Government is hoping to order 100 electric buses for Metro Mass Transit, as announced by Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia during the launch of the Tap & Go Transport Project on Monday, February 19, 2024, at the head office of Metro Mass Transit Limited. This initiative aims to introduce e-vehicles to the …
Read More »‘Mass abortions for Africa’ – Finland minister quits after a week over 2019 comments
Finland’s minister for economic affairs resigned on Friday (June 30), a little more than a week after taking office, amid a flurry of scandals linking him to neo-Nazi ideology. Vilhelm Junnila, of the far-right Finns Party, quit amid a new furore over comments he made in parliament where he said …
Read More »Seven dead in another California mass shooting
The US state of California is reeling from its third mass shooting in eight days after a man shot dead seven former co-workers south of San Francisco. The attacks took place in the coastal city of Half Moon Bay. Some of the victims were Chinese-American. Suspect Chunli Zhao, 66, was …
Read More »Mass layoffs to happen in the financial sector, others – Ato Forson
Ranking Member on the Finance Committee of Parliament, Dr. Cassiel Ato Forson says there will be mass layoffs from the financial sector due to the impact of the ongoing debt restructuring. The expected layoffs will also affect foreign-financed projects among others, the Ajumako lawmaker said in a Facebook post. “Unemployment …
Read More »Juaboso govt hospital to undertake mass burial
The Juaboso government hospital administration is set to organise a mass burial for 51 unclaimed bodies at the mortuary to create space for other duties. These unidentified and unclaimed bodies are made up of mostly paupers, unknown former patients, abandoned bodies, unidentified accidents and crime victims who have been in …
Read More »CETAG calls off mass annual leave
The leadership of the Colleges of Education Teachers Association of Ghana (CETAG) has directed its members across the country to end the annual leave they embarked on and return to the classrooms. All the teachers in the country’s 46 campuses proceeded on annual leave on September 1, 2022, after working …
Read More »Hundreds of stranded Mamobi residents beg for time ahead of mass demolition on Sunday
Scores of residents at Mamobi in Accra have been left stranded ahead of a planned eviction and demolition exercise scheduled for Sunday, August 29, 2022. The exercise is set to be undertaken by the Ayawaso North Municipal Assembly to reclaim some 15.7 acres of government land encroached by squatters. Ahead …
Read More »Akufo-Addo gives Metro Mass Transit 45 more buses
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on Wednesday, 6th July 2022, commissioned the first batch of forty-five (45) buses out of one hundred (100) VDL Intercity buses procured for use by the Metro Mass Transit Ltd. President Akufo-Addo stated that the event is significant particularly because it has provided the country …
Read More »Mass funeral due for SA tavern tragedy victims
The mass funeral for 21 teenagers who died in mysterious circumstances at a South African nightclub more than a week ago is due to take place on Wednesday. The funeral ceremony for the teenagers aged between 13-17 will be held in a giant tent at Scenery Park, in East London. …
Read More »The body of a woman mistakenly buried during a mass burial exhumed after a court order
Environmental officials in the Kwahu West Municipality of the Eastern Region have exhumed the corpse of a woman they mistakenly buried during a mass burial exercise. The body was mistakenly buried along with some other bodies at the Nkawkaw-Trafford cemetery in January, this year. However, the family displeased by the …
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