The University of Ghana (UG) has announced the commencement of the 2024/2025 academic year, following a prolonged strike by teaching staff that disrupted academic activities. In a notice dated October 29, 2024, the university’s Registrar, Emelia Agyei-Mensah, confirmed that lectures … Read more →
The Takoradi Port in the Western Region of Ghana has received the largest bulk vessel since 1928. This was according to an official statement released by the Takoradi Ports official Facebook page on Wednesday, July 12, 2023. The statement reads: … Read more →
A United States district court on Tuesday, sentenced Olalekan Ponle, better known as Woodberry, to eight years in jail over fraud. Woodberry is an accomplice of Ramon Abbas, popularly known as Hushpuppi, another Nigerian who was imprisoned for Internet fraud … Read more →
The Zongo Development Fund has been cited by the Auditor General for blowing an amount of GH¢709,000 on rent between August 2020 and August 2022. The 2020 Auditor General’s report revealed that the fund pays GH¢29,000 every month as rent … Read more →
The active portfolio of the World Bank in the country is worth $3.6 billion across 21 active projects. The portfolio is spread across several sectors, with urban resilience and land attracting the largest investments of 17 per cent. The health, … Read more →
The Minority in Parliament has asked President Akufo-Addo to ensure that those behind the purported plot to replace the Inspector General of Police, Dr. George Akuffo Dampare are punished. The NDC MPs insist that is the surest way to prove … Read more →
Nigeria’s drug law enforcement agency has ordered an immediate crackdown on the illegal sale and use of nitrous oxide – also known as laughing gas. In a statement on their website, the head of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, … Read more →
A 42-year-old carpenter has been sentenced to four years in prison by the Adentan Circuit Court for biting off the right ear of a commercial driver during a dispute in Addoteiman, Accra. Maxwell Senyo, who was charged with causing harm, … Read more →
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, on Saturday, July 8, 2023, embarked on a trip to Guinea Bissau to lead the Ghanaian delegation at the 63rd Ordinary Session of the Authority of ECOWAS Heads of State and Government. The summit, taking … Read more →
The police have arrested an Odikro of Gyabenkrom and two others for destroying more than 33,000 mature rubber trees on a plantation belonging to the Ghana Rubber Estate Limited (GREL) in the Ahanta West Municipality in the Western Region. The … Read more →
Many places in the country have a high concentration of radon gas, a natural occurring gas whose long exposure to humans can cause lung cancer and other forms of cancers. An Associate Professor of Health Physics at the School of … Read more →
Fishermen in Takoradi, a coastal district in the Western region, are living in fear as a canoe and its nine crew members have gone missing at high seas. The crew members set sail on June 27, 2023, but have not … Read more →
Nursing mothers have been advised to desist from feeding their infants from six months to nine months with food bought from the streets. According to dietician specialist Mr David Tuffour, food bought from outside does not help infants in any … Read more →
The government has restated its prohibition on the use of cryptocurrencies in all financial transactions, emphasizing that all financial institutions in the country have received instructions to refrain from engaging in crypto-related activities. Dr. Mohammed Amin Adam, Minister of State … Read more →
Devices including mobile phones are set to be banned from classrooms to stop them from disrupting learning, the Dutch government has announced. The initiative is being introduced in collaboration with schools and is to take effect at the start of … Read more →
The World Health Organization (WHO) and its partners say around 18 million doses of the world’s first malaria vaccine will be delivered to 12 African nations by 2025. Among them are Malawi, Ghana and Kenya, where the Mosquirix vaccine has … Read more →
Tech billionaires Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk have been joking about setting up a cage match. In the business world, the fight has already begun. Less than a day after Mr Zuckerberg launched his alternative to Twitter, Threads, it had … Read more →
A study conducted in three selected public universities in the country has revealed that 93 per cent of sexually active adolescents in public universities do not use contraceptives. This is in spite of the fact that 80 per cent of … Read more →
Over 300 health workers have left the Ghana Health Service in the Ashanti Region to pursue better opportunities abroad. Authorities warn that this trend, observed in the first quarter of 2023, is negatively impacting healthcare delivery in the region. Data … Read more →
Twitter is considering legal action against Meta over its fast-growing rival app Threads. Threads, which was launched to millions on Wednesday, is similar to Twitter and has been pitched by Meta bosses as a “friendly” alternative. Twitter’s Elon Musk said … Read more →
Director of the Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research (ISSER) of the University of Ghana, Professor Peter Quartey has said he does not expect Ghana to experience a single-digit inflation and also the Cedi-Dollar exchange rate this year. He … Read more →