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The Residents Association of Tema Community 25 on Thursday, May 23, 2019 handed over a newly constructed ultra-modern Police Station to the Inspector General of Police (IGP) at a grand ceremony held at the Kpone Katamanso Municipality of the Greater Accra Region.   The beautifully constructed edifice was officially handed over to the police administration in a bid to beef ...

Sixteen persons have been arrested in connection with the renewed Komkomba, Chokosi conflict in the Chereponi Dirstrict of the North East Region. One of the suspects who fired at security personnel was shot in the thigh and is receiving treatment at the Chereponi hospital under security guard. A number of weapons have also been seized from the feuding factions. According ...

The Minister of Employment and Labour Relations, Mr Ignatius Baffour-Awuah, has underscored the need to uplift the quality of technical and vocational education and training (TVET), as a positive step to address the unemployment situation in the country. He said for instance, research had shown that if 100 people were trained in TVET, about 64 per cent of them set ...

One person is reported dead, while the Chereponi District Coordinating Director, Alhaji Alhassan Fuseini, also sustained gunshot wounds after he was attacked and his official vehicle set ablaze yesterday afternoon. The deceased is yet to be identified. However, Alhaji Fuseini, who was attacked at Garinkuka, a community in the area, is said to be on admission at the Chereponi hospital. ...

All government transactions will be done electronically from June next year, Vice-President Mahamudu Bawumia has said. He said the introduction of the cashless payment system was to reduce corruption, minimise human interaction and ensure efficiency in all government services. “Today, because of mobile money interoperability, Ghanaians are able to pay their taxes through mobile money account. We have, therefore, set ...

The Bono Regional Minister, Mrs Evelyn Kumi-Richardson, has charged staff of the Ghana Immigration Service (GIS) to strengthen their operations at their respective border towns to stop criminals and illegal foreigners from entering the country. She said measures had to be adopted to stop foreigners from entering the country illegally to engage in criminal activities such as kidnapping, armed robbery, ...

The security agencies will today meet the leadership of the Christian community to discuss how to enhance security at the various churches in the wake of the terrorism threat alert on the country. Ahead of the meeting, some churches have begun the process to improve security on their church premises, as well as arm their members with personal security tips. ...

The Bishop of the Diocese of Damongo and Chairman of the Ghana Prisons Council, Most Rev. Peter Paul Angkyier has called for a close stakeholder collaboration to develop the infant Savannah region. As a new region, he said there was the need to learn from the older regions in mobilising our potentials for development. In addressing the regional minister who ...

The Foundation of Generational Thinkers (FOGET), a non-governmental organisation, has reminded the government of the need to put adequate mechanisms in place to ensure that the ongoing registration exercise for the GhanaCard is not infiltrated and hijacked by criminal elements. That, the group said, was to ensure that the cards did not fall in the hands of undesirable elements who ...

The Government has reiterated its commitment to transform Nima, considered as a slum, into world-class communities with executive amenities. According to the Minister of Water Resources, Works and Housing, Samuel Atta-Akyea the redevelopment project which will be expanded to cover Maamobi, will provide the areas with modern housing facilities far better than the apartment complex, Villagio in Accra. President in ...