Articles from the ‘Other News’ category

Over 500 food vendors in Accra dragged to court

Posted by on March 16, 2011 at 4:35 pm in Court News, Local News, Other News

Over 500 food venders in Accra have been dragged to court for selling food without following due processes. Director of Metro Public Health at the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) Dr. S.A Boateng has disclosed to Adom News that the vendors involved refused to undertake a medical examination as required by the Metro Public Health. Dr. [...]

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Ministry renews curfew on Gushegu and Bawku

Posted by on at 10:49 am in Local News, Other News

The Minister for the Interior has renewed the curfews imposed on the Bawku Municipality and the Gushegu and their immediate environs with effect from Monday March 14, 2011. A statement in Accra signed by Dr Benjamin Kunbuor, Minister for the Interior on Tuesday, said this was on the advice of the Upper East and Northern [...]

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Teachers accuse Ghana police of assaulting them

Posted by on March 15, 2011 at 4:16 pm in Local News, Other News

Teachers in the Brekum Municipality in the Brong Ahafo region are demanding an immediate apology from the Police for beating their colleagues in Accra last Friday. The Police in their bid to disperse the demonstrating teachers fired tear gas, claiming the teachers were riotous. The teachers accuse the police of assaulting them. The teachers who [...]

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Police in Kumasi arrest two over murder of a middle-aged woman

Posted by on March 10, 2011 at 2:23 pm in Local News, Other News

Police in Kumasi have arrested two persons suspected to be behind the murder of a middle-aged woman at Abrepo, a suburb of the metropolis. The woman is reported to have left her matrimonial home at a village near Dunkwaw in the Central Region to visit her in-laws following a quarrel with the husband. The Divisional [...]

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B/A chiefs laud Prez MILLS

Posted by on March 9, 2011 at 10:17 am in Local News, Other News

*Over B/A university Chiefs in the Brong Ahafo region have commended President John Evans Atta Mills for fulfilling a major campaign promise to the region by helping the region to have a university. According to the chiefs, the coming of the university will improve education and economic activities in the region. Addressing journalists in Sunyani, [...]

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CHRAJ commends Anas’

Posted by on March 3, 2011 at 11:27 am in Local News, Other News

The Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) on Wednesday commended Mr Anas Aremeyaw Anas, an Investigative Journalist and the New Crusading Guide Newspaper for their contribution in the fight against corruption in the country. The massive exposition of corrupt practices and abuses in the cocoa industry, the Accra Psychiatric Hospital, Osu Children’s Home [...]

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NADMO prepares communities in the Central Region for rains

Posted by on March 1, 2011 at 11:53 am in Local News, Other News

The National Disaster Management Organization (NADMO) has initiated an outreach programme to tour the districts and municipalities of the Central Region to sensitize communities in flood prone areas on how to curb floods. Alhaji Osamn Moro Fukuyama, Deputy Regional NADMO Coordinator, announced this when he visited Apam in the Gomoa West District to meet Disaster [...]

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NCCE calls for re-demarcation of Wa East and Nadowli Districts

Posted by on at 11:10 am in Local News, Other News

The Upper West Regional Director of the National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE) Mr Ben Banye, has said that the structures of some Assemblies in the region are not in consonance with the participation of local governance. Mr Banye who made the observation at a staff durbar on Saturday at Wa, called for the re-demarcation [...]

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