The Eastern Regional Office of the Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) is encouraging institutions to incorporate anti-smoking education into their programme activities to help increase awareness about smoking risks and promote healthier lifestyles.
The Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) is set to begin an exercise dubbed ‘Operation Fix the Bill & Pay the Bill’ from today, Monday, 6th November to Monday, 11th December 2023 in its operational areas.
President Akufo-Addo has disclosed that his Government, since assuming office in January 2017, has constructed an four hundred and thirty-two kilometres of roads, a feat he describes as unprecedented.
“I have made no attempt to hide my determination to woo the people of the Volta Region to my political party, the NPP. That I have not yet succeeded does not mean I shall stop my efforts. I am convinced that the NPP should be the natural home for the people of the Volta Region, and this is based not just on ideological reasons, but also on historical ones too.”
The government has presented relief items – bags of rice, cartons of oil, detergents, toiletries and water – to flooding victims at Buipe in the Savannah region.
The Director of Finance and Administration at the Ministry of the Interior, Mrs Doreen Annan, has announced that Ghana will soon incorporate community sentencing into its legal system.
Eric Kojo Duah, the 37-year-old man who shot and killed two uniformed police officers on duty at Buduburam near Kasoa in 2019, has been sentenced to 20 years’ imprisonment in hard labour by a High Court in Accra.
Parliament has summoned the National Security Minister, Albert Kan-Dapaah, to appear before it on Thursday, November 9, 2023, to brief the house on the alleged military attacks on residents of Garu and Tempane in the Upper East Region.
Two individuals have appeared before an Accra Circuit Court, accused of defrauding an American of $1,205,000 by falsely promising to supply the victim with seven 20-footer containers of money.
The Volta River Authority (VRA) and the Northern Electricity Distribution Company (NEDCo) (VRA, NEDCo) have disconnected over 9000 customers within the Upper East and North East Regions.
The United States Ambassador to Ghana, Madam Virginia Palmer, has joined Ghana’s Minister for Sanitation and Water Resources, Dr. Freda Prempeh, to launch the U.S. Global Water Strategy High Priority Country Plan for Ghana.
Nineteen kidney patients have died since Ghana’s largest renal centre closed in May due to funding difficulties, the president of the country’s Renal Patients Association has told the BBC.
