Residents of Weija are calling on water authorities and government to fix the cracks on the Weija Dam as the rainy season begins. Residents at Tetegu all the way to parts of Dansonman and its environs have been victims of perennial flooding as a result of spillage from the water treatment plant. Hundreds of locals are either displaced or lose ...

Ghana’s former Chief of Staff under the erstwhile Mahama adminstration, Hon. Julius Debrah, has debunked claims being bandied on social media suggesting he contracted the novel Coronavirus. Some apparatchiks of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) mentioned the politician and philanthropist, over the weekend, on various social media platforms, as one of the persons who had recovered from the virus ...

Former Ghana international Michael Essien has revealed that he went to Real Madrid with only a pair of jeans and a shirt. Essien left Chelsea to sign for Spanish giants Real Madrid on a loan deal in 2012. The Sabail FK midfielder made these revelations in an interview with South African sports journalist Carol Tshabalala. “I was with Chelsea in ...

Managing Editor of the Dispatch and Pollster, Ben Ephson has challenged herbal medicine producers who claim to have a cure for the coronavirus to infect and heal themselves with their products. Mr Ephson said this is the only way most Ghanaians will believe the herbal medicine practitioners who claim to have a cure for the COVID-19. Some herbal medicine petitioners ...

Deputy Information Minister Pius Hadzide has called on former President John Mahama to reprimand his spokesperson for questioning the number of COVID-19 recoveries in Ghana. According to him, the former President risks creating the impression that he supports the position of Joyce Bawa Mogtari if he fails to condemn her actions publicly. Mrs Bawa Mogtari asked for further probe into ...

On Thursday 14/05/20, I read two media statements on Election 2020, one from NDC chairman Ofosu-Ampofo and the other from former NPP chairman, Peter Mac Manu. But please read the letter below, which I wrote to the NIA about my experience regarding the Ghana card registration, providentially, dated 15/05/19 – almost exactly one year to the day of the exchanges between the two party leaders ...

A virologist at the Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, Dr Kofi Bonney, says Ghana is recording high recoveries of the novel coronavirus because most of the people who contracted the disease were asymptomatic. Of the 5,735 cases recorded in the country as at last Saturday, recoveries stood at 1,754 with 29 deaths. Health authorities say a 1,000 more people ...

Construction work has resumed on the Anlo-Afiadenyigba to Havedzi road in the Keta municipality of the Volta region, after several years of abandonment. In 2013, the then NDC government began an initiative towards the construction of Anlo-Afiadenyigba to Havedzi roads, with the purpose of extending same to Weta and other communities. The 26km stretch which was awarded to KAPPRA URC ...

A former National Democratic Congress(NDC) Member of Parliament(MP) for Nabdam constituency in the Upper East region Moses Aduku Asaga has expressed doubts over an easy win for his party and the governing New Patriotic Party in the upcoming elections. Describing the 2020 elections as one that is close to call, the one time Chief Executive Officer(CEO) of the National Petroleum ...

55-year-old Osmanu Mumuni has been arrested by the Weija Divisional DOVVSU for Cutting off part of his son’s ear with blade. According to the police, the mother of the child reported that a day earlier, her ex-husband Osman Mumuni whom the boy stays with chipped off part of his right ear and also placed his fingers in an open fire ...