GENERAL NEWS

A consultative meeting with traditional and religious leaders on ECOWAS Vision 2050 was held on Thursday at the Ofori Panin Palace at Kyebi in the Eastern Region to discuss opportunities for sustainable development and environmental preservation. The ECOWAS Vision 2050 envisions a borderless, peaceful, prosperous, cohesive region, built on good …

The Chamber of Petroleum Consumers (COPEC) is advocating for a review of the price stabilization and recovery levy to forestall further increases in petroleum products. Petroleum products have been increased about four times in the spate of two months. COPEC attributed the situation to the Coronavirus pandemic and the current …

The Ghana Airport Company Limited’s Divisional Union of the Public Services Workers’ Union of the Trade Union Congress, has directed all general staff of the Kotoka International Airport to withdraw their services from 6 am on Friday, February 26, until further notice. This, according to the Union, is due to …

President Akufo-Addo will receive the first dose of the initial consignment of COVID-19 vaccines which arrived in the country on Wednesday. “President Akufo-Addo will be the first to be vaccinated,” Dr Anthony Nsiah-Asare, Presidential advisor on health, disclosed. According to Dr Nsiah-Asare, the move to have the President take the …

Work has started on the construction of a five-storey structure to replace the long-stalled Maternal and Children’s block at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital in Kumasi. Excavation of the project site is ongoing as contractors prepare to demolish the existing structure. After years of neglect, the existing building failed a …

A twenty-two-year-old Toase Senior Senior High (SHS) form 3 student, Kwame Boadu known as Odoa has hanged himself to death inside his room at Barekese, the district capital of Atwima Nwabiagya North in the Ashanti Region. The unfortunate incident which occurred on Wednesday, February 24, 2021 has thrown family and …

Minister-designate for Lands and Natural Resources Samuel Abu Jinapor has noted all the past sector ministers had problems fighting the illicit small scale mining (Glamsey) because supporters of the incumbent party and other big wigs were fighting against the process. He indicated that if given the nod to become the …

Ghana has received the first batch of the AstraZeneca vaccines as announced by COVAX, making it the first West African country to receive them to combat the virus. The vaccines are expected to inoculate some 20 million Ghanaians but the first batch of 600,000 doses will be limited to arms …

Kufuor Mills Mahama Akufo Ghana’s presidents in the 4th Republic have all spoken against gay rights Jerry John Rawlings and John Evans Atta Mills may no longer be alive but their words on many subjects including this growing, resurfaced subject of the rights or otherwise of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, …