Travellers who cross the Oti River at Dambai in the Krachi East Municipality of the Volta Region risk their lives daily as they cross the river without life jackets. Hundreds of passengers who travel on the Oti River at Dambai stand the risk of losing their lives when a disaster strikes without steps taken to ensure that the boats observe ...

More than 2.8 million Ghanaians, representing about 10 per cent of the population are living in extreme poverty. The vast number are said to be living below the global poverty line of a $1.9 spending a day. According to the report by the World Poverty Clock, real-time data projections show that about 28 Ghanaians escape extreme poverty every hour, giving ...

Ronaldo and Modric both helped Real Madrid to Champions League glory prior to the former’s move to Juventus, with Salah scoring an incredible 44 goals in all competitions for Liverpool. That means that there’s no place in the final three for Barcelona sensation Lionel Messi, despite his exploits in helping the Catalan giants win the Liga title last season. Modric ...

The Tema LNG Terminal Company Limited on Sunday signed an Agreement with the China Harbour Engineering Company for the construction of the Tema Liquified Natural Gas Terminal to be sited in Tema The LNG Terminal is being constructed on the back of a 12-year gas supply agreement that was executed between the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) and Rosneft, a ...

One of the likeable things about WhatsApp messages is how some of them can get you laughing to the extent that people around turn to look and then bingo, you hit the share button with the intention of getting others to laugh too. Sometimes you succeed, other times you don’t because the person may have received the message thrice already; ...

Christiana Ofori a petty trader at Opeikuma a suburb of Kasoa in the Awutu Senya East District of the Central Region has been brutally raped and beaten by land guards but fortunately has survived to tell her story. Narrating her ordeal to this reporter, the petty trader explained that on the 10th of August 2018, a group of land guards ...

The Ghana Police Service received a total of 201,936 complaints throughout the country in the year 2017 as against 202,276 the previous year. “This represents a decrease of three hundred and forty (340) cases, which translates into -0.2%,” the law enforcement agency stated in its Annual Crime Statistics report for 2017. Out of this total, 191,770 representing 95.0% were registered ...

The Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) recorded a significant drop in neo-natal mortality following the inauguration of a new Mother and Baby Unit (MBU) in April this year. The hospital recorded 2018 neo-natal deaths from April-July in 2018 as against 294 in the same period in 2017, representing a 4.6 per cent drop. Pre-term mortality also reduced greatly from 29.1 ...

The Social Enterprise Development Foundation of West Africa (SEND West Africa) will rolled out a week-long programme beginning on the 30th August, 2018, to celebrate 20 years of exceptional contributions to poverty reduction and the promotion of good governance practices in Ghana and other African countries. The multinational organization was founded in Ghana in 1998, and country programmess in Liberia ...

A Corruption Watch investigation has uncovered how unidentified persons have been staging frequent break-ins at the offices of the Ministry of Justice and Attorney-General in Accra. The incidents have resulted in concerns about tampering with the integrity of the prosecutorial processes as well as the security and safety of the officers of the A-G’s department. According to Corruption Watch sources, ...