A Deputy Minister of Health, Alexander Abban, says about 54,000 nurses and midwives have been employed since the New Patriotic Party (NPP) came into office in January 2017. He says the government is still working to absorb a number of unemployed nurses. His comment is a response to the minority rsquo;s condemnation of alleged harassment of some graduate unemployed nurses and midwives by the police during their picketing at the Ministry of Health on Monday. Mr. Abban says the emba ...
The Government Statistician, Professor Samuel Kobina Annim, says government has released cent;25 million for the preparatory phase of the 2020 Population and Housing Census, slated for March next year. He said the amount formed part of the cent;45 million allocated in the 2019 Budget, which had been approved by the Ministry of Finance. Prof Annim made this known on the sidelines of the swearing-in of the 2020 National Census rsquo; Publicity, Education and Advocacy Committee in Acc ...
Details have emerged about why brothels at a popular red-light district in Kumasi, the Ashanti Region capital, were razed by fire by angry youth on Thursday morning. On Thursday, sketchy information suggested that the brothels at the Sokoban Wood Village were torched because a 20-year-old man identified only as lsquo;Tupac rsquo; was allegedly stabbed to death at one of the brothels, sparking a reprisal from his friends. Angry youth reportedly set ablaze the brothels claiming their ...
A Kumasi Circuit Court has sentenced a 38-year old corn mill operator to nine years imprisonment for defiling a nine-year-old at Fankyenebra in Kumasi of the Ashanti Region. Kwame Michael pleaded guilty and was convicted on his plea. Police Chief Inspector Mercy Quaye, prosecuting, told the Court presided over by Comfort Tasiame that on September 26 this year, at about 3:00 pm, the accused, Kwame Michael saw the victim on her way going home after school and called her to his workshop ...
The Accra High Court, hearing the case involving Gregory Afoko and Asabke Alangde accused of the alleged murder of the former Upper East NPP Regional Chairman has been adjourned. On Friday morning, when the case was called the presiding judge, Justice Merley Afua Wood, a Court of Appeal judge sitting with additional responsibility as a High Court judge said in view of the application before the Supreme Court, the case would be adjourned for two weeks. She, therefore, adjourned the ca ...
A 29-year-old mason who defiled and impregnated an 11-year-old girl has been jailed eight years by a Kumasi Circuit Court. Adu Gyamfi Kesse pleaded guilty and was convicted on his own plea. Police Chief Inspector Mercy Quaye, prosecuting, told the Court presided over by Mrs Comfort Tasiame that the convict lived in the same house with victim and foster parents at Anwomaso, in Kumasi. On one Thursday in the month of July this year, at about 4:00 pm, the victim was sweeping the com ...
The Deputy Minister of Interior, Henry Quartey, has urged new fire officers to aspire for efficiency and professionalism to push the Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS) to greater heights. He said the need for professionalism had become relevant as the world advances in technology. Mr Quartey who is also the Member of Parliament for Ayawaso Central Constituency made the call in Accra at the passing-out parade of Course 50 recruit of the GNFS. The four months long training witnesse ...
A total of 3,771 people from 488 households in 14 communities of the Northern, North East, and Savannah regions have been hit by the torrential rains recorded this year. The rains began in the three regions in June, however, it became heavier in September and early October, which severely affected the communities in Tamale, Sagnarigu, Karaga, Nanumba North, Gushegu, East Mamprusi, and West Mamprusi assemblies. The Northern Regional Director of Operations of the National Disaster Mana ...
Residents of Walewale have demonstrated against frequent electricity cuts and increasing robbery attacks which they say were affecting normal life in the area. Scores of them poured onto the street wearing red attires marching to the premises of the local assembly chanting war songs in to demand that the authorities provide them with regular electricity. Protesters slowed vehicular movement on the busy Tamale to Bolga highway as security forces struggled to prevent chaos and rampage ...
Private legal practitioner, Yaw Oppong said the reasons given for the termination of the Power Distribution Services (PDS) concession agreement is not convincing at all. Mr. Oppong on Citi FM/TV lsquo;s News Analysis Programme, The Big Issue, said the grounds on which the deal was terminated is still unclear. ldquo;I am not very sure of the grounds on which the Electricity Company has terminated the PDS contract. We should know the contract was not just ...
Environmental sanitation is a key issue that when properly tackled adds to the value of the country and Ghana is no exception. Following the President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufu-Addo rsquo;s Jamestown declaration that he was going to make Accra the cleanest city in the whole of Africa, sanitation and waste management have become a priority and the most talked about topic among Ghanaians. As a democratic republic of almost 30 million people, Ghana is one of the most urbanized cou ...
Beneficiaries of Livinghood Empowerment Against Poverty (LEAP) fund in the Agona West Municipality of the Central Region have lauded His Excellency Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo led NPP government for prompt payment of the fund which they describe as 39;God-Sent 39; According to the Seven Hundred and Eleven (711) beneficiaries whose ages ranged from 65 and above said LEAP fund has been a great relief to them and their families. They disclosed these when Minister for Gender, Childre ...
Former Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC), Mr Alex Mould has asked Mr Gabby Asare Otchere-Darko to take advantage of technology to educate himself on the meaning of State Capture . He says it is rather unfortunate, unsurprising though that with no shame Gabby Asare Otchere-Darko tried to twist the meaning of State Capture either to whimsically divert attention from the family and friends PDS scandal or to insulate beforehand weekly scanda ...
The government of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo is committed to supporting the efforts of traditional leaders in maintaining and promoting the cultural values of Ghana both home and abroad, the Vice President Bawumia has reassured. According to Vice President Bawumia, this is in recognition of the key role culture plays in the development and sustenance of communities across the world, and communities that shun their history and do not dignify their cultures undermine thei ...
