Scores of residents within Obuasi in the Ashanti Region have embarked on a demonstration over what they described as worsening unemployment among the youth in the mining community.       The protestors want the management of Anglogold Ashanti to absorb them into the mining company. They wielded placards with …

The President of Malawi, Lazarus Chakwera has stripped his Vice-President Saulos Chilima of all his delegated powers after the latter was named in a US $150 million corruption scandal involving government contracts. The vice-president has not yet responded to the allegations.   A report by the country’s Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) …

Renowned Ghanaian international gospel musician, Sonnie Badu, says he did not receive US$ 50,000.00 as payment for his ministration during the launch of the National Cathedral of Ghana (NCG) fundraising in United States capital, Washington DC in 2019.   Claims of the alleged payment emerged on social media on 20 …

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The Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II has tasked the Minister for Food and Agriculture, Hon. Dr. Owusu Afriyie Akoto, to do everything within his power to save the country from threats of food crisis in the midst of COVID-19 and the Russian-Ukrainian war. The King observed that the country, more …

The Senior Lecturer at the School of Nursing and Midwifery at the University of Ghana- Legon, Dr. Cecilia Eliason, has reiterated that people with low socio-economic backgrounds are mostly diagnosed with high blood pressure.   Speaking on the GTV Breakfast Show, the Senior Lecturer stated that, studies have found that …

Ghana has topped the list of countries with the cheapest cost of electricity for household use in West Africa. According to data from GLOBALPETROLPRICES.COM, a website that tracks the retail prices of motor fuel, electricity, and natural gas in over 150 countries, Ghana stood in 9th place as the country …

Ghana faces a looming fuel shortage as the central bank rations dollars after oil prices surged following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The monthly fuel import bill for the West African nation jumped to $450 million in May, from $250 million in January, according to two people with knowledge of the …

The Director-General of the National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO), Eric Nana Agyemang-Prempeh, has bemoaned the lack of open spaces in Accra in event of an earthquake or other disasters. According to him, open spaces provide a place for temporal tents and other structures as shelters to be erected in times …

Civil Society Group, OccupyGhana has requested full details of disallowance and surcharge certificates issued by the Auditor-General in respect of infractions committed by officials of public service institutions. The group further demanded evidence of service of the certificate on the persons surcharged, the date on which the certificate was transmitted …