Goil Ghana Limited is diversifying into the production of polymer modified bitumen as an added value model to sustain the business and promote national development. Amid the global energy transition aimed at minimising the effects of fossil fuel on the environment, GOIL has constructed a bitumen plant under a joint-venture with Societe Multinationale de Bitumes (SMB) of Cote d’Ivoire, which ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo is in the process of considering nominees for appointment as Metropolitan, Municipal and District Chief Executives. In the five regions in the north alone, a total of 715 people have applied to be considered for nomination as MMDCEs in 55 districts. The five regions as Northern, Savanna, North East, Upper West and Upper East. Last ...

The Ghana Association of Medical Laboratory Scientists (GAMLS) have threatened to go on an indefinite nationwide strike from Wednesday, May 26, 2021. The threat is in solidarity with their members at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) who began a one-week sit-down strike last week, following the posting of two medical officers to the Laboratory Services Directorate of the hospital. ...

Road contractors in the country have urged Roads and Highways Minister Kwesi Amoako-Atta to resort to the same passion with which he condemns bad roads in paying contractors for jobs done. According to the contractors, getting paid for jobs done has become a difficult banter between them and the government leading to the death of some contractors. It comes on ...

Celebrated Ghanaian musician Kwame Nsiah-Apau, popularly known as Okyeame Kwame, and his wife Annica Nsiah-Apau, have successfully launched their first book titled ‘Love Locked Down’. The book, which chronicles their love journey and proffers solutions to some marital and relationship issues, was launched last Saturday at the Ecobank Headquarters in Accra. Over one hundred and fifty people turned up for ...

Female afrobeat/highlife artiste, Paulette Broohm, Kwamiena and Coach Freeman have been named the headline artistes for a musical concert dubbed “A Night Of Music” slated for tomorrow Saturday, May 22 at the Virtual Hub, located at East Legon. The musical concert is being organised by Scratch Studios to entertain Ghanaian music fans in Accra. The event which is expected to ...

Popular Nigerian singer, Simi, has disclosed how having a child has changed her life. Simi, who got married to Adekunle Gold in a private wedding ceremony in 2019, welcomed her daughter in June 2020. In a video shared on her Instagram story, the 33-year-old disclosed that having a daughter has made her have more empathy. According to her, before having ...

The District Assemblies Common Fund (DACF) is financing the construction of infrastructure projects in some metropolitan, municipal and district assemblies (MMDAs) in the Ashanti, Greater Accra and Eastern regions. The projects involve the construction of new physical structures (mainly administration blocks and staff bungalows), as well as single court edifices. The fund is expending a total of GH¢94.7 million on ...

The National Coordinator of the Ghana School Feeding Programme has been reinstated barely 24 hours after she was sacked. Madam Gertrude Quashigah was dismissed by the Gender Ministry yesterday. But a letter issued by the Minister of Gender, Children and Social Protection, Sarah Adwoa Safo, said she has been reinstated. “This is to inform you of my decision to withdraw ...

Knocking children in the head regularly can affect their brain and ability to function intellectually, Dr Hadi MohammAbdallah, a Neurosurgeon at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital has revealed. According to him, repeated concussions on a young child’s head can cause damage which can lead to lower intelligence. Speaking on Starr Chat with Nana Aba Anamoah, the Neurosurgeon said: “Continuous knocking ...