By Richard Attenkah Alhaji Collins Dauda, Minister for Water Resources, Works and Housing, has given a-two-month ultimatum to squatters who have invaded the government Affordable Housing project at Kpone, near Tema, to vacate the uncompleted buildings or face forceful ejection. This follows a concern raised by the management of the Tema Development Corporation (TDC) over [...]
By Richard Attenkah Following the numerous fire outbreaks across the country lately, a combined team of personnel from the Tema Metropolitan Assembly (TMA), Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) and Ghana National Fire Service, on Wednesday, embarked on an inspection tour of the Tema main market. The purpose was to have firsthand information about the operations [...]
Compiled by Richard Attenkah Alhaji Ahmed Yahaya, Chairman of the Tema branch of the Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT), has been re-elected to run for another four year term. His re-election formed part of the 4th Quadrennial Delegates’ Conference of the Association, which was also used to elect new executive members for the Tema [...]
By Richard Attenkah But for the timely intervention of personnel from the Ashaiman branch of the Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS), with support from their counterparts from the Tema Metropolis, gadgets and equipment belonging to the Ashaiman-based Sena Radio would have been destroyed by fire last Friday. The firefighters arrived at the scene fully armed, [...]
By Bernice Bessey It was a sad scene at Kantamanto on Sunday, when a raging fire spread through the market destroying items amounting to millions of cedis, when many of the traders had retired to their homes to rest for the week ahead. The fire, according to eyewitnesses, started at about hours 4:10 p.m. and [...]
By Bernice Bessey A tour through the various principal markets in the Accra Metropolis like Agbogloshie, Mallam Atta, Kaneshie, Mallam, Salaga, Makola, Kantamanto and others have nothing close to neatness in places where foodstuffs are sold for human consumption. The traders, at the end of the day, leave heaps of refuse behind, to the discomfort [...]
By Bernice Bessey Every year a large number of Ghanaian students travel to the United Kingdom (UK), United State of Americas and other European countries in pursuance of international undergraduate and Masters degrees to enhance the country’s human resource capacity. Since the world is becoming more of a global village than ever before, Lancaster University [...]
The National Service Personnel Association (NASPA), in collaboration with the National Service Secretariat, over the weekend showed a sense of patriotism and willingness to serve the good people of Ghana by donating blood to alleviate blood shortage in the National Blood Bank. The blood donation, which took place in three regions, namely Greater Accra, [...]
By Bernice Bessey Amina Mohammed is a 30 year-old ice water seller, who does her trading activities mostly at Nima, Mammobi and Mallam Atta markets. She is a single mother with three children. She hails from Sandema in the Builsa District in the Upper East Region, and lives in Nima, one of the biggest Zongo [...]
Compiled by Richard Attenkah The members of the Tema District Council of Labour (TDCL) have given a one week ultimatum to the government to, as a matter of urgency, convene an emergency National Tripartite Committee Meeting to discuss the minimum wage, or it would advise itself. According to them, they were shocked when the [...]