A fire has engulfed a skyscraper in Sharjah, one of the largest cities in the United Arab Emirates, showering debris on cars in the streets below. Dozens of firefighters worked to put out the blaze in the Abbco Tower using at least a dozen fire engines and drones, a local journalist reports. They are now […]
The Ghana Premier League will remain suspended for the time being as the Ghana Football Association awaits prompting from Ghana’s government to resume the league. There has been no top-flight football since March 16 due to the coronavirus pandemic, and with some major leagues being canceled around the world, there is pressure from within the […]
The Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed the suit challenging government’s decision to sign the United States-Ghana Military Cooperation Agreement. The Apex Court of the land noted that the Plaintiff’s claims were unmeritorious hence dismissed same.In a unanimous decision the seven-member panel, presided over by Chief Justice Anin Yeboah, fixed May 20 to file their reasons […]
Officers of the Border Patrols Unit of the Ghana Immigration Service at the Chache border in the Bole District of the Savannah region have intercepted 93 bags of cashew seeds being smuggled into Ghana from neighbouring Côte d’Ivoire. […]
Assembly members and some opinion leaders in Aflao in the Volta Region have joined forces to push local authorities at Ketu South Municipality to remove an illegally created refuse dumping site within the township. Dumping of refuse by the people on the walled private property was said to have started in 1976 and has since […]
A police report detailing the circumstances that led to the death of a senior staff of the Volta River Authority (VRA) at Akuse in the Eastern region, who was involved in a road accident, showed that the deceased sustained a wound suspected to be from a gunshot. Eric Dogbe, 47, an engineer with the VRA […]
Four Burkina Faso nationals have been arrested by Immigration officials at the Babile inland check point in the Upper West Region of Ghana The four, all men, arrested on Tuesday morning are between the ages of 22 and 39. According to the Upper West Regional Public Relations Officer of the Ghana Immigration Service, Mr Ibn […]
A massive fumigation exercise against bed bugs and other dangerous insects has commenced in public senior high and technical schools as well as special needs schools in the Central Region. Dormitories of 103 schools in the region are being sprayed with a WHO-approved pesticide to eradicate bed bugs and other insects which have become nuisance […]
Imagine a room filled with only one lit candle but nine hundred and ninety nine dead ones. That room will appear dim. When this lit candle lights up the dead ones, the room becomes brighter because a thousand candles will shine far brighter than a single candle will. That aside, if a lit candle’s light […]
Ashanti Gold Sporting Club is making the best out of the season’s break due to the coronavirus outbreak to make changes to a system that looked shaky. Roy Arthur, who previously worked as Chief Executive officer for Bono giants BA United, was appointed new Sporting Director of the club last Thursday and has already […]
Ghana Rugby (http://ghanarugby.org/) and the South Africa Rugby Union (SARU) signed a historical agreement whereby SARU approved the use of material from its BokSmart (www.BokSmart.com) player safety and welfare programme by Ghana Rugby as part of its own version of the programme, EagleWise. According to the President of Ghana Rugby, Mr Herbert Mensah, the agreement […]
One thing that has put this year into disarray is the coronavirus pandemic and sports has been one of the areas that has been hit hard. Leagues have been suspended, tournaments postponed, racing competitions rescheduled, among others. But the major one is the Olympics Games. A few weeks back it looked like an impossible decision […]
Undoubtedly, mothers deserve to be celebrated as they always put others ahead of themselves. Ghana’s leading television station, TV3 Network, as part of this year’s Mothers’ Day celebration is providing a perfect opportunity for mothers to be celebrated as we reflect on all their hard work. TV3 this week launched a television and online show […]
The Ghana National Association of the Deaf (GNAD) has appealed to the government and other stakeholders to accept the sign language as a nationally recognized language. According to the Association, the sign language is unique just as any other Ghanaian languages like Ga, Twi or Ewe, hence the need to accord it a lingual and […]
Outspoken actress Lydia Forson is not happy with Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia. The actress says she is very repulsed by the Vice President’s decision to compare the current coronavirus pandemic to the power crisis that befell the country during former President John Mahama’s administration. Lydia Forson made the comments in the wake of a […]
There are no backlog of tests on coronavirus to be conducted at the Noguchi Memorial Institute of Medical Research (NMIMR), the Head of Virology has disclosed. All the backlogs have been cleared, he said. Professor William Ampofo made this known at the Ministry of Information’s Covid-19 update on Tuesday, May 5, 2020. He, however, indicated […]
Pop star Beyoncé has teamed up with her mother, Tina Knowles Lawson, to support a mobile virus testing initiative in their hometown of Houston, Texas. The #IDIDMYPART campaign, taking place this weekend, aims to bring awareness of the daily testing available at a local medical centre. It will also provide free masks, gloves, household supplies […]
The Kofi Annan International Peace Keeping Training Center (KAIPTC) in partnership with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and funding from the Government of Japan is commencing a new one-year project to develop the technical capacity of maritime crime control officials in Cote d’Ivoire, Benin, Ghana, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, and Togo. The new project […]
Vice President Dr Mahamadu Bawumia missed the point when he indicated that the erratic power supply christened ‘Dumosr’ that engulfed Ghana under the previous National Democratic Congress (NDC) administration was internally generated, Seth Terkper, Former Finance Minister has told Alfred Ocansey on the Sunrise Show on 3FM Tuesday, May 5. He said the Vice President’s […]
The World Health Organization (WHO) has urged people not to put their faith in local untested remedies for coronavirus. The advice comes at a time when at least three African heads of state have said they are importing large quantities of a herbal tonic which the president of Madagascar claims can cure the virus. But […]
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