Ghana’s President Akufo-Addo said he hoped Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger would rejoin the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) regional bloc, in an interview with FRANCE 24.
The three-day demonstration against illegal mining, commonly known as galamsey, led by youth activists, concluded on Saturday, October 5, with a vigil at the forecourt of Accra Sports Stadium.
Togbe Afede XIV, the Agbogbomefia of Asogli has established a formal institution for the development of traditional leadership on the African continent.
Over 3,000 Youth Employment Agency (YEA) beneficiaries have received vital equipment and financial support to kickstart their entrepreneurial journeys.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration has issued a pressing advisory, urging all Ghanaian nationals in Lebanon to leave the country with immediate effect.
The Paramount chief of Lower Axim Traditional Area, Awulae Attibrukusu III and some members of the traditional council have arrested two Ghanaians and a Chinese at the Ewuku galamsey site in the Nzema-East Municipality.
A 28-year-old miner has been sentenced to 12 years imprisonment in hard labour by the Tarkwa Circuit Court for stabbing a mason with a knife on his back severally at Nsuaem in the Western Region.
Works on the 50-megawatt solar power plant being constructed at Galgu in the Yendi Municipality of the Northern Region, is expected to be completed by November this year.
President Akufo-Addo has called on organised labour to reconsider its planned nationwide strike set for October 10, citing his commitment to tackling illegal mining, a pressing concern for the unions.
Any tertiary institution that continues to run programmes at unaccredited centres will have its accreditation for those programmes revoked, the Director-General of the Ghana Tertiary Education Commission (GTEC), Professor Abdulai Jinapor, has said.
The Weija Circuit Court has remanded Bismark Owusu, a 21-year-old unemployed man, into custody for two weeks, for stealing and causing damage to electricity meters.
The Tarkwa Circuit Court has sentenced Alfred Essuman Aimar, a baker, to 25 years imprisonment with hard labour for defiling an 11-year-old pupil at Prestea in the Western Region.
