Residents of Accra’s plush Trassaco Valley, can now heave a sigh of relief after the Ghana Highways Authority granted them paid temporary access to the Tema Motorway on Thursday. The residents had for several months complained about the lack of an approved route from the area to the Motorway, making it extremely difficult for them ... The post Gov’t grants Trassaco
Residents of Accra’s plush Trasacco Valley, can now heave a sigh of relief after the Ghana Highways Authority granted them paid temporary access to the Tema Motorway on Thursday. The residents had for several months complained about the lack of an approved route from the area to the Motorway, making it extremely difficult for them ... The post Gov’t grants Trasacco
Chief Executive Officer of McDan Shipping, Daniel Makorley, has been enskinned as Unity Chief in Tamale in the Northern Region. The honour was bestowed on him by the Chief of Tamale, Dakpema Naa Dawuni Alhassan at his Palace. Daniel Makorley, who was enskinned on Saturday at a colourful ceremony, will be known as Gubgani-Naa [Unity ... The post McDan CEO enskinned as Unity Chief
Ghanaian actress and film producer, Juliet Asante, has launched a project to build container libraries and stock them with books in various communities in Ghana. The initiative, dubbed Yaa Asantewaa Library project, is mobilizing Ghc1 and $1 donations from the public to fund it. She said the goal is to have at least one library ... The post Juliet Asante launches ‘Yaa
The residents of Kutunse have announced their intention to embark on a peaceful demonstration on Saturday, December 16, 2017 as part of an ongoing protest against the activities of an illegal tomato factory in the area. According to a letter to the District Commander of Police for Adjen Kotoku, the two-hour long peaceful demonstration will commence ... The post Kutunse
The Ashanti Regional Police Command has deployed about 4,200 police officers to clamp down on criminal activities before, during and after the Christmas and New Year festivities. The Regional Police Commander, COP Ken Yeboah, has since charged the officers to be professional in the discharge of their duties. He said the Command will deal ruthlessly with ... The post A/Region:
Some residents, stakeholders and opinion leaders in the Aowin and Suaman districts of the Western Region have overwhelmingly endorsed proposals to split the Western Region at the second public engagement by the nine-member Commission of Enquiry at Enchi on Wednesday. They cite, among other reasons, the administrative inconveniences created by the wide gap between the ... The post Proposed
Ghana Rugby ended the year ended on a high note in Accra with the “Get Into Rugby” (GIR) year-end festival at the Kanda Cluster of Schools on Wednesday, December 23, 2017. The schools with rugby teams ended the term with a touch rugby competition among the boys and girls. It is the third time the program has ... The post Ghana Rugby ends 2017 on high note with ‘Get
The Ghana Mineworkers Union has petitioned parliament over attempts by Goldfields Ghana to lay off about 1,500 workers and re-employ them on a contract basis. According to the Union, the move by the company amounted to unfair labour practice. The General Secretary of the Union, Prince William Ankrah who presented the petition, indicated that the ... The post Mineworkers
At least 6,700 Rohingya were killed in the month after violence broke out in Myanmar in August, Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) says. Based on surveys of refugees in Bangladesh, the number is much higher than Myanmar’s official figure of 400. MSF said it was “the clearest indication yet of the widespread violence” by Myanmar authorities. ... The post MSF estimates more
Walt Disney has agreed to buy 21st Century Fox’s entertainment assets for a total $52.4bn (£39bn). The deal includes Fox’s 39% stake in satellite broadcaster Sky, and the 20th Century Fox film studio, Disney announced. Fox’s remaining assets, including Fox News and Sports, will form a new company. The deal ends more than half a ... The post Walt Disney buys Murdoch’s
Former president John Mahama, on Tuesday, joined the president of Kenya, Uhuru Kenyatta to mark the country’s Jamhuri Day. Jamhuri Day is a national holiday in Kenya, celebrated on 12 December each year to mark Kenya’s independence from the United Kingdom in 1963. Jamhuri is the Swahili word for “republic”. This is not the first time John Mahama ... The post Mahama
Management of Citi FM called on the Ghana Police service on Thursday morning as part of efforts to deepen the media’s relationship with police and also support its operations. Citi FM donated assorted items, including bags of rice, drinks and some other foodstuff to the service as its personnel ramp up their operations to keep Ghanaians ... The post Citi
The NDC has suddenly risen to the defence of the EC boss, at the expense of her two deputies, who were roped into the EC’s alleged scandal by Mrs Charlotte Osei. The three top officials of the EC are facing a probe committee set up by Chief Justice Sophia Akuffo, following petitions of wrongdoing filed ... The post NDC fights for EC Boss; dumps Sulley, Georgina appeared first on
Aggrieved trainee teachers of St. Vincent College of Education in the Yendi Municipality of the Northern Region, today [Thursday], boycotted lectures in protest of their exclusion from beneficiaries of the restored allowances for teacher and nurse trainees. They have thus chased the Principal out of the school compound resulting in the police being dispatched to ... The post Yendi
The Coordinator of Postgraduate Programmes of the Faculty of Education at the University for Development Studies (UDS), has proposed the establishment of mobile clinics in Senior High Schools across the country. Dr. Ibrahim M. Gunu, in a Citi News interview, bemoaned the recent health situation that has so far killed some students and hospitalized several ... The post Meningitis
Over 1,500 so-called affordable housing units that were started under former President John Kufuor, are wasting away at Kpone in the Kpone Katamanso District of the Greater Accra Region. The housing project, which comprises 1,524 housing units commenced in 2006, but remains uncompleted. Sod-cutting for the commencement of the abandoned project, was done by then ... The post 1,524
The Minority is raising red flags about the huge donor components in the budgets of some ministries that have been approved by Parliament. According to Minority Leader, Haruna Iddrisu, the aid component of the Sanitation and Water Resource Ministry’s budget which makes up more than half of its allocation, flies in the face of the ... The post Sanitation Ministry budget
Minister of Defence and Member of Parliament for Bimbila in the Northern Region, Dominic Nitiwul has offered a GHc 10,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of the killers of a woman in the Bimbila township. A 40-year-old woman was shot dead following some sporadic gunshots that rocked the troubled town on Tuesday. The deceased’s 14-year-old ... The post Nitiwul
Some students of the largely male dominated Koforidua Technical Institute, KOTECH, in the Eastern Region, have clashed with Police following the arrest, and subsequent bail of four students of the school, after they allegedly attacked students and teachers of Asokore SDA Senior High School in Koforidua. On Wednesday, four students of KOTECH were arrested by ... The post KOTECH
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