Three people died soon after midnight Monday when a taxi collided head-on with a cargo truck at Fijai Junction in the Sekondi/Takoradi metropolis. Three others who were rushed to the Western Regional Hospital at Sekondi were said to be in critical condition. The dead were yet to be identified at the time of filing this report.Speaking to the Daily Graphic, the Western Regional Commander of the Motor Transport and Traffic Department (MTTD), Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Thomas Bayor confirmed

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Fishermen in Winneba have raised concern about the statement made by the Chorko Wulomo, Chief Fisherman, Nii Kukurudum that the bull that fishermen in Chorkor caught at the sea on February 12 was offered as a sacrifice to the gods by people of Winneba. “Nothing of that nature took place in Winneba,” the Chief Fisherman of Winneba, Neenyi Moni Kaiko IV told the GNA in an interview. He said the allegation was not in good taste and it was calculated to tarnish the image of the people of Winneba,

The Accra Circuit Court has remanded the Chief Executive of Capital Assurance Company Limited, Foster Kpordzih, for operating a bank without permit from the Bank of Ghana (BoG), as required by the law. Kpordzih has also been charged with defrauding the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Digitech Construction, Prince Darron Obasa, of GH¢200,000 under false pretence, as well as issuing a false cheque. False cheque  The accused person issued a false cheque for GH¢15,956.16 to the complainant, Mr Obasa,

The Society for Women and AIDS in Africa (SWAA-Ghana) has relaunched the newly improved female condom (FC2) in line with a campaign to educate the general public and promote the use of the product. The programme was also to raise the awareness of the advantages associated with the use of the condom in preventing unwanted pregnancies, checking the spread of HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). SWAA International, a non-governmental women organisation, is committed to reducing

Odotobri Rural Bank at Jacobu in the Amansie Central of the Ashanti Region has presented items worth GH¢8,300.00 to three public institutions as part of their corporate social responsibility in their operational areas. The items, included a Canon photocopier and printer, a 220V power generator and two sets of Samsung LED 32’ flat screen Satellite television. The beneficiary institutions are Abuakwa Health Station located 20 metres away from Jacobu, Asawasi District Police Headquarters in Kumasi;

Work has begun on a community- initiated project to construct a new police station at Gomoa Pomadze in the Gomoa East District of the Central Region. The project is being supported financially by the Gomoa East District and the Effutu Municipal assemblies, as well as the Pomadze and Asebu communities. The project is to help improve security in the area due to recent armed robbery attacks on residents. On September 2, 2013, a group of armed robbers attacked students of the Pan African Christian University

The Japanese Embassy has provided a grant of GH¢246, 664.50 for the construction of a Community-based Health Planning and Services (CHPS) compound at Asunsu in the the Dormaa Municipality. The CHPS compound would be provided with medical equipment and furniture. The grant was provided under the Japanese Grant Assistance for Grass-roots Human Security Projects (GGHSP) scheme to enable the assembly to construct the CHPS compound to facilitate access to health care. The Municipal Chief Executive of

The Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) will, from March this year, move all commercial activities at Sodom and Gomorrah, a slum community in Accra, to Adjen Kotoku in the Ga West Municipal. Residents in the area would also be moved 100 metres away from the Korle Lagoon to pave the way for the construction of a hedge around it. Mr Alfred Oko Vanderpuye, the Metropolitan Chief Executive of the AMA, said the measures were geared towards addressing sanitation and flooding issues in Accra. Mr Vanderpuye

A Deputy Minister of Education in charge of Pre-tertiary Education, Mr Alex Kyeremeh, has reiterated the pledge by the President to equitably distribute the country’s resources. He said teachers would not be left out in the quest by the government to ensure the equitable distribution of resources. Mr Kyeremeh was speaking at the inauguration of the national headquarters of the Coalition of Concerned Teachers (CCT) in Accra last Friday. He advised members of the CCT not to make over-ambitious demands

Another student of the University for Development Studies (UDS) who was among the three  injured as a result of a gas explosion on February, 11, 2014 has passed away. The Director of the Reconstructive Plastic Surgery and Burns Centre of Korle-Bu, Dr Opoku Ware Ampomah, who confirmed the news to the Daily Graphic yesterday, said the student died last Friday evening. The death of Bridgette Pamphil Boateng came a day after Grace Ankrah had passed away at the Korle-Bu Hospital, where they were receiving

The Support Services Brigade Group of the Ghana Armed Forces yesterday held a non-denominational thanksgiving service in Accra to thank God for His mercies in 2013. Preaching the sermon, Sheikh Fusseini Hassan Yeboah, an Imam and Muslim activist, advised the congregation to always show humility before God. He enjoined them to uphold virtues such as honesty and the act of giving. “Let God lead you and avoid greed and ingratitude because they can harm you in your spiritual growth,” he advised. Gratitude

About 1,000 petty traders, mostly women, operating at the Adehyeman Gardens, near Kejetia in the central business district (CBD) of Kumasi, lost their sources of livelihoods when their shops, stalls and kiosks were demolished at dawn on Sunday. The traders, looking miserable and bewildered, were seen wailing and cursing those who had carried out that act. The land where the Adehyeman Gardens is situated is government property, but the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA) has denied any involvement

Doctors and nurses of the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) have withdrawn their services, following attacks on some of their colleagues at the Obstetrics and Gynaecology Department of the hospital last Thursday. They have resolved not to return to work until security at the hospital has been improved. The Ashanti Regional Minister, Mr Eric Opoku, who is also the head of the Regional Security Council (REGSEC), has assured the doctors and the nurses that adequate security measures had been put

Some 885 people whose crops, buildings and structures were affected during the construction of the transmission lines under the Bui Power Project (BPP) are to receive their compensations Monday. The beneficiaries, whose farms and properties were in the right of way of the transmission lines which covered a total area of 240 kilometres, will benefit from an amount of GH¢2,116,322. Government releases funds  A statement signed by Mr Wumbila Salifu, the External Relations Manager of the BPA, said

Zoomlion Ghana has embarked on a massive clean-up campaign in Accra to clean the environment of filth  deposited by the flood that hit some parts of the capital recently. The programme is dubbed “Massive clean-up after flood”  As part of the campaign, workers of Zoomlion cleaned areas such as Lapaz, Chokor, Kaneshie and London Market among other places where many gutters had been choked with either plastic waste or heaps of sand posing health risks to both traders and customers. Speaking to