The Deputy Director-General in charge of Operations at the State Interests and Governance Authority (SIGA), Millicent Aguwine Atuguba, has urged National Democratic Congress (NDC) communicators to build strong, strategic and professional relationships with media practitioners to effectively communicate the government’s achievements. She said effective media engagement was critical to ensuring that government policies, programmes and development initiatives reached the public, particularly people at the grassroots. Atuguba made the call at a capacity-building workshop for NDC communicators in the Upper East Region on the theme, “The Role of Government Communicators in Advancing the Reset Agenda.” She encouraged communicators to familiarise themselves with journalists, media houses and programmes operating in their respective constituencies and provide them with timely, accurate and credible information. According to her, communicators should not wait for controversies or crises bef...
A major power outage has disrupted electricity supply across several parts of Ghana, leaving homes, businesses and other facilities without power in the early hours of Thursday, August 20, 2026. The outage was widely reported in Accra, with residents in Adabraka, Weija, Tesano, Achimota, Dzorwulu, Legon, Madina, Adenta, North Kaneshie and Oyarifa experiencing interruptions from around 4:15 a.m. Reports also indicated power disruptions in parts of the Eastern, Central and Ashanti regions. As of the time of reporting, the cause of the widespread outage had not been officially established. Power sector authorities had also not announced a definite timeline for the restoration of electricity to all affected communities. The disruption left residents and businesses waiting for updates, with several affected customers taking to social media to express frustration over the sudden loss of power. The latest outage comes barely three weeks after a major power interruption on July 29, which...