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Mr Ishmael Ashitey, Greater Accra Regional Minister, has charged Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies in the Region to strictly enforce their sanitation bye laws devoid of political interference. Mr Ashitey said the indiscriminate dumping of refuse, open defecation and other sanitation challenges are high in the Greater Accra Region due to the inability of the Assemblies to enforce the laws ...

Spain’s impressive start to the Nations League continued as they thrashed World Cup runners-up Croatia. Luis Enrique’s side – who beat England at Wembley in their opener in the competition on Saturday – never looked back after Saul Niguez’s headed opener. Marco Asensio fired in from 20 yards and then, shortly after, saw another rifled effort hit the bar and ...

Uefa plans to introduce a third European club competition alongside the Champions League and Europa League from 2021. Head of the European Club Association, Andrea Agnelli, said “the green light has been given”, pending approval. He did not give any more details on how the tournament would be organised or when it would be staged. Agnelli, who is also chairman ...

The Yendi -Chereponi road in the Northern Region is such in a terrible state that anybody using it will have a story to tell. Following rainfall for almost two weeks, some streams and other water bodies have overflowed their banks making many roads in the region making them inaccessible. Several communities and villages have been cut off due to the ...

The Ghana Physician Assistants Association has vowed not to call off its nationwide strike action unless its demands are met. The Association on Monday directed its members nationwide to lay down their tools to register their displeasure over salary discrepancies that exist within the profession. In an interview on Citi TVs’ major news programme, Citi Newsroom, an executive member of ...

The Atiwa District Chief Farmer, Nana Asare Donkoh, has urged Ghanaians not to politicise the fight against government’s attempt to destroy the Atiwa Forest in the Eastern Region through the mining of bauxite. He argued that the consequence of mining in the forest could affect every Ghanaian. Nana Donkoh observed the decision by the government to mine the bauxite in ...

Farmers in the Northern Region have lamented bitterly about the rate at which their produce get spoilt and wasted at the various farms due to the bad nature of roads in the region. Earlier, a diesel man truck loaded with yams with registration no. BA 93 P, which was travelling from Bimbilla to Kumasi, capsized after getting stuck in the ...

All across the continent, there seems to be a simmering movement among young people to challenge their leaders because of unemployment. Sadly, from the body language, utterances and policy announcements, it does not look like the governments are providing the answers. This is because they are not listening. But, if they cannot see, don’t they hear? Should they wait till ...

A sluggish Ghana Cedi coupled with an apparent weak foreign exchange law is a potentially calamitous combination, traders worry. The Ghana Cedi trades on the interbank market at ȼ4.94 to $1, and sells at ȼ5 on the black market eating away the capital of exporters, importers and automobile spare parts traders. It is becoming increasingly difficult to do business because ...

About 611 women died at birth at the Upper East Regional Hospital in 2017. This was more than 4 times the number that died in 2016. Medics at the hospital blame this mainly on the lack of health facilities to handle the increasing number of referral cases that the hospital receives. “We are doing our best but the pressure that ...