Residents of Kabiti, a fishing community in the Nkwanta South Municipality of the Oti Region are now homeless after a rainstorm destroyed their property. The hours-long rain, which started at about 8:00pm on Tuesday, ripped off the roofs of over 200 houses and destroyed property worth thousands of Ghana cedis. …
Read More »Asokore – Senchi residents scrape stones from newly constructed road
Some residents of Asokore Senchi have been captured in a viral video scrapping stones from their newly constructed roads. The residents say they are going to use the stones from the road which construction is currently ongoing, to fill roads leading to their home and their bathrooms because they are …
Read More »Kumasi: Asafo Assemblyman registers 300 residents under NHIS
The Assembly Member for Asafo Electoral Area in the Kumasi metropolis, Hon Ernest Okai, has registered 300 residents under the National Health Insurance Scheme in the Ashanti region. Those benefitted from the free scheme are the residents from Asafo BB/Bayakasoa, who are mostly vulnerable and financially challenged to access the …
Read More »Gunshots as maritime authorities clash with residents over illegal fuel siphoning in Western Region
There was a standoff between officers of the Enforcement Unit of the Ghana Maritime Authority and some community members of New Takoradi in the Western Region as the enforcement team attempted to confiscate a ‘dendey’ loaded with adulterated fuel on Monday, March 14. According to reports, officers of the Unit …
Read More »Tamale residents cry after sleeping in darkness for many days
The residents of Kpane, a farming community in the Sagnerigu municipality of the Northern region, have appealed to the Volta River Authority(VRA) and the Northern Electricity Distribution Company(NEDco) to have mercy on them and fix their faulty transformer which has thrown them into darkness for many days. The residents who …
Read More »VRA/NEDCo is not being honest with Kobilmahagu incident – Residents
Residents of Kobilmahagu, a suburb of the Tamale Metropolis have dismissed claims that they attacked staff of the Volta River Authority’s Northern Electricity Distribution Company (NEDCo). The residents claim that instead, the misunderstanding ensued between the staff and the occupants of a room where an illegal connection was detected. “We …
Read More »VIDEO: Atta Akyea chased out of town by angry residents
Some angry residents of an unidentified town in the Akim Abuakwa South area have chased out their Member of Parliament, Samuel Atta Akyea. In a video shared on Facebook, the MP is seen taking steps towards a pick-up vehicle, as scores of people hooted and booed at him, sending him away …
Read More »Chief, residents bemoan lack of potable water in Okper communities
Residents of various communities in the Okper division in the Yilo Krobo Traditional Area of the Eastern Region have appealed to the Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL) and the government of Ghana to help solve the water crisis in their communities. They said they currently resort to well water for …
Read More »Hundreds of Oforikrom slum residents rendered homeless after demolition exercise
Hundreds of inhabitants at Dagombaline, the largest slum in Kumasi have been rendered homeless as the government begins the construction of a road network. Some of the affected residents want the government to provide them an alternative shelter as dozens of structures have already been demolished leading to the displacement …
Read More »Assin Akortey residents living in fear after missing farmer was found dead
The decomposing body of a man believed to be in his 40s has been found in a cocoa farm at Assin Akortey Nō. 2 in the Assin South District of the Central Region. The deceased has been identified as Kofi Koranteng, popularly known as Agenda. According to information gathered, the …
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