C/R Police hunts for illegal tricycle users in Cape Coast
Sixty tricycle (60) riders, illegally operating in the Cape Coast Metropolis, were on Monday, arrested by the Central Regional Police Command during a special operation to clamp down on illegal acts. The Operation was targeted at the tricycle riders many of whom are boys of school going age, as well as others operating without license […]
Vice-President to open 5th Ghana International Trade and Finance Conference
The Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, will on July 27, 2021, open the 5th Ghana International Trade and Finance Conference (GITFiC). The conference will be on the theme: “Facilitating Trade and Trade-Finance in AfCFTA; The Role of the Financial Services Sector” with the sub-theme: “Creating an Enabling Macroeconomic Environment in AfCFTA; The Role of the […]
Local Government’s Ministry swears in Entity Tender Committee
Madam Patience Adumua-Lartey from the Office of the Attorney-General has sworn in an eight-member Entity Tender Committee of the Ministry of Local government, Decentralisation and Rural Development (MLGDRD). The committee members took the Oath of Secrecy and the Oath of Office. The Committee is mandated to advise and guide management to ensure that procurement activity […]
Gender Dep’t initiates process to support vulnerable woman after media report
The Department of Gender in the Upper West Region has initiated the process to support a vulnerable woman and her family after the Ghana News Agency (GNA) exposed the family’s plight in a feature article. In the said feature article titled; “Surviving poverty and vulnerability: Woman labours hard for sick husband and children”, the GNA […]
NDC directs July 6 protestors to strictly adhere to Covid-19 protocols
The National Democratic Congress (NDC), has issued a directive on COVID-19 safety protocols for the Party’s “Protest March for Justice”, slated for Tuesday, July 6 in Accra. Mr Johnson Asiedu Nketia, the General Secretary of the NDC, in a statement to the organisers, and copied to the Ghana News Agency, in Accra, encouraged the protestors […]
NDC protest March underway in Accra
The opposition National Democratic Congress’ (NDC) “March for Justice Demonstration and Street Protest” is underway today, Tuesday, July 6. The protest, the organisers say, is against the what they call “the growing levels of insecurity, lawlessness and impunity” under the New Patriotic Party (NPP) administration. A statement issued by Mr George Opare Addo, National Youth Organiser […]
Teachers urged to accept postings to rural communities
The Wiawso College of Education (WATICO), has held its 13th Congregation with a call on Graduands to accept postings to any part of the Ghanaian society. Professor Sarah Dakwa, Dean of the School of Graduate Studies, University of Cape Coast (UCC), made the call during the college’s Congregation. In all, a total of 689 students […]
GHS confirms 34 active cases of Delta Variant in Ghana
The Ghana Health Service (GHS) Sunday announced that the country has recorded 34 active cases of the Delta Variant of the Covid-19 in some communities in Ghana, including some students of Achimota School, who tested positive. Health experts say the Delta Variant, which originated from India, has a higher transmission rate and spreads faster than […]
COVID-19: Achimota SHS records 135 cases, some caused by Delta variant
The Ghana Health Service (GHS) says Achimota Senior High School has recorded 135 positive cases of COVID-19 as of Saturday, July 3. It said some of the infections were caused by the Delta strain. The earliest documented COVID-19 case caused by the delta variant (B.1.617.2) was first found in the Indian State of Maharashtra in […]
Politics is vital element of democratic governance – Freddie Blay
Mr Freddie Blay, National Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), says party politics is a critical and vital element of effective democratic governance. He said party politics was used to contest ideas in the people’s interest. He said the vanquished political side should, therefore, demonstrate political maturity and desist from undermining the process through […]
KNUST suspends SRC Elections, committee to investigate disturbances
Management of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), has suspended, until further notice, all activities leading to the 2021 Students’ Representative Council (SRC) elections. The decision, the authorities said, was necessitated by a clash between supporters of two aspirants from the University Hall and Unity Hall, known for their long-standing rivalry. A […]
Okaikwei-North MP highlights importance of 2021 Census
The Member of Parliament for Okaikwei-North in The Greater Accra Region has called on all residents in Ghana to take keen interest in the ongoing 2021 National Population and Housing Census describing the data to be collected as an imperative for socioeconomic planning and resource allocation for the collective good. Madam Theresa Lardi Awuni who made […]
MP is alarmed by rampant gruesome murders within his constituency
The Member of Parliament for Central Tongu Alexander Roosevelt Hottordze is alarmed by what he called rampant gruesome murders within the Tongu enclave of the Volta Region. According to him the unfortunate phenomenon in the area has left the Chiefs and People of the area in perpetual fear and helplessness. The traumatized looking MP, on […]
Three jailed 30 years for conspiracy, robbery
An Accra Circuit Court has sentenced three persons to 20 years imprisonment each, for robbery. They will also serve 10-year jail terms for conspiracy to commit crime, all to run concurrently. The convicts are Collins Anyensu Akorsah, alias Cash money, a trader, Yaw Badu, a barber, aka Site, and John Afeamekor, a mason, aka Appeatus. […]
