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Energy expert, Kojo Poku, has announced a $1,000 (GH¢5,084.50) reward for any person who provides police with credible information that leads to the arrest of the person or group that hacked a major transmission tower in Tema. One of the pylons near the Head office of Ghana Grid Company (GRIDCo) that transmits power from Karpower and AKSA to the national ...

The next Population and Housing Census in Ghana is expected to take place on March 15, 2020. A 24-member Steering Committee set to provide political, cultural and institutional support for the conduct of the 2020 Population and Housing Census has been inaugurated. Inaugurating the Committee, the Minister of Finance, Ken Ofori-Atta, highlighted the importance of censuses for national development. He ...

Some seven highways in Ghana have been marked as the most dangerous highways in the country due to the number of recorded road accidents on these highways. In 2018 alone, there were over 13,000 reported cases of road accidents across the country, with about 15,000 casualties including recorded death cases. According to the National Roads and Safety Commission report (2004-2011), ...

Major Gen. Albert Kwesi Ocran, the last member of the National Liberation Council (NLC), the military cum police junta that overthrew Dr Kwame Nkrumah in 1966, has died. He died at the weekend in his hometown, Brakwa in the Asikuma Odoben Brakwa District of the Central Region at the age of 89, a family spokesperson said. Maj. Gen. Ocran was ...

A total of 157 out of 225 foreign trained Ghanaian doctors have failed the Medical and Dental Council (MDC)’s examination which grants them the licences to practice in Ghana. Only 68, representing a 30.2 per cent pass rate, were able to prove their mettle in the examination conducted from February 22, 2019, to March 2, 2019, and results released last ...

Bernard Allotey Jacobs , former Central Regional Chairman of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has revealed that he once slapped a commercial bus driver for over-speeding. According to him, the bad habit of some Ghanaians keeping quite in public transport, popularly known as ‘trotro’, when drivers are misbehaving on the road has been a major factor fueling road carnage ...

Entrepreneurship is no longer a choice; it is the only viable employment option available to lots of young graduates in the country, says Mr. Joe Jackson, Director of Business Operations of Dalex Finance. He said, “…Ghana has a long way to go in tackling the depressing phenomenon of joblessness…” He blamed the situation on partisan politics, widespread corruption, greed and ...

The National Patriots against Injustice and Corruption (NAPAIC) has announced plans to put the Upper East Regional Supervising High Court Judge, Justice Jacob B. Boon, and some officials of the Shaanxi Mining Company Ltd on trial before Ghana’s Special Prosecutor over a bribery scandal. The officials of the Chinese mining firm were spotted four times secretly visiting the judge at ...

It has emerged that, some saboteurs used corrosive substances to hack down one of the pylons of the Ghana Grid Company (GRIDCo). Head of Communication and Public Affairs at the Ministry of Energy, Nana Kofi Oppong Damoah revealed this on Adom FM’s morning show, Dwaso Nsem, Tuesday. The hacked pylon, near the head office of GRIDCo, which transmits power from ...

The Western Regional Police Command has charged the suspect in the baby theft saga. Mawusi Rose Fiaku, 42, was charged on Tuesday with  child stealing and conspiracy to commit a crime alongside her accomplice believed to be her boyfriend Lawson Lartey, 32. The two were arrested by a team of police personnel of the SWAT team at their hideout in ...