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Tema Oil Refinery (TOR) has not been operational since June 2018 due to lack of crude oil which serves as a raw material for the refinery. Aside from the inadequate crude oil in the country’s only oil refinery, TOR is faced with other challenges like broken equipment, piled debt, among …

A political science lecturer at Cape Coast University (UCC), Mr Jonathan Asante Okyere, says some flag bearer aspirants of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) are pushing for an early conference so as to distance themselves from the failing Akufo-Addo government. He was of the view the aspirants are not …

Ghana was saved from having to pay a sum of $55 million after a Chinese-based construction company dragged it to the Permanent Court of Arbitration. The company; Beijing Everyway Traffic & Lighting was seeking for arbitration from the international court over what it said was the termination of a contract …

The Gwira Tradi­tional Council has petitioned the Min­istry of Lands and Natural Resources to probe activities of Okobeng Mining Company Limited and uphold its decision to ban the company from undertak­ing mining activities in their area. A three-member delegation from the council yesterday, February 1, 2023, called on the ministry …

A popular gay rights activist, Davis Mac Iyalla, fell down from his Palanquin during his coronation as a chief. Davis Mac Iyalla who was installed Amankorehen of the Yamonransa Nkusukum Traditional Area in the Central Region, over the weekend, unfortunately fell out during a parade through the Yamonransa township. Even …

Ghana has eliminated gambiense Human African Trypanosomiasis, commonly known as Sleeping Sickness, as a disease of public health concern. The World Health Organization’s (WHO) Director General, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, in a tweet, congratulated the government, health workers and communities for working towards the elimination of the disease. “This is …

Dr Bernard Okoe-Boye, a medical doctor and Chief Executive Officer of the National Health Insurance Authority has shared some tips on how to avoid food poisoning, particularly waakye. Speaking on Metro TV’s Good Morning Ghana programme, Dr Okoe-Boye encouraged lovers of the waakye staple to always opt for the black …

The International Monetary Fund is pushing Ghana’s cash-strapped government to stop borrowing from its central bank, according to people familiar with the matter . The IMF wants the two entities to sign a commitment to zero-financing, said the people who asked not to be identified because they’re not authorized to speak …

A white woman and her husband have been captured in a queue waiting to dish their banku at Bishop Kwabena Boakye Asiamah’s church, popularly known as the Ajagurajah Movement. According to the Ajagurajah Movement leader, the woman and her husband had traveled from Finland to taste his food. “A white …

The Food and Drugs Authority has said that only one person died from suspected food poisoning at Oyibi Bush Canteen Junction, in Accra. The authority also disclosed that some 53 people experienced symptoms of the foodborne disease after consuming waakye or plain rice and tomato stew from the local eatery. …