The Minister of Interior, Henry Quartey, has revealed that nearly 90,000 individuals have applied to join Ghana’s security services, following the closure of the recruitment portals on Tuesday, 13 August 2024. The recruitment drive, which was announced by the Ghana Police Service, Ghana Prisons Service, and Ghana Immigration Service on 7 August 2024, saw a […]
Interior Minister Henry Quartey has been summoned to brief Parliament on Wednesday, June 26, on measures being taken by the government to address recent serial killings of private security personnel in Bole and Wa in the Upper West Region. Mr Andrew Amoako Asiamah, the Second Deputy Speaker, on Tuesday, gave the directive, when he presided […]
The Interior Minister, Henry Quartey says the New Patriotic Party (NPP) government was ready to hand over power peacefully to whoever wins the December 2024 presidential election. “The President has given me a marching order, and the order is to ensure that this year’s elections, before, during and after goes on peacefully, and that, by […]
The Greater Accra Regional Youth Organiser of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), Moses Abor, has resigned from his position effective Monday, September 18. In a letter addressed to the General Secretary of the party, Mr Abor said he intends to contest the upcoming parliamentary primaries in Ayawaso Central Constituency, the seat currently occupied by […]
The Greater Accra Regional Coordinating Council (GARCC) has reinforced its ban on the operation of tricycles, popularly known as “Pragyia” and “Aboboyaa”, on some principal streets in Accra. The affected areas include the central business districts (CBDs) of the Accra and Tema Metropolitan Assemblies as well as the Krowor, Korle Klottey, La Dade Kotopon and […]
The Greater Accra Regional Minister, Henry Quartey has tasked home owners at the Sakumono Ramsar site to halt all developments while the key stakeholders hold discussions on the regularisation of the over 4,000 homes that have been developed at the site by encroachers. Failure to halt constructions over the next three weeks, he said, might […]
Some spare parts dealers at Abossey Okai say they will not relocate to Afienya in line with plans by the Greater Accra Regional Coordinating Council. Describing themselves as National Spare Parts Dealers Association, they argue that Afienya will not be in their interest. At a press conference in Accra Tuesday [May 10, 2022], they said […]
The Greater Accra Regional Minister, Mr Henry Quartey, has charged metropolitan, municipal and district assemblies (MMDAs) to ensure the enforcement of the Operation clean your frontage bye-law, beginning February 1, 2022. He also urged them to intensify sensitisation on the initiative by involving workers, national service persons, market women and other stakeholders to support them […]
A combined task force from the Tema Metropolitan and the Tema West Municipal assemblies in the Greater Accra Region have begun an exercise to arrest and prosecute operators of motorised tricycles, popularly known as ‘Aboboyaa’, for flouting regulations restricting them from plying the Accra-Tema Motorway. The task force, jointly led by the chief executives of […]
The effective date for the ban on the operations of motorised tricycles, popularly known as aboboyaa, on highways and major roads in the Greater Accra Region has been moved from November 1, this year to February 1, next year. This is to make room for more engagement, education and sensitisation to ensure the successful implementation […]
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 week-long massive clean-up exercise has commenced at the Onion market and scrapyard area at the Agbogbloshie Market in Accra to bring sanity to the area and secure the land for future development. This follows the relocation of most of the traders in onion and scrap dealers from the area to a new site at […]
