Trump To Visit UK In July
US President Donald Trump is to visit the UK on Friday 13 July, after previously cancelling a trip amid claims he would face mass protests. It will not be the full-blown state visit Mr Trump was...
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Housing Minister To Take Action Against Developers Destroying Basins
The Ministry of Works and Housing says it will take swift action against real estate developers destroying a number of river basins in the national capital, Accra. There are nine river basins in...
Royal Baby: Duchess Gives Birth To Baby Boy
The Duchess of Cambridge has given birth to a baby boy. The child, who was born in the Lindo Wing of St Mary’s Hospital, central London, is fifth in line to the throne and the Queen’s sixth...
Akufo-Addo Consoles Family of Late James Town Chief
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has urged the chiefs and people of the Ngleshie Alata Traditional Area to work together in peace and harmony so as to give Oblempong Nii Kojo Ababio V a peaceful...
Akufo-Addo Seeks London’s Support To Rectify Accra’s Poor Planning
Accra is seeking assistance from London to solve its poor urban planning challenges which have been identified as the cause of the capital’s perennial flood and become a headache for governments....
Addo Joins Commonwealth Heads of Gov’t To Address Shared Global Challenges
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo left Ghana Saturday, April 14, to attend the 25th Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting. The meeting is scheduled to take place in London, United Kingdom,...
Imbibe Dimplomatic Skills In Children
Ghana’s Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ambassador Martha Ama Pobee has called for a concerted and deliberate strategy to ensure diplomatic skills are imbibed in...
AMA Convenes Partners For Release of Preliminary Resilience Assessment
Chief Executive of Accra Metropolitan Assembly Mohammed Adjei Sowah, Chief Resilience Officer Desmond Appiah, and 100 Resilient Cities – Pioneered by The Rockefeller Foundation (100RC) – have...
France’s Ex-President Sarkozy To Face Corruption Trial
Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy is to face trial for corruption and influence peddling, prosecutors say. The case centres on an alleged attempt by Mr Sarkozy to get a judge to reveal...
Deputy Chief of Staff Supports Bantama Cluster of Schools
A cluster of six (6) primary schools in the Bantama constituency of the Ashanti region on Saturday March 17, 2018 benefited from a donation of reading books and computers from Deputy Chief of Staff...
Gov’t Indebtedness To Waste Managers Hits GHC800 Million
Government says it owes waste collectors and operators of landfill sites across the country about 800 million cedis, a situation that is crippling waste management efforts. Managers of landfill site...
Attackers Strike Burkina Faso Capital
Gunmen have launched attacks in the capital of Burkina Faso, Ouagadougou, with the French embassy and a military HQ among the apparent targets. Burkina Faso’s government said security personnel had...
Zoomlion Donates 10 Pickup Trucks, Logistics Worth GHC 1.5m To AMA
A leader in the sanitation industry in the country, Zoomlion Ghana Limited has donated 10 brand new Nissan pickup trucks and a number of motor cycles worth over 1.5 million Ghana cedis to the Accra...
KMA Sets Up Committee To Unearth Sport Talents
The Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA) has launched a Youth and Sports Development Sub-Committee to uplift the image of sporting activities in the Kumasi metropolis. Speaking at a ceremony to...
Bollywood Superstar Sridevi Dies At 51
Bollywood superstar Sridevi Kapoor has died of a heart attack, her family says. She was 54. The actress known simply as Sridevi passed away in Dubai, where she was attending a family wedding. From...
Foreigners Hit In Italy Drive-By Attack
At least four people have been wounded in a series of drive-by shootings in a town in central Italy, and one man has been arrested, police say. All of those hurt in the attacks in Macerata were...
AMA Appoints Its Second Ever Chief Resilience Officer
The Accra Metropolitan Assembly in partnership 100 Resilient Cities (100RC) has officially announced the appointment of Desmond Appiah as Chief Resilience Officer (CRO) of Accra. The appointment of a...
KMA Gets Support To Fight Cancer
The Union for International Cancer Control, a body spearheading the fight against cancer, has selected Kumasi to be part of the ‘City Cancer Challenge 2025’’ project. This recognition makes...
Photos: Circle Sex Slum Razed Down
The Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) has destroyed illegal makeshift structures along the rail lines at the Kwame Nkrumah Circle serving as havens for criminals and prostitutes. The AMA mayor,...
KMA Attracts Investors’ Interest In Waste-To-Energy Project
Twenty companies in the energy sector have expressed interest to invest in a waste-to-energy conversion project under the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA). Chief Executive of KMA, Osei Assibey...