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Pressure group OccupyGhana has faulted government’s approach to torch equipment seized at illegal mining sites, saying the method is a brazen illegality that should cease forthwith. Again, the group says the failure of the security agencies to bring persons arrested for indulging in illegal mining (galamsey) to face the law undermines the whole exercise of fighting the menace. Describing government’s ...

A former deputy Information Minister Pius Hadzide has urged Ghanaians to be measured in their expectations and also appreciate the limitation of government. The comments come in the wake of the #FIXTHECOUNTRYNOW social media protest which has been trending on Twitter for the past three days. The protest mainly led by the youth is drawing attention to the lack of ...

The National Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Mr Freddy Blay, has asked the rank and file of the party to desist from projecting anybody who wishes to contest the presidential slot for the 2024 general election. He explained that such an attitude would divide the attention of the President in focusing on the NPP’s development agenda that would ...

After 90 years of brisk trading and other commercial activities at the Takoradi central market popularly called as Market circle, the market will be shut down effective Monday, May 3, 2012, Mayor for the Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolitan Assembly Abdul Issah Mumin has directed. This directive was given during a stakeholder’s engagement with the leadership of the traders at Takoradi. There has ...

The Police in the Central region Thursday dawn arrested over 340 suspected Criminals at Kasoa and its environs. Those arrested included both women and men who were suspected to be criminals and prostitutes operating in the area. Police retrieved substance suspected to be marijuana, weapons and over 200 motorbikes. The swoop was carried at Kasoa Millenium City, Kasoa, Awutu Breku, ...

Information gathered from sources in the mining regions indicate that following the directive of the Minister for Lands and Natural Resources, some 200 excavators have been evacuated from the various forest reserves by illegal miners. The deep throat reports indicates that the excavators were removed from forest reserves in Juabo, Upper Wassa, Konogo Kobro, and the Apaparama forest reserve. It ...

The Ghana Immigration Service (GIS) has undertaken a shake-up of its top senior officers in a bid to strengthen its operations in the regional commands and also enhance its administration and human resource base. The reshuffle, which takes immediate effect, affected 43 top senior officers, made up of some management members, schedule officers and regional commanders. The Comptroller-General of Immigration ...

The Ministry for Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration has advised Ghanaians who intend to travel to countries with exceedingly high Covid infection rates to postpone or cancel their trip. This, according to the ministry, is in view of the alarming rate of Covid cases in some parts of the world including Asia and South America. The ministry in a statement ...

Around the world, more than 377,000 girls and young women have participated in over 11,400 International Girls in ICT Day celebrations in 171 countries over the past ten years. Governments, national Information and Communications Technology (ICT) regulatory authorities, ICT companies, academic institutions, and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) across the world have all been encouraged to join the movement, however as we ...

A group calling itself the Concerned Youth of Atewa West in the Eastern Region is demanding an apology from the National Women’s Organizer of the party Kate Gyamfua to the Minister of Roads and Highways who is also Member of Parliament for Atewa West for berating the minister over tarring of roads in the Constituency. The National Women’s Organizer of ...