6.9-Magnitude Earthquake Strikes Off Japan
A tsunami advisory is in effect for Japan's Fukushima and Miyagi Prefectures after a 6.9-magnitude earthquake struck off Honshu just before 6.00 a.m. Tuesday (4.00 p.m. Monday ET). Japanese...
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Agro-Chemicals Cause of Diseases
Chief of Mahodwe in Agona Swedru and Gyaasehen of the Agona Nyakrom Traditional Area, Nana Kwame Donkor III, has attributed the numerous diseases which have become common among people all over the...
Kyebi Water Treatment Plant Can’t Be Reopened Now
The Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL), has said it is still unable to open the Kyebi Water Treatment Plant months after its closure due to high turbidity of the water. The plant was shut down in...
[PHOTOS] Yaba and Hiba’s Homecoming
Ghana’s Most Beautiful season X may be well and truly over, but the contestants are still busy with other activities. Winner of the legacy edition Yaba from the Western region and first runner up...
I Will Revive Defunct Factories In My Next Term – Mahama
Flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), President John Dramani Mahama has promised to revamp defunct factories to create jobs for the youth in his next administration. He said,...
I Will Revive Defunct Factories In My Next Term
Flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), President John Dramani Mahama has promised to revamp defunct factories to create jobs for the youth in his next administration. He said,...
South Korean Opposition Moves To Impeach President Park
Politicians are under public pressure to oust Park, with weekly mass protests drawing hundreds of thousands across the country The impeachment of South Korea's embattled President Park Guen-Hye in...
ECG Outlines Strategy For ‘dumsor-Free’ December Polls
The Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) has presented an elaborate plan to the National Security and the Electoral Commission (EC) on the supply uninterrupted power during next month’s Presidential...
Making Farming A Wealth-Creating Business
A centre pivot irrigation system at VegPro Ghana Ltd in the Tongu District of the Volta Region. Climate change, slow adoption rate of improved technologies, lack of access to credit, and...
A Support Scheme For Farmers
A ricefield at Nasia in the Northern Region A matching grants scheme, set up by Ghana Commercial Agriculture Project (GCAP) in 2014, provides direct funding to investors who seek to establish new...
Akufo-Addo Campaigns In Aflao
play videoThe NPP is targeting 30% of votes in the Volta Region as it seeks to unseat the governing NDC Flagbearer of the opposition NPP, Nana Akufo-Addo has returned to the Volta Region as he...
Haiti To Elect New President After Year of Uncertainty
Voters will have their say Sunday in a repeatedly derailed presidential election that leaders hope will get Haiti’s shaky democracy on a sturdier track. The Caribbean nation’s roughly 6 million...
3 Out of 4 Practise Open Defecation
The Upper East Region recorded the highest open defecation in Ghana with a percentage of 74.7 according to the Demographic Health Survey (DHS) of 2014. This was revealed in Bolgatanga at the...
Okyeman Environmental University Not Collapsing – Okyenhene
Osagyefuo Amoatia Ofori Panin, Chancellor of the University of Agriculture and Environmental Studies in the East Akim municipality of the Eastern Region, has debunked reports that the university is...
Health Service Warns of Dengue Fever
The Ghana Health Service has issued an emergency health alert, following an outbreak of a fever known as the dengue fever in Burkina Faso. “The Ghana Health Service has received notification and...
ECG Is Efficient – ECG Boss
Volta Regional Manager of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG), Ing. Joseph Forson has debunked claims by government officials and a section of the public that ECG is inefficient. Mr Forson, who...
Mugabe Opens $150m China Funded Victoria International Airport
The airport is expected to be able to handle up to 1.5 million passengers each year Zimbabwean President, Robert Mugabe, on Friday officially opened the Victoria Falls International airport. The...
Zika Virus ‘no Longer An Emergency’
The mosquito-borne Zika virus will no longer be treated as an international medical emergency, the World Health Organization (WHO) has declared. By lifting its nine-month-old declaration, the UN's...
Volkswagen To Cut 30,000 Jobs
Volkswagen is cutting 30,000 jobs over the next three years as it tries to boost profits in the wake of a huge emissions scandal. Europe's largest automaker said Friday the cuts were needed to reduce...
Obama Blocks New Oil, Gas Drilling In Arctic Ocean
The Obama administration is blocking new oil and gas drilling in the Arctic Ocean, handing a victory to environmentalists who say industrial activity in the icy waters will harm whales, walruses and...