Newsfile On JoyNews (18-2-2017)
This week’s edition of Newsfile focused on the free SHS policy which begins in September. On February 11, President Akufo-Addo announced that government will fully implement the free Senior High...
Day: February 18, 2017
Obinim Flogging Video Lands In United States
It has emerged that the controversial video recording which captured Bishop Daniel Obinim, Founder of the International God’s Way Church, flogging two teenagers over allegation of fornication,...
Parliament Approves Nana Addo’s Regional Minister Nominees
Parliament Friday evening approved President Nana Akufo-Addo’s 10 nominees for regional minister portfolios following their vetting this past week. The nominees were approved by consensus....
Osafo Maafo Was Thinking Aloud In Heritage Fund Comment – Akomea
The governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) has maintained no absolute decision has been taken to use the Heritage Fund to finance the free senior high school (SHS) programme. NPP Director of...
Roadside Bomb Kills 12 Afghans Including Children, UN Says
The UN has condemned the killing of 12 Afghans, including eight children returning from school, by a roadside bomb in the country's volatile east, the latest in a growing number of civilian...
If Mugabe Dies, We Will Still Field Him As A Candidate-Wife Says
The wife of Zimbabwe’s president, Grace Mugabe, is courting controversy after she said that her husband, Robert Mugabe is so much loved by people to an extent that even if he dies, he will still be...
Nothing Wrong With Heritage Fund For Free SHS – Mustapha Hamid
Using the Heritage Fund to invest in government’s free Senior High School policy would be in line with the purpose for setting up the fund, the Minister of Information, Mustapha Hamid has said. The...
Qur’anic Recitations Held For A Successful 2017 Hajj
The newly instituted Hajj Board led by the chairman, Sheikh IC Quaye, has organized a Qur’anic recitation for a successful Hajj pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia this year. This is to commit to the...
US ‘unwavering’ In Support For Nato Allies, Says Pence
The US will be “unwavering” in its support for Nato, vice-president Mike Pence told European leaders at the Munich Security Conference. In the first major foreign policy address for the Trump...
Lydia Forson’s Acting Career Is Dead
The seeming tension between actress Lydia Forson and maverick Counselor George Lutterodt is far from over as the latter has thrown in yet another salvo. He claims the Ghanaian actress is trying to...
Iran In New Military Drills Despite US Warnings
Iran's elite Revolutionary Guard is to conduct military drills next week, a senior commander announced Saturday, despite warnings from the United States and fresh sanctions over a ballistic missile...
Men Insert Toes In Stripped Lady Thief’s Vagina At Kejetia
The lady was slapped, shoved, pulled and pushed in every direction A young lady accused of having stolen GHS1,100 ($250) on Friday, February 17 was stripped naked, beaten, and paraded barefooted on...
Things You Should Never Do For A Man If You Are Not Married To Him
There are so many things ladies do to please their men all in the name of love. Some even go as far as loosing themselves in the process of doing their best to keep him. However, the fact that some...
Hundreds Troop To TV3 For ‘big’ Blood Donation Event
Hundreds of well-meaning Ghanaians are at the premises of TV3 Network Limited to donate blood to help stock the National Blood Bank. Among the prospective donors from far and near are businessmen,...
Kofi Nti Takes Over As New Commissioner-General of GRA
Outgoing Commissioner-General of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA), Mr George Blankson, has handed over to a new GRA boss, Mr Emmanuel Kofi Nti, a Tax Policy Advisor. After seven years of heading the...
Tension Mounts In Ashaiman Over MCE List
There was total chaos at the Ashaiman NPP youth office at Tulaku, a suburb of Ashaiman when a group of young men angrily stormed the office and started braking tables and chairs. The action of the...
How To Live A Happy and Fulfilled Life
Over the years I have travelled the world in search of a happy and fulfilling life, and again and again it eludes me. Today, I sit back to meditate, and I realised that I changed nothing to get to my...
Prioritise Use of Resources – Bokpin Tells Government
The Head of the Finance Department at the University of Ghana Business School, Prof Godfred Bokpin, has charged government to set priorities right to ensure that the country’s resources are...
‘US Will Always Be Your Greatest Ally’
US Vice-President Mike Pence Saturday pledged an "unwavering" commitment to transatlantic ties, in an emphatic reassurance to allies including German Chancellor Angela Merkel who pleaded with nations...
Man Taking Selfie Among Seven Dead In Iran Storms
A man taking a selfie after an Iranian dam burst was among at least seven people killed as floods, avalanches and dust storms gripped the country, state media reported Saturday. The 40-year-old was...