Opinion

Ghana Card: It appears we are living in a banana republic – Sam George

June 21, 2022

Ningo Prampram Lawmaker, Samuel Nartey George has criticized the directive of the Government and the Bank of Ghana (BoG) that beginning July 1, only the Ghana Card will be used as identification document for all financial transactions. In the view of Sam George, the Ghana Card cannot be the only identity card for financial transactions. […]Continue Reading

Opinion

EDITORIAL- Pay Heed To Nature; Lest We Perish

June 21, 2022

The history capital of Cape Coast in Ghana has  experienced the visitation of one of the greatest deluges  in recent time where a near thousand people around the Komenda Edina Eguafo Abirem Municipality, since Saturday, continue to seek shelter in churches, mosques and school blocks after a 7-hour downpour rendered more than 100 houses and […]Continue Reading

NEWS

Foodstuffs Left to Rot In Assin South …Over Bad Roads

June 21, 2022

Despite shortage of foodstuffs in urban areas of the country, some farmers in the Assin Aboabo  Camp, a suburb of Assin South District in the Central Region, are counting their loses, as their crops rot away on their farms. According to the frustrated farmers, these crops are wasting in the farms because of the deplorable […]Continue Reading

NEWS

Work Begins On €95m Tarkwa-Agona-Nkwanta Road

June 21, 2022

Commuters and motorists who use the Tarkoradi –Tarkwa highway can now breathe a sigh of relief, as reconstruction works on the 66-kilometer road from Tarkwa to Agona-Nkwanta in the Western Region have officially started. As at last week, the constructors have moved their equipment such as excavators, tipper trucks, bulldozers and other earth-moving machines and […]Continue Reading

NEWS

Work is progressing steadily on Accra-Kumasi road dualization project – Akufo-Addo

June 20, 2022

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has said that work is progressing steadily on the Accra-Kumasi road dualization project and the Sinohydro Inner City Roads project in Kumasi. The president said in a tweet on Monday June 20 that this project forms part of ‘building Ghana together’ agenda. The Construction of 4 major by-pass roads on […]Continue Reading

Business

GA/R: NPA shuts down Gulf Energy for selling petrol laced with water

June 20, 2022

The National Petroleum Authority (NPA) has shut down the operations of Gulf Energy in the Okaikwei Central Municipal Assembly of the Greater Accra Region for selling water–laced petroleum products to unsuspecting customers. The fuel station located at Abeka Lapaz along the George Walker Bush N1 Highway in the Accra metropolis near Torrid Oil has been […]Continue Reading

Business

Beware of gold scam schemes – PMMC warns

June 20, 2022

The Precious Minerals Marketing Company Limited (PMMC) has warned the public to be aware of gold scammers who defraud unsuspecting victims of their hard-earned money. The gold scammers according to PMMC present fake photos and videos of gold available for sale. Some of these eventually turn out to be gold plated tungsten, the PMMC said […]Continue Reading

NEWS

Flooding: Majority of storm drains clogged – Engineer

June 20, 2022

The Head of the Drainage and Hydrological Department of the Ministry of Works and Housing, Ing. Richard Amekpor, has assigned reasons for the perennial flooding in some parts of the cities in the country. According to him, many of the storm drains built to collect the gushing water when is raining are choked with foreign […]Continue Reading

NEWS

Take charge of drains on your frontages — Businesses urged

June 20, 2022

The Director of Communications and Corporate Affairs of, Zoomlion Ghana Limited, a subsidiary of the Jospong Group of Companies (JGC), Madam Emma Adwoa Appiaa Osei-Duah, has urged businesses along drains to take responsibility of its cleanliness. This, she stressed, would ensure that no filth streams into the sea and other water bodies. Madam Osei-Duah made […]Continue Reading

Crime

Tepa: Man reports himself to police after killing two women at Atobra

June 20, 2022

Residents of Atobra, a community near Tepa within the Ahafo Ano North municipality of the Ashanti region, have been thrown into a state of shock after a man, whose name has been given as Godfred, butchered two women to death on Sunday. According to residents in the area, the suspect had a misunderstanding with one […]Continue Reading