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 »Is harmattan back? – Ghana Metro explains recent ‘unusual’ weather
The Ghana Meteorological Agency has given some explanations for the recent unusual change in the weather conditions which has left many Ghanaians questioning whether the country was experiencing harmattan again. The Meteorological Agency stated in a statement released on Friday, February 24, 2023, that harmattan has not returned as widely …
Read More »Metro FM news presenter Pearl Shongwe passes on
The SABC’s Metro FM news presenter Pearl Shongwe has passed on. It is understood she died at her Polo Fields home north of Johannesburg. Details are still sketchy at the moment. The newsreader also presented sport on SABC’s 404 News channel and Morning Live on weekends alongside Simphiwe Ncongwane. A …
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 »Ghana Meteo issues rainstorm alert for parts of Volta, Oti and Accra regions
The Ghana Meteorological Agency has warned of a pending thunderstorm likely to be hit parts of the Volta and Oti regions between 6OM and 11PM on Tuesday, April 12, 2022. This according to the agency this is a result of a rainstorm which is propagating from southern Benin towards Ghana. …
Read More »Driver attempts ‘suicide’ after stabbing Kumasi metro guard to death
City authorities have been detailing how a suspect driver attempted suicide moments after stabbing to death a metro guard with the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA) on Saturday (9 April 2022). Thomas Amakye Yankey, 50, sustained multiple knife wounds on the neck and abdomen during a scuffle between the suspect driver …
Read More »Metro Mass bus burns into ashes on Ho road
An accident has occurred on the Ho road in the Volta Region on Saturday, April 2, 2022. In a video posted by Starrfm and sighted by GhanaWeb, a Ho bound Kumasi Metro Mass Transit burnt into ashes a few meters away from Tsito in the Ho West District of the …
Read More »Metro Mass security coordinator jailed 10 years for blackmailing former MD
A security coordinator at the Metro Mass Transit Company Limited Lawal Fuseina has been sentenced to serve a 10-year prison term for blackmailing his former Managing Director (MD) Mr Bennet Aboagye. The Circuit Court in Accra convicted and sentenced him after he was found guilty for charges including unlawful entry …
Read More »Metro cop shot dead in Cape Town
Tammy Pete Western Cape police have launched a manhunt for gunmen who shot dead a City of Cape Town metro police officer in Marikana, Philippi East, on Wednesday. Spokesperson Captain FC van Wyk said the off-duty officer, 49, was found lying next to his vehicle in Disa Road at about …
Read More »Metro Mass bus driver dies in fatal crash
A Metro Mass Transit bus driver has died in a fatal head-on collision with a Lowbed truck vehicle at Akyem Anyinam stretch on the Accra-Kumasi road. The body of the deceased, George Mensah, 46, has been extricated and deposited at Chad morgue in Akyem Osino. George Mensah now deceased was …
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