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The death toll from the devastating earthquake that hit Turkey and Syria on Monday is now at least 16,035, according to authorities.In Syria, the total number of fatalities is at least 3,162, including 1,900 in rebel-held areas in the northwest, according to the “White Helmets” civil defense group. Some 1,262 deaths have been recorded in government-controlled …

Ghana is inching closer to meet the 50 per cent local processing target of cocoa beans produced in the country, Minister of Information, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, has hinted. He said the country was currently processing about 43 per cent of cocoa beans locally and was, therefore, confident of meeting the …

Moves by state prosecutors to have a former boss of the Microfinance and Small Loans Centre (MASLOC), Sedina Tamakloe Attionu, tried in absentia have taken a new twist. The Accra High Court is expected to give a ruling on February 28 on whether Attionu should be tried in absentia, but …

The Forestry Commission’s Kyebi District Office arrested nine illegal miners operating in the Saamang Dwaso portion of the Atewa Forest Reserve in the Eastern Region Radio1 100.7 report. The forestry guards surrounded the nine people who were illegally mining at around 5 pm on Tuesday, February 7, 2023, after receiving …

An Environmentalist who doubles as the National Director of Arocha Ghana has told the High Court in Accra that “when the law is contravened” by the Minerals Commission and the Environmental Protection Agency to mine bauxite in the Atewa Forest “we all can see it and we can cry foul.”According …

Pupils and Teachers of Nsuapemso D/A basic school in the Fanteakwa South District in the eastern region went to school to see their school block ripped off due to yesterday’s rainstorm. The rain which started about 5:30pm on Monday 6th February 2023 did not spare the school building. The heavy …

Ghana is putting together a policy framework for cinema to grow the local cinema industry and attract global players, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has said. He said the policy was being designed to have the kind of impact that the automobile policy had made in attracting international vehicle manufacturers …

The Ghana National Gas Company (GNGC) has signed a project agreement for the construction of a second Gas Processing Plant(Train 2).The ceremony was held on Friday at the Gas House Forecourt in Accra. The Gas Processing Plant will have a capacity of 150 million standard cubic feet per day (MMscfd) …

THE government is bridging the gap between the skills acquired by technical, vocational and education training (TVET) and industry. This is in recognition of the fact that the development of skills that meet a changing labour market across a lifetime is crucial for inclusive and sustainable growth, productivity and innovation. …

Turkey has been hit by a second massive earthquake, hours after an earlier catastrophic quake devastated the region and killed more than 1,600 people.The 7.8-magnitude night-time tremor, followed hours later by a slightly smaller one, wiped out entire sections of major Turkish cities in a region filled with millions of people who have …