Gas explodes in bakery at Mankessim
Another gas explosion has occurred at Mankessim in the Central region following the devastating explosion at killed seven people at Atomic junction in Accra Saturday. Fortunately, no casualty was...
View ArticleAccra Technical University lecturers strike over ‘deplorable’ conditions
Lecturers at the Accra Technical University have declared a strike over what they say are poor conditions at the school, which they claim negatively affects teaching and learning. According to them,...
View ArticleMental health patient bemoans high cost of medication
A 42-year-old mental patient and mother of one, Lucy Agbavitor (not her real name) has decried the high cost of treating mental illness in the country. She was disgusted that mental health care is so...
View ArticleMonkeypox Hits Nigeria…
Monkeypox has spread from Nigeria’s south-eastern Bayelsa State to the commercial capital, Lagos, and five other states, a senior health official has confirmed to BBC Pidgin’s Daniel Semeniworima. The...
View ArticleKwadaso Agric Training College students hit street
Students of the Kwadaso Agric Training College took to the street yesterday to register their displeasure over government’s decision not to restore their trainee allowances. Their protest comes as...
View ArticlePressure on Govt to probe ‘inflated’ contracts in Prestea
Prestea for Development Association (PDA), a concerned youth group in the Prestea Huni-Valley District of the Western Region, has called on government to conduct investigations into some toilet...
View ArticleGovt to build crèches at market centres
Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection (MoGCSP) says it has plans to build crèches at market centres to enable market women educate their children and still have time to go about their...
View ArticleWhen the news breaks, let’s not break the rules
“So I am wrong, the eye witnesses are all wrong, the fire officers I spoke to, are all wrong, but you – who were sitting at home while we were on the ground, working to get you information – you are...
View ArticleRetool public school teachers—–GNAT
Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolitan Secretary of the Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT), Cosmos Ennu Kwaw, has said public sector education continues to be the best form of education...
View ArticleAFAG Blasts NPA, EPA over gas explosions
Pressure group, Alliance for Accountable Governance (AFAG), has blamed the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), National Petroleum Authority (NPA) and Energy Commission for the recent gas explosions...
View ArticleMP donates mobile lab van to schools
MEMBER of Parliament (MP) for Gomoa East constituency in the Central Region, Mrs Maame Pokua Sawyer, has handed over a fully-installed and equipped computer mobile laboratory van to five basic schools...
View ArticleGJA to meet media owners over insurance for staff —Affail Monney
Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) will start engagement of various media owners across the country from next week to deliberate on how to institute insurance packages for their workers due to the...
View Article‘Corruption still Ghana’s challenge’
German Ambassador to Ghana, His Excellency Christoph Retzlaff, has said corruption was still one of the major challenges being faced by Ghana amidst attempts by government to fight the menace....
View ArticleMIDA holds gender forum under Power Compact II
Millennium Development Authority (MiDA) has held a social and gender integration forum which is a strict requirement under the Power Compact Two. The forum is a strict requirement under the Power...
View ArticleI’m not dead—Wa East MP
Member of Parliament (MP) for Wa East constituency in the Upper West Region, Mr Godfrey Tangu Bayon, has denied reports circulating on some social media platforms that he is dead. Mr. Bayon, who spoke...
View ArticleMP canvases support for PWDs
Member of Parliament (MP) for Krachi Nchumuru constituency in the Volta Region, Mr John Majisi, has called on government and other stakeholders in the disability sector to put in place measures to...
View Article‘NET 2 TV journalist was destined to die’
New Patriotic Party (NPP) Member of Parliament for Assin Central, Kennedy Agyapong, says the Net 2 TV cameraman who died during last Saturday’s gas explosion at Atomic Junction, Accra, was destined to...
View ArticleTambec unveils food court
Tambec has unveiled an ultramodern food joint at East Legon, a suburb of Accra. Owned by Rebecca Tamaklo, she said her inspiration behind her new food joint was to give jobs to the teeming Ghanaian...
View ArticleDeadly ‘supercell’ storm scatters ships in South Africa
Moored ships were blown away as a “supercell thunderstorm” swept through South Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal region, killing at least eight people. The dead include a child swept away by rising waters and...
View ArticleExton Cubic finally sues Amewu over withdrawal of permit
After a number of threats, the embattled mining company, Exton Cubic Group Limited, has sued the Minister of Lands and Natural Resources over the Ministry’s revocation of their mining permits. The...
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