Новости за 01.06.2019

Three (3) persons are allegedly reported dead at Huhunya in the Yilo Krobo Municipality of the Eastern region early Saturday morning. The deceased, a Custom Assistant, Atama Padi and a motor rider, Jerry, were allegedly shot and butchered to death by suspected armed robbers in an attempt to arrest them for stealing goats. The other deceased, believed to be a member of the suspected robbers was also allegedly beaten and burnt to death by the angry residents on the spot. Reliable s ...

The Member of Parliament for Asante Akim Hon Andy Appiah Kubi together with the Interior Minister Hon. Ambrose Derry has commissioned a new police station for Agogo in the Asante Akim North district. The building which was part of effort to beef up security in the area would house the Divisional headquarters, the district headquarters and a police station. The Member of Parliament Hon. Andy Appiah Kubi addressing the media during the commissioning thanked President Nana Addo Dankwa ...

Kumawu residents and some opinion leaders have expressed their disappointment and disaffection in the performance of the Kumawu District Police Commander and his men. They indicated that the Effiduase - Kumawu motor road have become a den for armed robbers thus putting the life of the citizenry in absolute danger despite the presence of police on the road. Speaking to the reporter they indicated that the Sekyere Kumawu District Assembly supports the District Police Command on ...

The Ghana Alumni Chapter of the Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI) has inducted Miss Shanni Mahama as its President in Accra. Miss Asana is expected to work with her team to mobilise all Alumni in Ghana to contribute to the development aspirations of Ghana and Africa. At a ceremony in Accra, the Director of the YALI Regional Leadership Center in West Africa, Dr. Shola stressed on the need to have a strong and vibrant alumni chapter. She revealed that over 4,000 youths have ...

Rural Smile Foundation as part of its mission, works to promote literacy in rural communities of Ghana. It is in this regard that, the NGO, headed by Mr Abubakar Saddique Ahmed, initiated such an impactful project to help expose kids to the library and also imbue in them the love for reading. About 60-70% of kids in the municipality are not able to read. This is a worrying situation which Rural Smile Foundation is working hard at bridging the gap by the year 2030 as it believes READING IS ...

Eight years of oil production in Ghana has come to an end and, as usual, the Fair Trade Oil Share (FTOS) ndash; PSA Campaign Team, under the auspices of the Centre for Natural Resources and Environmental Management (CNREM), has the painful task to present to Ghanaians, sovereign owners of the oil resources, our independent report on how Ghanaians are being robbed off their oil wealth in the name of investment. This is coming at a time when there seems to be some awakening at last to the col ...

The Consular General of Dubai Her Excellency Samata Gifty Bukari welcomed Dr Thomas Mensah who was the Invited Keynote Speaker at the 2019 World Nanotechnology Conference in Dubai this year. The Consular General who attended the Keynote lecture was impressed by the reaction of the participants at the conference to the Delivery and performance of Dr. Thomas Mensah. She also attended the Conference Gala and interacted with experts from 20 countries at the Conference. Participants from th ...

A research done in May 2019 by Anane Institute reveals that 12 ministries in Ghana do not have functioning websites as at 29th May 2019. The researchers however indicated that 23 ministries have functional websites with current information. The Ministries which do not have websites include Ministry of Defense, Chieftaincy and Religious Affairs, Aviation, Employment and Labour Relations, and the Ministry of Fisheries and Aqua Culture Development. Additionally, the Ministry of Monitoring ...

The youth have been warned not to be fooled by the color and sweet scented shisha since they are all the same. There is a misconception that shisha is not as bad as cigarettes because the tobacco is flavor passes through water. According to statistics, the volume of smoke inhaled in an hour-long shisha session is estimated to be the equivalent of smoking about a hundred to two hundred sticks of cigarettes at a go. The Ministry of Health and its stakeholders in health, have ...

Mr Joshua Akamba, the National Organizer of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has said, the plagiarism and subsequent apology by the Ghana Beyond Aid committee on the photoshopped Kenyan Skyline building, exposed President Akufo-Addo of deceptive policies. President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on May 1 2019, launched the Ghana Beyond Aid Strategic Document , which he claimed would guide the nation towards an irreversible pathway of progress and prosperity. The ...

Dead bodies have been piling up at the nation 39;s hospitals few days into the mortuary workers 39; industrial action which started on Wednesday, May 29 over poor condition of services. The strike would undoubtedly bring extra economic expenditure to families who have scheduled to retrieve the bodies of their loved ones for burial this weekend. Information picked up by this portal indicates that families who planned way back to retrieve their corpses for burial tomorrow Satu ...

Apart from the huge loses in government revenue, illicit trade in tobacco products fuels the tobacco epidemic by increasing its accessibility, affordability and consumption which then gives rise to increased prevalence to tobacco use and eventually burdening the state with the disease. In order to reverse the trend of the dangers posed to the society by the illicit trade in this harmful product of tobacco, the Parliament of Ghana has ratified the ldquo;Protocol for the Eliminatio ...

The Member of Parliament (MP) for Jomoro and Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) for the area in the Western Region, Hon. Paul Essien, Hon. Ernest Kofie respectively, have donated items to Muslims within the area towards successful ending of Ramadan. The donation includes 40 bags of rice, 20 gallons of frytol oil, 5 bags of sugar among others. The donation is expected to be distributed to all the 25 Muslim Communities within the area to climax the period next week. Muslims acr ...

Geonest Foundation in collaboration with the Member of Parliament for Ablekuma North has put smiles on the faces of hundreds of pupils from four schools in the Ablekuma North Constituency in the Greater Accra Region. The Foundation donated more than 200 pairs of new shoes as part of its initiative to help the disadvantaged children in schools with new shoes and other learning materials. The founder of the Foundation, Mr. George Kofi Nkrumah in an interview revealed that Geonest Foun ...