The National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO) says its immediate focus is to rescue stranded victims of the Weija Dam spillage. A Deputy Director of NADMO, Abu Ramadan also said his outfit is working to “expand and open estuaries so that the water can run into the sea so that we can see the levels drop....
The Chiefs and people of Takoradi yesterday the 3rd of October 2022 carried out a short ceremony at Sekondi to turbaned Alhaji Ahmed Usman Maiwada as the new Sarkin Zongo of Takoradi. The turbaning ceremony happened shortly after the Regional Minister, Hon Okyere Darko Mensah who is also the member of Parliament for Takoradi Constituency...
The Greater Accra Regional Coordinating Council has begun the enforcement of its most touted and sanitation and law enforcement project dubbed “Operation Clean Your Frontage”. The operation is jointly executed with Zoomlion Ghana Limited, the Ghana Armed Forces, the Metropolitan and Municipal Assemblies, and other interested partners. The core aim of the operations is to...
The Health promotion Unit and Welfare Clinic at Madina Polyclinic (Kekele Hospital) has launched the Breast cancer awareness month on Monday, October 3, 2022 at the forecourt of the hospital. The event marks the start of series of activities targeted at creating breast cancer awareness every year, in the month of October which has been...
The government has hinted at plans to review the electronic transfer levy (E-levy) to ensure tax compliance. The e-levy imposes a 1.5 percent charge on all electronic transfers, including mobile money and bank transfers. The government says despite an impressive outcome from the levy for the first and second quarters of the year, there is...
Advisor to former President John Dramani Mahama, Dr. Valerie Esther Sawyerr, says the erstwhile NDC government did not disrespect former President John Agyekum Kufuor the way the current President Akufo-Addo-led government is disrespecting Mr. Mahama. Her comment comes after the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) dispelled reports that Mr. Mahama has been denied his emoluments...
The Tufohene of Ekumfi Akwakrom, Nana Crack, who was arrested over the death of a nursing trainee, and one other suspect Christopher Ekow Quansah, have been remanded by a Cape Coast District court, on Thursdays September 22. They are to reappear on the 4th of October. They have been charged with conspiracy to commit crime, with...
The four accused persons earlier remanded in police custody in the Muniratu Moro murder case have been granted bail by a Kaneshie District Court. The accused were granted ¢300,000 bail each with 3 sureties. The accused persons were also ordered to stay off the crime scene. The prosecuting officer argued that the accused when given...
A 27-year-old driver’s mate has been jailed for 18 months by an Accra Circuit Court for stealing an Uber driver’s phone valued at ¢500 at Teshie, Accra. Clement Adjei Adjetey charged with stealing, pleaded guilty. The court presided over by Afia Owusua Appiah convicted Adjetey on his own plea and sentenced him accordingly. The facts...
Ghana’s economy has expanded by 4.8% year-on-year in the second quarter of 2022. “Provisional real quarterly gross domestic product (QGDP) growth rate, including Oil and Gas, is 4.8 percent (year on year) in the second quarter of 2022. In the same period of 2021, the growth was 4.2 percent.” Data from the Ghana Statistical Services...