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Fire has destroyed parts of the yet-to-be completed Youth Resource Centre in Navrongo in the Kassena-Nankana municipality of the Upper East Region. Several glass windows, PVC pipes, seats, doors and electric poles are components of the huge sports facility caught in the Sunday morning inferno. It took the intervention of …

The government is working to ensure all its external data in other countries is hosted locally in Ghana. This is to reduce the cost of operations and promote growth in the digital space. Minister for Communications and Digitalisation, Ursula Owusu Ekuful, made this disclosure to Joy Business after addressing a …

The Duayaw-Nkwanta Circuit Court has granted GHC100,000 bail with two sureties each to four students of the Bechem Presbyterian Senior High School (PRESEC) who allegedly gang-raped a 15-year-old form one student at the school. Other two suspects, Hamida Kyeremaa and another one (name withheld) who were charged with aiding and …

The Chief of Akyem Osino, Osabarima Otu Darko, has called for the deployment of additional police personnel from the Regional Police Command to the community to bolster security in the wake of a deadly clash between students of Osino Presbyterian Senior High School and youth from the Nsuapemso community. Osabarima …

The latest Demographic and Health Survey on young people’s sexual experience of first sex reveals that more women have sex at an earlier age compared to men. Stakeholders at the dissemination of the report are concerned about the youth’s lack of understanding of sexual reproductive health issues, leading to discussions …

An unidentified man believed to be in his 70s has been found dead along the Mankessim to Cape Coast Highway in the Central Region. The incident on Wednesday morning has left residents of Volta Bar,  a suburb of Mankessim gripped with fear and panic. Residents say they woke up Wednesday …

The decomposing body of a 23-year-old man who was buried 3 days ago has been exhumed and is currently being dried in the sun at Assin Aniakagya in the Assin North District of the Central Region. Kofi Adams, the deceased met his untimely death after he allegedly drowned in an …

The Attorney-General and Minister for Justice, Godfred Yeboah Dame has given assurances that his office will facilitate processes to bring murderers of investigative journalist Ahmed Suale to justice. Speaking on the floor of Parliament on Tuesday, February 20, Mr Yeboah Dame indicated that though investigations were ongoing, no identifiable suspects …

Dr Bernard Okoe Boye, the Health Minister-Designate, says there will be intensive supervision in public health facilities across the country if Parliament approves his nomination as the Minister of Health. The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) was nominated by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo …

The University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG) branch of the University of Environment and Sustainable Development (UESD) has embarked on an indefinite strike over its outstanding online teaching support allowance (OTSA). UTAG-UESD, in a letter dated February 19, stated that the strike would take effect on Tuesday, February 20, 2024. …