The Upper Manya Krobo District Health Directorate has decried low turnout for Covid-19 vaccination in the district due to some misconceptions growing among the populace. The Health Directorate estimated to vaccinate about fifty thousand, one hundred and four (50,104) people in the district by the end of this year, however, only 282 have fully been vaccinated since the inception …
• Some residents of Tamale were manhandled by four police officers over alleged power theft • The acting Inspector-General of Police has apologised to the victims • The police have facilitated the medical treatment of the victims The Ghana Police Service have taken care of the medical bills of the residents who were maltreated by some officers in Tamale. Also, …
Hundreds of angry residents in Akyem Abomosu in Atewa West District in Eastern Region last night besieged the Police station in the community over the arrest of two persons suspected to be part of the armed robbers who attacked the Adonteng Rural Bank last week. The two suspects, a male and a female onboard an unregistered private car, were reportedly …
Big Sean’s giving back. While Jermaine Dupri hosted a vegan Thanksgiving in Atlanta, Big Sean’s come through to host his 7th annual All Star Giveback: Thanksgiving Edition thanks to his Sean Anderson Foundation. Sean and his team distribute turkeys, canned goods and holiday trimmings for 5,000 residents in his home town of Detroit. Big Sean will be joined by other shining Detroit stars such as NBA …
The Omanhene of Edina Traditional Area, Nana Kodwo Condua VI has revealed that his subjects survived on gari soakings during the ban on fishing. According to him, he had no option than to feed parents and their wards within his paramountcy with gari, rice, sugar throughout the one month of the closed season. “While we think about increasing our fish …
Residents of Sanga in the Sagnarigu Municipality have rubbished government’s claims, it has constructed a dam for the community as part of its one village one dam project. This follows claims by the Sagnarigu District Chief Executive, Iddrisu Mariam, that the dam has been constructed under the “one village one dam” project. The Sagnarigu Municipal Assembly had produced a document …
Some residents of the Sagnarigu Municipality in the Northern Region have appealed to the Sagnarigu Municipal Assembly to help address the poor sanitation situation in the area. They said open defecation, lack of sanitation facilities as well as indiscriminate disposable of waste remained a challenge in the area exposing them to health hazards. They made the appeal at a town …
About 400 houses in the Tempane District in the Upper East Region have been destroyed by recent rainstorms leaving thousands of residents homeless. The storm hit the area last Tuesday night and pulled down about four hundred houses, uprooted hundreds of economic trees including; Baobab, Shea, and Dawadawa among others. The situation has forced some of the residents to relocate, …
The Eastern Regional Minister, Eric Kwakye Darfuor has charged the Power Distribution Services (PDS) to disconnect residents of Lower Manya Krobo off the national grid if they cannot pay electricity bills. The Minister’s comments follow a clash between residents and police officers on alleged over billing and disconnection exercise by PDS which led to death of a 15-year-old and injured …
The Eastern Regional Minister, Eric Kwakye Darfuor has incurred the wrath of aggrieved power consumers at Lower Manya Krobo following his comment that electricity cannot be consumed for free and that residents who cannot afford should go off the national grid. The residents including the Member of Parliament for Lower Manya Krobo, Ebenezer Okletey Terlabi have urged the Eastern Regional …
