A GH¢260,000 Community-based Health Planning and Service (CHPS) Compound project at Adaklu-Dave in the Adaklu District of the Volta Region, is nearing completion.   So far, 90 per cent of the project, which started last September, with funding from the MP’s Common Fund, has been executed and the facility is scheduled to be ready before … The post Adaklu-Dave CHIPS compound nearing

• President Akufo-Addo has appointed Samuel Kofi Dzamesi as CEO of the Bui Power Authority • Mr Dzamesi is a former minister for Chieftaincy and Religious Affairs •The BPA has a core mandate to plan, execute and manage the Bui Hydroelectric Project The Bui Power Authority has a new Chief Executive Officer as President Akufo-Addo has appointed former minister for Chieftaincy and Religious Affairs, Samuel Kofi Dzamesi, to serve in the role.

Our Lady of Mercy Community Services (OLAM), a non-governmental organisation (NGO), operating in the Kassena-Nankana Municipality, in the Upper East Region, has presented items to Our Lady of Lourdes Girls’ Senior High School (OLL SHS), in Navrongo. The items included 1,000 packets of menstrual pads, gallons of liquid soap, nose masks, cooking oil and soft … The post OLAM supports

•Tony Oteng has been appointed and sworn-in as Board Chair for GRA •He takes over from Professor Stephen Adei •GRA is the revenue arm of government A former president of the Association of the Ghana Industries, Tony Oteng Gyasi, has been appointed by president Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo as new Board Chair of the Ghana Revenue Authority.

Wildfires tearing through northern Algeria have now killed at least 65 people, including 28 soldiers deployed to help the firefighters. The blazes in the mountainous Kabylie region are some of the worst in the country’s history. Officials have blamed arson for many of them. President Abdelmadjid Tebboune has declared three days of national mourning for … The post Algerian

The Ethiopian military and its allies are responsible for widespread sexual violence against women in Tigray, using rape as a strategy of war, Amnesty International says. The scale of violations during the nine-month conflict in the north of the country amounts to war crimes, the human rights group says. One woman reported being gang-raped in … The post ‘Ethiopia using rape as strategy

An 11-year-old boy has allegedly committed suicide at Atonsu Bokro, in the Asokwa Municipality of Ashanti.The boy, identified as Okyere Boateng, was said to be a class four pupil of the Dompoase M/A Primary School.Assembly Member for Bokro Electoral Area, Owusu Brempong, confirmed the incident, saying the grandmother of the boy asked him to accompany … The post Boy,11, commits suicide appeared first

Shatta Wale has broken records to be the first Ghanaian artiste to be nominated at the MTV Awards. ‘Already’ featuring Beyonce and Major Lazer has been nominated for the Best Art Direction Video category. The official Twitter account for MTV Entertainment made this announcement and tagged the Dancehall artiste in the statement. According to Shatta […]

The police have arrested a businessman, Gabriel Medawar, for allegedly operating an unlicensed insurance firm, at North Ridge, in Accra.  He was nabbed in a joint operation by the Airport Police and the National Insurance Commission (NIC), to clamp down on fake insurance firms. The Commissioner of Insurance, Dr Justice Ofori, told journalists that, Mr … The post Businessman

Police in the Upper East Region on Tuesday killed a suspected armed robber, Stephen Atia, who has been terrorising residents of the Bolgatanga Metropolis. Atia was gunned down at an undisclosed suburb of Bolgatanga, when he was leading the police to a hideout to apprehend suspected criminals. The Upper East Regional Police Public Affairs Officer, … The post Police kill suspected armed

Five Fulani herdsmen, who allegedly kidnapped two teenagers and demanded a ransom of GH¢200,000 from their parents, have been remanded into police custody by the Kete Krachi Magistrate Court, in the Oti Region. The court presided over by Mr Ben Attobrah, remanded Sule Kassim, 28, Sameko Kaduna, 28, Kassim Koron, 18, Gariba Mbonge and Sanda … The post 5 kidnappers remanded

The Consumer Protection Agency (CPA), a non-governmental organisation that mediates between consumer and producers, has called on the Ministry of Communication and Digitalisation to sanction telecos providing poor services in the country. According to CPA, with the new technologies available to telecos, their services should have improved by now, rather, the situation was  getting worse … The post Sanction

It is a pity that Ghana boasts of experts in the field of internal audit and anti-graft bodies, yet corruption in the country keeps rising, which simply shows that those involved in it are not being checked enough. The recent history of the country’s corruption index shows a chequered pattern but one that proves that … The post Auditors have significant role in fight

• Sheikh Al Maktoum has refunded $2.