Two out the seven persons who survived the Monday morning accident that killed 24 people on the Tamale-Buipe Road in the Northern Region are in critical condition at the Tamale Teaching Hospital (TTH). The male and female survivors are on a life support system at the Intensive Care Unit of the Hospital while the other five which includes a year old baby are responding to treatment. Nii Otu Ankrah, Public Relations Officer of TTH made this known when Mr Moses Bukari Mabengba, caretaker ... Read More

Basic Needs, a Non-governmental organization has pledged its unflinching support to ensure the management and treatment of epileptic and mentally challenged patients in the country. The support which comes in form of provision of drugs to hospitals and other health units where epileptic and mentally challenged patients seek medication is meant to help them to live a worthy life. Additionally the organization educate its members on best practices and also encourage them to intensify ... Read More

Drama unfolded at the Tema Community Five lorry station last Sunday, when a taxi driver and a drunk passenger exchanged blows to the humour of sellers and passers-by. The driver, Nii Lantey 32, a resident of Tema Community Two, later recounted to the Times how the whole drama began and how disappointed and ashamed he felt of himself for doing what he did. Nii Lartey said, he picked the passenger, whose name was given as Bismark Agodzi, at a bar around 8pm at Tema Community Seven, and when ... Read More

Ghana has been ranked as the country with the highest mobile broadband penetration in Africa, says a recent International Telecommunications Union (ITU) report. According to the ?Measuring Information Society Report? released in the last quarter of 2012, mobile broadband penetration surged from 7% in 2010 to 23% in 2011. Ghana?s mobile broadband prices are also relatively low. At 14% of Gross National Income (GNI) per person, it is four and half times cheaper than the African average which ... Read More

The Ghana Bar Association (GBA) has called on the leadership of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in Parliament to reconsider its decision to boycott the vetting of nominees of the President. This was contained in a statement signed by Nene Amegatcher, President and Justin Agbeli Amenuvor, Secretaryon Wednesday. It said the GBA would like to draw the attention of the NPP leadership in Parliament to the 1992 Constitution, which has made provision for the challenge of the election of a President ... Read More