The Ghana Navy on Saturday foiled a pirate attack on a Nigerian cargo vessel, MT Mariam and captured all eight bandits. The pirates were armed, but no one, including a nine-member crew aboard MT Mariam, was injured when the Ghana Navy crew aboard GNS BLIKA effected the arrest. According to the Public Relations Officer of … Continue reading
Two policemen and a Nigerian have been nabbed by the Volta Regional Police Command for allegedly attempting to transport a large quantity of Indian hemp in a police van to Togo. The suspects were arrested on Saturday dawn around 2:30am at a police check-point at Sokode-Lokoe near Ho after the police had a tip-off that … Continue reading
The management of Graphic Communications Group Limited has increased the prices of the Daily Graphic and The Mirror by 25%; thus from GH₵ 2 to GH₵ 2.50, due to ‘rising cost’ of inputs attributed to the depreciation of Ghana’s cedi against major international currencies. In a release published on its website, management of Graphic noted … Continue reading
The board of the National Service Scheme has dismissed the Acting Executive Director, Alhaji Alhassan Imoro, with immediate effect, TV3 can confirm. He has been, consequently, handed over to the Bureau of National Investigations (BNI) for further interrogations. The decision was taken on Friday, October 3 by the board after an emergency meeting, which reviewed … Continue reading
Despite Ghana’s capacity to effectively prevent andtreat breast cancer locally, about a third of people diagnosed as having breast cancer die annually. The high rate of death resulting from cancer has been attributed, mainly, to ignorance and delay in reporting the health condition to health facilities for treatment. According to the Head of the Department of Surgery at University … Continue reading
Health authorities in the Asante-Akyem South district of the Ashanti region have initiated investigation into claims that water from a borehole at Adomfe has medicinal properties. Officials from the District Health Directorate have already visited the town to take samples of the water for testing, following media reports of people trooping there to buy water for healing purposes, myjoyonline reported … Continue reading
Residents of Agape near Accra are living in fear because of threats from a gang which calls itself the Armed Robbers Association (ARA). The gang had given the residents of the community a deadline of December 30,2013 to pay not less than GHC 500 per tenant in each household to avoid incurring its wrath. But … Continue reading
“Christmas presents a special occasion to put a smile on the faces of the marginalized and ignored in society”. It is for this reason we are 233 Live News support the cause of The Chaucer Community Development Organization(CCDO)-UK in partnership with The Achievers Foundation(TAF)-GH who are dedicating their time, money and energy towards raising funds to … Continue reading
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