Director-General of the Ghana Health Service (GHS), Dr Patrick Kuma Aboagye, has explained why mass COVID-19 testing was not carried out for all children returning to school. The GHS boss explained that doing so would have meant deploying roughly 9.2 million tests across the country. He was speaking on Peace …

The US House of Representatives has impeached President Donald Trump for “incitement of insurrection” at last week’s Capitol riot. Ten Republicans sided with Democrats to impeach the president by 232-197. He is the first president in US history to be impeached twice, or charged with crimes by Congress. Mr Trump, …

The 37 Military Hospital will close down it’s Medical and Emergency Unit (MEU) to the general public from Thursday, January 14th, to Thursday, February 4th 2021 to conduct a fumigation exercise. A statement copied to the Ghana News Agency and signed by Colonel E. Aggrey-Quashie, Director Public Relations, Ghana Armed …

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? …

Lisa Montgomery – the only female inmate on federal death row in the US – has been executed for murder.   She received a lethal injection at a prison in Terre Haute, Indiana, after a last-minute stay of execution was lifted by the US Supreme Court. The case attracted attention …

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 …

A race by Democrats to remove President Donald Trump from office is gathering momentum as some of his fellow Republicans begin to break ranks. The House of Representatives’ third most senior Republican, Liz Cheney, said she would vote to impeach Mr Trump over last week’s storming of Congress. Earlier, the …

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 …

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US security officials have warned of possible armed protests being held across the country in the days before Joe Biden is sworn in as president. There are reports of armed groups planning to gather at all 50 state capitols and in Washington DC in the run-up to his 20 January …

Pope Francis’ personal doctor has died of complications related to Covid-19, the Vatican has announced. Fabrizio Soccorsi, 78, was chosen by the pontiff as his personal physician in 2015. His death was announced in L’Osservatore Romano, the Vatican newspaper, on Saturday. Dr Soccorsi was being treated in hospital in Gemelli Hospital for cancer …

US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has shared with lawmakers plans to remove President Donald Trump from office before starting an impeachment process. The House of Representatives would vote on a resolution calling on Vice-President Mike Pence to remove Mr Trump’s presidential powers. If this move fails, Democrats will introduce a …

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 …

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 …

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 …

US President Donald Trump has been permanently suspended from Twitter “due to the risk of further incitement of violence”, the company says. Twitter said the decision was made “after close review of recent Tweets from the @realDonaldTrump account”. It comes amid a Big Tech purge of the online platforms used …

A US Capitol police officer has died from injuries sustained in the attack on Congress by a pro-Trump mob as top Democrats have called for the president to be removed for “inciting” the riot. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi urged Vice-President Mike Pence to invoke the 25th amendment to the Constitution …

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 …

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson says President Donald Trump played a role in inciting yesterday’s unrest. “In so far as he encouraged people to storm the Capitol and in so far as the president consistently has cast doubt on the outcome of a free and fair election, I believe that …

President Donald Trump for the first time acknowledged his defeat in the Nov. 3 election and announced there would be an “orderly transition on January 20th” after Congress concluded the electoral vote count early Thursday certifying President-elect Joe Biden’s victory. Trump’s acknowledgement came after a day of chaos and destruction on Capitol …

The US Congress has certified Joe Biden’s victory in the presidential election, hours after Trump supporters stormed the building in an attack that saw four people die. Lawmakers resumed the session after police managed to remove the mob, which had been encouraged by President Donald Trump in a bid to …