The Greater Accra Region recorded 170 maternal deaths in 2023, with 20 per cent due to eclampsia, Dr Akosua Agyeiwaa Owusu-Sarpong, the Regional Director of Health Services, said on Thursday.
The Minister of Trade and Industry Kobina Tahir Hammond on Thursday, opened the Third Made-In-Ghana Bazaar in Accra; with a call on the public to patronise locally made products.
The Supreme Court has given the Attorney-General seven days to file his statement of case in the suit filed by Policy think tank Imani Ghana, challenging the propriety of the executive's appointment of certain heads of uniformed security agencies.
Tony Lithur, a private legal practitioner has filed a notice of appearance to challenge a libel action initiated by his former wife, Nana Oye Bampoe who is seeking some $1.5 million in damages.
The Ghana Standards Authority (GSA), in a bid to extend its operations across the country, has opened two new offices in Gambaga and Damango in the North-East and Savannah Regions, respectively.
Sheikh Osman Nuhu Sharubutu, the National Chief Imam, has called on Ghanaians to support this year’s Green Ghana initiative to preserve the environment.
President Akufo-Addo has released the KPMG audit report on the controversial contract between the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) and Strategic Mobilisation Limited (SML).
A 32-year-old Nigerian National, Pascal Okafor Ezugwu, has been sentenced to a 10-year prison term by the High Court in after being found guilty of attempting to smuggle 90 thumb-sized cocaine pellets which weighed 1.54 kg.
A third victim has succumbed to injuries sustained in the premix fuel fire outbreak in Egyiresia, a community in the Essikadu Ketan Constituency, raising the total fatalities to three.
A taskforce comprising the Tree Crop Development Authority, the Oil Palm Development Association of Ghana, the Ghana Revenue Authority—Customs Division, and National Securit, has intercepted three Man Diesel cargo trucks containing smuggled cooking oil at the Tetteh Quarshie roundabout in Accra.
A 56-year-old professional nurse, Clara Yanyi-Ampah, who worked as a caregiver at Happy Bloomers School in Agbogba has been jailed for five years over the death of an 11-month-old baby.
