The Ministry of Health (MOH) says the cost of the Ridge Hospital Project is U$250 million and not U$306 million as claimed by the Minority in Parliament. In a 10-point press release issued Wednesday signed by the Minister, the MOH said the project has received the required approval from Cabinet Parliament. It said the Finance Committee of Parliament approved the project submitted by Ministry of Health, and subsequently submitted it to the floor of Parliament for further deliberation and subsequent
The Koforidua Circuit Court Tuesday, sentenced two armed robbers to 35 years in prison each. They are Samuel Kwame Akwetey, 35, and Isaac Agormor, 22, who, armed with a pistol and a machete, robbed one Georgina Boadi at the Kenkey Factory area,  Koforidua, on Nov 22, last year and made away with valuables worth GH¢6,200. The convicts, who the police said belonged to an eight-member gang of robbers that had for sometime terrorised residents of the New Juaben municipality, were found guilty of conspiracy
Some management staff members of the Melcom Group of Companies were yesterday picked up by some security personnel believed to be from the Bureau of National Investigations (BNI). The personnel, who raided the head office of the company around 1p.m., confiscated some computers. In an interview with the Daily Graphic, the Director of Communications of the Melcom Group of Companies, Mr Godwin Avenorgbo, said the personnel, who were in mufti, halted all activities during the operations. “They just
The Osagyefo Power Barge was yesterday handed over to the Ministry of Energy and Petroleum. However, officials of Balkan Energy Company of the United States of America (USA) failed to attend the ceremony. Â At a short ceremony at Efasu in the Jomoro District of the Western Region, the sector Minister, Mr Emmanuel Armah Kofi Buah, said a team of engineers would start carrying out a technical audit of the facility to ascertain its true state. Â Engineers have given an assurance that there is hope
The Chief of Igbos residing at  Dansoman,Weija and its environs, Chief Eze Samuel Ekezie has denied that he threatened to shoot a fellow Nigerian over a chieftaincy title. He  also denied firing a  pump action gun indiscriminately to scare the crowd at a naming ceremony at the Mallam junction in Accra. Chief Samuel Eze Ekezie, who was  accompanied by some executive members of the Igbo community in Ghana to the offices of the Daily Graphic expressed shock at the publication in the Monday April
A video suggesting that the intake of sausage is inimical to the health of people, is crumbling the sausage industry in Ghana, producers have said. According to the Ghana Association of Sausage Producers (GASP), since the erroneous information contained in the video went viral five months ago, some schools in the country had banned the intake of sausage in their menu. Additionally, operators of food joints, especially the khebab sellers  have reduced the purchase of sausage since consumers were
The Supervising High Court Judge for the Volta Region, Mr Justice Nicholas Charles Agbevor, has cautioned the police not to put any indictable offence before the Circuit Court, not even for remand purposes. The Circuit Court did not have jurisdiction to handle such cases, he said. According to the judge, more often offenders were placed before the circuit court, which in turn remanded them, leading to long incarceration without committal of the offenders to the High Court. By law, offenders are
The President, Mr John Dramani Mahama, has stressed the need for African leaders to craft interventions that will make the continent’s cities grow in the face of the plethora of challenges. “These interventions must create equal opportunities for all our people to take advantage of the African dream,†he said. Delivering the keynote address at the opening of the seventh session of the World Urban Forum in the Columbian city of Medellin last Monday, the President said the fast rate of urbanisation
The Sole Commissioner of the Judgement Debt Commission, Mr Justice Yaw Apau, Tuesday shed tears out of frustration at the connivance of public servants and private individuals to dupe the state in the name of judgement debts. He said some public officials were satisfied with the 'peanuts' that they received from the private individuals, who went away with huge judgement debts at the expense of tax payers. Removing his spectacle to wipe his tears during the hearing, Mr Apau lamented that some of
Undercover investigations at the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Authority (DVLA) have established a licence racketeering network of officials and some deviants who issue licences to unqualified individuals for the personal monetary gain of those officials and deviants. The 12-month investigation, which saw the undercover team of Tiger Eye visit some regional offices of the DVLA, established the breakdown of the system at the DVLA, making it easy for the team to procure licences for mentally and physically
The Chairman of the Ghana Road Transport Coordinating Council (GRTCC), Mr Ben Peprah Amoabeng, has refuted claims of a 10 per cent increase in transport fares. He said the disclosure by the General Secretary of the GRTCC of transport fare increases was not right, as executives were not aware of that decision. “We are now deliberating over the fares,†Mr Peprah told the Daily Graphic. He added that fuel was not the only component in the running of a commercial vehicle, for which reason fare increases
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