The Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) has attributed the extensive power outage that occurred on June 26 to the severe rainstorm that hit parts of the Greater Accra Region.
Addressing a global health summit organised by Gavi and the Gates Foundation in Brussels on Wednesday, President John Dramani Mahama starkly contrasted military spending with the cost of saving lives through vaccination, telling attendees that the $9 billion sought by the Gavi vaccine alliance over five years is equivalent to the cost of just four B-2 Spirit bombers.
A 19-year-old illegal miner, who appeared before the Tarkwa circuit court for defiling a three-year-old girl, has been sentenced to 23 years’ imprisonment with hard.
The Minister of Education, Haruna Iddrisu, has announced that the government will recruit 50,000 teachers this year as part of efforts to boost the education sector.
The Ashanti Regional Police Command has arrested fifteen (15) persons for engaging in illegal mining activities in a special intelligence-led operation at Watreso and Preacher Krom, at Manso Adubia.
The Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) has filed an appeal against the judgment of the High Court in Kumasi, which acquitted and discharged Alexander Kwabena Sarfo-Kantanka, President Akufo-Addo’s nominee for municipal chief executive for Juaben in the Ashanti Region, in an alleged bribery case.
The Ashanti North Regional Police Command has arrested two persons in connection with the murder of Eric Obeng Darko, former Headmaster of Dampong Senior High School, in the Ashanti Region.
The Amasaman Circuit Court has fined two fishmongers, Lady Ayawah and Faustina Kattah, 100 penalty units each, equivalent to GH¢1,200, for dishonestly receiving stolen tilapia, valued at GH¢100,000.
The Narcotics Control Commission (NACOC) has disclosed that 292 million people globally abused substances in 2022, representing a 20 percent increase over the past decade, according to data from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).
Vice President Professor Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang has called for a bold shift in Ghana’s development strategy from reliance on traditional aid models to one that centres on people-powered financing and civic ownership.
