The Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) has reached an agreement with all stakeholders in Kroboland to install prepaid meters once again in homes. The exercise starts on Tuesday, June 14. According to an announcement by the Company, the prepaid meters are free of charge, therefore cautioning customers to beware of impostors who might want to defraud them. But with the ...

The Supreme Court has dismissed the review application of Member of Parliament for Assin North James Gyakye Quayson. The embattled lawmaker was seeking to have the apex court overturn restraining orders filed against him by private citizen Michael Ankomah Nimfah. Lead Counsel for the Assin North MP Tsatsu Tsikata prayed the court to “protect the judicial integrity of this court ...

The world environment day is celebrated every year on 5th June to raise global awareness to take positive environmental action to protect nature and the planet earth. It is a day that reminds everyone on the planet to get involved in environment friendly activities. Inline with that, Green Fortland Foundation celebrated the occassion in Prestea Huni Valley municipality. The theme ...

An application by the embattled MP for Assin North, Mr James Gyakye Quayson, to have three of the five charges levelled against him dropped, has been dismissed by an Accra high court. The opposition legislator has Mr Tsatsu Tsikata as his lead counsel. The MP has been charged with “deceit of public officer” in contravention of section 251(b) of the ...

Shell has said it will work to keep gas flowing to its customers in Europe after Russian energy firm Gazprom said it would cut supplies from tomorrow. Gazprom said it would halt gas to Denmark’s Orsted and to Shell for its contract to supply gas to Germany, after both refused to make payments in roubles, Reuters reported. Shell told the ...

The Wa Naa has distanced his Palace from the public flogging of a girl and boy at the forecourt of the Palace on Tuesday afternoon. Through his spokesperson, he has disassociated himself and condemned the floggers of persons seen in a leaked sex video. The Ghana News Agency (GNA) reports that Naa Fuseini Seidu Pelpuo IV, the Overlord of the ...

Shell has said it will work to keep gas flowing to its customers in Europe after Russian energy firm Gazprom said it would cut supplies from tomorrow. Gazprom said it would halt gas to Denmark’s Orsted and to Shell for its contract to supply gas to Germany, after both refused to make payments in roubles, Reuters reported. Shell told the ...

International Security Analyst, Richard Gomador, says government should have advised the IGP to ignore the tweet from the British High Commissioner to Ghana, H.E. Harriet Thompson on Oliver Baker Vormawor’s road traffic arrest. The IGP in a rebuttal dated May 20, 2022 said the High Commissioner’s tweet wanting to know how the arrest will end amounted to interference in the ...

Seven African countries have cumulatively reported about 1,400 monkeypox cases this year up to mid-May, the World Health Organization (WHO) says. These include 1,392 suspected and 44 confirmed cases. The cases were reported in Cameroon, Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Liberia, Nigeria, Congo-Brazzaville and Sierra Leone. The number of cases this year are slightly fewer than ...

The Ghana Police Service has secured a court injunction from the High Court to restrain some commercial drivers from embarking on a naked demonstration over the price of petrol in the country. The commercial drivers were expected to go on a naked demonstration today, Wednesday, June 1, 2022, to register their displeasure against the incessant increase in petroleum products. The ...