President John Dramani Mahama has ordered immediate interventions to shield Ghanaians from surging fuel prices, as global tensions in the Middle East continue to disrupt oil supplies and push up costs. The directive was issued following a Cabinet meeting in … Read more →
More than one thousand residents of the Northern Regional regional capital, Tamale, and surrounding areas have been displaced following a violent rain storm that hit the area Monday night. Residents have described the storm as the worst to hit the … Read more →
Three companies that make up the AGAMS group of companies have paid the first instalment of loans unlawfully contracted under the GYEEDA programme. Executive Secretary of the Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO) Mortey Akpadzi, confirmed to Joy News cheques … Read more →
President John Mahama has charged African leaders to make good their promises to better the lives of citizens. Opening the pan African conference on inequalities in Accra, the president highlighted the need to focus on the significance of equality in … Read more →
A former Ghanaian leader, Jerry John Rawlings, has highlighted growing economic hardship in Ghana in a recent interview with The Vanguard, a Nigerian newspaper. “In my country in 1979, there was no food in the market, things were very terrible. … Read more →
Former President Jerry John Rawlings has warned Nigeria over the use of military to counter the insurgency being perpetrated by Boko Haram.According to him, military alone cannot stop the insurgency being perpetrated by Boko Haram. The former Ghanaian leader gave … Read more →
Two women organisers of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and nine other persons died in three separate accidents last Friday and Saturday. In the first accident last Friday, eight people died on the spot, while nine others sustained varying degrees … Read more →
North Korea says it’s ready for a ‘full scale nuclear war’ and called South Korea’s president a ‘crafty prostitute’ with president Obama as her ‘powerful pimp.’ The North Korean insults come after President Obama visited South Korea and its president … Read more →
The National Chairman of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), Mr. Paul Afoko, has dropped a hint of the possibility of the party presenting only one presidential candidate at a congress later this year. He said this in an interview … Read more →
Ghanaians for a Better Government, a new pressure group set up to expose bad governance and push for transparency, says the recent revelations over a trip made from the Presidency of Ghana to Iran, led by Ibrahim Mahama, brother of … Read more →
A former Director of Communication at Ghana’s presidency, Koku Anyidoho, has made a potentially controversial claim that he has been discussing his political future with his former boss, the late President John Atta Mills. He told radio listeners late Thursday … Read more →
The request for proposals to implement an ICT model presently being advertised by Ghana Youth Employment and Entrepreneurial Development Agency (GYEEDA) “is without authorization” and should be “withdrawn”, the Office of the President has directed. The directive came in a … Read more →
President John Dramani Mahama has released 10 million cedis into a special yet-to-be-launched Fund to reduce youth unemployment in the country. Ghanaian youths who have been struggling to gain employment would soon be assisted by the fund to become business … Read more →
President John Dramani Mahama has announced several senior leadership changes at the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) in what appears to be an attempt to boost revenue collection countrywide. A statement issued by the President’s Chief of Staff, Prosper Bani, named … Read more →
Two more names have emerged in the upcoming contest for the flagbearer position of the New Patriotic Party (NPP). They are the Second Deputy Speaker of Parliament and Attorney General in the Kufuor era, Mr Joe Ghartey, and Mr Francis … Read more →
President John Mahama has announced changes to the leadership of the Customs Excise and Preventive Divison of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA). Mr. Wallace Kofi Akondor, Assistant Commissioner, replaces Mr. Isaac Ofoe Apronti as Acting Commissioner effective May 5, 2014. … Read more →