Ashanti Regional Minister Simon Osei-Mensah has warned against the misuse of equipment provided under the District Road Improvement Project (DRIP) for illegal mining activities. The DRIP project, launched to drive economic growth and development in Kumasi and parts of the region, aims to equip metropolitan, municipal, and district assemblies with the necessary resources and equipment to rehabilitate and maintain roads ...

Parts of the Job 600 building in Accra which serve as offices of Members of Parliament have been gutted by fire. The incident happened on Tuesday, August 27. TV3’s Grace Hammoah Agyemang who witnessed the scene reported that all staff members of Parliament have been asked to go home for safety following the incident All parliamentary activities were called off ...

The flag bearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), John Dramani Mahama, will spend Tuesday and Wednesday campaigning in the Greater Accra Region. The two-day #Mahama4Change2024 tour will take the NDC leader to seven constituencies to share his vision, proposals, policies, and programmes outlined in the NDC 2024 Resetting Ghana manifesto. Mr Mahama will meet with traditional leaders, community stakeholders, ...

A Lecturer and a one-time holder of the Most Outstanding College Teacher Award, Dr. Simon Boateng has described as false, assertions that teacher and nursing training colleges were ordered to restrict admissions to a quota after President Akufo-Addo administration restored allowances for teacher and nursing trainees. The former President John Mahama who has copiously made the claim has indicated as ...

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has requested an emergency meeting with the Electoral Commission (EC) over the voter exhibition exercise. The meeting is to discuss very serious discrepancies discovered during the ongoing 2024 voter exhibition exercise, the main opposition party said. A statement signed by General Secretary Fifi Kwetey said that the discrepancies emanate from analysis of the Provisional Voter ...

Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, Member of Parliament for North Tongu, criticized the New Patriotic Party (NPP), for their silence on corruption and state capture in their manifesto. Ablakwa emphasized the need for a new kind of leadership that prioritizes transparency, accountability, and anti-corruption measures. He questioned the NPP’s commitment to transparency, pointing out their complicity in corruption. “The NPP manifesto is ...

The Northern Electricity Distribution Company (NEDCo) has cautioned the public against the proliferation of counterfeit energy metres within its service areas. This alert follows the recent seizure of over 200 sub-standard metres by the Ghana Police Service during a routine inspection. The counterfeit metres were intercepted on the Kenyase-Atronie road in the Sunyani Metropolis and are suspected to have been ...

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) flagbearer, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, has unveiled plans to address the financial challenges faced by traders and Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) across the country. Speaking during a recent tour of the Ablekuma North and Ablekuma West constituencies, Dr. Bawumia pledged to streamline access to capital to support business growth. Dr. Bawumia introduced two major initiatives ...

Following the drought in Northern Ghana, Founding President of IMANI Africa Franklin Cudjoe has asked Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia to update Ghanaians on the current state of the One Village One Dam policy. Franklin Cudjoe says that it is important to take the drought situation seriously because the economy and its inhabitants are too frail to take on ‘another ...

The Queen Mother of the Akyem Abuakwa Council of Zongo Chiefs in the Eastern Region, Hajia Maurijaanatu Muhammed, has appealed to Ghanaians to support orphans who, through no fault of their own, have been left without parents. She emphasized that these children often find themselves in orphanages, disconnect from their biological families, and rely on caregivers. In a quest to ...