The ECOWAS brown card day has been celebrated in Accra by the Ghana National Bureau of the ECOWAS Brown Card Insurance Scheme to commemorate the date on which the ECOWAS Brown Card Insurance Scheme Protocol was signed by the heads of ECOWAS. The ECOWAS Brown Card is a complementary Insurance Card that allows a member […]
The people of Gomoa Obuasi, a community in the Gomoa Central district in the Central Region were on Monday grappled with grief and shock when a 27-year-old graduate of University of Cape Coast (UCC), James Annan allegedly murdered his own brother around midday. Annan has been arrested by the Police while the body of his […]
The Electoral Commission has confirmed that it will begin the Limited Voters Registration Exercise from Monday June 17 2019 through to Sunday July 7 2019. A statement issued by the Commission and signed by Chairperson Mrs. Jean Mensa explained that the move follows the dismissal of a motion for interlocutory injunction seeking to restrain the […]
Students from Kenya’s Strathmore University School of Law became the first African team to win the John H. Jackson Moot Court on World Trade Organization (WTO) Law. The team of three students, namely Mishael Wambua, Kandalla Maleehah, and Catherine Penda, made history after beating Harvard Law School in the final of the competition held in […]
A bus transporting close to 40 students of the Amedzofe Technical School in the Ho West district of the Volta Region has been involved in an accident on the mountainous Amedzofe road leaving the driver in a critical condition with the students sustaining various injuries. The accident occurred on Tuesday, 12 June 2019 when the […]
The Togolese International Police (Interpol), is assisting the Aflao Police to carry out investigations right in Lome, in the case of Kekeli School at Aflao for registering 62 Togolese students to write this year’s BECE. Mr. Eric Vondee, Aflao District Police Crime Officer, confirmed this to the Ghana News Agency at Aflao on Tuesday. He […]
Government has confirmed the rescue of the two kidnapped Canadian nationals in the Ashanti Region. A statement issed by Information Minister, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah said the rescue was done in the early hours of today, Wednesday, June 12 2019 by National Security operatives. ‘’Details of the operation and ongoing efforts to ensure that similar incidents […]
One person was allegedly killed while a woman was gang raped during an attack by armed robbers on passengers on the Yendi-Bimbilla road. The incident which took lace on the night of Tuesday, June 11 2019 saw the robbers stop and rob about 4 vehicles at a go on the night of the incident. The […]
Spokesperson for the Contractors Association of Ghana, Richard Nyarko has warned that local contractors are close to hitting the streets in protest to unpaid arrears owed them by government. Bemoaning the unsavory biases meted out against indigenous contractors, Mr Nyarko poured out the plight of several project handlers and the financial risks they are exposed […]
A member of the Board of Trustees of the Ghana Blood Foundation, Ing. Ken Ashigbey has called on government to fast track the passage of the National Blood Bill into law. This, he said, would help sanitise the activities of blood donation in the country. He argued that the passage of the bill would also […]
The Savannah Agricultural Research Institute (SARI) of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) is starving for funds to conduct relevant research to improve agriculture in the country. This is in spite of the institute’s efforts to access funding from donor organisations. A principal research scientist with SARI, Dr Roger Kanton disclosed this in […]
One person is reported to have been killed after a helicopter crashed onto the roof of a Manhattan skyscraper. ABC7 said there had been a single fatality as a result of Monday afternoon’s ‘hard landing’ on the roof of 787 Seventh Avenue, a 54-story office tower in Midtown. The New York Fire Department has since […]
