MPs Stranded As Job 600 Is Shutdown
Members of Parliament (MPs) have been left stranded without offices to work from as officers of the Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS) have shut down the Job 600 building as a result of a fire...
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Job 600 Workers To Get Access To Offices Today
The Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS) has said stranded parliamentary staff working in the Job 600 office complex will have access to their offices today. Speaking to , the Deputy Public Relations...
Job 600 Workers Stranded After Fire Outbreak
Parliamentary staff working in the Job 600 Office Complex at Parliament House were on Wednesday left stranded as they were denied access to the building. When Citi News’ Philip Nii Lartey visited...
Fuel Tanker Goes Up In Flames As It Hits Metro Mass Bus, One Injured
A diesel tanker went up in flames Wednesday morning when it hit the back of a loaded Metro Mass Transit bus on the Assin Fosu-Kumasi highway in the Central Region, leaving one person injured. The...
Report On Job 600 Fire Outbreak Expected Monday As C’mttee Gets To Work
A technical committee is to be set up to look into the cause of the Tuesday night fire outbreak at the 10th floor of the Job 600 building, offices for parliamentarians, in Accra. The said committee...
Electrical Fault Caused Job 600 Fire
The Public Relations Office of the Ghana National Fire Service Billy Anaglatey has attributed the Parliament House fire to an electrical fault, he revealed this while briefing the Press after...
City Lights Goes Up In Flames
The first and second floors of City Lights Limited, located at East Legon near American Int. School, was engulfed by fire on Wednesday afternoon. It is unclear what caused the fire, which was...
Fire Guts Part of AESL Building, Fire Personnel Protecting GHA Central Server
Fire has ravaged part of the building of Architectural and Engineering Services Limited (AESL) at the Ministries area in Accra. Personnel of the Ghana National Fire Service are on the ground trying...
NADMO Cries For Help For Victims of River Pra Floods
The National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO) has launched an appeal for water receptacles to help provide potable water to residents of Anlo Beach who were hit by floods from River Pra....
One Body Retrieved From Collapsed Mining Pit In Prestea
The body of one of the 14 persons trapped in a collapsed mining pit at Prestea Nsuta in the Western Region has been retrieved. The body was retrieved by the 15 member rescue team deployed into the...
Fire Service Needs Immediate Attention!
THE news that the Ghana National Fire Service (GNSF) cannot fight fire on high-rise buildings in this country set many Ghanaians thinking, including Today newspaper. ESPECIALLY so, when this was...
Is Job 600 Building Sitting On A Time Bomb?
Fire is said to be ‘a very good servant, but a bad master’. As long as fire is under our control, it serves a lot of useful purposes for us, but, once it goes out of control, it can create a lot...
Market Building Collapse Kills 1; Minister Suspends 2 Officials
The Brong Ahafo Regional Minister, Kwaku Asomah-Cheremeh, has ordered the indefinite suspension of two officials of the Techiman Municipal Assembly. The duo, Alfred Osei Berko, the Municipal Engineer...
Minister Urges Asanko Gold To Prioritise Dev’t of Host Communities
The Ashanti Regional Minister, Mr. Simon Osei-Mensah, has urged management of Asanko Gold, a gold mining company in the Amansie West District of the Ashanti Region, to deepen relations with their...
GNFS Warns Estate Developers Over High-Rise Buildings
Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS) has served a notice to the Ghanaian populace, particularly estate developers, that “it is currently incapable of dealing with fires in high-rise buildings.” The...
We Can’t Fight Fire Above 5 Floors
The Ghana National Fire Service is currently incapable of dealing with fires in high-rise buildings. The modern equipment of the service cannot fight fires beyond five floors of any building. This...
GNFS Schools GN Entities On Fire Safety
Staff members of Today newspaper, Eezy FM, Spyder Lee Entertainment and Digicut – all entities of Groupe Nduom (GN) at Avenor, Accra, yesterday underwent a fire training exercise as part of a...
‘Regency Hotel Yet To Receive Fire Report’
Disappointed by the work of the Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS) in dousing the inferno that engulfed a section of the Coconut Grove Regency Hotel in Accra two months ago, Events Manager of the...
Fire Outbreak At GBC
Fire gutted the warehouse of Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC) on Friday evening. The cause of the fire was not immediately known but officers from the Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS) were at...
GBC Stores Gutted By Fire
Part of GBC has been gutted by fire Sections of a building at the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC) at Kanda in Accra was razed by fire on Friday, June 16. The cause of the fire is unknown but...