Tag Archives: SAFETY

The Ho Teaching Hospital (HTH) has asked all relatives of patients at the health post to vacate its premises. This is to prevent the relatives of patients from continuously spending the night on the corridors of the Out Patient Department (OPD) and the walkways at the hospital. Relatives of patients …

The Assin Fosu Magistrate Court, presided by Abdul Majid Illiasu, has remanded a 36-year-old spiritualist, Iddi Olaxy Mohammed, affectionately called Money God, into police custody, for allegedly chewing the finger of a labourer of a road construction firm in Assin Fosu. According to the prosecution, Chief Inspector Gilbert Ayongo, the …

At least seven trader unions at the Kumasi Kejetia market have directed their members to shut down their shops after the Electricity Company of Ghana, ECG, took the trading hub off the national grid due to a GHC5 million debt. Wednesday’s crackdown by the power distributor has affected business at …

Seven investigative and undercover journalists and whistleblowers who have a fear of being brutalized, abused, or killed are in Ghana seeking protection. A hub known as the Whistleblowers and Journalists Safety International Centre (WAJSIC) has been launched in Accra. The Centre will provide legal services for journalists across Africa who …

A shooting incident at an Accra High Court this morning has temporarily brought the trial of the Canadian girls’ kidnappers to a standstill. The presiding judge at Criminal Court 5, Justice Lydia Osei Marfo immediately suspended proceedings and took to her heels after the shooting incident from the weapon of …

Government has commissioned the office for the Coordinated Mechanism on the safety of Journalists at a ceremony in Accra. The office operated by the National Media Commission was opened by Information Minister Kojo Oppong Nkrumah in commemoration of the 2021 World Press Freedom. The office becomes the official source for filing complaints …

As basic and senior high schools (SHSs) get ready to reopen on Friday, January, January 15, the Vector Control Officer, Eastern Region, Zoomlion Ghana Limited (ZGL), Mr Maxwell Agbosu, has indicated that the safety of pupils and students is a collective responsibility of stakeholders in the midst of the new …