China’s population has fallen for the first time in 60 years, with the national birth rate hitting a record low – 6.77 births per 1,000 people. The population in 2022 – 1.4118 billion – fell by 850,000 from 2021. China’s birth rate has been declining for years, prompting a slew of policies to slow the […]
Two men have reportedly been wounded after the police fired warning shots to dispel a crowd at the Damongo police in the West Gonja municipality of the Savannah Region. According to Joy News’ Isaac Nonya, there was blood oozing from the chest of one of the victims and the left shoulder of the other. Eyewitnesses […]
The TDC Company Limited (TDCL) has expressed its unwavering commitment to bridge the housing deficit in the country through the construction of affordable houses for the public. The Managing Director of the company, Alice Abena Ofori-Atta, said the Community 26 Kpone affordable housing project and the Community 22 housing scheme, among other projects, were some […]
A policeman and his family have been burnt to death at Apromase near Kumasi. The policeman said to be from the Anti Robbery Unit, his wife and three months-old baby were burnt Monday dawn. Graphic Online’s Kwadwo Baffoe Donkor reports from Kumasi that the household of Police Sergeant, Owusu Asante Baafi perished in the fire incident which engulfed […]
The Progressive People’s Party (PPP) says the government should exempt all domestic bondholders from its debt exchange. It said the approach of government should be focused on developing a valuation model of debt restructuring to be auctioned on the secondary market. “We advise that, if government will want to pursue debt exchange as a tool, […]
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has intervened in the case of the eight senior high school students of Chiana who have been dismissed by the Ghana Education Service (GES) for insulting the President. This was after the President’s attention was drawn to it. Consequently, the Minister of Education, Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum has directed the […]
US President Joe Biden’s aides have found a fresh batch of classified government records at a second location, in a growing political embarrassment for the White House. The first cache was found at a private office in Washington DC that Mr Biden used after his vice-presidency. The matter is under review by the US Department […]
The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Authority (DVLA) has interdicted four members of staff who were implicated in JoyNews’ ‘Money over Human Lives’ investigative piece. The investigation was carried out in two regions, the Greater Accra Regional Office located at 37 and the Tamale Regional Office in the Northern Region. The documentary exposed the breaches in […]
A former Presidential staffer, Charles Bissue, has gone to court to stop the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) from investigating him over certain allegations of corruption relating to illegal mining (galamsey). In a writ filed on January 4, this year at the Accra High Court, Mr Bissue is of the contention that the police […]
The head of the Huahi Royal Family of Boadi in the Ashanti Region has filed a suit against the Inspector General of Police (IGP) over his unlawful arrest by officers of the Ghana Police Service. In his application to endorse his fundamental human right at the Human Rights Division of the High Court in Accra, […]
The Accra Circuit Court has fined artiste manager, Lawrence Nana Asiamah Hanson, aka Bulldog, Ghc48,000 for saying on tv that President Akufo-Addo will not finish his second term if he does not pay customers of Menzgold. Failure to pay the fine will land Bulldog 40 days in prison. Bulldog had pleaded not guilty to offensive […]
Many second-cycle schools have expressed their readiness to reopen for the commencement of the 2023 academic year. In separate interviews with the Daily Graphic, the management of some second-cycle schools expressed their readiness to reopen for the commencement of the 2023 academic year. According to the management of some of the schools, they had put […]
