The Ashanti Region has recorded about 213 cases of fire outbreaks within January 2016 alone displacing more than 150, 000 residents. The Ashanti Regional Commander of the Ghana National Fire Service Semekor Kwaku Fiadzo who disclosed this during an exercise to sensitize residents on latest measures adopted to curb more fire outbreaks in the region, […]
The Italian Prime Minister has called on Ghana to help in the fight against terrorism which he describes as a global threat. Addressing Ghana’s Parliament Tuesday as part of a two-day visit to the West African nation, Matteo Renzi said every country in the world must be concerned about the fight against terrorism and urged
In its quest to promote health delivery, Ideal Finance has disclosed plans of renovating one of the maternity blocks at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) in the Ashanti Region. To help decongest the maternity wards, the Ideal finance donated GHC20,000.00 to settle medical bills of patients who cannot afford their bills. Naval Captain Rtd Kojo Butah,
The U.S. House of Representatives have passed the Electrify Africa Act, after nearly two years of trying to get the measure through both chambers of Congress. The bill will provide a framework for a major public-private partnership between the United States and sub-Saharan African countries to help millions of people gain access to reliable electricity.
In what is described as a major Sino-Africa deal making forum ever hosted on the African continent, the Africa-China Investment Forum (ACIF) will be held in Johannesburg, the capital of South Africa for the first time from 4-5 October 2016. The first edition is under the broad theme: “Broadening the frontiers of Sino-African Investments”. China
Nigeria has asked the World Bank and African Development Bank for $3.5bn in emergency loans to fill a growing gap in its budget in the latest sign of the economic damage being wrought on oil-rich nations by tumbling crude prices. The request from the eight-month-old government of President Muhammadu Buhari is intended to help fund
The African Union has abandoned its plan to send 5,000 peacekeepers to stop ongoing violence in Burundi.It rather plans to encourage political dialogue between Burundi’s opposing sides. Burundi’s President Pierre Nkurunziza had fiercely opposed the AU plan’s to send peacekeepers. AU Peace and Security Council chief Smail Chergui said: “We want dialogue with the government,
A recent research conducted across the country in various schools particularly at the lower primary levels indicates that about 51 per cent of the pupils cannot read in both English language and the other local dialects. The Ashanti Regional Director of Education, Mary Owusu Achiaw made known at a durbar at Sanso in the Obuasi
The National Inspectorate Board formed by the Ministry of Education (MoE) Ghana to visit schools unannounced to check lazy and absentee teachers and also identify challenges for redress have been alarmed at the number of bedbug infestations in some schools in the Greater Accra and Western Region. In December last year, The Chronicle reported that
The 2016 presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, is urging Ghanaians not to give up hope in the face of the high levels of economic hardships and poverty currently prevailing in the country under the leadership of President John Mahama. Rather, Nana Akufo-Addo is assuring Ghanaians that the NPP has
