The National Identification Authority (NIA) has begun the Ghana Card mass registration exercise in the Volta Region amidst some technical challenges. The month-long registration exercise is expected to capture at least 85 per cent of Ghanaians in the Region in all 18 districts and municipalities. At about 0950 hours when the Ghana News Agency visited some registration centres in the …
Drivers of the Metro Mass Transit in Kumasi, who embarked on a strike action yesterday, have resumed work today after the intervention of Mr. Simon Osei Mensah, the Ashanti Regional Minister. The drivers of the state- owned company providing one of the biggest public commercial transport in the country, went on strike over what they termed as gross mismanagement of …
The Eastern Regional Director of the Ghana Education Service (GES), Mrs Monica Ankrah said, 1,122 new teachers recruited under the double track system are yet to receive their salaries. She said about 74 out of the total of 1,634 teachers who were appointed in the region last year November, received some of their salaries in May last month. Speaking in …
Parliament has approved a €55,000,000 million Credit Facility between the Government of Ghana and the Deutsche Bank AG, London, for the rehabilitation of the Kumasi inner ring roads. The credit facility would cover the rehabilitation of the Kumasi inner ring roads and Adjacent Streets Project the first phase covers 100kms of road. Dr Mark Assibey-Yeboah, Chairman of the Finance Committee, …
Mr Lawrence Mwinkum Yirkyio, a former teacher of English Language and Literature-In-English at the Saint Hubert Seminary Senior High School in Kumasi has called on parents and guidance to inculcate the need to visit their children in school. Speaking to the Ghana News Agency (GNA) in Bolgatanga, Mr Yirkyio insisted that “The need for parents to make that conscious effort …
The heavy rains witnessed last Friday within the Sekondi /Takoradi Metropolis destroyed properties and also claimed the lives of five children in Ngyeresia, a fishing community in the Metropolis. The home, accommodating six children could no longer stand the wrath of the torrential and non stopping rains and therefore caved in on the children killing five of them and leaving …
Nikki Ray, a 29-year English Tourist, has cycled about 10,000 kilometres across the Sahara Desert to Ghana for sightseeing in some parts of the country. The journey, which started from London in August 2018, took the cyclist eight months to arrive in Ghana. She passed through six other African countries – Morocco, Mauritania, Senegal, Guinea Bissau, Guinea and Cote D’Ivoire. …
The Volta Regional Executive Committee (REC) of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has banned campaign activities by Members of Parliament (MP) aspirants and their agents ahead of the opening of nominations for parliamentary primaries in the various constituencies. A release signed by Mr James Gunu, the Regional Secretary of the Party, and copied to the Ghana News Agency (GNA), said …
The Life of Alcohol and Drugs Ghana (LOAD-Ghana), a Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) has called on government and implementing institutions to enforce and regulate the sale of drugs and alcohol in the country. It said defaulters of the laws should be prosecuted irrespective of their social standing and influence. Mr Roger Abaa Atambire, the Executive Director of LOAD-Ghana, who made the …
Yaa Jackson, a budding musician, may face legal action, after signing a five-year deal with B Magic Empire, a record label, owned by Black Stars striker, Richmond Boakye Yiadom. A demand notice sighted by GNA Entertainment stated that, Asamoah Enoch, “former” manager of Yaa Jackson, entered into a five-year managerial agreement with the young artiste in April, 2018. But recent …
