The Tema Regional Police Command has arrested a sixteen-year old junior high school (JHS) student and resident of Ashaiman on the Tema motorway in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana. The suspect, Isaac Awotwum, was in the company of two other accomplices at about 7.30pm Thursday, when they nearly pounced on a driver on the […]
Medical care for victims of sexual abuse remains a dream in many communities in the Ashanti Region of Ghana. Parents of abused persons, mostly children, make little or no effort to take them to the hospital, even at police request because they cannot afford the cost. Two health workers who were confronted with the story
The 2014 Auditor-General’s Report has revealed how Ghanaian foreign currency looters have been feeding fat on the tax-payers’ money in four of Ghana’s Missions abroad. The culprits at the four Missions—Lusaka, Luanda, Brussels and Ottawa—have been fingered for either misappropriating funds or disbursing unapproved cash in different foreign currencies. Albeit the Report did not mention
By Inusa Musah A chain of booming stores sited along the OS Adam Avenue at Ashaiman Newtown in the Greater Accra Region, have been forced to close down due to the invasion of rodents and reptiles. The stretch, popularly known as ‘borla’ road, for over six years now, have been overgrown with wild grass which
The department of Social welfare in the Eastern region is in loggerhead with a Miraculous Jesus Evangelistic Ministry ,a Koforidua based Church to vacate its premises over unlawful occupancy of a facility belonging to the department and excessive noise making which according to the department posses health risk to inmates of the Remand Home/Vocational Training
Traditional authorities of Old Tafo in the Ashanti regional capital Kumasi say they are battle-ready to face off with the old Tafo Zongo community anytime soon. The angry comment of Tafohene Nana Agyemang Ababio come after hundreds of the community folks besieged the palace Tuesday to demand for weapons in self-defense following constant attacks on
Medical Director for the Tema General Hospital (TGH), Greater Accra Region, has said that government should honour Tema with a state of the art hospital. Such a modern hospital, Dr Kwabena Adusei Opoku explained, would be able to meet the daily increasing health services clients were expected to be provided with. He said, “Renovating
The Parents and Teachers’ Association (PTA) of the Ada Secondary and Technical at Sege in the Dangme West District, Greater Accra, is appealing to the Education Ministry to relieve it from the salaries it pays three teachers and a security man. It said it could hardly assist the school in the provision of some basic
The government through the Ministry of Food and Agriculture, (MoFA) has initiated a programme to establish Service Centers for use by farmers nationwide. The multi-purpose centers when completed, will be a one-stop shop for the provision of services such, mechanization, fertilizer distribution, extension services, produce marketing and provision of credit facilities to farmers, among others.
The final funeral rites for the mother of President John Mahama was held at the Forecourt of the State House in Accra Saturday. The late Hajia Abiba Nnaba died on the 14th of June, 2016 and was buried the same day at Busunu in the West Gonja District of the Northern Region in line with
