Eject Squatters To Avert Flooding
Dredge Masters, the company contracted to desilt the Odaw River in Accra, has advised city authorities to eject persons who live along the banks of the River to avert any future occurrence of...
Tag: Geography of Africa
Nobody Should Be Denied Tertiary Education
Joshua Alabi, former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Professional Studies, says tertiary education must be accessible to everyone since it is a right. The former Chancellor made the call when he...
Five Bodies Retrieved From Korle Lagoon
Five dead bodies have been retrieved from the Korle Lagoon in Accra in an exercise to desilt drains to allow free flow of water. The company tasked to clear the drains, Dredge Masters in an interview...
C/R: Police Arrests 2 For Impersonation
Two people are the grips of the Awutu Breku District police command in the Central region for posing as workers of the Electricity Company of Ghana. The district commander for the area, ASP Shadrack...
Volta Chiefs To Take Over Flagstaff House
The chiefs and elders of Agavedzi division of Somey Traditional Area in the Ketu South Municipality of the Volta region whose area faces extinction as a result of tidal waves are set to storm the...
Five Bodies Retrieved From Korle Lagoon
The bodies were recovered between December 2015 and January this year Five dead bodies have been retrieved from the Korle Lagoon in Accra in an exercise to desilt drains to allow free flow of water....
Tunisian Police ‘shambolic’ Over Beach Attack
The Tunisian police response to the 2015 Sousse beach resort massacre was "at best shambolic, at worst cowardly", the judge investigating the deaths of 30 Britons in the attack said Tuesday. "Their...
Volta Chiefs To Take Over Flagstaff House If…
The chiefs and elders of Agavedzi division of Somey Traditional Area in the Ketu South Municipality of the Volta region whose area faces extinction as a result of tidal waves are set to storm the...
Sam Jonah, Ozwald Boateng, Anna Bossman, David Adjaye & More To Be Honored @ the Ghana Legacy Honors
On March 25th, Ghanaian pioneers and trailblazers will be honored at the maiden Ghana Legacy Honors, in commemoration of Ghana’s 60th independence anniversary. The inaugural honorees, comprising of...
Wa All Stars Did Not Deserve To Lose the Game – Coach Enos Adepa
Head coach of Wa All Stars, Enos Kwame Adepah, has described his side’s 2-1 loss to Accra Hearts of Oak in the week four of the Ghana Premier League (GPL) as an unfair result, saying they deserved...
Rainfall In Southern Ghana Not Indicative of Rainy Season
The heavy rainfall experienced in Southern Ghana, and parts of the country’s middle sector last night, does not indicate the beginning of the rainy season. Southern Ghana is presently in what is...
Citi FM’s Exciting Heritage Caravan Set To Hit the Road This Sunday
On Sunday, 5th March 2017, two buses will set off from CITI FM premises in Accra with tourism enthusiasts on a road trip to discover Ghana. Dubbed the #HeritageCaravan, the Citi 97.3 organized trip...
Osu Castle To House Heads of State Museum
When President Nana Akufo-Addo unveiled the logo for Ghana’s 60th-anniversary celebration, he noted that the National Planning Committee of Ghana: 60 Years On celebration, would be tasked to come...
Accra Drainage To Cost $700m To Fix, Atta Akyea Promises To Find Money
Works and Housing Minister Samuel Atta Akyea says he would require $700 million to permanently fix the flooding menace in Accra. Although the raining season is some two months away, Sunday's downpour...
I’ll Demolish Houses To Fix Accra Flooding – Atta Akyea
The Works and Housing Minister, Samuel Atta Akyea has stated that he is ready to demolish buildings identified to be on water way by the Town and Country Planning Department in order to deal with the...
Kokutse Joins GJA Race
Mr. Francis Kokutse, the West Africa’s correspondent for the India-based Indo Asian News Service (IANS), has joined the race for the Vice-President of the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) in the...
Three Casualties Recorded In 12-Tanker Ashaiman Gas Inferno
Three people have been injured in the fire that consumed 12 gas tankers at Ashaiman in the Greater Accra region last Sunday. Two are receiving treatment at Tema General Hospital with the other...
Angry ‘koobi’ Sellers Chase Environment Minister
Some angry ‘koobi’ sellers in Agbogbloshie Market in the Greater Accra Region are up in arms against the Minister of Environment, Prof Kwabena Frimpoong Boateng for claiming that some sellers...
Decathlon To Open West Africa’s Largest Sports Store In Accra
Decathlon, the leading French sports equipment and Sportswear Company is set to open West Africa’s largest sports store in Accra, come April 2017. Selling from an impressive 1,245 square meter...
Polisario Dismisses Morocco Pullback As ‘window Dressing’
Polisario separatists have dismissed as "window dressing" Morocco's announcement of a pullback from a zone of the contested Western Sahara that has raised tensions with their Algiers-backed movement....