Military personnel who are members of the ‘Operation Halt’ taskforce mandated to clamp down on illegal mining activities in the country, have allegedly raided a licensed small-scale mining company in the Atiwa West District of the Eastern Region, Xtra-Gold Mining Limited, and set ablaze a structure that serves as offices at the site. This is […] The post ‘Operation
The Mfantsipim Old Boys Association (MOBA), has held its 6th Annual National Conference in Accra. The purpose of the meeting was to outline the activities supervised by the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the association for 2020. This year’s meeting took a hybrid form as it was both physical and virtual due to COVID-19 restrictions. […] The post MOBA holds 6th Annual National
Thirteen people have been killed and two children seriously injured after a cable car fell on a mountain near Lake Maggiore in northern Italy on Sunday. The accident happened on a service transporting passengers from the resort town of Stresa up the nearby Mottarone mountain in the region of Piedmont. Images from the scene show […] The post 13 killed after cable car falls in Italy
A Ryanair plane flying from Greece to Lithuania has been diverted to Belarus, with the country’s opposition figures saying it was done, so a dissident journalist on board could be arrested. The Nexta online network said its ex-editor Roman Protasevich was detained. Belarus state media said the plane was diverted to Minsk because of a […] The post Belarus diverts Ryanair
The Ghana Armed Forces (GAF) says its officers deployed to curb illegal mining on water bodies and forest reserves, will not hesitate to destroy all equipment found at illegal mining sites. The GAF made this known in a statement signed by its Public Relations Director, Eric Aggrey Quarshie. It said visits by military personnel tasked to […] The post We’ll
The Pokuase Interchange in Accra is expected to be fully opened to traffic in the first week of July 2021. The four-tier interchange project was originally scheduled to be completed in October 2020, but that later changed to March this year. Speaking to journalists in Accra, the Minister for Roads and Highway, Kwasi Amoako-Attah, said […] The post Pokuase
The Headteacher of Ansapetu Basic School in the Central Region, Yaw Eyifa Gorman, has been shot dead by an unidentified person at his residence in Cape Coast. Mr. Gorman is said to have been shot while he had parked his vehicle after returning from a census training workshop on Saturday, May 22, 2021. An eyewitness, […] The post Headteacher shot dead at his residence in
The chief of Ekumfi Srafa in the Ekumfi District of the Central Region, Nana Nyeiku, is demanding an apology from the region’s Police command for accusing him of murder without evidence. Nana Nyieku, known in private life as Isaac Eshun, is the owner of Zen Fuel Station at Mankessim, where an alleged armed robbery incident […] The post Ekumfi
The Minister for Roads and Highways, Kwasi Amoako-Atta, says the second term of the Nana Addo government will complete 20 interchanges nationwide by the end of 2024. This will be out of the 25 interchanges expected to be constructed by the Akufo-Addo and the New Patriotic Party (NPP) administration. “Mark me down, by 2024, 20 […] The post Government
The National Democratic Congress (NDC) Member of Parliament (MP) for North Tongu, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, says it will not be shocking for the latest phase of the country’s fight against illegal small-scale mining to fail again. For him, it is glaring that the current mode of operation in clamping down the menace and the failure […] The post Galamsey
Managing Editor of the New Crusading Guide newspaper, Abdul-Malik Kwaku-Baako Jnr., says it is unreasonable for the National Democratic Congress (NDC), to boycott the Inter-Party Advisory Committee (IPAC) meetings. He maintains the party’s decision is not only unsustainable, but also wrong-headed. “It’s an exercise in futility. That decision is wrong-headed. It has no sustainable effect. […] The post NDC’s
The Indian High Commissioner to Ghana, H.E Sugandh Rajaram is scheduled to pay an official visit to Yendi on 25th May 2021 as part of his diplomatic overtures to strengthen ties between India and the people of Yendi. This reciprocal visit follows on the heels of the earlier visit of Mr. Farouk Aliu Mahama to […] The post Indian High Commissioner to Ghana to visit Yendi appeared
Ghana has recorded over 2,000 crashes involving motorcycles in the first quarter of the year 2021. This is according to the National Road Safety Authority (NRSA). In an interview with Citi News, the Director-General of the National Road Safety Authority, Ing. May Obiri-Yeboah said: “From January to April 2021, 2,184 crashes were recorded involving motorcycles. […] The post More
The Ghana Mineworkers’ Union has raised concerns about what it calls the increasing spate of accidents and fatalities in the country’s underground mining operations. According to the union, recent cases of mine accidents and incidents with consequential fatalities happening in some underground operations are major issues of concern to workers in the mining sector. In […] The post Mineworkers
Sales Expert and the Chief Sales Partner at Salesmark Services, Mawuli Ocloo will deliver a keynote address on the topic: “Designing a Modern Sales Process for Growth” at the annual African Revenue Summit (AFRES) 2021 slated for the 4th and 5th June 2021 in Lagos, Nigeria. Under the theme: Scaling Growth, Optimizing Margins, Africa Revenue […] The post Mawuli
India’s government has instructed social media companies to remove any content that refers to the “Indian variant” of Covid-19. The IT ministry said the World Health Organization (WHO) listed the variant as B.1.617 and any reference to “Indian” was false. Geographical terms have been used to describe a number of other variants, including the UK […] The post Covid:
Thousands of people have fled their homes in the Democratic Republic of Congo after a large volcano erupted. Fountains of high lava burst from Mount Nyiragongo into the night sky forming a thick red cloud over the town of Goma, which has a population of two million. The lava flow reached the city’s airport but […] The post Mount Nyiragongo: DR Congo residents
Veteran journalist, Abdul Malik Kweku Baako Jnr. is worried that the National Security is unable to provide details of the specific crimes alleged to have been committed by the embattled Ashanti Regional National Security Coordinator, Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCOP) Kwaku Ayesu Opare-Addo. Mr. Baako believes, “it is a serious matter to level criminality against […] The post National
Ghana’s President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has expressed profound commiserations to the Federal Republic of Nigeria following the unfortunate passing of its Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Ibrahim Attahiru and several others. President Akufo-Addo on behalf of the government of Ghana and Ghanaians sympathized with Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari and the rest of the […] The post Akufo-Addo
Executive Secretary for civil society organisation, the Mass Action Committee, Atik Mohammed, has downplayed the National Democratic Congress’ (NDC) concerns over some of the proposals made by the Inter-Party Advisory Committee (IPAC) on the management of the country’s elections. IPAC had made 16 resolutions aimed at improving subsequent elections in the country. These resolutions include […] The post To
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