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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 ...

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, ...

The exponential growth rate of plastics use and its alarming mismanagement, include wide spread littering and its associated environmental and health risk in Ghana has prompted the Ministry of Environment, science and technology and Innovation (MESTI) to find a sustainable way to curb this menace and turn plastics into a resource for creating employment and improving the living standards of ...

The Coalition of Concerned Teachers (CCT) has given government a deadline of next month October 31 to ensure that the salary arrears owed over 42,000 teachers across the country are cleared or face industrial action. “This we will do even if only one affected person is not paid before the deadline of October 31.2018,” warned the Concerned Teachers in a ...