The Executive Director of the Institute of Energy Security, Paa Kwesi Anamoah Sakyi has said the resignation of the Managing Director of the Bulk Oil Storage Distribution (BOST) comes as no surprise to him. George Mensah Okley is said to have tendered in his resignation to the President on Friday, …
Read More »[VIDEO]: Policeman forces ‘slay queen’ to pick up dropped pure water sachet from gutter
With the way things are going on in the country, very soon we might not be seeing a lot of rubbish on our streets. There have been concerns about the way people litter the streets with rubbish which sometimes causes disaster, especially during raining seasons. Over some few months, a …
Read More »Poor Ashanti Region Roads Will Send You Back To Opposition- Akufo Addo Told
Party delegates and Executives of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) in some Atwima communities have hinted the incumbent government may lose massive votes in the 2020 general elections if nothing is done about the deplorable nature of roads in the Ashanti Region. According to them campaigning for the NPP at the …
Read More »Ashanti Region: Writers and Publishers Reject New NaCCA Guidelines
The Ashanti Regional Writers and Publishers Association (ASHWAPA) has rejected vehemently the new submission guidelines by the National Council for Curriculum Assessment NaCCA which calls on the writers to submit their books for assessment before putting them on market. According to them the new submission guidelines by NaCCA states that …
Read More »Amazon fires: Brazil to reject G7 offer of $22m aid
The Brazilian government has said it will reject an offer of aid from G7 countries to help tackle fires in the Amazon rainforest. French President Emmanuel Macron – who hosted a G7 summit that ended on Monday – said $22m (£18m) would be released. Brazilian officials gave no reason for …
Read More »Mahama sponsoring Kevin Taylor to attack Rawlings – Owusu Bempah alleges
The Director of Communication for Ghana Gas, Mr. Ernest Owusu Bempah, has accused Former President John Mahama of sponsoring Kevin Ekow Baidoo Taylor, to verbally attack the person of Former President Jerry John Rawlings. Mr. Bempah’s accusation was in a response to Kevin Ekow Baidoo Taylor, a social media commentator …
Read More »Photo: The 75-year-old woman crushed to death by ‘careless’ excavator driver
Maame Adwoa Afumwaa, a 75-year-old farmer and a native of Wioso near Kwapia in the Adansi North District of the Ashanti region, has been pronounced dead at a construction site when an excavator run over her. The heavy machinery was involved in the construction of a primary school block for …
Read More »E/R: Operation Vanguard arrests 20 suspected illegal miners
Operation Vanguard personnel in the Eastern Region on Sunday morning at about 02:00 hours arrested 20 suspected illegal miners during a search operation in the general area of the Kibi Zongo Township. The illegal miners made up of 15 Nigerians, a Bissau Guinean and four locals had been handed over …
Read More »Teachers ill-prepared for rushed new curriculum – Educationist
A quality education specialist with the SOS Villages Ghana has indicated that the new curriculum for basic and high schools is being rushed. Beginning the 2019 – 2020 academic years, Ghana will be moving towards a standardized practical based curriculum with national assessment examinations to be written in classes two, …
Read More »UCT student, 19, missing in Cape Town since Saturday
A University of Cape Town student has reportedly been missing since Saturday, the authorities have said. Uyinene Mrwetyana, 19, was last seen at around 13:30 in the Claremont area, NGO Pink Ladies said in an alert posted on Facebook on Monday. Mrwetyana lives at Roscommmon House on Main Road in …
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