The National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO) has established that about 2,000 people have been affected directly by the flooding at Weija. Communities close to the Weija Dam, including Weija, Oblogo and Tetegu, have been submerged by loads of water after the Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL) opened the five spill gates of the dam to […]
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has said that due to the successful implementation and completion of compacts One and Two of the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), he will make a case at the highest level in the United States for a third compact. He expressed the hope that the US authorities would sit around the […]
HUNDREDS of houses around the Weija Dam have been flooded, leaving many residents displaced and in low spirits. The flooding has also led to the destruction of items running into millions of Ghana cedis. They include vehicles, home appliances, uncompleted structures, documents and other personal effects. The flooding follows the opening of some spill gates […]
The Ghana Police Service is offering a GHS2,000 reward for information that could lead to the arrest of a man seen abusing an infant in a widely circulated video. The Police in a statement said the reward is part of ongoing efforts to track down the individual involved, have him arrested and rescue the child. […]
The National Service Scheme (NSS) has projected a bumper harvest from its farms in the country this year. According to the Executive Director of the scheme, Osei Assibey Antwi, investments in the NSS agricultural programme, coupled with favourable weather conditions, had made prospects for a bumper harvest, especially of maize, look good. “Everything is going […]
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo will today at 10am hold talks with members of the National House of Chiefs and Metropolitan, Municipal and District Chief Executive (MMDCEs) in Kumasi over illegal small-scale mining (galamsey) in the country. The meeting will take place at the National House of Chiefs premises at Manhyia in the Ashanti region […]
The US Ambassador to Ghana, Virginia Palmer, has expressed the commitment of the US Embassy to clear the backlog of visa applications from prospective Ghanaian students seeking to pursue studies in the US. She said the embassy was currently working around the clock to get students’ visa interview appointments on time to enable successful ones […]
The first woman to head the high profile Intelligence Department of the Ghana Police Service, Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCOP) Faustina Agyeiwaa Kodua Andoh-Kwofie has been appointed as the Director General of the Criminal Investigations Department (CID), Graphic Online has learnt. She replaces COP (retired) Isaac Ken Yeboah who retired today. COP Isaac Ken Yeboah […]
The road from the Obetsebi-Lamptey Roundabout to the Central Mosque at Abossey Okai will be temporarily closed to traffic from today to Friday, September 30, this year to enable the contractor to launch metallic beams onto the interchange. The stretch will be closed from 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. each day. “This is to enable […]
A security officer at the Ghana Airports Company Limited (GACL) has been interdicted for conducting a pre-boarding search on the National Security Minister. In a letter dated September 8, GACL explained that Awudu Basit’s search of Albert Kan-Dapaah at the VVIP Lounge at the Kumasi Airport was embarrassing. The letter signed by the Company’s officer […]
En Huang, the popular illegal mining queen popularly known as Aisha Huang was repatriated in December 2018, the Minister of Information, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah has clarified. A repatriation order or note was issued to her. She was put on a flight and she exited the Ghanaian jurisdiction, Mr Oppong Nkrumah said in a radio interview […]
Five people, who were said to be engaged in illegal mining were trapped to death on Monday in a pit at Nangruma in the Mamprugu/Moaduri District in the North East Region. They were said to be prospecting for gold in an abandoned pit, an area some Chinese nationals are said to have earlier mined and left it […]
