Category
September 10, 2024
FIDIC 2024: Government’s Investment in Roads Key to Poverty Reduction – Asenso-Boakye
Francis Asenso-Boakye, the Minister for Roads and Highways, says road infrastructure plays a critical role in reducing poverty and improving economic opportunities in Ghana.
Speaking at the 2024 ‘International Federation of Consulting Engineers’ – F…
Israeli strikes in southern, western Lebanon, kill one and wound 10
An Israeli drone on Tuesday fired several missiles at a flat in a five-story building in the market town of Nabatieh in southern Lebanon, wounding eight people, according to an initial toll announced by the Lebanese Health Ministry.
It was not immed…
Jordanians vote in parliamentary elections overshadowed by Gaza war
Jordanians are voting on Tuesday to elect a new parliament, as the Gaza war continues to cast its shadow on the kingdom’s politics, security and economy.
More than 5 million people are registered to elect the 138 members of the House of Representati…
UN commission says violence in Syria on the rise again
The conflict in Syria, which has been going on since 2011, is threatening to escalate again, a United Nations commission has warned.
Syria is experiencing ‘new waves of hostilities’, said Paulo Pinheiro, chairman of the UN’s Syria Commission of Inqu…
Thousands turn out for the 2024 KGL Foundation millennium marathon
Thousands of runners filled the streets of Accra for the 2024 KGL Foundation Millennium Marathon, an event that saw participants from various African countries, including Ivory Coast, Kenya, and Ethiopia.
The marathon featured two main races: a 5-ki…
Fidelity Bank renovates CT Scan room at Agogo Presbyterian Hospital
Fidelity Bank, Ghana’s largest privately-owned indigenous bank, has renovated the Computed Tomography (CT) Scan room at Agogo Presbyterian Hospital in the Ashanti Region.
The gesture was in response to an appeal by the Hospital for enhanced quality …
PWDs reject wheelchairs donated by Ghana Federation of Disability
Wheelchairs donated to Persons With Disability (PWDs), by the Ghana Federation of Disability (GFD) have continued to be unused and left to the mercy of the weather in the Krachi East Municipality.
The wheelchairs were donated to support the mobility…
Democracy flourishes on an informed media – Minister
Madam Fatimatu Abubakar, the Minister of Information, has called on journalists to avail themselves of capacity building programmes, saying a flourishing democracy is built on an informed media.
She said the media was a strong instrument that carrie…
Championing community development, a means to national growth
The Assembly Members for Upper and Lower New Takoradi electoral areas in the Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolis of the Western Region, have called on the government to prioritise community development to contribute to nation-building.
With that, the Assem…
NPP Parliamentary Primary disturbance: Calm restored, one person arrested
The Police have restored calm at Walewale after the vote-counting process in the ongoing re-run of the New Patriotic Party Parliamentary Primary was disrupted.
Kamara Bawah, a suspect, has also been arrested for causing damage to some ballot papers,…