‘Carnage On Our Roads Must Stop Now!’
Vision for Alternative Development (VALD) a road safety non-government organization, has expressed worry over the rise in the number of recent road crashes on our streets. A statement signed by...
Tag: transport
DVLA Boss Warns Staff Against Corruption
The Chief Executive of the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Authority (DVLA) Mr. Kwasi Agyeman Busia has paid a working visit to the Tema office of the Authority to acquaint himself with activities....
GPHA Invests GHc13.3m Into Tema Shipyard
The Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority (GPHA) on Monday announced that it would invest GH¢13.3 million in the operations of PSC Tema Shipyard and Drydock Company to enhance its profitability. The...
SpaceX Lights Up the Florida Night Sky
SpaceX on Thursday successfully launched a communications satellite into space from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The company's Falcon 9 rocket blasted off at 2 am (0600 GMT) carrying the...
Gov’t Must Probe MSP Operations At Tema Port
The Member of Parliament for Okaikoi Central, Patrick Yaw Boamah has called on government to conduct a forensic investigation into the activities of the Meridian Ports Services Limited (MPS) in...
MP Calls For Probe Into Tema Port Expansion Contract
The Member of Parliament for Okaikoi Central, Patrick Yaw Boamah, believes a forensic investigation into the shareholding structure of the Meridian Port Services Limited (MPS) is needed. Speaking to...
MTTD, NRSC, and DVLA; Ghana’s Acronyms of Pain
In the year 2001, while I was about bringing my national service to a close, I was on my way to Achimota for a job interview when the trotro vehicle on which I was traveling was stopped by a group of...
SpaceX Launches Communications Satellite Into Orbit
SpaceX on Thursday successfully launched a communications satellite into space from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The company's Falcon 9 rocket blasted off at 2 am (0600 GMT) carrying the...
More Gas Guzzlers Due To Trump? Not Necessarily
The White House clashed with environmentalists over President Donald Trump's retreat from tough future auto emission standards, with both sides predicting potentially big consequences for America's...
Curbing the ‘murder’ On Ghana Roads!
By: Alhassan Bawah A plethora of factors were identified as being responsible in one way or the other for the ‘murder’ on Ghana roads under a series of publications titled, ‘the murder on Ghana...
Tesla Seeks $1.15 Bn To Help Fuel Model 3 Launch
Tesla on Wednesday announced plans to raise $1.15 billion in new funding to help fuel production of a mass market-targeted Model 3 electric car set for release this year. Tesla said that it planned...
DVLA Introduces New Initiatives
The anxiety and anticipation that precedes a visit to any of the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Authority (DVLA) offices to assess services would soon be a thing of the past following the introduction...
Audi Sites Raided In Emissions Probe
German prosecutors have raided Audi sites as part of an investigation into the manipulation of US emissions tests. Dozens of officers searched the Audi factory in Ingolstadt in Bavaria, as well as...
US Launches Probe After Hoverboard Fire Kills Two-Year-Old
A US safety agency said Wednesday it had launched an investigation into a hoverboard fire that killed a two-year-old girl, the first fatality involving the personal transport devices. The US Consumer...
German Prosecutors Searching Audi Offices In Germany
German prosecutors searched Audi's two biggest plants and several other sites on Wednesday in connection with an emissions cheating scandal, adding to pressure on Volkswagen's (VOWG_p. DE) luxury...
Let’s Have A Second Look Into Road Accidents
THE escalating incidence of road traffic accidents in the country is becoming alarming by the day. Despite increased road safety campaigns in the last couple of years, the rate at which accidents...
NRSC Unveils Plans To Curb Road Accidents In Ghana
These dedicated traffic cameras when introduced, will facilitate better observation of those offences that result to every day road accidents… Owing to the increasing rate of road accidents, the...
Transport Operators Shoot Down Bishops’ Conference One Dollar Road Toll
Transport operators have kicked against suggestion by the Ghana Charismatic Bishops’ Conference that road tolls should be increased to $1.00 equivalent as an effective measure of raising revenue...
Many Accidents On Our Roads Are Actually ‘suicides Missions’ By Drivers Gone Bad
Many of the deaths that occur on our roads that we comfortably refer to as accidents, are actually not accidents but "suicides and murders" occasioned by suicidal drivers and murderous stakeholders...
Ghana To Introduce Dedicated Traffic Cameras In June
The National Road Safety Commission (NRSC) is to install the first-ever dedicated traffic cameras in the country by June, 2017. The move is to help curb the recent high-incidence of road accidents....