The Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) has announced planned maintenance works on Friday, April 21, 2023, in parts of Accra.
The power distributor in a statement said the exercise is to help improve service delivery to customers.
“ECG will undertake planned maintenance works to improve service delivery. Date: Friday, 21st April 2023 Time: 9:00am to 5:00pm”.
Areas to be affected include Tesano,...
Members of Parliament are to cut short their recess period as the Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin is recalling them back to the House.
The MPs are expected to return to the House for sitting on May 2, 2023, to consider what the Speaker of Parliament says is “urgent parliamentary business.”
The House went on break on March 31, 2023, after...
Ghana’s petroleum industry generated a record revenue of US$1.43 billion in 2022, the highest since the inception of oil production in the country.
This was despite a dip in the number of oil barrels drilled in Ghana’s three oil fields –Jubilee, Tweneboa,
Enyera, and Ntomme (TEN) and Sankofa, Gye and Nyame (SGN).
This was contained in the Public Interest and Accountability Committee’s...
The Ministry of Works and Housing has disclosed that, as part of strategies to tackle flooding in vulnerable communities, the government is collaborating with the World Bank to invest $200 million through the Greater Accra Resilient and Integrated Development Project (GARID).
The Ministry made this known at a press conference on incidences of flooding ahead of the rainy season.
Speaking to...
The Member of Parliament for Tamale South, Haruna Iddrisu has made a U-turn on his decision to endorse the interdiction of the headmaster of the Ghana Senior High School (GHANASCO) following reports that a toilet facility has been converted into a dormitory.
The immediate past Minority Leader after visiting the school and getting detailed information said the initial reports that...
The Managing Director of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG), Samuel Dubik Mahama has confirmed that former President John Dramani Mahama pays his own electricity bills.
Mr Mahama in September 2022 was attacked by loyalists of the New Patriotic Party after he disclosed that he pays all his bills including electricity and water bills.
“I receive only my monthly pension like...
A student has been killed at the University of Khartoum after being hit by a stray bullet amid continuing deadly clashes in Sudan's capital city.
A Facebook post, verified by the BBC, said the body was buried on campus after safe passage off site could not be secured.
Sudan has been rocked by violence since tensions spilled over between the army...
The Ghana Armed Forces (GAF) have uncovered an illegal explosives manufacturing hub in Tarkwa, Western Region, resulting in the arrest of 13 foreign nationals.
The syndicate, comprising eight Chinese, three Togolese, an Ivorian, and a Nigerian, were found to be producing over 20,000 pieces of illegal explosives, including around 10,000kg of ammonium nitrate concealed in flour and rice sacks.
“Most of...
The West African Examination Council (WAEC) Ghana, has released the timetable for candidates who will be writing the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) this year, 2023.
WAEC in a statement said the first papers will be written on Monday, August 7, 2023.
Subjects to be written on August 7 include: Religious and Moral Education 2 (Essay), Religious and Moral Education 1...
The Narcotics Control Commission (NACOC) has arrested a Kenyan national, Njeri Mary, for smuggling 11.04 kilogrammes of cocaine into Ghana.
She was nabbed at the arrival hall of the Kotoka International Airport (KIA) when she came in from Nairobi via a South African Airways flight.
Njeri Mary according to NACOC was in possession of cocaine worth $309,120.
NACOC in a statement dated...
