Uganda has denied allegations it hacked into the encrypted communications of musician-turned-MP Bobi Wine. The Wall Street Journal alleges Ugandan officials worked with technicians from telecoms company Huawei to infiltrate the politician’s WhatsApp chat group, named Firebase crew after his band. It says authorities then “scuppered his plans to organise street rallies” and arrested Bobi Wine […] The post Uganda

The Chiefs and people of Kpandai in the Northern Region have expressed their appreciation to President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, for the construction of Kpandai-Ekumdipe-Salaga road, and the implementation of a raft of policies which is improving their living standards. The Chiefs made this known when President Akufo-Addo cut the sod for the construction of […] The post ‘Your

About 2,000 employees of the 15 Savings and Loans Companies whose licenses were revoked by the Bank of Ghana on Friday are expected to lose their jobs. Executive Secretary of the Ghana Association of Savings and Loans Companies (GHASALC), Tweneboah Kodua Boakye made this known on Eyewitness News. “We are looking at employees in excess […] The post Over

The Managing Director of the Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL), Dr. Clifford Brimah, has said the company could have alerted the public on the cumulative increase in water tariffs following the restoration of a 10 percent component for the running of the Accra Desalination Plant. The restoration, which came alongside the increase in 8.1 per […] The post We should’ve

Four would-be assassins have been killed by the police in Mogadishu, Somalia’s Deputy Police Commissioner Zakia Hussen has announced on social media. The three men and one woman were planning to target the country’s minister of education. Last month, a bomb attack in the office of the Mogadishu mayor killed seven people, including the mayor. […] The post Police

A British judge has ordered the Nigerian government to pay $9bn in assets to a small private company. The firm, P&ID, had reached a deal with the Nigerian government in 2010 to build a natural gas plant – but the deal fell through two years later. P&ID then sued the government for failing to provide […] The post Nigerian gov’t ordered to pay $9bn to private

The vector control unit of Zoomlion Ghana Limited and the Ministry of Health at a training organized in Takoradi for its stakeholders executing the National Malaria Control program have rolled out a new monitoring and evaluation systems geared towards achieving greater impact for the program. The monitoring systems which will help measure the quality of […] The post Mosquito

Waste management giant, Zoomlion Ghana Limited in collaboration with the Ministry of Health at a training program organized for stakeholders executing the larviciding exercise in the Ashanti region disclosed that a mapping technology will be used to map mosquito breeding sites. The mapping technology which will locate all water bodies in a specific area and […] The post Zoomlion,

The Ghana Association of Savings and Loans Companies (GHASALC) is calling on the public to support Savings and Loans companies that have been cleared to continue operating following the clean-up of the sub-sector by the Bank of Ghana. The Association says the public must remain calm and continue to do business with the companies that […] The post Let’s support

Hope for Future Generations (HFFG), a Ghanaian not-for-profit non-governmental organization focused on empowering women, children and the youth, is calling for the active involvement of young persons in the planning, development and implementation of HIV interventions in Ghana. Over 30% of all new HIV infections globally are estimated to occur among young persons between the […] The post HFFG

The Melcom Group of Companies has extended its kind gesture to the Ghana Police Service and their sister counterparts, the Ghana Immigration Service. As part of the benevolence, both agencies received donations worth thousands of Ghana Cedis from the Melcom Group. The first donation saw the Ghana Police Service receive three motorbikes from Melcom. This, […] The post Melcome donates

The Melcom Group of Companies has extended its kind gesture to the Ghana Police Service and their sister counterparts, the Ghana Immigration Service. As part of the benevolence, both agencies received donations worth thousands of Ghana Cedis from the Melcom Group. The first donation saw the Ghana Police Service receive three motorbikes from Melcom. This, […] The post Melcom donates

Physical work is expected to begin on the Keta Port and Harbour project by August 2020. The Director-General of the Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority, Micheal Luguje announced this during a visit by the Governing Board and leadership of the Authority to the Port site in Keta. Addressing the Chiefs and People of Keta, the […] The post Work on Keta Port project to begin in

The Upper East Regional Youth Wing of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has described as unfortunate, the harassment of some residents by security personnel of President Nana Addo on his two-day working visit to the region. The group accused the security personnel of deliberately destroying placards and dispersing residents of Navrongo who came out with […] The post Navrongo:

The National Association of Graduate Teachers  (NAGRAT) is unhappy with the GES’directive to second-year students in Senior High Schools to return to school earlier than the planned reopening date for extra classes. The students, the first batch of government’s Free SHS program who were supposed to resume in September are now to return on August […] The post NAGRAT

The National Association of Graduate Teachers (NAGRAT) is unhappy with the Ghana Education Service’s (GES) directive to third-year students in Senior High Schools to return to school earlier than the planned reopening date for extra classes. The students, the first batch of government’s Free SHS program who were supposed to resume in September are now […] The post NAGRAT

The Ghana Education Service (GES) says no pupil will be sacked for not wearing the new school uniforms for Junior High School students when the academic year starts in September. Commenting on its implementation, the Director-General of GES, Professor Kwasi Opoku Amankwa said the old uniform will be phased out over a three year period. […] The post No pupil will be sacked