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A baby has been reportedly washed away in Sawaba in Kumasi following the Wednesday evening rains in the Ashanti regional capital. The baby was traveling with his parents in a tricycle when they got stuck in a flood causing the tricycle to tip over. Residents in the community, according to reports, moved in to save the parents but could not ...

The former Ranking Member for the Mines & Energy Committee of Parliament, Adam Mutawkilu says President Nana Akufo-Addo must be solely blamed for the $170 million judgment debt awarded to power company, GCGP. According to the former Damongo MP, the decision to terminate the contract with GCGP was a cabinet decision and approved by President Akufo-Addo. “It’s a clear financial ...

A claim that South African woman Gosiame Sithole gave birth to 10 babies earlier this month is not true, an official inquiry has found. No hospitals in Gauteng province have a record of decuplets being born, the provincial government says. Medical tests show that Ms Sithole had not even been pregnant recently, it said. The 37-year-old is now being held ...

The Executive Director for the Institute of Energy Security, Nana Amoasi VII, has taken a swipe at the Attorney General, Godfred Dame, describing him as negligent for his failure to defend Ghana on the $170 million judgment debt awarded to power company, The Ghana Power Generation Company (GCGP). In an interview on the Morning Starr on Thursday, Nana Amoasi VII ...

The Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) has released a new load shedding timetable to take effect on Monday, June 28 and end on July 19. The ‘dumsor’ will occur between the hours of 6 pm and 12midnight each day. In a statement, the ECG said the planned outage is to enable the completion of construction works by the Ghana Grid ...

Renowned Ghanaian economist and businessman Dr. Kofi Amoah has clarified his claims of owning 85 houses in Los Angeles, United States. Recall in a recent interview with television goddess and renowned talk show host Deloris Frimpong Manso popularly known as Delay, Dr. Kofi Amoah caused some stir on the internet during the course of the interview when he claimed he ...

The West African Examination Council (WAEC) has described African Education Watch independent assessment report on 2020 WASSCE in the country as misleading. Head of Public Affairs, WAEC National, Agnes Teye-Cudjoe, at a press conference in Accra, noted that the Council was not engaged by Africa Education Watch before outdooring its report. According to Ms Teye-Cudjoe, if Africa Education Watch also ...

The Ghana Health Service has indicated that the AstraZeneca and Sputnik V vaccines are effective against a deadly Indian strain of the Coronavirus detected in Ghana recently. A statement issued by the GHS and signed by its Director-General, Dr Patrick Kuma-Aboagye on Tuesday, 22 June 2021 in reaction to an online publication discrediting the potency of vaccines against the Delta ...

The World Bank Migration and Development Report for 2021 has reported an increase of 5 per cent to $3.6 billion in remittance flows to Ghana despite the lockdowns around the world in the heat of the COVID-19 pandemic. Host countries for Ghanaian migrants include the USA, UK, Côte d’Ivoire, Italy, Germany, and Canada. The resilience of Ghanaian migrants has been ...

Coalition of Former Menzgold Customers on Tuesday, 22 June 2021 called on the Speaker of Parliament Alban S. K Bagbin to ask him to help them retrieve their locked-up funds with the now-defunct company. The leader of the 10-man delegation Isaac Nyarko expressed worry about the impact of closure of Menzgold on customers and their families, adding that the banking ...