GENERAL NEWS

Blow-by-blow account of how accident that burnt over 14 happened – Eyewitness tells

An eyewitness account has emerged detailing how the accident at Asamase happened on March 22, 2022. Reports on Tuesday evening indicated that some over 14 persons were feared dead following a ghastly accident at Asemasa near Beposo in the Shama District in the Western Region. According to reports by Connect …

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Family of murdered immigration officer demands justice

A Ghana Immigration Service (GIS) officer stationed at the Hamile Border post in the Upper West Region has been shot dead by unidentified persons. Assistant Immigration Control Officer 1 (AICO I) Michael Ekow Otoo who was with the Hamile detachment of Operation Conquest Fist was shot at about 5 am …

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Dilapidated Paga-Navio steel bridge collapses

Residents of the Kassena-Nankana West District, who ply the Paga-Manyoro-Sirigu road, have been left stranded after the steel bridge at Paga-Navio collapsed, GhanaWeb’s Upper East Correspondent, Senyalah Castro, reports. The important bridge, which connects the district capital Paga, reportedly collapsed today (March 23) when heavy-duty cargo plied it. The truck, …

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Man found dead at Kagayidi near Avenorpeme

Mr. Afakpenudzi Gbago, a Cornmill operator at Akeve-Suipe, was on Monday found dead at Kagayidi, a community near Avenorpeme in the Akatsi South Municipality of the Volta region. The body, which was discovered at about 0830 hours on Monday in a nearby bush by some individuals showed some visible signs …

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Scrap nurses and teacher trainee allowances – Agyeman-Duah to Gov’t

A former Senior Governance Adviser at the United Nations, Prof. Baffour Agyeman-Duah has advised the government to review a number of policies including the nurses trainee allowance. Speaking to Francis Abban on Morning Starr Wednesday, Mr. Agyeman-Duah noted that despite the fact that paying nurses allowance was a political promise by the …

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Thieves vandalise newly-installed ECG transformer at Dunyo

Some suspected thieves have stolen parts of a new transformer installed by the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) to serve residents of Dunyo, a suburb of the Ga West Municipal Assembly in the Greater Accra Region. As a solution to complaints by residents of frequent low voltage and power fluctuation …

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ECOWAS Court slaps Ghana with $750 cost over Egyapa deal

A three-member panel of the ECOWAS Court presided over by Justice Edward Amoako Asante has awarded cost of $750 equivalent to over (GHc5,600) against the Attorney-General (AG) of Ghana over the Agyapa Deal. The cost was awarded because the AG had requested for time to file a reply in a …

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Ghana Water Company’s Weija plant to shutdown temporarily

The Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL) has disclosed that its Weija plant will be shut down temporarily on Wednesday, March 23, 2022. In a statement issued on March 22, 2022, the management of the GWCL disclosed that shutdown is to enable the ECG complete its expansion works on the plant. …

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Council of State members cut allowances by 20% amid economic challenges

Members of the Council of State say they will cut their monthly allowances by 20% till the end of the year in identifying with Ghanaians amid the country’s economic challenges. Already, there has been pressure on government  to reduce its expenditure. Speaking at the Jubilee House, Chairman of the Council, …

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Peduase cabinet retreat was ‘heated’ – Kojo Oppong-Nkrumah

Kojo Oppong-Nkrumah, Information Minister, has said the recent cabinet retreat chaired by Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo at the Peduase Lodge over the weekend was very heated. According to him, all the ministers who were present at the retreat had various views as to how the current economic crisis should be managed by …

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