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Toilet Day: Over 1,500 residents register for household toilets in Greater Kumasi
The Greater Kumasi Sanitation Project, an intervention by city authorities, to reduce open defecation in parts of Ashanti Region, is yielding positive...
Landlord jailed for renting out facility without toilet
A landlord has been sentenced for renting out his building without a toilet facility to tenants.
Abdulai Maman pleaded...
Teachers to boycott class as residents turn school into toilet facility [Video]
Teachers at Mosama Primary School, Sankore in the Asunafo South District of the Ahafo Region, have threatened to boycott teaching as residents...
Sanitation Minister commissions €20mwastewater treatment plant
The Minister of Sanitation and Water Resources (MSWR), Cecilia Abena Dapaah, has commissioned a new state-of-the-art Kumasi Wastewater Treatment Plant (KWTP) at...
AFAG reacts to calls on govt to FixTheCountry
Pro-New Patriotic Party (NPP) pressure group, Alliance for Accountable Governance (AFAG), says the ongoing #FixTheCountry campaign is without merit and must not...
Govt to introduce sanitation levy
The government of Ghana is set to introduce a sanitation and pollution levy (SPL) to accrue revenue to keep the environment clean.
Association of Garages demand immediate transfer of Weija lands to them
The Ghana National Association of Garages (GNAG) is demanding the immediate transfer of their New Weija lands from SSNIT to them.
Accra is on course in becoming cleanest city in Africa – Cecilia Dapaah
Sanitation and Water Resources Minister-designate, Cecilia Abena Dapaah, has said the government is on course in making the national capital, Accra, the...
FLT. LT. Jerry John Rawlings the Revolutionary: His passion for Green Revolution and the...
Long before the world woke up to the universal call on Climate Change and Global Warming, J.J Rawlings was already leading the...
Sanitation Ministry honours Afriyie Wutah
Minister of Sanitation and Water Resources, Cecelia Abena Dapaa, has honoured highlife musician Afriyie Wutah.
The Minister, speaking at...
Akufo-Addo cuts sod for solid waste plant in Bono East
President Akufo-Addo has cut the sod for the construction of a solid waste treatment facility at Fiaso in the Techiman South Municipal...
Residents turn church into public place of convenience [photos]
The Central Tongu District assembly is worried about increasing trend of open defecation despite measures to mitigate it.
It...
Summary of key issues, proposals presented by the NDC’s technical coronavirus team
The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has outlined key issues it deems pertinent in helping fight against the novel convid-19 pandemic in Ghana.
God will fight Ghana’s battle but attitudinal change is critical – Jackson College principal
The Principal of Jackson College of Education has admonished
Ghanaians to learn to be law-abiding in order to build a civilized and...
I couldn’t walk the next day – Woman, 80, talks about her first sexual...
Iris Jones, the 80-year-old British pensioner who is planning to marry her 35-year-old Egyptian toyboy despite the age difference between them,...
Momoni, the special one or the ‘stinking’ ingredient?
One could be misled by the nose and miss out on a delicious culinary journey in a Ghanaian environment because of the...
Africa’s solution to waste management and portable sanitation
In
a bid to get closer to the Millennium Development Goal of halving the
2.5 billion people without sanitation access, innovative solutions...
PDS scandal: ‘Some NDC members bribed to give govt bad press’
A communications team member of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) is alleging majority of National Democratic Congress (NDC) members demonising the government...
Gov’t right in terminating PDS concession – Ursula Owusu
Minister for Communications, Mrs Ursula Owusu-Ekuful, has said the government has done no wrong in terminating its concession agreement with Power Distribution...
Audio: Chief assaulted for seizing timber from illegal chainsaw operators
The Krontihene of Nwomoasi, a suburb of Atebubu, Nana Kwame Tutu, has accused some police officers at the...
Stop writing letters to me – Ursula to Ato Forson
Communication Minister, Ursula Owusu Ekuful has urged Former Deputy Finance Minister Cassiel Ato Forson to stop writing letters to her.
Citizens urged to massively vote Yes on referendum day
Hajia Alima Mahama, the Minister for Local Government and Rural Development, has called the public to come out massively to vote in...
“Sanction households without toilet facilities” – Hajia Alima
The Minister for Local Government and Rural Development, Hajia Alima Mahama, has urged Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDAs) to...
World Vision invests $400,000 in Krachi East annually to improve standard of living
Non-Governmental Organisation, World Vision, Ghana is embarking on series of intervention programmes in Krachi East Municipality to help improve standard of living...
Visitors at Atwedia can defecate only in the bush
Residents of Atwedia, a farming community in the Asante Akyem South Municipality in the Ashanti region, are appealing to the government to...
75-year-old widow borrowed from savings and loans firm to build toilet
Madam Georgina Kyeremaalo, a 75-year-old widow, has constructed a
toilet facility for a household of 15 from money she borrowed from a...
Photos: Kakum elephants destroying cocoa farms at Assin Abodwesaso
Some Cocoa Farmers at Assin Abodwesaso in the Assin South District of the Central Region, are expressing concern about rampaging elephants destroying their cocoa...
Ho: Houses without toilets given 4-month ultimatum
The Ho Municipal Assembly (HMA) has given a four-month ultimatum to households and institutions without toilet and hand washing facilities to fix the anomaly.
A...
World Vision sensitization helps 131 communities to achieve ODF status
World Vision Ghana through their WASH program has been able to educate about 131 communities in both Nkwanta South Municipality and Kadjebi District in...
3 out of 10 food vendors suffering from Hepatitis B – Environmental officer
Environmental Health Officer for Nkwanta South Municipal in the Volta Region, Cynthia Sekyere has revealed that three out of every 10 food vendors in...
Don’t accept marriage proposals of men who don’t have toilets in their homes –...
The Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) of the Komenda-Edina-Eguafo-Abbrem (KEEA) Municipality, Nana Appiah Korang has advised women not to accept marriage proposals of men who...
No toilet, no light – MCE orders
Municipal Chief Executive for Hohoe, Teddy Ofori, has asked the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG), not to give electricity metres to households without toilet...
Bimbilla: More than 1,600 students share one toilet with town folks
Increasing pressure on existing infrastructure at the Senior High School (SHS) level has left more than 1,600 students of the Bimbilla Senior High School in...
1 toilet, 1 household policy on course- Akufo-Addo
The president Nana Akufo-Addo says his government’s one household; one toilet facility promise is on course to improve the poor sanitation situation in Ghana.
In...
Mahama Attacks Otabil Over Animal TV
Former President John Dramani Mahama has launched a veiled attack on Pastor Mensa Anamoah Otabil, founder of International Central Gospel Church (ICGC), virtually labeling...
Assemblyman caught defecating at the beach
The Assemblyman for Sidi-Ahwene Electoral Area in the Komedna-Edina-Eguafo- Abirem (KEAA) Municipality has been arrested for openly defecating at a beach in Elmina.
The man...
Joy News’ Ivy Setordzie, Hubert Yevu-Agbi snatch top GJA awards
Two Joy News’ Volta Regional Correspondents have swept key awards at the maiden edition of the region's Ghana Journalist Association (GJA) Awards 2017.
Ivy Setordzie...
HOT AUDIO: Savelugu-Nanton hospital patients share wards with dead bodies
Patients at the Savelugu-Nanton hospital in the Northern Region are compelled to share wards with dead bodies in a testament to deplorable state of...