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Security officials in Yemen confirm that a boat carrying at least 150 African migrants has capsized off a southern province, killing at least 30 people including five women and children. The officials said on Tuesday that the boat capsized on Sunday off the coast of Shabwa province. They say most of the passengers were Somali migrants. The narrow waters between the ...

A Market Surveillance conducted by the Ghana Standard Authority (GSA) has revealed that 96 per cent of electrical products sold at the Opera Square and Zongo lane, in Accra were counterfeit and failed to meet standards. The Surveillance discovered that, out of the 204 electrical products sampled for laboratory testing, more than 92 per cent of them failed to meet ...

The National Service Scheme (NSS) is set to deploy an enforcement team to all private and public organisations across the country to weed out workers who have not undertaken their mandatory national service. A statement issued by the NSS said the enforcement team would visit both private and public organisations across the country to ensure that Act 426 (1980) of the NSS is complied with, and ...

The National Entrepreneurship and Innovation Plan-NEIP, under the Ministry of Business Development has announced the call for application under the WINDOW 2 of the NEIP Presidential Business Support Programme. NEIP is a flagship program of the Government of Ghana to support and promote entrepreneurship and business development. NEIP was launched by the president, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo with a seed ...

Zoomlion Ghana has delivered 500 new waste management trucks to Metropolitan Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDA’s) across the country in a response to government’s agenda of a good environmental health condition within cities. It is projected that the move will create additional 300 direct jobs and 1,000 indirect jobs in various MMDA’s. The trucks, however, are expected to go to ...

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 ...

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 ...