The Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has lost his Mother, Hajia Mariama Bawumia, affectionately called Maame. At 82, Hajia Mariama Bawumia passed on peacefully in the early hours of Monday, September 13 in Accra. Her remains will be interred tomorrow, Tuesday September 14 at her hometown Walewale in the North East Region in accordance with […]
Reverend Isaac Owusu Bempah of Glorious Word Power Ministries and some three others from his church have been arrested by the police. They were picked up on Sunday (September 12) for attacking some police officers at his church premises. A statement dated September 12, signed and issued by the acting Director-General of Police Public Affairs, […]
The Busunu-Tachali Bridge that links Busunu and Daboya in the Savannah Region remains inaccessible days after the torrential rains in the area. Although the floodwaters from the Tachali River that submerged the bridge have receded, vehicles still cannot use the bridge because a portion of the road that was washed away has not been fixed. An […]
US President Joe Biden has nominated a daughter of Ghanaian immigrants in the United States, Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong, to serve as a judge on the US district court for the Central District of California. Frimpong was born in the United States to Ghanaian parents domiciled in the US – Kwaku Ewusi-Mensah and Theodora Ewusi-Mensah. The President is announcing […]
A total of 417 Ghanaians attempted suicide from January to June this year. This is according to the Mental Health Authority in its press release dated September 10. The Authority noted that “these figures could potentially even be higher than we know.” To commemorate Suicide Prevention Day held on the tenth day of September annually, […]
As part of efforts to provide alternative livelihoods for residents of communities where illegal small-scale mining has been banned, the government is rolling out a reclamation project to provide jobs for the youth and also reclaim the destroyed lands. The alternative livelihood empowerment programme would start from Konongo in the Ashanti Region to reclaim the […]
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 […]
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 […]
