A team of security men detailed from the Greater Accra Regional Security Council (REGSEC) yesterday stormed the Animal Research Institute (ARI) of the Council for Science and Industrial Research (CSIR) to demolish hundreds of illegal structures that have mushroomed within the 200-acre land of the institute. The security men, from the Ghana Armed Forces, the […]
The National Service Scheme (NSS) has acquired 20,000 acres of farmland in the Kumawu area of the Ashanti Region for a commercial farming estate. Known as Kumawu Youth Farm, the project will start with the cultivation of maize, rice and soya this year. The Executive Director of the NSS, Osei Assibey Antwi, who made this […]
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has called on the global community to inspire new partnerships to deal with global crisis, particularly the COVID-19 pandemic. He said the pandemic had reversed years of progress and revealed critical gaps in infrastructure in areas such as health care and digital connectivity. He also observed that global efforts to […]
The Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II has tasked the Minister of Food and Agriculture Dr. Owusu Afriyie Akoto, to do everything within his power to save Ghana from threats of food crisis in the midst of COVID-19 and the Russian-Ukrainian war. The King observed that the country, more than ever, would need the Minister and […]
The Attorney-General (A-G) and Minister of Justice, Godfred Yeboah Dame, has sworn in the Board of the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP), with a pledge to support the office to spearhead a strong anti-corruption agency. He said the OSP, which is mandated to prosecute corruption and corruption-related offences in a manner devoid of the […]
An explosion has occurred at the Kumasi Shoe Factory located at Atonsu-Agogo in the Ashanti region. A gas tanker discharging fuel at the company reportedly caught fire resulting in the explosion. The area has been cordoned off by Police as firefighters battle the flames. Eyewitnesses say the tanker was discharging gas into the company’s cylinder […]
The Headquarters of the Church of Pentecost has employed the 36-year-old taxi driver who returned an amount of GH¢8,000 to a fishmonger who left her money in his car. Kwesi Ackon, who is also a member of the church and fellowships at the Onyeametease Assembly in the Kokomlemle District, began work on Thursday, June 16 […]
The Ghana Police Service has announced that the Accra-Tema Motorway has fully been opened to traffic. According to the police, repair work on the Lakplakpa bridge along the stretch has been completed. “Due to the repair works on the bridge, the Tema-Accra bound traffic was diverted onto the Accra-Tema bound lane since Monday, June 13, […]
The Police Hospital has planned a mass burial for some 250 unidentified and unclaimed bodies as part of a routine measure to decongest the hospital’s mortuary. Before that exercise, the police has urged the public to contact the Pathology Department of the hospital for identification of persons who may not have been seen for some time. This, […]
The Roads Minister says he will be spending the night on the Accra-Tema motorway to ensure it is reopened to traffic tomorrow. Kwasi Amoako-Atta said he cannot enjoy his “comfortable home” at the time his engineers are working tirelessly to complete the repair works on the road. While inspecting the work on Wednesday, June 15, […]
The former Chief Executive of the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC), Dr Kofi Kodua Sarpong (Dr K. K. Sarpong), has been sworn in as the new Chancellor of the University of Professional Studies, Accra, (UPSA). At an investiture held at the Dr Kofi Ohene Konadu Auditorium at the UPSA, Thursday, Dr KK Sarpong was led […]
It is about 24 hours more until Accra-Tema Motorway resumes normal operations. For nearly two weeks it’s witnessed heavily vehicular traffic after a few meters were cordoned off for repair works on the Lakplakpa bridge to be done. This move is being executed by the Roads and Highways Ministry in collaboration with the Ghana Highway […]
