GENERAL NEWS

A 24-year-old mechanic apprentice was confirmed dead in a motorbike accident that occurred at Akyempim in the Tarkwa-Nsuaem Municipality. The body of the deceased had since been deposited at the Tarkwa Municipal hospital morgue for autopsy. An investigator at the Motor Transport and Traffic Department (MTTD) in Tarkwa, Chief Inspector …

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has, on Wednesday, 15th April 2020, received the resignation from office of Mr. Asante Berko as Managing Director of the Tema Oil Refinery (TOR). A statement by Communications Director at the Presidency, Eugene Arhin, said this was after he submitted his resignation letter, dated 15th …

There have been sporadic gunshots in Kokrobite yesterday when factions clash over the installation of one Moses Arde as Dzaasetse. The said installation was being done despite the lockdown directive by the President in respect of the Covid19 pandemic. Although the Kokrobite is part of areas observing the lockdown protocols, …

Ama Serwaa [not her real name] is a twenty-four-year-old blind girl who lost her eyesight some four years ago and is one of the vulnerable in society who is finding difficulties surviving amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Ama is an orphan and lives with her 70-year-old grandmother who sells sachet water in Accra. …

A total of 41 people have been arrested by personnel of the Ghana Immigration Service (GIS) at Babile Inland Post in the Lawra District of the Upper West Region for attempting to enter the country illegally. The people, comprising of 39 Ivoirians and two Ghanaians who were traveling on two …

Ever since the outbreak of COVID-19 (the disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus), scientists have been scrambling to identify the species of origin to understand how the new coronavirus first leapt from its animal hosts to humans, causing the current pandemic infecting more than a million people worldwide. Scientists have been looking …

The Kano State Fire Service has confirmed that four members of a family died in a collapsed building at Saberi area in Gwale Local Government Area, on Monday. The Spokesman of the Service, Saidu Mohammed, who confirmed the incident in a statement on Tuesday in Kano, said that three other …

About ¢300,000.00 worth of diesel belonging to Adu-Ofori-Attah company limited in Tema has been washed down the drains along the Techiman-Kintampo Highway when a fuel tanker overturned in the Bono East Region. The diesel tanker with registration number GN 6243-15 was traveling from Tema to Buipe and had just passed …

The Information Minister, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah has disclosed that government will step-up public and communal education this week on the need to observe measures introduced in fighting the Covid-19 pandemic. According to the Minister, some Ghanaians hold certain beliefs not backed by science, therefore, they do not believe all that is been …

The Managing Director of the Tema Oil Refinery (TOR) Asante Berko has denied claims by the US authorities that he bribed some former Ghana government officials for his client in a plant project while he worked for Goldman Sachs. The Securities and Exchange Commission said Asante Berko, a former employee …