GENERAL NEWS

President Nana Addo Danquah Akufo-Addo has varied the ambassadorial appointment of former Lands and Natural Resources Minister, Kwaku Asomah-Cheremeh. Kwaku Asomah-Cheremeh was initially appointed by the president to be Ghana’s Ambassador to Beijing/China but that appointment has been reviewed. Information from the grapevine indicates that following consultation with the Council …

  Kennedy Agyapong, a leading member of the ruling New Patriotic Party, NPP, has advised government to alter its approach in dealing with the menace of illegal small scale mining else it will fail. According to the Assin Central MP, the use of force which is currently the case with …

  A scheduled 8-day load shedding exercise in parts of Accra is expected to end today Monday, 17 May 2021. Load shedding exercise began on Monday, 10 May 2021. The Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) in a statement indicated that the power cut is necessary to enable its contractors to …

  A man and his wife were killed while three others got injured following a downpour in parts of the Ashanti Regional capital, Kumasi, over the weekend. The couple have been identified as Doye Baanda, a 32-year-old artisan and his wife Joyce Larweh, a 42-year-old petty trader. The couple, who …

  The ongoing crackdown on illegal mining activities by the 200-man Operation Halt military team saw the burning of at least 20 excavators at Larbikrom, Dompem and Pamen, all in the Atiwa District on Sunday. Reports indicate that 8 out of the number of excavators burnt on Sunday belonged to …

The Military taskforce clamping down on illegal mining on Sunday, May 15, 2021 set fire into eight (8) excavators, a dozer, and dozens of water pumping machines at the mining site of the National Women’s Organizer of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) Kate Gyamfua at Akyem Akropong in Atewa …

Ghanaian twin photographers, Twins Dnt Beg, have confirmed that they have been fired as official presidential photographers. They became President Nana Akufo-Addo’s photographers, as well as being in charge of all photographs taken at the Jubilee House after the 2016 elections. Before that, they had travelled with the New Patriotic …

A team of Kokomba warriors and hunters at Dambai Old Town in the Oti region have shot dead two male antelopes they believed killed a woman gathering mangoes on the farm. The warriors believed the animal was lurking in the vicinity of the accident and was likely to attack another …

  In determining the highest human habitation in Ghana, a number of places where people have lived at very high altitudes for long periods of time have been discovered. Individuals have lived in such places for decades and have subsequently learned to evolve and flourish in the extreme weather conditions. …

It becomes worrying when prices of building materials are abnormally increased. And it has become necessary for government to engage stake holders in the industry so that government can regulate or have a say in their pricing because when prices of building materials are increased the cost of rent goes …