Two people were burnt to death when the petrol tanker on which they were travelling got involved in a road crash on Friday evening at Anyinamso Number One, near Nyinahin in the Atwima-Mponua District.       One of the dead has been identified as Abubakar Sadick, the driver of the vehicle, while the other victim was yet to be identified.       The bodies of the two, which were burnt beyond recognition, had been deposited at the Toase Medical Centre morgue for autopsy.       Deputy ... Read More

A total of 2,249 people died last year, as a result of motor accidents with 14,181 others injured. It involved 21,817 vehicles comprising of 10,587 commercial vehicles, 8,790 private vehicles and 2,440 motor-bikes. In 2011, a total of 19,530 vehicles were involved in accidents with 13,372 people sustaining injuries. Statistics from the Motor Traffic and Transport Unit (MTTU) of the Ghana Police Service, revealed that the Eastern Region to topped the list with 359 deaths, followed by ... Read More

The Tema District Council of Labour has disclosed that the Tema Oil Refinery (TOR)has confirmed to the Council that Government has released an amount of $30,000,000 to the industry. This is ?being used to implement the plant stabilization and profitability enhancement programme to quickly turn their situation around? according to Management. In a statement copied to the Ghanaian Times and signed by the Chairman Mr. Wilson Agana and the Secretary Mr. Ebenezer Taylor in response to the ... Read More

The chairman of the Referees Association of the Upper East Region,Dawood Ouedraogo has commended members of the Association for their sterling performance for the year 2012. The region can confidently boast of six referees officiating in the Glo Ghana Premier League with many more also officiating in the FA Cup and the National Division One League. Ouedraogo said this in an interview with Gbc Ura Radio Sports in Bolgatanga after their annual get-together in the Upper East Regional ... Read More

Elvis Afriyie-Ankrah, coordinator of the John Mahama 2012 Campaign has appealed to members of the National Democratic Congress to be exercise patience while President Mahama choice Ministers to head the various department. According to Mr. Elvis Afriyie Ankrah, the President would fulfill his campaign adding that ?it is too early to get worried.? Speaking to journalists in Accra at the weekend after a close door NDC stakeholders meeting Mr. Afriyie-Ankrah explained that the President?s ... Read More

The Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) has relaunched its operation to keep hawkers off the streets of the Central Business District of Accra with pockets of raids yesterday. The exercise began, yesterday morning around 4 am after the expiration of an ultimatum advertised in the media. The AMA through its Public Affairs Unit reminded those selling on pavements and roads that their activities were contrary to AMA street hawking bye-laws enacted in 2011 and had warned that it would take ... Read More

Some residents of Techiman in the Brong-Ahafo Region, have appealed to the government to, as a matter of urgency, help clear the piles of refuse in the area.  According to them, even though the Techiman Municipal Assembly had been doing its best to get rid of the refuse dump sites, external assistance was needed to help clear them. The residents expressed these concerns in an interview with the Ghanaian Times at Techiman, on the sidelines of the inauguration of a street lighting system ... Read More

The 64th Annual New Year School was launched in Accra yesterday with a call on participants to discuss and make recommendations on how the nation can improve access to safe drinking water, sanitation and hygiene. This year?s event, which is held on the theme ?Improved water, sanitation and hygiene, the key to future health of our nation?, will create the platform for dispassionate discussion on how the nation can deal with the challenges of inadequate safe drinking water and poor sanitation ... Read More

Four parliamentary candidates of the New Patriotic Party in the Greater Accra Region, have filed petitions at the Accra High Court to contest their various constituency parliamentary results of the December 7, 2012 election. They are Lawyer, Ayikoi Otoo, of the Krowor constituency, Ebenezer Gilbert Nii Narh Nartey of Ablekuma Central, Fred Adjetey Larbie of Bortianor/Ngleshie Amanfrom, and Samuel J. Adjei Tawiah of Klottey Korle. The petitions filed last Friday, seek to annul the results ... Read More

Aggrieved staff of the University of Ghana Bookshop yesterday, locked out the manager of the shop for overstaying his contract. A notice posted on the doors of the shop, read : ?Mr Emmanuel Tonyeah you have completed your days with the University Bookshop, so what are you still looking for? Are you trying to see the anger of the Bookshop staff? Continue to dare the staff with your secret vertures to Finance and Personnel, because sooner or later, the workers? power will be invoked and that ... Read More

The Supreme Court has fixed Wednesday, January 16, 2013, to hear the application by the National Democratic Congress (NDC) seeking to join a petition contesting the declaration of President John Dramani Mahama as winner of the December 7, 2012 presidential poll. On Thursday, January 10, 2013, the court indefinitely adjourned the hearing of the application after lawyers for the petitioners objected to the composition of the nine-member panel presided over by Mr Justice William ... Read More

Parliament?s appointment committee will start vetting President Mahama?s new appointees in February. Members of the Committee took the decision after series of meetings. Already, the public is being served with notices to submit petitions over the appointees to assist in their work. The participation of the minority MPs on the committee is also being questioned as some National Democratic Congress (NDC) MPs wonder if the New Patriotic Party (NPP) MPs would sit when the vetting gets ... Read More

Mr. Kofi Asare, the Executive Director of the Action for Rural Education, a non-governmental organisation, has urged the Ghana Education Service to intensify supervision in public schools, particularly at the basic level, to help improve the academic performances of pupils. According to him, though the government and other stakeholders in the education sector in the country have tried to improve the standard of education in the country by providing need facilities, the ?outcome of such ... Read More

Abukari Damba, goalkeepers trainer of Hearts of Oak has left the club on mutual grounds. Damba told GNA Sport: ?I have resigned from Hearts on mutual grounds. Myself and the club amicably agreed on my decision to leave the club, so the news is that, I am no longer the goalkeepers trainer for Hearts.? The ex-national goalie poured scorn on suggestions he jumped to avoid the push following the Phobians? torrid season that has seen them drop to the bottom ranks of the 16-team log. ?I am ... Read More

Nollywood star, Osita Iheme popularly known as Pawpaw is seriously in need of a life partner. Why haven?t anyone said yes to this cute dude? According to a recent interview, he said: Quote ?But the challenge is that I do not know whom to marry. I?m not really searching per se, of course, I have many female friends and fans. Some of them intimate, but picking the person I will spend the rest of my life with is what is delaying my settling down. God will help me decide soon, because with ... Read More