Foreign

Ukraine war: Every bridge leading to key city Severodonetsk destroyed

June 14, 2022

All bridges to the embattled Ukrainian city of Severodonetsk have now been destroyed, the local governor says. With the city effectively cut off, Serhiy Haidai says delivering supplies and evacuating civilians are now impossible. Fierce fighting is taking place in the eastern city where Ukrainian officials said Russian artillery had driven its forces out of […]Continue Reading

Business

Gov’t exceeds 20 million seedling target for Green Ghana Day – Lands Ministry

June 14, 2022

The Deputy Minister for Lands and Natural Resources, Benito Owusu-Bio, who doubles as the National Chairman of the 2022 Green Ghana Planning Committee has disclosed that a total of 22,671,696 seedlings have so far been distributed for the 2022 edition of the Green Ghana agenda, which well exceeds that initial 20 million seedling targeted. Addressing […]Continue Reading

NEWS

First Lady attends 26th Gen Assembly of OAFLAD

June 14, 2022

First Lady Rebecca Akufo-Addo over the weekend attended the 26th Extraordinary General Assembly of the Organization of African First Ladies for Development (OAFLAD) in Brazzaville, Congo. The meeting was on the theme “Twenty years in service of the most vulnerable of Africa” where the First Ladies deliberated on Health Financing for Sustainable Development in Africa […]Continue Reading

Crime

Police style of dealing with demonstrators sickening – Security expert

June 14, 2022

A security expert, Sulley Ibrahim, has taken a swipe at the Police administration led by the Inspector–General of Police, Dr George Akuffo Dampare. According to him, the Police actions in handling demonstrations in the country is sickening. “Every well-meaning Ghanaian must be worried about these actions of the police,” he said. He added that the […]Continue Reading

Business

Ministerial committee clears CPC boss

June 14, 2022

Attempts by some elements of staff within the ranks and file of the government-owned Cocoa Processing Company (CPC) to instigate the removal of the company’s Managing Director, Nana Agyenim Boateng, have hit rough patches after an investigative committee set up by the Minister for Food and Agriculture cleared the MD of any wrongdoing. Some agitated […]Continue Reading

Business

Gov’t’ll continue to encourage farmers to use organic fertilisers – Agric Minister

June 14, 2022

The Minister for Food and Agriculture (MoFA), Dr. Owusu Afriyie Akoto, has re-affirmed that the government will continue to encourage farmers to use and apply organic fertilisers. This, he said, has become necessary because of the global shortage of inorganic fertiliser and its attendant high prices. “The issue is to do with the shortage of […]Continue Reading

Business

ECG POWER THIEVES IN TROUBLE …As Company Begins Nationwide Auditing of Meters

June 14, 2022

The management of Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) is set to embark on an aggressive nation-wide exercise in the coming days to decisively deal with individuals as well as companies engaging themselves in various forms of power theft, through illegal connections of its lines across the country. This exercise, according to the ECG, will see […]Continue Reading

Opinion

Editorial Impostor Guns: Lest We Bequeath Internal Terror Cults at our own Chagrin

June 14, 2022

In a release dated June 6, 2022, referenced ARHQ/PAU/AR.10/VOL.1/09 and, signed by Superintendent Juliana Obeng, Head of Public Affairs unit/AR – of Accra Regional police headlined “Shooting at Zammrama Line Involving A Soldier: Six Persons Injured”, the Ghana police administration, thus, announced the arrest over yet another reckless, needless incident of Continue Reading

NEWS

School Feeding Collapsing; MP Accuses Gov’t of Insensitivity

June 14, 2022

The Member of Parliament (MP) for the Builsa-South constituency, Dr Clement Apaak, has slammed President Nana Akufo-Addo, for releasing a whopping GH¢200 million towards the construction of the controversial national cathedral, while caterers of the flagship School Feeding Programme continue to strike. According to the Deputy Ranking Member on Education, government’s Continue Reading

NEWS

Minister Orders Removal of Trees Planted By NDC Members

June 14, 2022

In what otherwise, described as a successful national initiative collectively embraced by all and sundry devoid of politics, is now being destroyed with cheap politicking. It follows an order by the Oti regional minister, Joshua Makubu, for the removal of all the trees that were planted by the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) as part […]Continue Reading