Month: January 2023

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) says it is taking steps to regulate noise pollution by collaborating with Members of Parliament and other government agencies across the country. The Agency in the past week, embarked on a monitoring and enforcement exercise across the country to sensitize the public and enforce regulations on noise pollution throughout the festive season. The Executive Director of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Dr Henry Kwabena Kokofu in an interview with Citi News, underscored the importance of the exercise which he said also formed part of a mapping initiative to determine which areas are defaulting on the country’s…

Ghana’s Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) has cautioned the general public against the consumption of aquatic mammals that are washed ashore. This comes after a video circulating on social media showed a gigantic whale washed ashore at Tema in the Greater Accra region on December 30, 2022. In a circular sighted by wontumionline.com, the FDA noted that the consumption of such mammals washed ashore, may be harmful to one’s health especially when the cause of death remains unknown at the time of its sighting. The Authority also added that it has since made arrangements to prevent people from gaining access to…

Former Pope Benedict XVI has died at his Vatican residence, aged 95, almost a decade after he stood down because of ailing health. He led the Catholic Church for less than eight years until, in 2013, he became the first Pope to resign since Gregory XII in 1415. Benedict spent his final years at the Mater Ecclesiae monastery within the walls of the Vatican. His successor Pope Francis said he had visited him there frequently. Although the former pontiff had been ill for some time, the Holy See said there had been an aggravation in his condition because of advancing…

Founder of the Action Faith Chapel International, Archbishop Nicholas Duncan-Williams has declared how long he will live on earth. He told a packed congregation at the 2022 31st Watchnight service in Accra that he has 35 more years to live on earth after which he will determine whether he wants to continue living or return to his maker. He was delivering a sermon that bordered on the need to continually take stock of one’s life and also to plan for the remainder of one’s life on earth. “Every year, you are losing. You are losing the years. I am 65…

Reverend Isaac Owusu Bempah delivered a mixed bag of prophecies in the wee hours of Sunday, January 1, 2023; cautioning that only prayers could help avert some of the unpalatable incidents God had revealed to him. Leading the congregation through the 31st December Watchnight Service at the headquarters of the Glorious Word Power Ministries International (GWPMI), he emphasized that men of God in and of themselves did not prophesy except what God had revealed to them. His list of prophecies, 18 per GhanaWeb count, spanned incidents that were bound to bring grief and doom but interspersed were others that gave…

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has sent his New Year greetings to the nation. He wished ‘fellow Ghanaians’ a Happy and Prosperous New Year stressing that 2023 was going to be a good one for Ghana. A terse message on a flyer posted on his Twitter handle hours after midnight of 31st December 2022 read: “Wishing you, my Fellow Ghanaians, a Happy and Prosperous New Year. 2023 promises to be a good one for our country.” 2023 is the seventh year of Akufo-Addo’s tenure as president. It is the third of his second term after winning reelection in 2020. Most…