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Some newly posted teachers in the Adaklu District of the Volta Region have raised concerns over the inconveniences they go through in accessing their salaries. The teachers lamented they have been turned away by their banks on numerous occasions when they attempted to withdraw their salaries. Some of them who spoke to Joy News said, the banks simply told them ...

Queenmother of of Ekumfi Otuam, Nana Anyinfuah III, has called for the body of Ghana’s late President, Professor John Evans Atta Mills to be exhumed and moved to his hometown for a befitting burial. Prof. John Mills died on July 24, 2012 at the 37 Military Hospital; just five months to the December 2012 general elections which he was seeking ...

Officials of the Lands Commission in Ghana have been summoned by the Supreme Court to testify in the cross-examination of embattled businessman Alfred Agbesi Woyome over the questionable GH51.2 million judgment debt paid to him by the previous administration. The invitation of the commission was necessitated by a disagreement between himself and Deputy Attorney General Godfred Dame over the ownership ...

A lecturer at the University of Ghana Political Science Department has expressed disappointment at the responses given by the Electoral Commission Chairperson Charlotte Osei, in relation to a petition filed by some concerned staff of the commission accusing her of misconduct and fraud. Prof. Ransford Gyampo says he was not expecting the EC Chair to respond in a manner that ...

At least two people have been confirmed dead, with 11 others trapped after a mining pit collapsed at Petransa in the Asante-Akyem Central District of the Ashanti Region. The deceased have been identified as one Abubakar 35, and Alhassan 25, all residents of the community. Two others have been rushed to the hospital in critical condition. The tragic incident reportedly happened ...

Ghana will soon launch a second satellite into space to monitor illegal mining activities and deforestation in the country. The satellite which will be christened Ghanasat 2 will have a high resolution camera to take better and clearer photos than the Ghanasat 1 which was launched in June this year. The Ghanasat-1 is the country’s first satellite in space and ...

President John Mahama’s 2016 running mate Paa Kwesi Amissah Arthur has revealed he could be in the race for National Democratic Congress (NDC) presidential primaries for the 2020 general elections. “I am not considering it. But people have come to me and I am thinking about it”, Paa Kwesi Amissah Arthur told Joy News’ Beatrice Adu at a ceremony to ...

A former Chief Director at the Electoral Commission, Mr. Damoah Agyeman has called on President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo to probe the chairperson for the Electoral Commission Mrs. Charlotte Osei over allegations leveled against her by some unidentified staff. According to him, probing the EC will allow certain misconceptions to be cleared and restore confidence in the country’s electoral ...

An aggrieved deputy Chairperson of the Electoral Commission, Georgina Opoku-Amankwa, has put up a strong defense against the twenty-five (25) points of allegations leveled against her by the Chairperson of the electoral management body, Mrs. Charlotte Osei. In her response to those allegations, Madam Opoku-Amankwa noted that the Chairperson of the EC allegedly rejected the official office that was used ...

The Northern Regional Director of the Youth Employment Agency (YEA), Sule Salifu, is convinced, party faithful deserve preferential treatment when it comes to government jobs. “I am going to ensure that only NPP people will get job first before any other person”, Mr. Salifu said at the annual delegates’ conference of the Tamale Central Constituency in the Northern Region. Explaining ...