the name Bismark Ajare,called the CEO of #BossNation, Addul Razack Amissah Populary known in showbiz as Zack Gh complaining that he had mistakenly transferred Ghs500 to his MOMO account. According to the Audio recorded by Zack GH, he received a call …
Read More »We owe no teacher an allowance or salary arrears – NAPO
Minister of Education, Dr. Mathew Opoku Prempeh has stated that no teacher has any course to claim arrears in salaries and allowances under the Nana Akufo-Addo presidency. Speaking at the 70th Anniversary commemoration of the Prempeh College where he is an alumnus, Dr. Opoku Prempeh insisted, “between 2017 and now, …
Read More »Prison officer hangs himself over prison escape
A prison officer in Jasikan in the Oti Region has reportedly taken his life over a prisoner who escaped. Reports say that the prison officer was indicted because the prisoner absconded under his watch. He couldn’t take the shame and so hanged himself. The prison officer known to be Sergeant …
Read More »Court fines Hajia Fati Gh¢9000 for assaulting journalist
A member of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Hajia Fati who assaulted a journalist at the party’s headquarters in Accra on May 4, 2018, has been fined Gh¢9000. The Human Rights High Court on Monday December 2, 2019, fined Hajia Fati, a vociferous supporter of the NPP for the assault …
Read More »Hajia Fati violated Adom FM reporter’s fundamental human rights – High Court
The High Court, Human Right Division has delivered judgment in the case brought against staunch governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) supporter Hajia Fati and the party for the assault on Adom FM reporter, Akosua Sakyiwaa aka Ohemaa. The court held that Hajia Fati violated the fundamental human rights of the reporter to free …
Read More »UEW Kumasi to be renamed University of Skills and Entrepreneurial Development
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has announced that the Kumasi campus of the University of Education will become an autonomous institution under the name, University of Skills and Entrepreneurial Development. During a sod-cutting ceremony at the school for the construction of a Technical Examination Unit at the College of Technology …
Read More »Shock as father is arrested for allegedly murdering son
One Sherif Akudaago, 35, in the early hours of Saturday allegedly murdered his six-year-old son at Garu in the Garu District of the Upper East Region. The unemployed man reportedly cut the throat of Hanan Akudaago, who was a primary one pupil at the Covenant Academy Primary School at Garu, …
Read More »Shock as father is arrested for allegedly murdering son
One Sherif Akudaago, 35, in the early hours of Saturday allegedly murdered his six-year-old son at Garu in the Garu District of the Upper East Region. The unemployed man reportedly cut the throat of Hanan Akudaago, who was a primary one pupil at the Covenant Academy Primary School at Garu, …
Read More »31 foreign illegal miners arrested by Operation Vanguard
The Operation Vanguard contingent in the Eastern Region has arrested 31 foreign illegal miners in the Kwahu West Municipality. This follows reports that about 1,000 foreign nationals had connived with cocoa farmers and landowners in the area to mine illegally. The officer in charge of the Operation Vanguard team in …
Read More »No child will be denied SHS education by reason of poverty – Akufo-Addo
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has called on Ghanaians not to give the main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) mandate in the 2020 general elections to come and cancel the free SHS policy. Nana Akufo-Addo said the NDC wants to cancel the policy under the disguise of reviewing but reiterated …
Read More »VIDEO: Patients queue in ambulances at Korle-Bu due to ‘no bed’ syndrome
A record overcrowding at the Accident and Emergency Centre (A&E) of the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital in Accra Saturday forced authorities to keep patients requiring emergency healthcare in ambulances for hours. Patients who arrived in ambulances from across the country with different trauma cases could not get beds at the A&E …
Read More »Ghana Health Service prepares to fight CSM
The Public Health Unit of the Ghana Health Service (GHS) in the Upper East Region has engaged its counterparts from Togo and Burkina Faso in a cross-border meeting to share information on diseases of epidemic potential among the three countries. Dr Josephat Nyuzaghl, the Upper East Regional Deputy Director in …
Read More »HOT VIDEO: Robbery plan backfires as ‘thugs’ discipline informant
The adage ‘never judge a book by its cover’ came to play when a young man hired a group of men at Sowutuom, in Accra to rob his former boss thinking they were armed robbers. The group members who were angry the man considered them robbers held him by both …
Read More »Police inspector arrested, detained for alleged rape of suspect’s wife
The Police Administration has confirmed that it has arrested, detained and interdicted a Police Chief Inspector for allegedly raping the wife of a suspect in custody. The inspector [name withheld] is alleged to have raped the woman at the Manso Datano Police Station in the Amansie South District of the …
Read More »About 7000 Caterers Under School Feeding Paid
Close to 7,000 caterers who cocked under the Ghana School Feeding Programme for the third term of the 2018/19 academic year have been paid, Gender, Children and Social Protection Minister, Mrs. Cynthia Morrison has confirmed. “So everyone is expected to receive payment today, [Thursday November 28] as has been confirmed …
Read More »VIDEO: Meet the dancing teacher who uses music and dance to teach his pupils
Percy Sackey is a teacher at the Obo Presby School in the Kwahu Hills. He uses music and dance to teach and motivate his pupils at the school. Joy News’ Justice Baidoo visited the school to learn more about the teacher’s unconventional methods of teaching. He says encouraging his students …
Read More »Leader of Osono group arrested for picketing Asenso-Boakye’s house
The leader of pro-government Elephant Youth Association, Stephen Amoh alias Osono, has been arrested by the police for unlawful assembly in breach of the public order act. This was after he led the group to picket the private residence of the deputy chief of staff Francis Asenso-Boakye on Wednesday, 27 …
Read More »Kuamsi: Suspected thief stoned to death at Dichemso
A suspected thief has been stoned to death by residents of Dichemso Plaza Hotel in Kumasi, after they accused him and two other’s of snatching a lady’s mobile phone. The suspect believed to be in his thirties was reportedly apprehended by some angry vigilante group who witness the scene around …
Read More »Grant Us Our Freedom- UEW SRC of Kumasi and Mampong Campuses to Government
The Students’ Representative Council of University of Education Winneba, Kumasi and Mampong Campuses whose core mandate is to promote the general welfare and interest of students, coordinating the social, cultural, intellectual and recreational activities of the students in the University have appealed to the government of the day to give …
Read More »HIV infections on the rise, 19,000 new cases in 2018 – Report
The Ghana AIDS Commission has announced a surge in the number of persons who are contracting HIV infections in Ghana. In a statement released to the Community through the churches, mosques and the media, ahead of World AIDS Day slated for December 1, 2019, the commission said 19,931 new HIV …
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