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A veteran lawyer has told women in the Upper East Region that the laws of Ghana are in favour of wives walking away with a half of any property singlehandedly acquired by their husbands when their marriages end in divorce. He made this announcement as a resource person at a one-day training workshop organised by the Widows and Orphans Movement ...

Ghana has recorded two more COVID-19 cases taking the death toll to 301, according to the Ghana health service. Currently, the West African country which has seen a significant decline in active cases has a total confirmed cases of 46,482 after recording 38 new ones per the latest update. The active cases stand at 530 with 45,651 recoveries. Sixteen patients ...

The West African Science Service Centre on Climate and Adapted Land Use, WASCAL and the ECOWAS Centre for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency (ECREEE) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to cooperate in the field of sustainable energy development in West Africa through development of an ambitious and viable project pipeline for investment, implementation and operation, with reference to the ...

Security Analyst, Adam Bonaa, has described as surprising the silence of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo and the National Security Minister on the disturbances by secession groups in the Volta region. According to Mr Bonaa, the President is the Commander-in-Chief of the Ghana Armed Forces and must take the bull by the horn and address the country to assure citizens ...

The Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre in collaboration with the German government has kickstarted a five-day ‘Election Violence and Security’ training course for the various security services in the country. The course will provide information and some fundamental understanding of the roles of the Police and other stakeholders like the Military, Customs, Prisons, Immigration and, Fire Services in the ...

Some persons suspected to be members of a secessionist group have attacked a State Transport Company bus in the Volta Regional Capital, Ho, and burnt one of its buses. According to a Citi News report, the incident which occurred at midnight on Monday, September 28, involved the members of the group firing gunshots before proceeding to beat up the drivers. ...

The campaign team of former President John Mahama has urged the public to disregard claims that NDC flagbearer was sharing money during his campaign tour of the Bono region. Some reports claimed that the presidential candidate of the NDC was sharing money to supporters but according to the campaign team the report is a total fabrication. A statement by the ...

The Concerned Parents Association of Ridge Church School have petitioned the Minister of Education on the flagrant disregard of the Presidential directive for all schools under the GES to cancel their 3rd term within the current academic year, with resumption of a new school year in January 2021. The Association expressed legitimate concerns about the running of the school and ...

The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) has urged the public to ignore a viral documentary of the unhygienic production of Tomato pastes on the Ghanaian market. The FDA in a statement said, “The general public is assured that all products registered by the FDA, including tomato paste and tomato mix are safe.” A viral documentary about the Production of Tomato ...

Some hoteliers are submitting family names under the same business to access the government’s Covid-19 stimulus package being distributed by the National Board for Small Scale Industries (NBSSI), Executive Director of the board has disclosed. Mrs. Kosi Yankey-Ayeh noted that the deliberate attempt to take advantage of the system was becoming rampant, which according to her, was not conducive for ...