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Muslim leaders in the country are being urged to consider using text messages to call their members to worship instead of the usual megaphones. This, according to the Environment, Science, Technology and Innovations Minister, Prof Kwabena Frimpong Boateng, will help reduce noise pollution in the country. “In the house of worship, why is it that the noise will be limited ...

A top aide to Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has warned Nigerians living in London to be careful and to show restraint, following killings in the city. The killing of black people, especially those of Nigerian origin in London, was “worrisome and disturbing”, said Abike Dabiri-Erewa, the senior special assistant to Mr Buhari on foreign affairs and the diaspora. A total ...

A nine-week-old baby boy has died at the St Gregory Hospital at Kasoa in the Central Region because his parents could not afford the cost of aiding his breathing with an oxygen machine. Little Prosper’s parents tell Joy News a medical doctor on duty pulled the plug from the oxygen machine because they could not pay GHS533 to keep their ...

The embattled former chief executive officer of COCOBOD Dr. Stephen Opuni has sued the Daily Guide newspaper over a publication that suggested that he gambled with the finances of the state firm while he was in charge. The Monday April 10, 2018 edition of the pro-government newspaper had said Mr. Opuni directed the investment of COCBOD money into non-core areas ...

The opposition National Democratic Congress’ (NDC) Deputy Director of Communications suffered huge embarrassment after he was thrown out of the studios of Accra based Peace FM during a live political show Monday night. The vociferous politician who was said to be drunk was on the programme with the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) Acting Director of Communications, Yaw Adomako Baafi ...

A vigilante youth group believed to be associated with the ruling New Patriotic Party in Tamale has chased away workers of a local construction firm contracted to build a storm drain and fix a deadly gutter at Gumani after some regional executives accused the Municipal Chief Executive, Mariam Iddrisu, of awarding the contract to an NDC contractor. A Member of ...

Outspoken New Patroitic Party (NPP) Member of Parliament for Assin Central Honourable Kennedy Agyapong has issued an apology to Colonel Aggrey Quashie, Public Relations Officer of the Ghana Armed Forces and the military high command over his “hot response”, as he himself calls it. Readers will recall, MYNEWSGH.com first reported Ken Agyapong’s “If I don’t get protocol slots, I will ...

The Director of the Economic and Organised Crimes Office, Mr K. K. Amoah, says his outfit has neither arrested nor detained the former Managing Director of the erstwhile Capital Bank, Reverend Fritzgerald Odonkor. He told Graphic Online Tuesday afternoon that “nobody has been arrested nor detained in connection with the investigation into Capital Bank.” He was responding to earlier media ...

President Akufo-Addo has picked a former First Lady Nana Konadu Agyemang Rawlings to lead a government delegation to the funeral of the late Winnie Madikizela-Mandela. The renowned freedom fighter and champion of women’s rights will be buried on Saturday, April 14, 2018 in Soweto, South Africa. Nana Konadu – wife of former president JJ Rawlings – was Ghana’s First Lady ...

An Islamic cleric, numerologist and philosopher Sheikh Ustaz Sham-Una Jibril who is known for his accurate predictions on both local and international issues has said that, the Ashanti Region which is known to be the ‘World Bank’ of the ruling NPP will turn into a “Traditional Microfinance” in the 2020 General Elections. According to him, the ruling party will witness ...