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The Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA), or city council, has renewed its efforts to decongest city centre streets with the demolition of temporary wooden structures used by petty traders around Kwame Nkrumah Circle and outside the School of Law at Makola....
>moreInvestigations are under way into allegations of misappropriation of public funds in the celebration of Ghana’s golden jubilee in 2007. The inquiry is being carried out by an independent three-member commission chaired by Mr Justice Isaac Douse, an appeal court...
>moreFollowing measures undertaken in a collaboration between Cuba based Biological and Pharmaceutical Laboratory Enterprise Group (LABIOFAM) and Ghana’s ministry of health, the incidence of malaria in Accra dropped by 62.2 per cent during the 10 month period from February 2008...
>moreThe government of new president John Atta Mills has increased the price of all petroleum products in Ghana by 30 per cent. Under the new tariff structure petrol costs GH˘5.10 per gallon compared to the previous GH˘3.80, while diesel is...
>moreGhana’s International Institute for ICT Journalism has launched a project to support journalists covering the country’s nascent commercial oil and gas industry. The initiative, known as “Reporting oil and Gas”, involves the provision of information and resources through the dedicated...
>moreUnited States president Barack Obama will be in Ghana from 10-11 July on his first official visit to sub-Saharan Africa since taking office in January. The trip is expected to highlight “the critical role that sound governance and civil society...
>moreKwame Nkrumah memorial park to get facelift.
Friday, May 15th 2009Kwame Nkrumah memorial park in central Accra is to get a facelift, vice president John Mahama has said. The site, which includes a mausoleum containing the remains of independent Ghana’s founding father and first president (1909-1972) and his Egyptian wife Fathia...
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