Nana Yaa Jantuah, the Director of Public Affairs of the Public Utilities and Regulatory Commission (PURC) has resigned from her post after 13 years of service to the commission. Her resignation takes effect on November 17, 2017 but will be preceded by her accruable leave from Sunday, June 4. Her letter, which was addressed to ...
Some residents of Akosombo in the Eastern region who hit the streets to demonstrate against the Volta River Authority (VRA) have agreed to give the authority a one-week ultimatum to address their grievances. This follows a demonstration earlier this morning by the residents over what they described as killer electricity tariffs. The demonstrators, blamed the ...
An Accra High Court has fixed May 30, 2017 to empanel the jury for the trial of the two alleged killers of the J. B. Danquah Adu, who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Abuakwa North, in the Eastern Region. Initially, Tuesday, May 16, was fixed for the purpose but the prosecution prayed the ...
Exactly two years ago, thousands of Ghanaians staged a peaceful march in Accra to register their displeasure over government’s failure to address the country’s incessant power cuts which had lasted for more than 3 years. Protesters from all walks of life, most of whom were clad in black, gathered at Legon to commence the march ...
The Africa Center for Energy Policy (ACEP) wants institutions in Ghana’s energy sector to be robust and effective in pointing out flaws in government decisions in the sector. According to him, the lack of strong institutions in the energy sector has contributed to challenges currently being experienced in the sector. Speaking to at the National ...
The Minister of Energy, Boakye Agyarko has described past agreements in the energy sector as “deal-driven” and not “strategy-driven”. He argues that most of the agreements with Independent Power Producers failed to fully address the energy needs of the country and has pledged to employ some strategic policies to guarantee the efficient generation and efficient ...
A soldier and a taxi driver have been arrested for allegedly attacking and robbing some residents of Baatsona and the Spintex Road in Accra following police intelligence. Two other soldiers believed to be accomplices in the robberies on the Spintex Road and Baatsona are on the run. The names of the suspects have been given ...
If the secret to a happy marriage is finding the right person, we can all stop looking. At least, according to “sologamists.” They’re part of a growing relationship trend, in which people are tying the knot to themselves. Erika Anderson is one of them. “I would describe it as women saying yes to themselves,” Anderson ...
The $150 million World Bank-funded Greater Accra Metropolitan Area (GAMA) Sanitation and Water Project will benefit from an extension and another opportunity to reach some targets despite no significant undertaking with a year to go. On the Citi Breakfast Show, the project coordinator, George Asiedu revealed that the World Bank had agreed to extend in ...
Four Ghanaians, who were arrested with their five Chinese counterparts on March 24th, 2017 for allegedly mining illegally in the River Ankobra in the Western Region, were on Monday ditched in court by their Chinese counterparts. Before all the 10 accused persons were granted bail by the Sekondi High Court 1 on May 3, they ...
Employees of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) have dismissed suggestions that the company’s debt stock is worsening by the day. The Energy Minister, Boakye Agyarko had told a group of journalists and officials of Millennium Development Authority (MiDA) after the inauguration of a 7-member ECG PSP Stakeholders’ Committee in Accra that the growing debt stock ...
President Nana Akufo-Addo is being frank with the many agitating worker unions in the country by simply admitting that government is cash-strapped. But he did lay some blame for his administration’s inability to settle arrears of many worker unions at the feet of the erstwhile Mahama government. “There are some things that should be easy to deal with ...
Bloomberg Philanthropies, a US non-governmental organization, is collaborating with the Accra Metropolitan Assembly to provide technical assistance in safer streets design and mobility, enforcement and education to ensure safer roads in the capital. The partnership is to address the challenge of road carnages through promoting the use of seatbelts and child restraints, helmet wearing by ...
Bloomberg Philanthropies, a US non-governmental organization, is collaborating with the Accra Metropolitan Assembly to provide technical assistance in safer streets design and mobility, enforcement and education to ensure safer roads in the capital. The partnership is to address the challenge of road carnages through promoting the use of seatbelts and child restraints, helmet wearing by ...
About 300 youth at Abekoase in the Atiwa district of the Eastern Region attacked and set ablaze mining equipment belonging to Agyei Dankwa Investment, a small scale mining company. The youth, who restrained two security guards of the company at the site on Sunday, set fire to two excavators following government’s directive for all mining activities ...
Togbe Afede XIV, Agbogbomefia of Asogli and President of the National House of Chiefs says President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s commitment to the development agenda of the country was giving hope to the citizenry. “Your commitment to stop galamsey, One District, One Factory policy, tour of the sub-region, planting for food and jobs and free ...
The woes of persons who depend on the Abom junction to Kitase road could be blamed on the unavailability of funds to the contractors. The current contractors working on the road, Comet Construction Company, revealed that it has not had any funds to work with since it took over from Facol Construction contractors in 2014. Facol Construction signed the road ...
The Bibiani and Agona Police have jointly arrested five suspected persons in connection with the murder of one, Samuel Benson Kwakye, a retired educationist and cocoa farmer at Ashanti Agona. The suspects are Nana Donkor Okyere Siabuor III, 58-years-old, Adu Yaw aged 35, Kweku Ntim alias Killer aged 38, Kofi Nnduro 57-years-old and Kofi Jamal ...
Scores of residents of Akosombo in the Eastern Region have poured on to the streets, demonstrating over what they describe as killer electricity tariffs. The demonstrators, some of who joined from surrounding communities say, the problem of high tariffs started when the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) changed their meters. The situation, according to them, ...
As the old saying goes, “men are trash.” If you’re a twenty-something woman, you’ve probably said this phrase to your friends at least once, possibly over alcoholic drinks after a man has done something bad. Or perhaps you’ve said it to coworkers after your dumb boss makes a boob joke in front of the entire ...
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