The husband of the murdered Police Non Commission Officer (NCO), Number 5472, Agatha Nana Nabin, is reminding the Interior Minister about his promise to cater for their three children till they attain age eighteen. The husband, Paul Nabin, gave the reminder in a telephone conversation with The Chronicle on Monday, January 30, 2023. According to him, on August 24, 2019 at the Holy Cross Parish in Tamale, during the burial service for his slain wife, the Minister of the Interior, Ambrose Derry,
The General Overseer of the Global Revival Ministries, Rev. Dr. Robert Ampiah-Kwofi has described the immediate past Minister for Trade and Industry, Alan Kyerematen as a man with integrity at a Thanksgiving service in Accra. According to the revered man of God, Alan Kyerematen’s unblemished integrity makes him a rare industry player in a politically tainted system. Addressing thousands of congregants in Accra, Rev Ampiah Kwofi heaped kind words on the former Trade and Industry Minister.
The President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has assured Ghanaians that all capital projects will continue after negotiations with the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The President gave the assurance on Monday, January 30, 2023 at Jubilee House, during a meeting with the Western Regional House of Chiefs. According to him, Ghanaians may have observed that these projects have halted, but he swiftly added that those delays are temporary. Regardless of the current economic downturn in the country,
The Bank of Ghana (BoG) has disclosed that Ghana is likely to receive its first disbursement of the International Monetary Fund loan by the end of the first quarter of this year should all measures taken be successful. This response came in answer to a question posed by a journalist about Ghana and the IMF negotiation during the 110th Monetary Policy Committee Press Briefing yesterday. The Governor of BoG, Ernest Addison, answered, saying: “I think we should have faith; we have to get this Debt
The Executive Director of the National Service Scheme, Mr Osei Assibey Antwi has completed a five-day tour of the five northern regions in the country, with a promise to provide more incentives to personnel to encourage them in their work. The tour, which was aimed at interacting with National Service Personnel and staff, ascertaining their state of security, welfare and how they were coping with their jobs, took him to Jirapa in the Upper West, Bolgatanga in the Upper East, Gambaga in the Savanna
The Rotary Club of Accra-Airport, in collaboration with Book Aid International and the Street Child Empowerment Foundation (SCEF), has donated different kinds of reading books totalling 10,000 to 40 basic schools in the Ga South Municipality. The three philanthropic organisations also furnished the library rooms of some of the beneficiary schools with bookshelves, tables, and chairs, with some teaching staff of the schools also receiving basic training in library management and programme. The
The Uaddara Basic School in Kumasi on Wednesday emerged winners of the maiden edition of the Ghana Science and Technology Explorer Prize ceremony (GSTEP) held in Accra. For emerging winners, each team member of the Uaddara Basic School team will receive Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) materials and devices valued at GHS 4,000. The team’s teacher will receive a cash prize of GHS 6,000 and Coursera and data subscriptions valued at GHS 4,000 while the team’s school will
Access to the basic necessities of life, such as food, clothing and shelter, are undoubtedly the most important things every person strives to get. This is why Abraham Maslow’s “Hierarchy of Needs” described these three items as the most basic needs of life, without which many people cannot survive and move to their next levels of needs, such as esteem, aesthetic and self actualisation. Although these basic needs have not been enshrined in the constitutions of many countries, governments
Motorists, traders and some travellers at the Ashaiman Main terminal took advantage of a free HIV screening exercise last Friday to know their status. The exercise, under the auspices of the Ashaiman Municipal Health Directorate, was part of a campaign to encourage residents, particularly drivers and their mates, to know their HIV status and to be ambassadors against the spread of the virus. At the venue, several people said that they could not relate with persons living with HIV/AIDS when health
A Kumasi-based philanthropist, Mr. Emmanuel Lord Boam, has appealed to the government to establish a formidable institution capable of handling the many prolonged chieftaincy disputes in the Bono East Region. He noted that the Bono East Regional House of Chiefs was bedeviled with a number of chieftaincy disputes arising from disagreements among royal families in the Region. Lord Boam, a native of the Pru East District of the Bono Region, who most of the youth in the region see as an peace ambassador,
The Chief Executive of the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA), Samuel Pyne, has conditionally announced his intention to contest the Suame Constituency primaries of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the event that Osei Kyei-Mensah- Bonsu, the incumbent Member of Parliament (MP) for the Suame parliamentary seat decides not to contest. The incumbent Suame lawmaker has announced at various fora that he might not seek re-election. The Mayor, in his bid to fill the envisaged vacuum, has reportedly announced
Actress Lydia Forson says transactional sex for survival is common and has asked people to stop pretending it isn’t. According to the Actress, many people are trading sex for survival, not because they want to but because the “system makes it exceptionally hard for you to tow the righteous path.” She said this is not limited to women and men too are involved. She added: “I’m not judging you, I’m just saying STOP acting like women & men (yes them too) aren’t sucking
Mad Time Records boss and Rapper, Kwaw Kese has weighed in on the recent beef between Yaa Pono and Sarkodie. According to Kwaw Kese, musicians should stop “wasting time” on musicians who are way ahead of them in the industry and rather concentrate on building their craft. “If you diss someone who’s ahead of you in everything, you’re wasting your time. Use that energy to better yourself,” he wrote. Yaa Pono, released a song titled ‘Yard’ which according to
Stonebwoy has for the first time shown gratitude to Footballer Asamoah Gyan for paying for his knee surgery in 2016. The Dancehall Artiste’s right leg was left deformed after he was involved in an accident about two decades ago which took away his twin brother’s life. According to him, he had been saving for years to undergo the surgery.However, just at the last minute Asamoah Gyan stepped in and funded the surgery. Stonebwoy was visibly emotional as he thanked Asamoah Gyan for being a
In the wake of Artistes calling Sarkodie out for being selfish and disrespectful to colleagues when they need his feature, narrating instances where he did not respond to their texts and calls, Wendy Shay has given an opposite account of the issue. “I released my first ever song on 1st June 2018… just 3 months in the industry I sent psalm 35 to @sarkodie 2 hours later he sent his verse” Wendy Shay narrated. Defending Sarkodie and sharing her own struggle in getting some of the top Artistes
For the first time in the history of this country, a presidential aspirant, Alan Kyerematen, broadcast to the nation and this country turned into a forum round with people debating pro and con on wha the said. Most of those against, are saying there is no foundation built by Nana Addo, for Alan to put up his GTP agenda, and the National Democratic Congress (NDC) which will never disappoint, launched missiles at Alan. The question is, has President Nana Akufo-Addo laid down any structures upon
A health screening conducted on 1,000 women by the Holy Child Family Hospital in the Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolis revealed that 30 percent has precancerous lesions. The screening also found some of the women having inflammation of the cervix, mass or growth in the uterus and leukoplakia, a health threatening condition in women. Ms Anita Obeng Andoh, a Public Health Specialist with the Holy Child Family Hospital, said this during the launch of the World Cervical Cancer awareness month on Saturday,
The Court of Appeal has dismissed the verdict of the Federal High Court Katsina which nullified the primary election that produced Muritala Shehu as the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, candidate for Malumfashi/Kafur Federal Constituency, Katsina State. Murtala filed the appeal against the decision of the Federal High Court Katsina, which on November 23, 2022, nullified the primary election in which he emerged as winner against Nasiru Sa’ad Ahmed. In a unanimous decision delivered on the 27th
Governor Ahmadu Fintiri of Adamawa State has cancelled the charging of levies by Parent Teachers’ Associations (PTAs) of public schools. The Governor said on Monday that such levies ran against his government’s free education policy. The Governor who spoke at the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) Secretariat in Yola where he addressed CAN officials and church leaders from across the state, stressed that he could not condone PTA levies when his government is running a free education scheme.
A Federal High Court in Abuja on Monday dismissed a suit by a former presidential candidate of Hope Democratic Party, HDP, Chief Ambrose Albert Owuru, against the election of President Muhammadu Buhari, the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in the 2019 presidential election. The suit seeking the outright sack of President Buhari was thrown out by Justice Inyang Edem Ekwo on three major grounds. Parts of the grounds are that the suit constituted a gross abuse of court
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