Tag Archives: ROAD

On July 23, 2023, 13 Ghanaians, 12 men and 1 woman set off on a 10,000-kilometre trip from Accra to London by land. The trip, consisting of five cars took about 16 days and the group, known as Wanderlust Ghana arrived in London on Sunday, August 6, 2023. Social media …

Tricycle operators on Wednesday August 2, 2023 protested and blocked some roads in the Kumasi Metropolis of the Ashanti Region leading to a gridlock in parts of the Central Business District. The tricycle operators said they were protesting against the directive by the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly KMA, to ban them …

The Member of Parliament for Juaboso, Kwabena Mintah Akandoh, has been involved in a near-fatal road crash, multiple online reports have said. In photos and videos that have been shared online, they show two badly mangled vehicles that were reportedly involved in the crash. The MP is said to have been …

Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia and his campaign team were reportedly stranded during a campaign trip to Manso Nkwanta in the Ashanti Region. The vice president who is in the region as part of his flagbearer campaign was travelling to meet delegates of the New Patriotic in the Manso Nkwanta Constituency but …

Former President John Dramani Mahama has announced that he has suspended his campaign in the Assin North Constituency following the death of a member of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) after a road crash. According to Mahama, he is suspending his campaign for some hours to visit persons who were injured in the accident …

Several students have reportedly been trapped in an STC bus after an accident on the Accra-Kasoa Road, close to the Gomoa Buduatta junction. According to a news report by UTV, the STC bus, which had several students traveling to Cape Coast, somersaulted after it crashed into a speeding tipper truck …

A man identified as Nana Swanzy K has shared a video of how he narrowly escaped death after a driver with registration number GE 5198-15 overtook his vehicle on the Winneba-Cape Coast Road. In a 15-second video he shared on Facebook, the said man swerved into the bush in an …

The Association of Road Contractors in Ghana has say Ghanaians should not expect to get good roads  in the next few years. Chairman of the association, Mr John Afful revealed that, it will be difficult for his members to provide the country with quality roads because successive governments have refused to …

Parliament’s Select Committee has issued a number of conditions under which government’s decision to reintroduce road tolls will be accepted. Minister of finance Ken Ofori-Atta in a letter to the Roads Minister Kwasi Amoako-Atta has proposed about 85% increment in previous rates before the suspension of tolling. Speaking to Starr …

The Ministry of Finance has made a proposal for new road and bridge tolls across the country. This is ahead of the reintroduction of tolls in the country. In a statement made available via UTV, the Ministry of Finance stated that this is based on Section 6 of Act 1080. …