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The Okyenhene has ordered the closure of all shrines in the Akyem Abuakwa area which he says are alien to the social customs of the people. The overload of the Akyem Abuakwa kingdom has also directed chiefs in his jurisdiction not to lease lands to immigrant traditional priests and their associates. In a statement, the Okyenhene said “any chief, irrespective ...

The Speaker of Parliament, Prof. Aaron Mike Oquaye, has directed that all Members of Parliament, including parliamentary staff, must go through a mandatory Coronavirus test. He made the order today, Tuesday, May 19, 2020, when the House commenced sittings for the second meeting of this session. According to the Speaker, the directive forms part of measures instituted by the Parliamentary Service Board to ...

Zoomlion Ghana Limited has begun mass disinfection of over 115 police stations and facilities in the western region. The nationwide exercise which is on-going in all the regions is geared towards protecting Police personnels and their families who are assisting frontline workers in the fight against the Convid-19 pandemic. The exercise commenced on Monday, May 18th, 2020 at the Western ...

The government has revealed that it has cleared over 2 billion Ghana cedis debt owed the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) which will, therefore, put the state-owned electricity distributor on the requisite sound financial footing. Addressing a press conference Tuesday, the Energy Minister, John Peter Amewu stated that the government has cleared its debt with the ECG with a credit ...

Joseph Yammin, a top member of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and Kennedy Ohene Agyapong, a stalwart in the New Patriotic Party (NPP), are set to engage in a legal battle in court soon. The NDC kingpin insists that Mr. Agyapong, the Member of Parliament (MP) for Assin Central Constituency in the Central Region, has defamed him in public by ...

Honorary vice president of policy think tank, IMANI Centre for Policy and Education, Bright Simons has revealed that 600 out of 900 trained contact tracers for the fight against Coronavirus in the country have abandoned their work due to ‘grievances’, adding that the government has been defaulting in paying their daily allowance of GHc150.00. According to Mr Simons, the government ...

Kantinka,De Beat fm NABCO Trainees Association of Ghana (NABTAG) seeks to employ your respective media channels (i.e. Radio, TV, and virtual platforms) to assist in registering its petition to the president of the Republic of Ghana for permanent employment on behalf of NABCO trainees. The Nation Builders Corps (NABCO), which was launched in 2018 by the current government to help ...

The Information Ministry will hold its regular press briefing to update the nation on the latest case count and mitigating measures in governments fight against the novel coronavirus pandemic. Ghana has recorded 183 new confirmed cases. While this new update raises the total number of confirmed cases in the country to 5,918, the number of recoveries remains unchanged from the ...

On the hills of Karimenga in the North East Region of Ghana stands a two-bedroom apartment dilapidated and abandoned for reasons that cannot be told. It is believed to be the hideout of Ghana’s First President Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah. Built with hard blocks and galvanized iron so many years ago, the building still appears strong with scruffy walls, warn ...

The Odumase Krobo District Police has arrested a man for selling an expired herbal medicine to unsuspecting resident.. The suspect, Bismark Aboagye, was arrested at Agormanya Market, Saturday May 15, while peddling the relabeled expired herbal drug. A Complainant Tettey Isaac Asare aged 45, a farmer who lives at Mampong a suburb of Odumase-Krobo went to the Odumase Krobo Police ...