Author: TNRgh

Residents along the Ablekuma-Manhia road have charged government to show commitment and speed up construction of their roads or will hit the streets again. The residents on Monday blocked the main road and burnt car tyres in the middle of the road, halting all movements – human and vehicular – to and from the area. About eight residents were arrested by the Greater Accra Regional Police command in connection with the protest over the poor state of their road. The demonstrators stopped personnel of the Ghana National Fire Service from dousing the fire from the burning tyres. Interestingly, moment after…

Government has lost track of his vision to make Accra the cleanest city in Africa, a Director at the Water and Sanitation for Africa (WSA), Mr. Patrick Aboya analysed. At his enstoolment as a Chief in Jamestown, Accra in April 2017, President Akufo-Addo declared, “the commitment I want to make, and for all of us to make, is that by the end of my term in office, Accra will be the cleanest city on the entire African continent. That is the commitment I am making.” But WSA, which is a Pan-African intergovernmental agency devoted to increasing accelerated access to water…

Dr. Harry Agbanu[/caption] The national president of the University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG), Dr. Harry Agbanu has expressed disappointment in government, accusing it of making senior lecturers above retiring age redundant. Speaking with Winston Amoah, host of Sunrise on 3FM, Dr. Agbanu pointed out that professors are assets to university education, condemning government’s directive laying off retiring lecturers. The retirees, he said, have been removed from government pay roll in order for them to be paid by the universities with the internally generated fund.. “The main issue is that professors…train the postgraduate students, mentor the newly retired staff and…

Former Chairman of the Confiscated Assets Committee says even the Catholic Pope is bound to be corrupted by the system of governance being run in Ghana if he is made the country’s president. “We know the Pope is an embodiment of holiness but the system will not help him but will rather make him corrupt,” Mr. Carl Wilson asserted. “You can bring the Pope and make him the president in Ghana and within one year, you will be calling the Pope corrupt”, he told Onua FM’s Yen Sempa hosted by Bright Kwasi Asempa on Monday. He suggested that the current…

The intensity and build up to the fight was matched by the crowd that came out to see  two undefeated national and WBO Africa super bantamweight boxers mount the ring inside the sports hall of the Bukom boxing arena. Isaac sackey, was defending his WBO Africa title and 23 unbeaten records whilst Wasiwu Dzatabi Mohammed, was defending his relatively young boxing carrier of 11 straight wins. A hefty right punch from Dzatabi, in less than one minute of the third round sent the champion crashing onto the canvas. Sackey got up swiftly unto his feet, but referee Adon Berti’s decision…

Three persons have been remanded in police custody for alleged illegal mining operations within the Apampram forest reserve in the Amansie West district of the Ashanti region. The three have been arraigned before the Bekwai circuit court for conspiracy to mine without license and mining without license. The accused persons are 23 year old Abdulai Safianu, 25 year old Ibrahim Musah and 18 year old Sulemana Mustapha. All the three persons were arrested on Thursday, 11th October 2018 whilst illegally mining within the Apampram forest reserve. A team from the Bekwai Forest Services Division on patrol duty to clamp down…

The President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, says his administration is using the country’s oil revenues to create assets, and not waste it on consumption and the accumulation of debt. According to President Akufo-Addo, “we are investing revenues from oil in one of the most ambitious social programmes of our country’s history, i.e. the Free Senior High School policy. In the 2018 budget, GH¢455.9 million of petroleum revenues was allocated to the Free SHS programme.” The President stressed that “Free SHS is ensuring that our oil revenues are being equitably distributed to our people, and not ending up in the pockets…

Whale Cloud (rebranded from ZTEsoft) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Ghana on innovative city development at the headquarters of Alibaba Group. Mr. Ben Zhou, CEO of Whale Cloud, and Mrs. Ursula Owusu Ekuful, Ghana’s Minister for Communications, signed the MoU on behalf of each party. This agreement will reinforce mutual cooperation and fuel innovation and smart city development in Ghana, applying the cutting-edge technologies and solutions developed by Whale Cloud and Alibaba Cloud. Accra, the capital of Ghana, is undergoing rapid urbanization, causing challenges for city administrators and inconvenience for citizens. Under the MoU, Whale Cloud will…

The national Rugby team, the Eagles will face defending champions Uganda in a Pool B opener at this year’s Africa Men’s Sevens tournament on Saturday, October 13 2018.  The Eagles, who have been fine-tuning their preparations in Tunis ahead of the tournament, qualified as one of the top 12 teams on the continent. The team is buoyed by their success at this year’s Bronze Cup but technical advisor Collin Osborne is cautiously optimistic. “We are well aware of the enormity of the task that lies ahead. We are in a group with two of the strongest teams in Africa. We are the…

Some of the Assembly Members who angrily left the meeting[/caption] Some 15 assembly members of the Asutifi South District in the Brong Ahafo region, aligned to the opposition NDC walked out of an assembly meeting, accusing their district chief executive, Robert Dwumor Mensah of insulting the MP for Asutifi Soth Collins Dauda. According to the assembly members, the DCE has been abusing the MP verbally on several FM stations, claiming Alhaji Dauda is a “senseless” man instigating  mayhem in the area. The 15 assembly members have given the Asutifi South DCE 15 days to retract his comment against Collins Dauda. They have threatened to…