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General Secretary of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Johnson Asiedu Nketia has asserted that Ghanaians are already regretting voting the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) into office. He said, “today, every Ghanaian is denying voting for the NPP because they are overwhelmed with the bad governance.” The former legislator was speaking at a mammoth rally held to mark the ...

Seventeen of the current 73 students of the West Africa Centre for Crop Improvement (WACCI), University of Ghana (UG) will receive their Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degrees in Plant Breeding at the University’s Congregation in July. WACCI, one of the World Bank Africa Centres of Excellence, has since its inception in 2007 grown to become the leading centres producing the ...

This year’s Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) has successfully ended with little or no cases of exams malpractices that led to cancellations, however, Joy News has learnt that some of the questions set by the exams body were not contained in the prescribed syllabus for the Junior High School (JHS) level. Some of the questions, according to teachers who spoke ...

The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Authority (DVLA) has revealed new driver’s licence expected to come into force from July 18 will cost more to obtain. The DVLA says although it is yet to fix the price for the new licence, the existing charges will not quite cover the cost of producing the upgraded ones. Chief Executive Officer of DVLA, Kwasi Agyemang Busia, ...

The founder of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Flt Lt. Jerry John Rawlings has said calls for unity in the party can only work if there is a commitment to truthfulness, integrity and sincerity instead of a ‘monkey dey work, baboon dey chop approach’. He was critical of how the political strength of the party had been undermined and wondered ...

The Principal of the Tepa Nursing and Midwifery training college in the Ahafo Ano North of the Ashanti region, Ms. Victoria Amoah and an accountant Asamoah Richard have been fingured in a massive GHȻ9, 247,800 admission fraud. The two administrative members allegedly use fake receipts and invoices to milk the government institution during every admission year, according to investigations by ...

High tides that caused flooding in the Ketu-South District of the Volta Region have caused schools to remain closed on Monday as the classrooms are serving as makeshift homes for displaced residents. Sunday’s high tides were one of the many that hit many communities along Ghana’s coasts, destroying homes and displacing hundreds. Joy News’ Volta Region correspondent, Ivy Setordzie, reports ...

The Suhum Municipal  Police Command  has launched a manhunt for Joshua Tei, a farmer who chopped off his girlfriend’s hand over cheating suspicions. The incident occurred at about  7:30pm at Aponoapono, a  farming community in the Suhum Municipality of the Eastern region . The victim identified only as Patience has been hospitalized at the Suhum government hospital while the amputated ...

Senior Police officers accompanied by junior personnel in the Northern regional command on Friday June 9, 2017, donated an amount of GH5, 000 to the wife and child of a police officer shot dead by police patrol team in a case of mistaken identity The incident occurred on the Tamale -Kintampo expressway days before the fatal lynching of late Maxwell ...

Former President Jerry John Rawlings has praised the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) for being consistent in their values and has charged the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) to do same.Speaking at a political rally at Ashaiman in the Greater Accra Region as part of the Silver Jubilee celebrations of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) on Saturday, 10 June, ...