Dr Josephat Nyuzaghl, the Upper East Deputy Regional Director of the Ghana Health Service (GHS) in charge of Public Health, has said all 279 COVID-19 patients in the Region have been treated and discharged from the various health facilities. According to him, all COVID-19 patients had fully recovered, adding that “As we speak, we …
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70-Year-Old Man Gets 30 Years For Defiling 8-Year-Old Girl
A 70-year-old Nigerian man will spend the next three decades in prison after he was sentenced to serve 30 years jail term for defiling an 8-year-old girl. Mohammed Sani Umar was sentenced on Friday, July 23, 2020 by a Magistrate Court in Minna, Niger state. According to a source in Nigeria, …
Read More »‘God will kill Kennedy Agyapong soon if he doesn’t stop harassing men of God’ – Bishop Obinim
Bishop Obinim has said that Member of Parliament Kennedy Agyapong would be killed soon by God if he doesn’t stop harassing innocent men of God. Speaking on OB TV, the founder and leader of the International God’s Way Church said Ken Agyapong’s life would be cut short if he doesn’t …
Read More »NDC will not tolerate anyone who tries to resurrect Atta Mills’ legacy – Sammy Gyamfi
In a week where Ghanaians are celebrating him for the peace and sanity he brought to the political space, the NDC, the party on whose ticket he stood to become President have announced their departure from what he stood for. According to Sammy Gyamfi, who is the Communications Director of the …
Read More »Political intolerance: NPP, NDC are the same – Gyampo
A six-month study, spanning January to June 2020, and involving some 315 respondents purposively sampled among supporters of both the NDC and NPP has shown that the supporters of both the NDC and NPP are all intolerant. The study, undertaken by Professor Ransford Gyampo of the Department of Political Science, …
Read More »2020 mid-year budget ‘bold’; ‘we must succeed’ – Nana Aba Anamoah
Media personality Nana Aba Anamoah has said it will be to Ghana’s credit if government is able to achieve all initiatives spelt out in the July 2020 mid-year budget review. Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta, on Thursday, 23 July 2020 presented the mid-year budget statement to parliament. As part of the …
Read More »Hawa Koomson arrested by Police
The Awutu Senya East Constituency MP, Mavis Hawa Koomson has been arrested by police in the Central Region. This follows a misunderstanding at a voters’ registration centre in Kasoa on Monday, which resulted in the Special Development Initiatives Minister firing a gun. The Special Development Initiatives Minister told JoyNews that …
Read More »US consulate: China orders US consulate closure in tit-for-tat move
China has ordered the closure of the US consulate in the south-western city of Chengdu, in a tit-for-tat escalation between the two countries. China said the move was in response to the US closing its consulate in Houston, and accused staff in Chengdu of meddling in its internal affairs. Secretary …
Read More »Nothing good in mid-year budget – Ato Forson
A former Deputy Minister of Finance Casiel Ato Forson, has said the mid-year budget statement presented to parliament on Thursday July 23 by Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta is disappointing. He said there is nothing good in the budget for the ordinary Ghanaians. “I am disappointed as a Ghanaian and I am disappointed …
Read More »Stonebwoy releases ‘Good Morning’ remix ft Sarkodie, Kelvyn Colt
Award-winning Reggae/Afro-Dancehall musician Stonebwoy has released a remix version of his “Good Morning” song featuring Ghanaian rap heavyweight, Sarkodie and London-based German/Nigerian musician, Kelvyn Colt. Stonebwoy took fans and followers worldwide by surprise with the latest record, especially at a time when they are still in the “Putuu” mood in the “Anloga Junction” album atmosphere. …
Read More »Lottery Operator Commits Suicide In His Shop Over Winnings
A lottery shop operator simply identified as Baba Pool, on Thursday, July 23, allegedly committed suicide inside his shop in Kayode Market, Abule Ijesha, in the Sabo area of Lagos State over his ”inability to pay the winnings of his customers.” Baba Pool, 70, left a suicide note before hanging himself …
Read More »Driver, passersby save fuel tanker from near-explosion
The vigilance of a tanker driver and his mate together with help from passersby prevented what could have been a deadly explosion at Anloga Junction in the Oforikrom Municipality of the Ashanti Region. The tanker, with registration number GT 4796-12, carrying 52,000 litres of petrol from Accra toward the BOST …
Read More »Rawlings visits Atta Mills’ Asomdwee Park
Former President Jerry John Rawlings has visited the final resting place of the former head of state, the late President, Professor John Evans Atta Mills. The founder of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) visited the Asomdwee Park, near the Osu Castle in Accra to lay a wreath to commemorate the eighth anniversary of …
Read More »Tanzania’s former president Benjamin Mkapa dies
He was the country’s third president after independence from Britain in 1962. Ruling the East African country for two terms from 1995 to 2005, he’ll be remembered for working to end the conflict in the Great Lakes. Former Tanzanian president Benjamin Mkapa has died age 81 at a hospital in …
Read More »CJ returns to work after 14-Day self-isolation
The Chief Justice Anin Yeboah has returned from a 14-day self-isolation in compliance with Covid-19 Protocols which he took on July 6, 2020. The CJ went on a two-week self-Isolation following advice from his doctors from July 6 and the CJ has since returned to work. On July 6, a …
Read More »Moyo denies hand in Mugabe atrocities
Exiled former cabinet minister Jonathan Moyo has denied knowledge of inside information linking the state to past acts of citizen brutality although emphatically pinning all blame on security forces for the atrocities. Moyo was once fierce aide to late former President Robert Mugabe who led a brutal regime blamed for …
Read More »E/R COVID-19: 2 more die as case count jumps to 1,161
Two more persons have died of COVID -19 in the Eastern Region while 41 new confirmed cases have been recorded increasing the regional case count to 1,161, according to the Eastern Regional Health Directorate. The two deaths bring to 12 the death toll in the region. The new cases and …
Read More »Atta Mills should have died in 2004 – Koku Anyidoho makes a shocking revelation
Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Atta Mills Institute and former Deputy General Secretary of the opposition (National Democratic Congress (NDC) Mr. Koku Anyidoho has made a shocking revelation of his late “father” and former President John Evans Fiifi Atta Mills describing him as a “walking miracle” who should have died …
Read More »Assistant Headmaster of Ejisu Senior Technical High School arrested!
Assistant Headmaster of Ejisu Senior Technical High School has been arrested and detained by police for detaining two students in his office. The students were locked up overnight for allegedly stealing an electric stabilizer belonging to the school. One of them, who attempted suicide whilst in the office, has been …
Read More »[VIDEO]: Koku Anyidoho, NDC hold separate ceremonies to commemorate Atta Mills
As today marks exactly 8 years since the passing of the late former president Prof. John Evans Atta Mills, it was expected that members of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), friends, family members and sympathisers will gather together to mark the anniversary. However, this was not the case for this …
Read More »Speeding bus runs over policeman at duty checkpoint; driver on the run
A speeding DAF bus with registration number GT 1089 F with 13 passengers onboard from Bolgatanga direction towards Tamale has crashed to death a policeman at a checkpoint at Savelugu in the Northern Region. MyNewsGh.com gathered that incident occurred at about 12:30 am on Friday when the suspect driver on reaching …
Read More »I want another world title – Agbeko
Former boxing world champion in the Bantamweight division, Joseph Agbeko, says he wants to win a world title again before he hangs up his gloves. At 43, Agbeko is back training at the Seconds Out Gym behind the Kwame Nkrumah Museum and he has set his sights on a world …
Read More »You couldn’t manage Strongman and you think you can manage Ghana? – Ghanaians react to Sarkodie
Rapper Sarkodie has disclosed via his social media handles that he has plans to contest as a presidential candidate in the 2024 elections so what does his fans think about it? “Presidential candidate 2020 anaa mo se?“, he quizzed in Twi language. His revelation was met with mixed feelings. A lot of …
Read More »Paramount Chief of Nyankpala Traditional area passes away
The Paramount Chief of the Nyankpala Traditional Area in the Tolon District of the Northern Region, Alhaji Abdulai Yakubu is dead. Sources revealed that he died at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital where he was on admission responding to treatment after falling ill in the course of last weekend. He …
Read More »Mahama pledges to continue Atta Mills’ legacy
Former president John Dramani Mahama has pledged to continue the peace and unity in the country which the late president Evan Atta Mills started. Speaking at the 8th anniversary and wreath laying ceremony of the late president, flagbearer of the NDC said Ghanaians are “crying” for the kind of peace, stability and …
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