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A 26-year-old woman, who inflicted cutlass wounds on her 10-year-old biological son, is in the grips of the Obuasi Divisional Domestic Violence and Victim Support Unit (DOVVSU) of the Ghana Police Service. Mariam Issah, a resident of Boete, a suburb of Obuasi, was arrested following a report by a neighbour …

Parliament is to rescind the third reading and passage of the Vigilantism and Related Offences Bill, 2019 following the detection of an anomaly in the bill. Barely three days after the passage of the bill into law, the Chairman of the Committee on Constitutional, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs, Mr Ben …

Joy News journalist, Manasseh Azure Awuni is unhappy with the National Media Commission‘s (NMC) ruling on his documentary dubbed: ‘Militia in the heart of the nation.’ According to him, the ruling was unfortunate and inappropriate. While expressing worry, the journalist argued that although he provided the NMC with all facts regarding …

I read in the Ghana Web a publication on 17th July 2019 attributed to Mr. Asiedu Nketia, in which he was alleged to have said that he “personally warned” me, Martin Amidu, “against taking up the job of Special Prosecutor because the laws that established the office does not give him …

President Nana Akufo-Addo has said his government and the security agencies are doing everything possible to rescue the three young women believed to have been kidnapped in Takoradi between August and December last year.Speaking on the matter on the second day of his tour of the Western Region, the President …

Scores of actors and actresses from the Ashanti Region, led by Nana Ama McBrown, on Wednesday, 24 July 2019 petitioned Ghana’s parliament to ensure that a Film Village is built in Kumasi, the hub of Ghanaian movies (Kumawood) rather the Kyebi, Eastern Region. McBrown told Majority Leader, Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu during …

The Ghana Union of Traders Association (GUTA) is planning a mammoth demonstration against government in three months, if it fails to enforce laws governing retail trade. President of the Association, Dr Joseph Obeng, at a press conference held at the Central Business District (Opera Square) said, if government does not …

The Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) says the National Media Commission’s ruling on the government’s dispute with Joy News over the airing of a documentary which exposed the existence of a militia group at the Christiansborg Castle in Osu is confusing. The NMC ruled that the Joy News documentary …

I didn’t see this coming, but I am able to bring my mind into agreement with Charles Dickens when he wrote in chapter 1 of his book the ‘Bleak House’ which deeply criticised the court of chancery as ‘This court of chancery…which gives to monied might the means abundantly of …

The first batch of Ghanaian pilgrims were airlifted Wednesday morning at the Tamale Airport to perform this year’s pilgrimage in Mecca. About 492 pilgrims left with Boeing 747-400 aircraft in the Northern region. The Public Relations Officer of the Ghana Hajj Board in the region, Alhaji Eliasu confirmed to Class …

A huge number of heavily armed police officers have taken over the security of the University of Education, Winneba (UEW) in anticipation of the return of the ousted Vice-Chancellor of the school, Prof Mawutor Avoke, who, together with some staff who were also dismissed, stormed the campus on Tuesday to, …

Education Minister, Mathew Opoku Prempeh, has backed the current Vice Chancellor of the University of Education, Winneba, Professor Anthony Afful-Broni,  saying “there’s only one Vice-Chancellor” at the University. Mr. Prempeh’s support comes on the back of brewing tensions in the University with a combined team of National Security Operatives and …

The Managing Director of the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC), Dr Kofi Kodua Sarpong has been appointed as the Chairman of the Ashanti Regional Council of Patrons of the New Patriotic Party (NPP). The appointment letter dated July 19, 2019 and signed by Mr Bernard Antwi-Boasiako [Chairman Wontumi], Ashanti Regional …

The government of Ghana spent US$4.5 million on the senior national football team, the Black Stars, at the just-ended Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) tournament in Egypt, Youth and Sports Minister Isaac Asiamah has told parliament.The Black Stars, who were tipped as pre-tournament favourites, exited at the round of 16 …

Government has revealed it will reintroduce the issuance of national certificates aside the WASSCE, as part of the rolling out of new curriculum for basic schools. According to the Education Minister, Mathew Opoku Prempeh, the certificates will be a prerequisite for gaining employment in the country. Speaking at a stakeholder …

Two Gambian soldiers working for a hit squad controlled by former President Yahya Jammeh on Monday admitted to participating in the 2005 execution of 56 West African migrants, including 44 Ghanaians on the orders of Jammeh. Lieutenant Malick Jatta and Corporal Omar A. Jallow revealed to Gambia’s Truth, Reconciliation and …

The Student population in Senior High Schools will be around 1.2 million after this year’s admissions, Education Minister Mathew Opoku Prempeh has disclosed. Speaking at the Meet The Press encounter in Accra on Wednesday, he said the figure would be some 400,000 increase from the current population of about 800,000. …

Five persons have sustained various degrees of gunshot wounds after Deputy Minister of Education, Hon. Dr. Osei Adutum and others were attacked on Sarikyikura on the Tamale Buipe highway. Police in a statement sighted by MyNewsGh.com disclosed that the injured persons are currently at the Tamale Teaching Hospital responding to treatment while …

Ghana will join the likes of Singapore and China in rolling out a universal Quick Response (QR) Code system for payments that will enable even small and petty traders to have easy means of getting paid, Vice-President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has said.Dr Bawumia disclosed this when he delivered a lecture …

The Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA) has urged the general public to disregard what it describes as the “falsehood” being propagated by some communicators of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) to the effect that stalls at the newly-constructed Kejetia Market are being allocated to only loyalists and supporters of the governing …

Former President John Mahama has described his former boss, the late Prof John Evans Atta Mills, as a man who stood for the highest ideals of leadership and the greatest aspirations of Ghana’s democracy.Mr Mahama, who was Vice-President to Prof Mills, wrote this on his Facebook page to commemorate the …

The first batch of Ghanaian Muslim pilgrims embarking on the 2019 Hajj in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, is expected to take off from the Tamale Airport today, Wednesday, 24 June 2019.The Chairman of the Ghana Hajj Board, Sheikh I.C. Quaye, together with the Minister for the Interior, Mr Ambrose …

Retaliations in Upper Dixcove in the Ahanta West district of the Western region, have left several residents injured over a chieftaincy dispute. It was the chief of Lower Dixcove and several subjects who were attacked Monday dawn leading to the kidnapping of the chief, Nana Kwesi Agyeman IX. Three days …

A section of a major road connecting East Legon to the N4 Highway has caved in, forcing officials to block one side of the road. The site is Okponglo junction, around the free pass entry to the University of Ghana. It is not clear as yet what caused it but …

A 10-year-old boy, Awal Mohammed, who had his body slashed multiple times by his mother at their home in the Obuasi suburb of Boete in the Ashanti Region, has been hospitalized. He had reportedly collapsed in a neighbour’s house where he sought refuge. He was rushed to the Bryant Mission …