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Ghana ranked best performing country in priority spending on Health Care

Ghana is ranked the best performing West African Country in terms of priority spending on healthcare to achieve Universal Health Coverage. Cape Verde and Burkina Faso makes up the top 3 in the sub-region. This was made known by Ghana’s Health Minister and Chairperson of the Assembly of Health Ministers …

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Teachers shut down school over a mentally challenged woman’s attack on them

After three successive attacks on a newly posted teacher by a mentally deranged woman at the Sukrong Junior High School in the Upper West Akyem District of Eastern Region, teachers have closed down the school since Thursday. The teachers have expressed fear over their dear lives from the incessant attacks …

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Court processes served on Assin North MP by post on his house

Member of Parliament for Assin North, James Gyakye Quayson has been served with Supreme Court processes by post on his house, the notice board of the Supreme Court, and that of the High Court. The move comes after a seven-member panel of the Supreme Court on Tuesday 22nd February 2022 granted an application exparte …

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Farmer’s decomposing body found on a cocoa farm at Assin Akortey

The decomposing body of a farmer has been discovered in bizarre circumstances in a cocoa farm at Assin Akortey-no.2 in the Assin South District of the Central. The deceased has been identified as Kofi Koranteng popularly known as Agenda who hails from Larteh in the Eastern but until his death …

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Sanitation Minister seizes keys to excavator used for illegal sand winning on her tour

The Minister for Sanitation and Water Resources; MSWR, Cecilia Abena Dapaah on Tuesday, February 21, 2022, visited the Nsawam Water Treatment Plant in the Eastern Region. The purpose of her visit was to inspect the Densu River which serves as the raw water source for the Nsawam Water Treatment Plant …

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Truck carting plantain involved in accident on Accra-Nsawam road

A motor accident has occurred on the Accra-Nsawam Road, GhanaWeb has learnt. The incident which occurred at around 4:00pm on Saturday involved a truck carting plantain which was heading towards the Kwame Nkrumah Circle. GhanaWeb’s Daniel Sackitey who was on the scene shortly after the incident occurred was told by eyewitnesses that …

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He was not ready, he had his focus on Ghana – Akon on his failed signing of Sarkodie

Senegalese-American singer and songwriter, Aliaune Damala Badara Akon Thiam, commonly known as Akon, has finally revealed why he never signed Ghana’s Sarkodie when he was still in his formative years and bursting with so much potentials years ago. It emerged that Sarkodie had become the first African artiste recruited on Akon’s Konvict Music but …

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You are a politician, not a pastor – Captain Smart goes wild on Rev Prof. Martey

Godsbrain Captain Smart, the host of Onua FM’s breakfast show, has launched a scathing attack on the Reverend Professor Emmanuel Martey, the former Moderator of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana, accusing him of pursuing political interest whilst he was in office as moderator. Captain Smart is of the view that …

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Riky Rick will be laid to rest in a private ceremony on Tuesday

The funeral of the beloved South African artist Rikhado Makhado, popularly known as Riky Rick, will take place at a private ceremony in Johannesburg on Tuesday March 1. The rapper’s family announced that they’ve planned an intimate gathering for his send-off, which will be live streamed. A memorial service for …

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Ghana missing out on international gold trade – UK Trade Envoy

Baroness Catherine Hoey, UK Prime Minister’s Trade Envoy to Ghana, says the lack of international certification in gold trade is making it difficult for countries to directly buy gold from Ghana. She said the UK had interest in buying gold directly from Ghana but the country could not do so …

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