Tag Archives: RESIDENTS

VIDEO: Dawhenya residents clash with soldiers, police over land

Residents of Dawhenya have threatened to fight military and police personnel for destroying property on their lands. According to the residents who spoke on Adom FM’s morning show Dwaso Nsem Friday, the service personnel had been pestering them since 2016 but they managed to stop them. However, in the second week of …

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20 residents fleeing bandits’ attack drown in Niger

About 20 people have drowned in the Guni-Zumba river while escaping attacks by bandits in Niger State. The victims which included women and children from Guni in Munyan Local Government were said to have lost their lives on Wednesday morning. In a telephone interview with our correspondent on Wednesday, a …

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Tamale: Angry Koblimahgu residents reject installation of smart meters by NEDCo

The impasse between the residents of Koblimahgu and the Northern Electricity Distribution Company (NEDCo) is still raging as community members rejected the installation of smart meters in the community as part of conditions to restore power to the community. The community said that the installation of the new meters was …

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Dome-Kwabenya residents to demonstrate over Adwoa Safo’s absence in the constituency

Some residents of the Dome-Kwabenya Constituency, in the Greater Accra Region, have disclosed a protest will be held against their Member of Parliament, Sarah Adwoa Safo. According to them, the purpose of the protest is due to her long absence in the constituency. They explained that Adwoa Safo’s long absence in …

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Water shortage forces Kpane residents to share river with animals

Water shortage has forced residents of Kpane, a community in the Sagnerigu Municipality of the Northern Region to share the same source of water they drink with animals. On a visit to the community on Friday, March 18 by GhanaWeb, the residents (women), were seen fetching water from the same source …

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PHOTOS: Rainstorm at Kabiti renders over 150 residents homeless

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. …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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