Annual Inflation rate rises to 11.3% in May
The year-on-year inflation rate increased to 11.3 percent in May up from 10.6 percent in April on food prices. The rate rose by 0.7 percentage points from the 10.6 percent recorded in April, Professor Samuel Annim, Government Statistician, said on Wednesday. The month-on-month inflation between April 2020 and May 2020 was 1.7 percent. The Food […]
Minister leads team to retrieve eight excavators from illegal mining sites
The Minister for Lands and Natural Resources, Kwaku Asomah-Cheremeh, has retrieved eight excavators and mining-related equipment at some illegal mining sites in Tugakrom in the Suaman District of the Western North Region. The Minister was accompanied by some military personnel for the exercise. The team observed that about 100 acres of land had been destroyed […]
Kano state serial rapes: Man arrested after 40 rapes in Nigerian town
Nigerian police say they have arrested a man after 40 people were raped in one town over the period of a year. A mother in the northern town Dangora caught the man in her children’s bedroom, according to police spokesman Abdullahi Haruna. The man ran away but neighbours gave chase and caught him, he added. […]
Veteran Ghanaian actress ‘Miliky MiCool’ dies
Veteran Ghanaian actress, Madam Beatrice Chinery has passed on, at age 54. Popularly known as “Miliki Mi Cool”, Madam Chinery passed away on Wednesday (June 9) morning, after she was rushed to Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital for treatment. According to information gathered by Ghana News Agency, the actress had not been feeling well for a while […]
NADMO urges people in flood-prone areas to evacuate – NADMO
People living in flood-prone areas within Southern Ghana, have been advised to move to safer grounds as the rainy season peaks in the South. “This is because, with more rains being expected, there is bound to be flooding in flood-prone areas, and one of the best means to protect life, is for people to vacate […]
Young girls trained on sexual reproductive health
Some selected young girls in communities considered high risk when it comes to issues of Teenage Pregnancy have benefited from a Reproductive Health Training to become Ambassadors in their communities. The training has become necessary following statistics which show that about 30 percent of all births registered in the country are those of adolescents between […]
Volta/Oti Region: Disinfection of over 2800 Basic, Senior High and Tertiary Institutions begins
More than Two Thousand Seven Hundred Private and Public Basic Schools including 100 Public Second Cycle Schools in the Volta and Oti Regions are to be disinfected. This are part of measures by the Ministry of Education to safeguard schools from the Covid-19 pandemic prior to their partial re-opening for Final Year Students to write […]
Military personnel and families to undergo testing for coronavirus in Volta, Oti Regions
More than four hundred Military personnel in the Oti and Volta Regions and their families are expected to undergo a mass voluntary testing for the Covid 19 pandemic. Additionally, fifty- five Military Facilities within the two regions are also expected to be disinfected. These forms part of an initiative by the Military High Command to […]
Fire Service yet to investigate cause of fire outbreak at Kpone
The Tema Regional Fire Command is yet to conduct investigations into the cause of a fire outbreak at ‘Deblo Enterprise Tanker Yard’ at Kpone Kokompe Tuesday, June 9. According to the Tema Regional Fire Operation Officer, Abaka Blankson, the fire started around 5 p.m. and it took officers about one and half hours to put it […]
About 2,500 Ghanaians to be evacuated from different parts of the World by June ending
Two thousand 500 Ghanaians are to be repatriated home by the end of this month. These include those in London, China and New York, USA. This was announced by the Information Minister, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah on GTV’s Programme ‘Ask The Information Ministry’. Responding to a desperate Ghanaian stranded outside who wanted to know when government intends […]
Minority questions Security Services over style of arrest of ‘Pastor’
A Former Deputy Minister of Defence, Interior and Ranking Member on Defence and Interior Committee in Parliament, James Agalga, has questioned the conduct of the security agency in the arrest of a self styled Pastor, Apostle Kwabena Adjei. James Agalga who speaks for Minority in Parliament on security matters blamed the situation on what he […]
Archbishop Duncan-Williams breaks silence on son’s viral videos
The Presiding Archbishop and General Overseer of the Action Chapel International, Nicholas Duncan-Williams, says he still loves his son, Daniel Duncan-Williams, despite his actions and outburst on social media. Reacting to his son’s nude videos that had gone viral, the Archbishop and family said their son has a serious illness and is battling with acute […]
10th June, 2020
The Ghanaian Times commends the Minister of Business Development, Dr Ibrahim Mohammed Awal and the Chief Executive Officer of the National Entrepreneurship and Innovation Programme (NEIP), John Kumah for spearheading implementation of the government’s Presidential Business Support Programme (PBSP) for business start-ups in Ghana. The paper notes that challenging requirements such as operational taxes, registration […]
GBC Director-General visits GRIDCo
The Director-General of the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC) has, today, paid a working visit to the Ghana Grid Company (GRIDCo). Professor Amin Alhassan spent a considerable time, during the visit, interacting with GRIDCo Chief Executive, Jonathan Amoako-Baah and Director of System Operations at the company, Mark Baah. The visit included some key presentations during which […]
