President John Dramani Mahama has said that Mrs Theodosia Salome Okoh, who designed the national flag, will never be forgotten because of the significant role she played in giving Ghana an identity and a symbol of pride. He said the national flag, as an integral part of the country, would be a constant reminder of the brain behind the design, thus creating a perpetual   [....]

Ghana has been given the nod to continue oil production activities at a disputed maritime boundary dispute between it and Cote d’Ivoire. The International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS), in unanimously dismissing Cote d’Ivoire’s call for the suspension of activities on the disputed maritime boundary until the final determination of their disagreement over   [....]

Placing infants in car seats and other sitting devices for naps may put their lives in danger, according to a new study. In the study, researchers examined 47 cases of children under 2 years old who died while in device designed for them to sit in, or in which they could be carried. Two-thirds of the cases involved car seats, whereas the remaining deaths occurred in slings,  [....]

Ghana’s former President, Flt Lt Jerry John Rawlings has in separate meetings with the Algerian and EU Ambassadors called for an urgent need to restore global ethical and principled values, stating that President Nelson Mandela if he were alive today would have described the trend of brutal and unfair practices on the global scene as unconscionable. He also went on  [....]

Joy News investigations have uncovered a syndicate fraudulently leaking examination questions in the ongoing 2015 West Africa Senior Secondary Certificate Examination to individuals and some top schools, and taking huge sums of money for it. The syndicate, allegedly made up of teachers and a West African Examinations Council (WAEC) official who works in its  [....]

A private security guard has allegedly murdered a househelp because the deceased spurned his sexual advances. The 25-year-old security man, identified as Adam Rahman is currently on the run, Airport Police Commander Chief Superintendent Yao Tettegah confirmed to Joy News’ Fred Smith. Ironically, Rahman committed the heinous crime in an apartment at the  [....]

Information reaching Joy News indicates that two people have been killed in what reports say is the single largest robbery in Anyinam, Eastern Region. Isaac Brobbey who was driving a Nissan vehicle with registration number GW 6896 - 15 and an unidentified Chinese national driving a vehicle with number GX 609 – 14 were shot dead when they attempted to escape  [....]

Ghana will for the first time sign a bilateral agreement with Saudi Arabia, to strengthen the relationship between the two countries Ghana’s ambassador to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Alhaji Said Sinare disclosed this to Citi News after presenting his credentials to the new Saudi King Salman Abdulaziz. Alhaji Sinare believes this will be a major landmark in the   [....]

Heavily armed police and military personnel have been deployed to the Brong Ahafo Region town of Sakore, following bloody clashes between feuding factions. The two factions - suspected to be supporters of two rival political parties - attacked each other with clubs and machetes last Monday, reports indicate. One Kwame Fosu, 27, also known as Kwame Macho  [....]

A twenty-three-year-old widow in Akyem Tafo in the Eastern region is to be given 100 lashes in public for defying a major Islamic principle on widowhood rites, which is known as Iddah. Ramatu Alhassan is facing the wrath of Muslim clerics in her community for getting pregnant while observing Iddah. The Iddah rites requires that a widow abstains from sex  [....]

Theodosia Salome Okoh (born June 13, 1922 - April 19, 2015) age of 92 is a Ghanaian stateswoman known for designing Ghana's flag. She was born to the Very Reverend Emmanuel Victor Asihene, a former moderator of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana and Madam Dora Asihene, both from Anum in the Eastern Region. She is the fourth of eight children  [....]

Mass funeral service has been held at Ahwiaa in the Ashanti Region, for nine members of the Medoma North SDA church who died in a fatal accident during the Easter holidays. The service is full of emotion as the church grapples with the Easter Saturday tragedy. Among those to be buried is a 44-year old man who died along with his two children, aged 11 and 7 years  [....]