The Ghana National Gas Company Ltd (Ghana Gas) will undertake a scheduled maintenance of the Atuabo Gas Processing Plant from Saturday, August 16, to Saturday August 30, this year. During the maintenance period the company would shut down the country’s main natural gas source for two weeks. Though it would affect gas supply for power…
Health authorities at Nalerigu’s Baptist Medical Centre are compelled to treat patients with various infectious diseases in a single makeshift ward because the contractor who was paid ¢4.5 million for the COVID-19 centre abandoned the site. Imagine being in a ward with other patients suffering from different infectious diseases. You have mpox, someone has cholera,…
Engineer and policy analyst Kosi Dedey has attributed the surge in road accidents in Ghana to inadequate driver training and weak vehicle inspection systems at the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Authority (DVLA). Speaking on the Citi Breakfast Show, Mr. Dedey acknowledged that poor road infrastructure contributes to crashes but maintained that better-trained drivers could significantly…
If you read or listen a lot, chances are that you may have probably come across the idiom “old habits die hard.” The expression is a simpler, kinder way of describing the difficulty in changing behavioural patterns or routines that someone or a group has/have been doing for a long time. For this reason, even…
Private legal practitioner Kofi Bentil has said that by-elections in Ghana should be scrapped altogether. According to him, there should be automatic replacement rather than going to the polls to elect a new lawmaker following the demise of a Member of Parliament. He was reacting to the decision by the New Patriotic Party (NPP) to…
The Chief Executive Officer of the National Vaccine Institute (NVI), Dr. Sodzi Sodzi-Tettey, has paid tribute to the late Defence Minister, Dr. Edward Omane Boamah, describing him as a principled and selfless leader who dedicated his position to serving the interests of many rather than his own. “He was there for a larger cause than…
The Kwabenya Circuit Court has sentenced a 58-year-old mason to 10 years’ imprisonment for having sex with his daughter. Joshua Bledi got his 17-year-old daughter pregnant, who has now given birth. The baby is seven months old. Charged with incest, Bledi pleaded guilty. He appealed to the court to have mercy on him, saying…
IMANI Africa’s Honorary Vice President, Bright Simons, has questioned the Ghana Armed Forces’ preparedness for rescue missions in difficult forest terrain following last Wednesday’s tragic military helicopter crash in the Adansi Akrofuom district. Speaking on JoyNews’ PM Express on Monday, August 12, Simons stressed that global standards exist for such operations, and Ghana must adhere…
A coalition of more than 490 youth organizers of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), including both substantive and deputy youth organizers from across Ghana, has declared its firm and unwavering support for former Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia ahead of the party’s presidential primary scheduled for January 2026. The declaration came during a strategic meeting…
The lawyer for Paul Adom-Otchere, who is under investigation by the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP), has defended recent public interventions in his client’s case, arguing they were necessary to challenge what he called excessive bail terms. Responding to criticism sparked by a “thank you” video Adom-Otchere released after securing bail, legal counsel Apraku…
