The National Road Safety Authority (NRSA) says it has begun an exercise across the country to remove illegal lamps from vehicles and initiate prosecution of offending drivers. The exercise being carried out in collaboration with the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Authority [DVLA] and the Motor Traffic and Transport Department (MTTD) of the Ghana Police Service, […]
Lawyers in the country will converge this weekend in Bolgatanga in the Upper East Region for the 2021 Ghana Bar Conference. The conference will serve as a forum to review activities of the Bar for the past three years and plan for the next three years. This year’s conference is on the theme, ‘Ensuring an increase […]
General Secretary of the Ghana Medical Association, Dr. Justice Yankson has explained that not every bad experience with a health facility should be construed as medical negligence. “Technically speaking, negligence is not coterminous with careless acts,” he said. Dr Yankson said, “in a straight legal analysis, negligence means more than a careless conduct, whether in […]
Senior Research Fellow and lecturer at the Legon Centre for International Affairs and Diplomacy, Dr Ken Ahorsu, has opined that, it is not advisable for ECOWAS to issue sanctions against Guinea due to the recent coup. According to him, because President Alpha Conde did not play by the rules, he cannot be seen as a […]
The Greater Accra Regional Minister, Henry Quartey, has stated that illegal structures along the Spintex-Manet area, contribute to the many accidents on the motorway. Briefing the media during a tour of the Ledzokuku Municipality as part of the “Make Accra Work” Campaign, the Regional Minister led a Special taskforce from the La Dadekotopon Municipal Assembly […]
A Cape Coast High Court has placed an interlocutory injunction on the end of semester examination of the Cape Coast Technical University (CCTU). The university was on Thursday September 2, 2021 served with a notice of injunction by the Cape Coast High Court. This was after 21 out of 43 students of the university sought […]
The Accra High Court has ordered the cement factory engaged in a construction activity in the Southern part of the McCarthy Hills and its environs to cease construction activities. The court said the Empire Cement Ghana Limited should cease all its activities in connection with the construction of a cement factory until the hearing of an injunction […]
Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has refunded an amount of GHC237,974.00 to the Controller and Accountant General’s Department as increment of his accrued salary from January to August 2021. In May this year, the President placed a freeze on salary increment for all members of the executive arm of government as part of measures to mitigate the […]
Trawling through Facebook the other day, I was amused to note a rather pleasant-looking bottle that had the word ‘Apeteshi’ emblazoned across it, with ‘Outlawed 1930-1957’ inscribed underneath. I had to do a double take to be sure what I was looking at. But before we get into the whole business of this interesting drink, […]
The military hospital currently under construction at Afari in Kumasi is on schedule to be completed this year, the Ministry of Defence has assured. With work done so far estimated to be 92 per cent, the Deputy Minister of Defence, Mr Kofi Amankwa Manu, said there is hardly any anticipated hitches given the relevant arrangements […]
More than 1.2 million doses of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine donated by the United States arrived in Ghana on Saturday morning. US Ambassador Stephanie Sullivan, Deputy Minister of Health, Honorable Mahama Asei Seini, Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, Honorable Kwaku Ampratwum-Sarpong, and the UNICEF Country Representative to Ghana Ms Anne-Claire Dufay received […]
The Minister of Communications and Digitalisation, Ursula Owusu-Ekuful, has said Ghanaians and foreigners who do not have the Ghana Card cannot re-register their SIM cards beginning October 2021. Speaking at a press conference in the capital Accra on Sunday, she said the exercise is mandatory for all citizens and non-citizens living in Ghana. Owusu-Ekuful announced that […]
