GENERAL NEWS

Waste management expert, Zoomlion Ghana limited has displayed its integrated waste management solutions to world leaders at the tenth session of the World Urban Forum organized in Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The company which has been lauded for its sustainable approach to urban sanitation management in …

At least 120 workers have been rendered unemployed following the demolition of some factories situated at the Trade Fair. Raymond Archer, Chief Executive Officer of Universal Labels & Packaging Co. Ltd and Colour Planet Limited, whose facilities were among the many that were demolished Sunday night by the Ghana Trade …

To set the records straight, it is against the GES code of ethics for a teacher to sell or do business in school. Again, GES has banned teachers from caning learners in schools. Safe School Policy has also cancelled caning amongst all kinds of harassment in schools. According to the …

Security agencies are on a manhunt for anyone connected with the Homeland Study Group Foundation demanding an independent Western Togoland from Ghana. A special operation by the 66 Artillery Regiment of the Ghana Armed Forces rounded up 21 recruits undergoing training at a remote location, 10km North of Volta Region town, …

Two persons have sustained gunshot wounds and after a group of armed men believed to be landguards attacked them on their land at Gomoa Fetteh Kakraba, in the Gomoa East District of the Central Region. The injured are currently receiving treatment at the Winneba Trauma Hospital. Citi News sources say …

The 66 Artillery Regiment in Ho has evacuated some 21 persons including a lady believed to be receiving military training from a secessionists group – Homeland Study Group Foundation, in thickets around Dzodze in the Ketu North Municipality. The ‘recruits’ were rounded up in a dawn operation by the military …

The University of Ghana (UG) has suspended Professor Ransford Gyampo and Dr Paul Butakor for six months and four months respectively for their roles in a sexual harassment scandal which hit the school last October. The suspensions which are without pay take effect from January 1, 2020. A statement by …

The Calvary Temple Assemblies of God Church (CTAG) at Bantama in the Kumasi Metropolis of the Ashanti region on Sunday February 16, 2020, launched its 40th anniversary celebrations. Congregants seated during Ministration The launch which was held at the church premise is on the theme: “Forty Years of His faithfulness”, …

Ghana and three other African countries – the Democratic Republic of Congo, Burundi and Zambia – have licensed and can now distribute an Ebola vaccine, which the World Health Organization (WHO) has hailed as a “milestone”. Preliminary study results indicate the Ervebo vaccine, manufactured by Merck, has a 97.5% efficacy …

A teacher at Nkwanata South M/A Redeem Basic of the Oti region has canned a nine-year-old pupil to the point of injury for criticising the taste of her ‘sobolo’ drink. The pupil (name withheld) sustained multiples injuries on her body as she was severely beaten by her class teacher whose name given …