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Fuel prices to fall between 2% and 9% from April 1 Fuel prices will fall between 2% and 9% for the third consecutive time from April 1, 2023, with Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) expected to witness its biggest decline in recent times. According to the Institute for Energy Security, LPG …

A five-member committee of inquiry has been inaugurated by the Deputy minister-designate of Local Government Osei Bonsu Amoah in Kumasi. The Committee Chair by Professor The Ophiuchus Adjei-Kumi from KNUST’s Department of Construction Technology and management. The Committee has three weeks to investigate the cause of the Kejetia Market and …

The Police, through an intelligence operation on 27th March 2023, arrested three suspects for possession of firearms without lawful authority and acts of vigilantism at Japa near Wassa Akropong in the Western Region. The three suspects, Godfred Appiah alias Nana Kobina Gyan, Isaac Amoako alias Nana Owusu and Theophilus Yeboah …

Ghana COCOBOD has rolled out the first phase of the COCOA Farmers PENSION Scheme. The first phase would be implemented in Ashanti and Western South Regions. President Akufo-Addo launched the Cocoa Farmers Pension Scheme in October 2021. It was the hope of Cocoa farmers to see the Scheme rolled out …

The Police in the Suaman Dadieso District in the Western North Region have intercepted 336 bags of cocoa beans supposedly being to the neighbouring Ivory Coast for sale. Cocoa bean smuggling has been a common norm among some residents in the Suaman Dadieso District over the years. Due to that, …

Authorities of the Ghana water company limited in the central region say activities of illegal miners on the pra river which serves as the raw water seriously affect the quality of water they process due to high turbidity. One of the company’s distribution plants at Sekyre heman currently can only …

The Member of Parliament for Assin South District, who doubles as the Deputy Minister of Education, Rev. John Ntim Fordjour, has called on the residents of the district to assist the police in combating crime in the area. According to him, the detection and prevention of crime is a shared …

The 1st accused person, Ebenezer Gblorkpor was found guilty and convicted on Counts 1, 2 and 4. The 2nd accused person, Afetorgbor Kpogo was found guilty and convicted on Count 1. The 3rd accused person. Joseph Nyamewu, the 4th accused person, Wisdom Kuvor and the 5th accused person Israel Bessah …

Information coming in from Wassa Abuom in the Wassa Amenfi Central of the Western Region has it that, a gold dealer, identified as Mr. Insor has been shot by unknown gunmen. Before the incident happened, the unit committee chairman of Wassa Abuom, Mr. Bright Arhinful had earlier warned the victim …

Illegal miners have burned mining equipment worth millions of Ghana cedis belonging to the Golden Star Resources Wassa mine. Reports indicate that armed illegal miners yesterday stormed the mining site and the administration of the company at Ningo and Subriso here in the Western Region setting ablaze almost all the …