Sachet water will be sold for 30 pesewas apiece effective February 1, 2016, the National Association of Sachet Water Producers has announced. A 50 per cent jump in the price was announced by the association at a news conference in Accra Tuesday January 26. The Association has also hinted at further hikes in the coming […]
Conflict resolution and Peace Building expert Emmanuel Bombande has asked the feuding factions in the protracted Dagbon conflict to appreciate the efforts of President John Mahama at ensuring peace among them. According to him, it is unfair to blame government and the Committee of Eminent chiefs helping to resolve the crisis for the volatile nature
The Swiss specialist investment firm that publishes the Dow Jones Sustainability Indices, RobecoSAM, has adjudged mining giant Gold Fields Limited as one of the most sustainable companies in the world by. Gold Fields scored 80%, a notch lower than last year’s rating of 81% but nonetheless featured prominently on the league table of The 2016
Ghanaian winger Christian Atsu has joined Spanish top-flight side Malaga on loan. The Ghana international joined Malaga on Monday January 25 2016 from Chelsea despite earlier reports that he was heading to Levante. The 24-year-old moved to Bournemouth on loan at the beginning of the 2015-16 season, but was recalled by the Blues as he
The Ashanti Regional Police Command in collaboration with the Regional Security Council under the instructions of the Inspector General of Police (IGP) has launched a security taskforce ahead of November 7th general elections. The move is in line with the Ghana police command’s commitment to maintain peace, law and order during and after this year’s
The Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, has rallied Ghanaians to do everything to overcome division and accept to live in total peace and harmony. They should never allow ethnicity, political and religious differences to tear them apart – undermine the unity and cohesion of the society. The Asantehene made the call during a special church
A 70-year-old one-armed farmer has been burnt to death by bush fire, on his own farm, at Abease Komfourkrom in the Pru West District of the Brong Ahafo Region. The incident happened Saturday January 23, as Opanin Kwasi Fi and his two sons, aged 12 and 14, tended their oil palm plantation. Smouldering fire from
Former spokesperson for the Greater Accra regional branch of the opposition New Patriotic Party Michael Ampong has chastised the President of the Catholic Bishops Conference over his remarks on the raging former Guantanamo bay inmates in Ghana. According to him, Bishop Joseph Osei Bonsu’s response to President John Mahama’s reasons for accepting the former terror
The Minister of Gender, Children and Social Protection, Nana Oye Lithur has announced that cabinet has approved the justice for children policy, under which all children would be given equal justice through formal and informal structures. That, she said, would ensure that children who came in conflict with the law received justice, saying ” a
Three students who were suspended indefinitely for allegedly engaging in homosexuality at the Opoku Ware Senior High School in the Ashanti Region have confessed to have been in the act since their basic school level according head master of the school Dr Alexis Frimpong Nimoh The students revealed this, when they were summoned by the
