Ablakwa To Special Prosecutor
Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, outgoing Deputy Minister of Education (Tertiary), has said the Special Prosecutor to be appointed by President-elect Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo must investigate claims in a...
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Death Toll In La Gas Explosion Rises To 11
Two more victims who were caught up in the La gas explosion at the Trade Fair Centre in Accra on Thursday have died. This brings the total number of deaths to 11 with 42 others receiving treatment...
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...
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...
Fire Service Controls Fire At Accra Financial Centre
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...
37 Hospital Begins Search For Families of 6, 8 Year-Old Gas Explosion Victims
The 37 Military Hospital has begun a search for families of two boys who suffered burns in a gas explosion at the Trade Fair Centre in Accra on Thursday. The boys – William Bansah, 8, and Michael...
Bush Fire Cause of Trade Fair Gas Explosion- Residents Claim
Residents around the Accra International Trade Fair Centre on Thursday were in a state of shock when a gas explosion burnt and killed several people and injuring many. Contrary to earlier reports...
Death Toll In Labadi Gas Explosion Rises To Six
One more person has been confirmed dead following yesterday’s gas explosion around the Trade Fair centre in La. This brings the total number to six from the five recorded last night at the scene....
Gov’t To Foot Bills of La Gas Explosion Victims
Government will absorb the costs of treatment of the burn victims of the La gas explosion which occurred on Thursday December 22, killing six and injuring 36, Minister of Health Alex Segbefia has...
Mahama Consoles Victims
President John Dramani Mahama has expressed condolences to the dead in Thursday evening’s gas explosion at La. The explosion, at Louis Gas Station near the Ghana International Trade Fair Center,...
Let’s Pray For Victims – Mahama
President John Dramani Mahama has consoled the victims of Thursday’s gas explosion. The gas explosion occurred at Trade Fair Junction, near the office of the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) at La...
Empty Hydrants Due To Trade Fair’s Indebtedness
Following the revelation that there was no water in the hydrants around the scene of the Labadi gas explosion, particularly the Trade International Trade Fair Centre, Ghana Water Company Limited has...
No Water In Hydrants At Labadi Explosion Site
The Ghana Fire Service has revealed there was no water running through the fire hydrants around the site of the Labadi gas explosion on Thursday evening. Speaking on the Citi Breakfast Show, the...
Mahama Mourns Labadi Gas Explosion Victims
President John Mahama has expressed his condolences to the families of the victims of Thursday evening’s gas explosion incident at Labadi. In a Facebook update on Friday morning, he called on...
Publish Preliminary Findings of La Gas Explosion – Fire Service Told
Personnel of the Ghana Fire Service must as a matter of urgency make their initial findings into the causes of Thursday’s gas explosion at La public as a way of educating Ghanaians on preventive...
Heavy Security Presence At La Gas Explosion Site
Asp Efia Tengey with other at the scene of the gas explosion There's heavy police and military presence at the scene of the gas explosion that occurred yesterday at Labadi. Several residents have...
Gas Explosion Kills 9 At La
Nine people have been confirmed dead in a gas explosion that occurred near the Ghana International Trade Fair Centre at La in Accra yesterday. About 12 others who sustained various degrees of injury...
Fire Razes Homes of Kayayei, Scrap Dealers At Asawase
Scores of head porters also known as ‘Kayaye’ at Asawase Togo Bar in the Ashanti Region have been rendered homeless following a fire that razed shelters they dwell in. The fire which reportedly...
Labadi Explosion: Time For Strict Enforcement of Safety Regulations
President-elect Nana Akufo-Addo has called for better adherence to safety regulations in the country following a gas explosion at Labadi in the Greater Accra Region on Thursday. The explosion, which...
Akufo-Addo Saddened By Trade Fair Gas Explosion
Ghana’s president-elect, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has underscored the need to take a second look at the siting of gas filling stations across the country in the wake of Thursday’s gas...