Fifteen (15) per cent of residents of the Kumasi Metropolis, Ghana’s second largest city, is said to engage in open defecation, the Waste Management Department of the Metropolitan Assembly has...
Open defaecation gets out of hand around University of Health & Allied Sciences; lecturers, chiefs fingered
A resident of Sokode Gbogame, a suburb of Ho in the Volta Region where the University of...
Former President Jerry John Rawlings has expressed disappointment that though many are currently obtaining higher educational laurels than pertained in the past they seem unable to apply the...
Saturday, April 28 will witness the launch of the Clean Zongo Project, an initiative of the Ministry of Inner City and Zongo Development. The Project will be launched in Nima, one of the popular...
Survival by handwashing, the story of 45-year old Awo 45 year old Awo Lamptey has commercialized the art of handwashing, washing for people to make a living for a family of six. Handwashing is ...
Polytanks Ghana, one of the leading producers of plastic storage tanks in Ghana, has presented an undisclosed amount to Safe Water Network, a non-governmental organisation, towards the organisation...
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...
The Minister for Sanitation and Water Resources, Joseph Kofi Adda, has seemingly justified death threats on Media General’s journalist Kwakye Afreh-Nuamah by accusing the journalist of...
The Executive Chairman of the Jospong Group of Companies, Dr Joseph Siaw Agyepong, has pledged his support and commitment towards the government’s sanitation agenda. Dr. Agyepong lauded the...
The delay of gazette sanitation bye-laws for the Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies by the Attorney General Department has contributed to poor sanitation conditions in many...
Government has pledged to release GH¢200 million this year to address the sanitation challenge in the country. Addressing Members of Parliament during the State of the Nation Address on Thursday,...
The Minister of Water Resources and Sanitation Joseph Kofi Adda has dismissed claims that he has been ineffective since he was appointed a year ago by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo. A section...
The Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) on Saturday cleared filth at the London Market in Accra. Mr Sam Ayeh-Datey, the AMA Coordinating Director who led in the exercise called on the inhabitants to...
The Ministry of Health has denied putting out any forms for sale for persons interested in enrolling in any of the Public Health Training Institutes. “They are fake,” Robert Cudjoe the Public...
The Komenda Edina Eguafo-Abrem (KEEA) Municipal Assembly in the Central Region has fined five persons, including an Assembly Member, for an open defecation at beach. The five were not taken to court...
The Abeka Sanitation and Motor Court has fined eight persons an amount of GH¢ 360 each or in default three months’ imprisonment with hard labour for improper disposal of refuse at unauthorised...
LIXIL Group Corporation, a global leader in the housing and building industry, has endorsed a joint declaration with the World Toilet Organization, Saraya Co., Ltd., and the ANA BLUE WING Program on...
The Parliament of Ghana has approved an amount of 45.7 million dollars to improve water and sanitation issues in the country. Moving the motion in Parliament on Thursday, the Chairman of the...
Government has announced it will from next year pursue a ‘Toilet for All’ agenda in a bid to end open defecation in the country. Consequent to that, it will provide 200,000 household toilets and...
Homeowners in the Kumasi metropolis without toilet facilities in their homes will soon face prosecution, Chief Executive of the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA), Osei Assibey Antwi, has warned....
