Joy FM Afternoon News Bulletin

At least one person has been killed after a police officer drove into bystanders at Atico junction near Kaneshie. The police man who was driving a Toyota Vitz taxi, is said to have been pursuing an errant trotro driver when he tripped over a mound and veered onto the pavement, ramming into the people.

The Health Minister, Kwaku Agyeman-Manu has said that government’s mandatory vaccination policy is non-negotiable. In an interview on GBC, on Wednesday, he contended that the compulsory vaccination is to protect the populace.

Some Ghanaians who are seeking to re-register their SIM cards with the Ghana card are complaining about the excessively long queues they’ve had to endure at the offices of some telecommunication companies. The situation has worsened since the first working day in 2022.

Eight farmers captured in the latest JoyNews Hotline documentary, using children as labourers on their farms have been arrested. A team of police and COCOBOD intelligence officials effected an arrest after an operation aimed at bringing all those involved to book.

Joy FM Afternoon News Bulletin

Joy FM Afternoon News Bulletin

The winners of the 2021 National Science and Maths Quiz competition, Prempeh College, have on Thursday 6 January 2021 presented the trophy to the President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, at a brief event at the Jubilee House in Accra.

The Enchi District Police have arrested a couple for beating their four-year-old daughter to death for bedwetting. Francisca Etuteh, who was made to sit on hot water, also broke her arm due to the beating, the Police said. The suspects, Effah Donaldson, 34, and Salome Oteku, 27, are said to have caned the deceased till she fell unconscious on Tuesday at Yakase in the Aowin Municipality of the Western North Region.

Effective Tuesday, January 4, 2022, the Customs Division of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) will begin the implementation of government’s policy directive on the reversal of the reduction of values of imports on 43 selected items. Otherwise known as the ‘benchmark values’, the reversal will affect the selected items from all the three categories on which the reversal was applied, a statement from the Authority stated.