Three Tourist Sites Earmarked for Development in Upper East Region
Three tourist sites the PagaZeng and the Chief Crocodile Ponds, the Pikoro Slave Camp and the TenzugSharine have been earmarked for development in the Upper East Region. A memorandom of understanding has been signed by between the the Ghana Tourism Authority and the Paga Traditional Authority and the Kassena Nankana West District Assembly, for development […]
US first Lady Melania Trump expected in Accra today for two day visit
US First Lady Melania Trump is expected to partner Ghana’s First Lady, Rebecca Akufo-Addo, on child healthcare as part of her two-day working visit to Ghana. Ghana will be the first African country Donald Trump’s wife would visit before continuing to Malawi, Kenya and Egypt. She is expected to touch down at the Kotoka International […]
Launch of a month-long cyber security awareness programme dubbed “A Safer Digital Ghana”
Veep Dr. Bawumia launches 2018 Cyber Security Awareness Programme
Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, has launched the 2018 National Cybersecurity Awareness Programme with a call for concerted, coordinated efforts to fight the ills of cyber crime and prevent the growing menace. Citing various reports showing the growing, negative impact of cyber crimes worldwide, Vice President Bawumia expressed concern about how security breaches have gained […]
VIDEO: VP Bawumia launches 2018 Cyber Security Awareness Programme
Agogo State SHS closed down following students rioting
The Agogo State Senior High School in Ashanti has been closed down for one week, following students rioting Sunday night. The students embarked on a demonstration and vandalized school property running into thousands of Ghana Cedis. The file room was not spared as student files were destroyed. The guidance and counseling centre, classrooms, louver blades […]
GRA says vehicles sold without accurate clearance attracts 300% maximum penalty
The Chief Revenue Officer in Charge of Suspense Regime at Tema Port, Theophilus Okine says vehicles sold without accurate clearance by the Customs Division of the Ghana Revenue Authority, GRA, attracts a maximum penalty of 300 per cent of the actual price. Mr. Okine said this in an interview with Obonu News on the sidelines […]
Pay MMDCEs now as massive corruption hits Assemblies due to non payment of salaries for Members-COPAM
A Group Calling Itself, Coalition of Progressive Assembly Members (COPAM) has alleged that non payment of salaries to Metropolitan, Municipal and District Chief Executives nationwide is promoting corruption. The Group in a released issued and signed by the Assemblyman for Sakumono Electoral Area of The Tema West Municipal Assembly, also the Convener of The Group, […]
Corruption will be a thing of the past under my leadership – NDC flagbearer hopeful
The National Democratic Congress Presidential Candidate Aspirant, David Dotsey Kwami Kuwadah has asserted that The NDC “is losing its core values, probity and accountable is being replaced by monetization, material inducement that we are presently witnessing”. According to him, monetization and material inducement has found its way into to the NDC, a statement he attributed […]
Former KMA Boss Kojo Bonsu officially joins NDC flagbearership race
Former Chief Executive of the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly, Kojo Bonsu, has officially joined the flagbearership race of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC). Mr. Bonsu, in a letter of intent addressed to the General Secretary of the NDC, said his versatile experience in entrepreneurship and corporate leadership can be harnessed by the party for victory […]
Inmates of Navrongo Central Prisons complain of overcrowding and lack of decent toilet facility
The Navrongo Central Prisons in the Kassena-Nankana Municipality of the Upper East Region has forcibly accommodated more inmates causing overcrowding. The facility is overstretched as it accommodates over 240 inmates, with a cell housing 80 inmates which is against the international standard of a cell housing at most four inmates. This came to light when […]
U/W: Queen mothers schooled on child labour, chieftaincy act and ADR
Queen mothers in the Upper West Region have been urged to take issues of child labour seriously and be the front runners in the fight to end the menace in their various communities. To enable them to do that effectively, a training workshop on child labour has been organized for Queen Mothers in the Upper […]
Gushegu Shea pickers record low nut quantity
Shea but pickers in the Gushegu Municipality are recording a decline in the quantity of nuts picked annually. They claimed that, over the last three years, they have missed their annual targets of fifteen bags per picker. The pickers who are mostly women are concerned that, their livelihood is under threat. They attributed the drop […]
Maine woman selling artwork made from moose poop
A Maine woman’s artwork is going viral thanks to her creative uses of a plentiful natural resource: moose poop. Somerville resident Mary Winchenbach, who came to the Internet’s attention after hawking her “Tirdy Works” wares at the Common Ground Fair, is now using social media to sell figurines, clocks and other artworks that incorporate real […]
