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The National Communication Authority (NCA) has announced that repairs to undersea cables that have adversely affected data services in the country will take a minimum of five weeks. In the NCA’s 4th update on the internet situation in the country, the regulator indicated that the five-week duration was from assurances …

Two babies have died as a result of a power outage at the St Anne’s Hospital which operates under the Catholic Health Directorate in Damango in the Savanna Region. The hospital had its power cut due to a debt amounting to GH¢4 million power debt owed to the Northern Electricity …

Some Twitter users were unable to tweet on Wednesday after the website experienced technical problems. Account holders received a message saying: “You are over the daily limit for sending Tweets.” The outage-tracking website DownDetector reported the glitch at just before 22:00 GMT. Elon Musk has slashed Twitter’s workforce over the …

The Ghana Grid Company has said a raging bushfire under its high-voltage lines near Tarkwa caused Saturday’s power outage. A statement by GRIDCo said a fire tender from Tarkwa Goldfields was quickly dispatched to control the raging flames. Meanwhile, restoration of the grid commenced immediately and efforts are ongoing to …

Residents of Bawku in the Upper East Region have experienced hours of outage Monday afternoon. The incident occurred at 13:07HRS, after the Zebilla-Bawku 161kV line tripped on earth causing an outage to the Bawku Bulk Supply Point. “Fault has been identified as broken conductor [on tower number 287 within Bawku …

The Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) has announced it will be undertaking planned maintenance works, today, February 16. This is to improve service delivery in parts of the Greater Accra and Eastern Regions, according to a communiqué. The affected areas in Greater Accra will experience outages from 9:00 am to …