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The Somanya District Police Command have arrested two persons for circulating nude pictures of a 20 years former student of Yilo Krobo Secondary School. Prince Teye who was a boy friend of the 20 year former student of Yilo Secondary school Lydia Tetteh was in a relationship with Lydia which later fell on rocks. Prince who took pictures of the ...

The Stop Galamsey Operation Taskforce in Dunkwa in the Central Region has destroyed 19 machines used by galamsey operators. The machines were used by the operators to mine on River Offin which serves as the major source of water for residents in the community. Joy News’ Central Regional Correspondent, Richard Kwadwo Nyarko reports the operators fled from the scene upon seeing the Taskforce. ...

The visa fraud scandal involving three sitting lawmakers and a former one in Ghana’s parliament is disappointing, the Minister for Parliamentary Affairs, Osei Kyei Mensah-Bonsu has stated. Richard Acheampong, NDC MP for Bia East in the Western region (NDC), Joseph Benhazin Dahah, NPP MP for Ntotroso in the Bono Ahafo region, Johnson Kwaku Adu, NPP MP for Ahafo Ano South ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has named his remaining 212 persons as Metropolitan, Municipal and District Chief Executives (MMDCEs). New Patriotic Party (NPP) aficionados have been up in arms over the nominations, condemning some of the president’s decisions against their wish. However, announcing the names on Wednesday, the Minister for Local Government, Hajia Alima Mahama appealed to party faithful to ...

The Chairman of the government’s Asset Retrieval Committee, ACP Aboagye Nyarko,  has strongly dismissed reports that officials of the task force stormed the private residence of  former Youth and Sports Minister in search of stolen state vehicles. According to him, he was surprised by Nii Lantey Vanderpuije’s  insistence that the force raided his residence Tuesday. The Odododiodoo Member of Parliament ...

Joyce Bawa Mogtari, Special Aide to former President John Dramani Mahama has advised the government not to blame Mr. Mahama for their failures. In a strongly worded statement released on Wednesday, April 26, Mrs Mogtari condemned what she described as a government-sponsored attack that has been launched on the former President “based on a deliberately concocted lie, that the former ...

The UK High Commission in Ghana has fingered three sitting lawmakers and a former one in alleged visa fraud and have been slapped with a 10-year travelling ban to the UK. According to the High Commission, the MPs used their diplomatic passports to apply for visas for persons traveling to the UK and they never returned. The MPs are Richard ...

Irate supporters of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Mpohor District of the Western region have issued a stern warning to President Akufo-Addo to appoint no other person than their former constituency chairman George Bernard Eshun as District Chief Executive (DCE) for the area. The supporters who were clad in red armbands said information available to them suggest that ...

The Volta Region Security Council and police are set to conduct autopsies on the bodies of two persons killed last week, after which arrest of the killers would be made. A lack of strong evidence on the cause of the deaths, suspected to be due to gunshot wounds, is preventing police from making an arrest. A Police Criminal Investigation Department ...

Lieutenant Colonel GNK Hoenyedzi, Commanding Officer of 2 Battalion of Infantry (2Bn), Takoradi has been recalled to the Southern Command Headquarters as he faces a Board Of Inquiry (BOI) for his suspected galamsey related activities. He has also been said to have engaged in illegal seizure of cars and provided armed escorts for galamsey operatives in a region which is ...