Uganda Football Team Boat Capsizes
At least 30 people have drowned after a boat carrying a football team and their fans capsized on Lake Albert in Uganda, police say. The overcrowded vessel was carrying some 45 people. Police say the...
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30 Drown After Boat Carrying Football Team Capsizes On Lake Albert
At least 30 people have drowned after a boat carrying a football team and their fans capsized on Lake Albert in Uganda, police say. The overcrowded vessel was carrying some 45 people. Police say the...
30 Drown After Boat Carrying Football Team Capsizes On Lake Albert
Boat accidents are fairly common on Lake Albert and in other parts of Africa. At least 30 people have drowned after a boat carrying a football team and their fans capsized on Lake Albert in Uganda,...
Gas Station At Centre of Labadi Explosion Closed
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Ghana National Fire Service have shut down the Louis gas station at Labadi which was the sense of a gas explosion last Thursday. The explosion which...
Adherence To Safety Critical For Fuel Stations
The recent Labadi gas explosion in Accra has revived the debate around the location of fuel stations in residential areas, but the Fire Service has said enforcing safety measures will reduce the...
Ghana’s International, Edwin Gyimah Involved In Car Crash
Reports reaching BuzzGhana has it that Black Stars and Orlando Pirates defender, Edwin Gyimah was involved in a car accident in the early hours of Boxing Day. According to the reports, the defender...
Huge Search For Bodies In Black Sea
A huge search operation is continuing “round the clock” in Russia, after a Russian military plane with 92 people on board crashed into the Black Sea. Some 3,500 people on ships, jets, helicopters...
Edwin Gyimah Suffers Cuts In Car Crash
Ghana international Edwin Gyimah was involved in a serious car crash in the early hours of boxing day 2016. The accident happened at about 3am on Monday, Footy-Ghana.com staff writer Fentuo Tahiru...
Major Quake Jolts Chile Tourist Region On Christmas Day
A major 7.6 magnitude earthquake jolted southern Chile on Sunday, prompting thousands to evacuate coastal areas, but no fatalities or major damage were reported in the tourism and salmon farming...
Huge Search For Bodies In Black Sea
A huge search operation is continuing "round the clock" in Russia, after a Russian military plane with 92 people on board crashed into the Black Sea. More than 3,000 people, including 109 divers, as...
Two Die As Police Building Collapses In Nigeria’s Megacity Lagos
Two people were killed when part of a two-storey building in a police training college collapsed in Nigeria’s commercial capital Lagos on Sunday (December 25), the police and the emergency agency...
Magnitude 7.7 Quake Strikes Chile, Tsunami Warning Issued
A damaged road is seen after a quake at Tarahuin, on Chiloe island, southern Chile Chile issued a tsunami warning and evacuation order for southern coastal areas after an earthquake with a...
7.7 Magnitude Earthquake Hits Chile, Prompts Tsunami
An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.7 off southern Chile has prompted a tsunami warning. The quake struck 225km (140 miles) south-west of Puerto Montt in southern Chile, the United States...
Russian Plane ‘disappears From Radar’ Near Sochi
Unconfirmed reports said the plane was flying to Syria's Latakia province. A Russian military plane has disappeared from radar just minutes after take-off from the Black Sea resort of Sochi, local...
We’ve Trained Personnel To Deal With Outbreaks – GNFS
The Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS) has said it has trained a lot of firefighters across the country to curb any incident of fire outbreak. It said, its trained officers will educate farmers in...
Did We Learn Anything From Jun 3rd?
"Like joke like joke" the institutions mandated to ensure the safety of the people have once again skinned their teeth, sat down and allowed innocent precious Ghanaian lives to perish needlessly in...
EPA Closes Down LPG Station At La After Explosion
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has shut down the liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) station that exploded last Thursday and left nine dead and more than 12 injured. Other reports put the death...
Starbow Passengers Stranded
Domestic passengers scheduled to travel to Takoradi via Starbow Airlines were stranded yesterday as the third flight expected to take off in the evening failed to do so. The passengers, most of whom...
Business At Accra Financial Centre Bounces Back After Fire
Business activities at the Accra Financial Centre have bounced back after a fire incident that occurred there on Saturday morning. The eight-story building opposite Ghana’s National Theatre was...
Fire At ADB Office Near National Theatre
But for the timely intervention of the Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS), the Accra financial Centre located at Ridge would have been engulfed by fire. The fire which affected the signage of the...