Новости за 26.07.2019

Effective August 1, the Municipal Chief Director of the Ayawaso North Municipal Assembly (ANWA), Hon. Aminu Zakari says his office will start arresting landlord/lady(s) whose homes and rented properties do not have toilet facilities for tenants in the area. According to him, the exercise is part of directives and measures to end open defecation among residents in the area. Speaking at a Stakeholder rsquo;s Meeting on Strict Implementation of Sanitation Bye-Laws, the MCE said ...

The Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi will address Ghana 39;s Parliament on Wednesday, 31st July, 2019. Nancy Pelosi, who is a Democratic Party member in the US is the first woman Speaker of the House, making her the highest-ranking elected woman in United States history. First elected to Congress in 1987, Nancy Pelosi is currently in her 17th term as a congresswoman. She represents California rsquo;s 12th congressional district which consists o ...

The Yeji Police Command in the Pru East District of the Bono East Region has impounded two trucks loaded with fertilizers meant for the government 39;s Plant for Food and Jobs Programme and heading towards Burkina Faso. The two Man Diesel trucks with registration number AS 5946 U and GT 948 J were allegedly using the Yeji route to Burkina Faso. Each of the two trucks allegedly had about one thousand fertilizers meant for the Planting for Food and Jobs Programme. The District Chi ...

The Teshie District Police Command has caged five persons in connection to the butchering of a 58-year old man at his residence at Klanaa, a suburb of Teshie in Accra. The man, Samuel Gaius Badu, fell victim to a group of heavily built men, numbering about 15, wielding machetes, guns, knives, bricks and other offensive weapons around 1pm on Sunday, July 7, when they stormed the Nii Kwei Tse We, a family house in the community. He is currently receiving treatment at the Lekma H ...

Eight Turkish seafarers kidnapped from a ship by pirates in Nigeria territorial waters have been rescued by the Ghana Navy and other security agencies after more than 10 days in captivity. In what was understood to be an act of piracy, about six armed bandits got onboard the Turkish flagged vessel, Paskoy 1, attacked the vessel and abducted those on board. The pirates were reported to have arrived with a speed boat, boarded the vessel and took away 10 out of the total 18 Turki ...

The government of Ghana last year announced the Ghana Beyond Aid (GBA) as its new policy for development cooperation and established a Ministerial Committee to work on a Charter and roadmap to achieving the policy. The GBA committee under the leadership of the Senior Minister Yaw Osarfo Marfo is now working hard to turn this agenda into an action program by creating a new social contract between government and its citizenry. In the GBA agenda, domestic resources are the main source ...

The Finance Ministry has ordered the Controller and Accountant General rsquo;s Department to release an amount of GHc43,177,685.29, for the completion of various road projects in the country including LEKMA. Key among the project detail is the rehabilitation of the 0.80km Teshie Rasta Area road awarded Messrs Lomenf Company Limited at a cost GHc 247,784.69. The construction of phase 3 and 4 of the GIMPA by-pass within the Greater Accra Region which costs Ghc 5,002,690.60 and 3 ...

The Kwahu East District Assembly has been awarded a cash prize of pound;150,000 for placing second in the District Assembly category of the Sanitation Challenge. The Assembly under the auspices of Hon. Isaac Agyapong won the huge prize after the DCE and his able staff successfully developed and implemented innovative and integrated urban sanitation plans within his jurisdiction. The Sanitation Challenge for Ghana is a UKAID-funded and implemented by IMC Worldwide and IRC Ghana to c ...

Embattled Chief Executive Officer of Menzgold, Nana Appiah Mensah, will make his second appearance in court today. NAM1, made his first appearance on July 12 Friday remanded to police custody and is expected to reappear on July 26. The CEO of Menzgold has been charged with two counts of abetment to defraud by false pretence and two counts of abetment to carry out banking business without licence, contrary to Section 6 (1) of the Banks and Specialised Deposit-taking Institutions Act, 2016 ( ...