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Ivory Coast’s deceased Prime Minister Amadou Gon Coulibaly was buried Friday in his hometown in Korogho, the main city in the north of the country. Before his burial, relatives surrounded his remains and prayed for the departed Prime Minister in the main mosque of the city. In this tranquil atmosphere, …

The Youth and Sports Sub – Committee of the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly ( K.M.A) made a politeness call on the three (3) Sub Metros  within Kumasi to interact with the youth with the assess to their continuous playing of sports activities especially soccer or football during this pandemic.      …

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has asked students, teachers and invigilators who will be involved in the conduct of the 2020 West African Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) to abide by COVID-19 protocols. “Just as has been done over the course of the last four weeks, since their return …

The Frafra (also known as Gorse) are hardworking agricultural Gur-speaking people ethnic group in Northern Ghana and Southern Burkina Faso. The Frafra people who live predominantly in the north-eastern part of the Upper East Region of Ghana called themselves in Gurune language as “Gorse,’ whilst some historians refer to them …

Former President JJ Rawlings has joined a long list of national leaders who have commiserated with the family of US veteran civil right icon, John Lewis following the latter’s passing on Saturday, July 18, 2020. A statement from Mr Rawlings office described the late Congressman as ‘fearless and unrelenting’ in …

The Management of the Cape Coast University (UCC) has announced the cancellation of the John Atta Mills commemorative lecture which was scheduled for its campus this week. In a statement, the university said the decision was informed by the COVID-19 pandemic which makes it impossible to hold large gatherings. The …

The death toll from the coronavirus pandemic has hit 601,213, according to the tally by Johns Hopkins University. Meanwhile, The number of coronavirus cases worldwide has hit 14.2 million, while more than 7.9 million people have recovered. US deaths from the novel coronavirus exceeded 140,000 on Saturday as cases continued to …

The Fight Over Nkrumah’s Remains: On April 27, 1972, Kwame Nkrumah, the deposed President of Ghana and a great Pan-Africanist died in Bucharest, Romania after six years in exile in Guinea far away from his birthplace of Nkroful at the age of 62. Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah arrived in Conakry, …

The Ghana Education Service (GES) has confirm the death of a final year Senior High School (SHS) student at Methodist Girls High School located at Mamfe in the Eastern region. The final year SHS student died just a few weeks after resumption of academic work to prepare for the final …

Chemical tanker CURACAO TRADER was attacked at around 1100 UTC Jul 17 in Gulf of Guinea, 230 nm south of Lagos, Nigeria, while en route from Lome Togo to undefined port. Pirates boarded the tanker and kidnapped 15 crew, according to Dryad/IMB report. They’re believed to be of Russian and …

South Africa now ranks fifth in the world for confirmed coronavirus cases as the African continent faces the pandemic’s first wave head-on, according to the Johns Hopkins University tally. South Africa on Saturday reported 13,285 new confirmed cases for a total of 350,879. That puts the country ahead of Peru, …

A Ghanaian woman yesterday shocked followers of popular relationship blogger Abena Magis with her ‘MyMotherMyRival’ story. The woman who pleaded to be anonymous revealed how her own mother has collapsed her 7-year-old marriage by dating her son-in-law. The story which many followers of Abena are finding it difficult to believe, …

The communications director of Medeama SC, Patrick Akoto, noted that there is an anxiety among the football fraternity ahead of CAS’ decision on Wilfred Osei Palmer’s case against the Ghana Football Association. Palmer was disqualified from the presidential elections in 2019 by the Normalization Committee and dragged the case to …

A total of 7,279,237 eligible Ghanaian voters have been registered so far by the Electoral Commission in the ongoing voter registration exercise. A lot of those captured are in the Greater Accra Region (1,524,600) followed by the Ashanti Region (1,319,498). From the EC’s data, 63.8 per cent of the registered …

A top executive of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Northern Region has threatened to kill a National Democratic Congress (NDC) polling station agent the way Issah Mobila, a former Northern Regional Chairman of the Convention People’s Party (CPP) was murdered. In a chilling on- record telephone banter, …

Government will soon outdoor a project to improve water and sanitation in the Ashanti Region. The 85 million dollars project, will involve the construction of household toilet facilities, replace obsolete pipelines as well as the installation of other sanitation facilities in Kumasi and other big towns in the Region. Madam …

President Akufo-Addo has joined the chain of tributes to the civil rights icon, John Lewis. John Lewis, a congressman died of pancreatic cancer at the age of 80. Akufo-Addo in a message of condolences described late Lewis as a man “who dedicated his life to helping to realize the goals …

A distraught veteran journalist Abdul Malik Kweku Baako has lamented the high prevalence of violent activities at centres during the EC’s voters registration exercise. Tracing the violent related activities as far back as 1996, Mr Baako observed that poor commitment of the two main political parties and the police was …

Ghanaian Rapper and Pioneer of the Hip-life movement in Ghana, Reggie Rockstone has sent a strong message to people labelling him as poor as he discloses that he has never been broke in his life. Speaking in an interview with Happy FM’s Doctar Cann on the Showbiz Xtra show, the …

The opposition National Democratic Congress has accused military officials in the Ahafo Ano North of preventing its accredited agents from monitoring a registration exercise which took place at the Tepa SHS on Saturday. According to the Ashanti regional branch of the opposition party, the soldiers told them they were under instructions not …

Two men were killed and seven others injured during an alleged robbery at OR Tambo International Airport on Saturday. According to Russel Meiring of ER24, the robbery was said to have taken place in the cargo area outside the airport in Kempton Park, Johannesburg.   “ER24 paramedics, along with other services, arrived …

Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, has indicated that the Mid-Year Review of estimates would focus on programs aimed at fast-tracking the country’s economic recovery by extending some support to businesses and industries that have been hit badly by COVID-19. Mr Ofori-Atta disclosed this on JOYNEWS’ Business Edition of PM EXPRESS which was on …

One person has died while many others are injured in a fatal accident at Asuboi near the Suhum stretch of the Accra to Kumasi Highway. The victims were rushed to Suhum Government Hospital for treatment while the body of the yet to be identified deceased deposited at same Hospital. The …

Mary Amponsah Adjei, the lady whose mother abandoned her just 7-months-old, on SVTV Africa, lamented that her mother never showed her love because her father, allegedly raped her; making them (mother and daughter) rape victims. She had to stay with her grandmother until she was 12 years; the alleged rapist’s …

Kasoa police have rejected suggestions of deliberately killing a 27-year-old Nigerian at Buduburam in the Central Region. The family of the deceased have accused the police of intentionally shooting and killing Precious on Friday, July 17. Narrating the incident on Joy FM, Kasoa District Police Commander, Superintendent Samuel Odame said: …