Work on the Ghana National Mosque Complex at Kanda in Accra is expected to be completed next year for commissioning during next year’s Ramadan. The $10 million project which commenced in the later part of December 2012 is at advanced and artisans and engineers are working around the clock to meet the deadline. The mosque ...
The Executive Director of IMANI Ghana, Franklin Cudjoe has alleged that the dismissed CEO and board chairman of the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital did not qualify to manage the hospital because they have questionable pasts. “…the way the CEO himself was appointed was chaotic and in itself, it was wrong. These are guys who have ...
The Leadership of the Convention People’s Party (CPP) has called on the Constitutional Review Commission (CRC) to halt the on-going review process. Samia Nkrumah, the National Chairperson of CPP, made the call when leadership of the party held a meeting with the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) Winner Takes All (WTA) Advisory Committee in Accra. ...
Muslims Clerics in the Northern Regional capital Tamale have ended the 2014 Ramadan Quranic recitation dubbed the “Tafsir†with a call for peace and stability. They also called for divine intervention on the nation’s broken economy which has demoralized the masses. Some of them paid for airtime on radio and television networks to reach out ...
Ghanamanosyncratic Nsempiisms My brothers and sisters, first and foremost, I think basically that Ghanaians are a great bunch of people. We have our own expressions that are understood only by us. They come in various ways. We like to ‘happy’ ourselves. Is that true for all Ghanaians, you may ask. My response? “Who told you?†...
SWIMMING Ghana’s Abeiku Jackson won his heat in the  Men’s 100m butterfly on the 27th of July at the Tollcross Swimming Centre in Glasgow. The swimmer finished top of his heat in a time of 1:01.40 but he could not qualify to the next round of the event as his time was out of the ...
Two fast-moving wildfires in California are threatening homes and could result in the evacuation of hundreds of people, US officials say. In the Sacramento region, a fire has spread to cover an area of about 4,000 acres, while another blaze threatens homes around Yosemite National Park. The Sacramento fire is only 20% contained, officials told ...
A circuit court in Accra has sentenced an unemployed woman, Evelyn Adoma, to six months imprisonment for falsification and impersonation. Adoma is said to have presented documents to the American Embassy in Accra declaring that she was a nurse working with the 37 Military Hospital, but when her occupation was verified it turned out to ...
Financial analyst and anti-corruption crusader, Sydney Casely-Hayford says demonstrations will only yield results when undertaken frequently. He discounted assertions that the organized labour’s demonstration will not achieve its intended purpose. “People keep saying you are demonstrating to what purpose and this demonstration is not going to yield any results, there will be no effects and ...
The Government of Japan has handed over a $ 235,000 boys’ dormitory to the Winneba Senior High School in the Central Region. The facility will help to decongest the existing dormitory by providing accommodation for over 160 students. The only boys dormitory is supposed to accommodate 360 students but houses over 700 students. The building ...
The US says it has temporarily evacuated its staff from the Libyan capital Tripoli over security concerns. Staff, including marine guards providing security to the embassy, have been transferred to Tunisia “due to the ongoing violence resulting from clashes between Libyan militias,” it adds. Secretary of State John Kerry said there was a “real risk” ...
A Sierra Leone woman who fled hospital after testing positive for the Ebola virus has died after turning herself in, health officials have told the BBC. Her family had forcibly removed her from a public hospital on Thursday. Saudatu Koroma’s is the first case of Ebola to be confirmed in the country’s capital Freetown, where ...
Ghana will, on Monday July 28, join the rest of the world to mark World Hepatitis Day in an effort to help reduce the rate of infection in the country. World Hepatitis Day was established by the World Health Organisation (WHO) in its quest for a renewed commitment against a largely silent but persistent epidemic ...
As part of efforts to manage disposal of waste in Accra and elsewhere in the country, a new landfill site,  known as the Nsumia Waste Disposal Site, has been completed and is ready for use. The site, located in the Nsawam-Adoagyiri Municipality  off the Accra Nsawam highway, is about 680,000 cubic metres and will serve ...
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