Tag Archives: DISASTER

World War II veteran, ex-Lance Corporal Wisdom Edmond Kudowor, has stated that the current recruitment process for the various security agencies in Ghana has become so bad. According to him, the practice of having to pay brides before one gets the opportunity to serve in security agencies is a “national …

Severe rain accompanied by a storm has ripped the roofs and injured seven students of Kadjebi Evangelical Presbyterian (E.P) Central Junior High School (JHS) in the Oti Region on Wednesday. The rainstorm has also ripped the roof of the Roman Catholic (R.C) JHS school block and another private house at …

Owners of shops in the story building that was gutted by fire at Adum in Kumasi on Friday evening have vacated the shops and are brooding over their losses. When the Ghana News Agency visited the scene on Monday morning the three shops on the ground floor, which were badly …

Residents of Buoho-Achina in the Afigya Kwabre South District of the Ashanti are currently living in fear due to the alleged storage of dynamites in the area. The suspected dynamites  , according to residents, have been stored in a 40 feeter container at a residential area closer to  a stone blasting site …

At least 26 people have been killed in floods in southern India after heavy rains caused rivers to overflow, cutting off towns and villages. Five children are among the dead. There are fears the death toll could rise further as many people are missing. Several houses were washed away and …

  A pregnant woman together with her two children and husband have all been burnt to death in a fire disaster at Manso Aponoapon in the Amansie South District of the Ashanti Region. The incident happened Saturday, 10 April 2021 at about 11:30 pm. The pregnant mother-of-two has been identified …

Daniel Alubadek, a geography tutor of the Wenchi Methodist Senior High School, who took some of his students on an excursion to the Kintampo waterfalls, and suffered a disaster, is still bedridden, four years after the unfortunate event. According to medical reports sighted by GhanaWeb, Alubadek needs $91,571 to undergo …

When Malagasy politician Ahmad Ahmad swept to power in 2017, it was on a wave of both popular support and expectation. Africa had, after all, spent 29 years under the thumb of Issa Hayatou, whose despotic, authoritarian manner of ruling had over time come to rankle the Caf rank and …

A total of twelve bodies have been retrieved from the Apam beach after about 20 children reportedly drowned on Sunday evening. The 12 bodies were retrieved Monday afternoon in the incident which happened in the Gomoa West District of the Central Region. Graphic Online’s Gilbert Mawuli Agbey reports that a total of about …

Officials in the Democratic Republic of Congo say more than 60 people have drowned after a barge capsized and sank on the Congo River. Three-hundred people have been rescued but possibly 200 others are unaccounted for following the accident. Locals said the boat hit a rock east of the capital, …