The Multimedia Group Limited, owners of Joy FM, has been given a three-day ultimatum to retract a running story on its networks concerning an alleged inflated contract involving five subsidiaries of the Jospong Group. Joy FM had reported that the contract awarded by the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development for the procurement of … Read more
Desperate to turn the tide in its war on rats, New York unveiled a new $32 million effort Wednesday to cull thousands of them with rodent-proof trash cans and tighter garbage rules. Rodents are one of the least savory aspect of life in America’s financial and cultural capital, a daily menace scurrying between subway tracks … Read more
The National Service Scheme (NSS) has partnered with Melchia Investments Ghana Limited (MIGL), a waste management firm, to tackle waste in Ghana using technology in the National Waste Bin Distribution Project (NaWaBin). Explaining how the technology will work while speaking on Ghana Yensom on Accra100.5FM on Monday April 10, Ernest Adade, Head, Geographical Information System … Read more
Neighbours forced their way into Mohammad Umair’s home battling smoke and flames in a desperate bid to rescue his young family — he and his wife survived, their children did not. The fire began in a heap of garbage which blocked the narrow alley outside the five-storey building and quickly spread inside, engulfing the family … Read more
“Accra, is very dirty and posing a lot of health hazards to the citizenry. The biggest vision I have got is to see how to tackle this problem,” Greater Accra Regional Minister, Ishmael Ashitey, said when he took his turn at the vetting of regional minister-designates last week. Mr. regional Minister, indeed, Accra is not … Read more
It has always been a great concern to me how Ghana is being left to suffer environmental degradation by the unconscious or conscious actions of our leaders and us. The way our cities, towns and villages are nonchalantly left to the mercy of plastic bags littering and our farmlands subjected to extensively uncontrollable damaging surface … Read more
It has always been a great concern to me how Ghana is being left to suffer environmental degradation by the unconscious or conscious actions of our leaders and us. The way our cities, towns and villages are nonchalantly left to the mercy of plastic bags littering and our farmlands subjected to extensively uncontrollable damaging surface … Read more
News Ghana has observed with keen interest the increasing number of major roads in the capital been turned into refuse dumps and wish to call on the Metro Authority to rise to the occasion. Places such as the Kaneshie-Accra stretch and the market, Lapaz Tema Station area and around Tudu are but a few of … Read more
About 200 National Service Personnel within the Western Region have been assigned with the collection of household data to help in the distribution of litter bins. The module introduced by the National Service Scheme last year would help ensure a clean country as well as enhance good data collection for planning and development purposes. Madam … Read more