COMMUNITY WATCH

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 …

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 …

A private legal practitioner, Kwame Jantuah,  has suggested to the government to reintroduce the “operation feed yourself” concept to help alleviate the plight of Ghanaians. “Operation feed yourself” was an agricultural programme administered in Ghana under the late military general and head-of-state Ignatius Kutu Acheampong. The national programme sought to …

Some residents of Kpongunor in Lower Manya Krobo Municipality of the Eastern Region on Thursday staged a demonstration against the installation of prepaid meters and the deployment of armed military personnel to the area as part of the exercise. The protestors mostly the youth clad in red armbands and traditional …

A survey conducted by the African Youth Survey 2022 has established that 56 per cent of the young people in Ghana believe Ghana is moving in the right direction. This comes on the backdrop of a sizable number of African youth losing confidence in their own countries and the continent …

The Deputy Minister of Food and Agriculture, Yaw Frimpong Addo, has stated that it was not true that there was food crisis in the country. He said there was a clear distinction between food availability and pricing, stressing that Ghanaians were misconstruing the high prices of some foodstuff to mean …

A seven-year-old girl, Munira Ibrahim died on the spot on Tuesday (14 June) when building blocks fell on her after a downpour in Walewale in the West Mamprusi municipality of the North East Region.   Eyewitnesses said her skull was completely damaged leading to her death when the roofing of …

The National Disaster Management Organisaton (NADMO) says reports it has received from the Ghana Meteorological Agency show that there will be heavy rains across the country this evening, Wednesday, June 15, 2022.   NADMO has thus asked citizens living in flood-prone areas to take precautionary measures ahead of the rains. …

  The residents of Agona Bodomase in the Ashanti region have benefitted from Hive blockchain empowerment initiative.   This was part of their intention to assist and empower communities all around the globe with portable drinking water as It is a decentralized platform dedicated to improving people’s lives via the …

Two military officers from the 155 Armoured Regiment based in Damongo are currently in police custody for allegedly raping a past student of the Damongo Nursing and Midwifery College. The student is said to have come to the school for some documents.   The incident happened around 11:00pm on Sunday, …