DOSSIER: Roads -Death Traps

Presidential Convoy Deaths

• I’m committed to fixing Ghana’s bad roads – Nana Addo assures (2019-10-22)
• 97-year-old bridge in Breman Kuntanase collapses (2019-10-22)
• Roads Minister backs arrest of jaywalkers on Madina-Adentan highway (2019-10-19)
• Insult Akufo-Addo and have your contracts cancelled - Roads Minister to contractors (2019-10-15)
• Roads Minister to crack the whip on contractors (2019-10-14)
• Roads Minister to crack the whip on contractors (2019-10-14)
• Roads Minister to crack the whip on contractors (2019-10-14)
• Akufo-Addo cuts sod for GHC145 million Kwabeng-Abomosu road (2019-10-13)
• Government releases GHC1.6 billion to settle contractors (2019-10-12)
• Roads constructed by Akufo-Addo government will last for 30 years – Minister (2019-10-12)
• Demo hits Roads Minister over developmental projects (2019-10-02)
• Woman gives birth in the middle of Dambai road (2019-10-02)
• 'No road, no vote' street protest hits government in East Mamprusi (2019-09-29)
• Shots fired as drivers invade MCE’s office to protest poor roads (2019-09-25)
• Nkroful residents celebrate Kwame Nkrumah's birthday with deplorable road (2019-09-21)
• 4 burnt beyond recognition in ghastly car crash (2019-09-19)
• Okyenhene calls on government to fix Eastern Region roads (2019-09-15)
• 2 die in crash on Obuasi road (2019-09-14)
• Residents of Teshie still in distress over condition of Lekma road (2019-09-07)
• Fix Volta roads or we march – Group to government (2019-09-05)
• Volta Region residents give government two-week ultimatum to fix their roads (2019-09-04)
• Massive demo to hit government over deplorable roads in Volta Region (2019-09-01)
• Mourner crushed by train on way to cemetery (2019-08-31)
• Elubo-Enchi chiefs, farmers, angry over bad road (2019-08-27)
• Halting road projects was wrong – Kofi Adams rebukes government (2019-08-21)
• Government secures GHC62m Danish facility to build 7 bridges in the North (2019-08-20)
• Asokwa roads to be fixed by end of this year – MP (2019-08-17)
• Bad roads: Akufo-Addo’s logic 'warped' – Inusah Fuseini (2019-08-14)
• Gov’t secures £68m to continue work on Bolga-Bawku-Pulmakom road (2019-08-14)
• Politicians responsible for bad roads - Engineer (2019-08-08)
• Energy Ministry to introduce hi-tech street lights on roads (2019-08-01)
• Bridge on Pra River abandoned; contractor packs out (2019-07-28)
• Adentan-Madina highway: 55 detained for failing to use footbridges (2019-07-24)
• We’ll fix caved-in Okponglo road within a week – Roads Ministry (2019-07-24)
• Rehabilitation of 7.5km Dome-Pillar 2 road project begins (2019-07-24)
• No media house can set agenda for me – Roads and Highways Minister (2019-07-23)
• Massive sinkhole develops on Okponglo road (2019-07-23)
• LEKMA road finally gets new contractor (2019-07-21)
• Processes underway to fix Tarkwa-Nsuaem roads – MP assures residents (2019-07-16)
• Build Tema Hospital road to ease burden on residents – Transport minister urges MPS (2019-07-14)
• The 7.5 km road at Lekma that kills pregnancies (2019-07-12)
• Use $200m new 450-seat chamber money to fix rickety Pra bridge - Commuters to government (2019-07-08)
• Akufo-Addo urged to fix deplorable Agona Wassa-Tarkwa road to avoid defeat in 2020 (2019-07-03)
• GH¢1.5bn approved for 14 road projects (2019-06-30)
• 4 MDCEs in critical condition after ghastly crash (2019-06-24)
• Tarkwa-Nsuaem residents to stage another demo over bad roads (2019-06-23)
• Where're Mahama's unprecedented roads? Akufo-Addo'll sort you out – Amewu to Hohoe chiefs (2019-06-17)
• Asokore Mampong roads constructed before 2016 elections riddled with potholes (2019-05-27)
• Fix our deplorable roads – North East chiefs appeal to government (2019-05-18)
• Help fix deplorable Akuasi road – Sanahene tells government (2019-05-08)
• Dawhenya demo: I’ve done much but we can’t fix roads in two weeks – DCE (2019-05-04)
• Artisans call on government to fix roads before relocation to new site (2019-05-04)
• Dawhenya residents burn tyres to protest bad road (2019-05-03)
• MP bemoans bad roads in his constituency (2019-04-30)
• Nkawkaw-Atibie Road: Kwahu drivers call for street lights ahead of Easter (2019-04-17)
• National Youth Authority heightens road safety campaigns in Central Region (2019-04-15)
• Promise keeping Nana Addo, please fix our roads - Omanhene of Bechem (2019-04-14)
• Accra Brewery Limited engages stakeholders on road safety and responsible drinking (2019-04-13)
• Tarkwa-Nsuaem NPP Deputy Communications Director urges government to fix Ahwetieso-Tarkwa (2019-04-11)
• Nyanyano residents embark on demonstration over deplorable roads (2019-04-04)
• The Ring Road will always take you home (2019-01-27)
• PWDs to man toll booth collection - Road Minister (2019-01-24)
• 77 percent of roads not tarred – Road Minister (2019-01-23)
• GPRTU assures nation of safe transport system (2018-11-25)
• Madina - Pantang highway deaths; until the last man dies? (2018-11-07)
• Okada riders exploiting Anum Apapam SHS girls over bad roads (2018-10-23)
• Ga West MCE accused of killer Abekuma-Afuaman road (2018-10-16)
• Bad roads: Nsakina residents burn tyres, block roads (2018-10-16)
• Nana Addo is a failure in road construction – Kwaku Boahen (2018-10-10)
• The lady on foot is a queen (2018-10-10)
• Government testing new road technology (2018-09-26)
• AMA to start work on US$100,000 N1 road safety project (2018-09-13)
• Work begins on Madina roads (2018-09-12)
• 10-meter wall collapses at Sofoline Interchange Project (2018-09-12)
• Epileptic driver crashes at St. John’s (2018-08-27)
• Smoothen bad Dome-Kwabenya roads like your face - Constituents jab Adwoa Safo (2018-07-25)
• Eastern corridor roads to be completed before end of 2020 – Roads Minister assures (2018-07-11)
• Dome/Kwabenya roads see major facelift (2018-06-20)
• President commissions new Takoradi road (2018-06-20)
• Stop preaching in buses – Titus-Glover (2018-06-13)
• Gov’t secures funding for completion of Elubo–Enchi road construction (2018-06-11)
• Tetegu resident writes to Minister; demands details on ‘shoddy’ road (2018-05-29)
• Three dead, six injured in accident near Mankessim (2018-05-19)
• Presidential convoy involved in an accident; Deputy Chief of Staff injured (2018-05-18)
• Blame NDC for all bad roads in Ashanti Region - Minister (2018-04-08)
• Past government left GH¢17.8bn debt in road sector - Minister (2018-02-24)
• Ghana has about 74,000 kilometres of roads to construct – Roads Minister (2018-02-19)
• Kpandai roads to be fixed by July 2018 - Deputy Roads Minister (2017-12-04)
• NDC spent $450m on fictitious cocoa roads – Afriyie Akoto (2017-09-27)
• Manhyia North roads deplorable (2017-07-11)
• Angry Ablekuma drivers protest over bad road (2017-05-29)
• Trailer topples over 'Dubai' flyover (2017-03-01)
• 3 injured as container truck falls off Nkrumah Circle interchange (2017-03-01)
• Over 1,500 killed between January, September through road accidents (2016-10-14)
• Car Accident Claims 14 lives (2009-09-15)
• Over 1,600 Ghanaians are killed annually through car crashes (2009-04-09)
• Mills: The carnage on the roads must stop (2009-03-19)
• 22 die in Petrol Tanker explosion (2008-11-26)
• 31 perish in road accident at Anyinamso (2008-11-13)
• 15 killed in a road accident at Dompoase (2008-06-12)
• 12,000 killed in road accidents (2007-10-20)
• 137 died in road accidents in the E/R in 2006. (2007-02-28)
• 14 Killed In Road Accident (2007-02-01)
• US grad student dies in Ghana crash (2006-11-22)
• Suzy Williams is Dead (2005-09-08)
• Disaster strikes Korle-Bu (2005-08-29)