President Goodluck Jonathan has been criticised for not meeting parents earlier Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan has met for the first time parents of the girls abducted 100 days ago by militant Islamist group Boko Haram. He assured the parents of his determination to secure the girls’ release, his spokesman said. More than 150 people attended […]
The Institute of Economic Affairs is predicting that donor partners are not likely to support Ghana’s budget due to the financial indiscipline in the country. “Grants are likely to experience shortfalls, who wants to give you his money to pay single spine or subsidies,” a senior Economist with the Institute of Economic Affairs, Dr John Kwakye said […]
The train carrying the bodies from the MH17 crash site arrived in Kharkiv on Tuesday A train carrying the remains of victims of the Malaysian airliner which crashed in Ukraine has arrived in the city of Kharkiv, outside rebel territory. Flight MH17 crashed in an area held by pro-Russia rebels last Thursday, killing all 298 […]
A second-year day student of the Agona Swedru School of Business (SWESBU), Miss Lvy Owusu was on Monday found hanging in an uncompleted building at Agona Swedru. A Police spokesman pleading anonymity who made this known to newsmen at Agona Swedru on Tuesday, said the mother of the girl, Madam Ekua Amoafowah told them that […]
The Korle Bu Teaching Hospital (KBTH) was in 2013 deprived of GH₵140,776.30 meant for development projects, according to an interim forensic audit report done on the pharmacy department of the hospital. The audit, which covered the period between January 2012 and December 2013, was in response to allegations and reports of misappropriation of funds at Korle Bu, Ghana’s […]
Dr Kwadwo Afari-Gyan, EC Boss The Chairman of the Electoral Commission (EC), Dr Kwadwo Afari-Gyan, has stated that the biometric technology alone cannot address the challenges of any electoral system. According to him, machines could not undertake certain functions during election activities, such as the detection of minors and non-nationals in the registration of voters. […]
The ICU demonstrators in Tema The John Mahama National Democratic Congress (NDC) administration will this week experience an unprecedented number of industrial actions and street protests as various groups roll up their sleeves for showdown with the government. The last count indicated that over 10 of such actions were being lined up for this week; […]
Jerry Hodo Persistent theft of motorbikes in the Volta Region has sent a man in his 20s – known as Jerry Hodo – to his grave at Aveyiborme, near Korpeyia, Aflao, in the Ketu South District. Until his untimely death, Jerry was said to have been a hardened criminal. On Friday July 19, 2014, there […]
Dr Afari Gyan, EC Boss The Supreme Court has asked the two plaintiffs seeking to prevent the Electoral Commission (EC) from using the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) identity card for the impending limited voters’ registration exercise to merge their case. Abu Ramadan, the National Youth Organiser of the People’s National Convention (PNC) and one […]
The ICU demonstrators in Tema The John Mahama National Democratic Congress (NDC) administration will this week experience an unprecedented number of industrial actions and street protests as various groups roll up their sleeves for showdown with the government. The last count indicated that over 10 of such actions were being lined up for this week; […]
Abuga Pele and Philip Akpeena Assibit The much touted trial of the former National Coordinator of National Youth Employment Programme (NYEP) and Philip Akpeena Assibit has been adjourned until October 6, 2014. The case could not proceed as scheduled yesterday because the prosecution failed to produce a witness in court. This is not the first time […]
Former President Jerry John Rawlings Former President Jerry John Rawlings has cocooned himself into the warm protection of government even as the conditions of Ghanaians deteriorate dangerously. Bad governance, which has begotten an infected economy, is taking its toll on Ghanaians. He is no longer the man who used to shout at the top of […]
Marietta Brew Appia-Oppong, AG and Alfred Woyome Mathew Amponsah, the prosecuting State Attorney in the trial of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) bankroller, Alfred Agbesi Woyome, yesterday appeared to be fumbling in the cross-examination of the ‘judgement debt’ man. The experienced principal State Attorney kept repeating questions on the appointment of Woyome as Honorary Consul […]
E.L The city of Accra came to a standstill on Saturday, July 20 when E.L and friends brought hiplife music to life once again at a musical concert dubbed ‘B.A.R Concert’ which was organised by BBnZ Live. The ‘B.A.R. Concert’, held at the Alliance Française in Accra, witnessed performances from hiplife stars like Sarkodie, Trigmatic, Wanlov, […]
Carlos Sakyi Eight of the board members of the Ghana Music Right Organisation (GHAMRO) will today appear in court to explain reasons why the court should set aside its ruling which went in favour of the plaintiffs, Nana Kwame Ampadu and 100 others. The ruling follows an action by Nana Kwame Ampadu and the 100 musicians, composers, […]
Madam Helen Ntoso presenting awards to Dr. Lawrence Kumi The Ho Municipal Hospital in the Volta Region, which was hitherto regarded as a ‘death camp’ for expectant mothers has recorded zero maternal death between June 2013 and June 2014, down from 14 deaths in 2012, and three deaths in the first half of 2013. To […]
A section of the Health Service Workers, INSET: Professor Ahmed Nuhu Zakariah PROFESSOR AHMED Nuhu Zakariah, Director of the National Ambulance Service (NAS), has stated that many of the conditions that contribute to the burden of disease in Ghana can be mitigated through prompt treatment. According to him, the quality of pre-hospital emergency medical response […]
Readers bear with me a few lines while I share a personal tragedy. Twenty-five years ago next month, I lost my father. I was living and working in the UK, a long sojourn abused, while I tried to make life out of a Margaret Thatcher deteriorating economy. Interest rates were soaring way above realistic levels, […]
Mahama Ayariga, Sports Minister The president of the Ghana Boxing Authority (GBA), Peter Zwennes, has charged government to give priority to boxing. He described government’s over concentration on football to the neglect of boxing as worrying, and advised that government should channel some resources to develop other lesser sports like boxing. He argued that the […]
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