Group to picket at MoFA
Coalition of Unposted Veterinary Technicians (CUVT) has threatened to picket at the Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MoFA) for the second time in the year to demand for their postings. Members of the...
View ArticleTamale Teaching Hospital spends GH¢100,000 monthly on oxygen
The Tamale Teaching Hospital spends close to GH¢100,000 every month to purchase 100 cylinders of oxygen from Kumasi due to the inability of the hospital’s oxygen centre to produce gas for patients....
View ArticleVolta chiefs go wild over bad state of roads
AGGRIEVED chiefs and people from various traditional areas in the North Tongu District of the Volta Region have launched a blistering attack on government over the poor state of the Mepe-Battor-Sege...
View ArticleExpensive fuel prices in Ghana: Goil, Vivo-Energy, Total top list—Report
It has emerged that between May and July 2017 some three top Oil Marketing Companies (OMCs) in Ghana namely Goil, Vivo Energy-Shell and Total sold their fuel at higher prices as compared to other OMCs...
View ArticleNational Sports Festival to begin Aug 31
Moves to transform the defunct National Unity Games into a National Sports Festival to unearth talented athletes and help boost tourism have been hailed by the Minister for Youth and Sports, Hon....
View ArticleHackers name 2010 WC TUEs users
Ex-Premier League players, Carlos Tevez, Dirk Kuyt and Gabriel Heinze, have been named by hackers Fancy Bears as three of the footballers cleared to use banned medicines at the 2010 World Cup. The...
View ArticleBoris Becker gets senior Germany role
Three-time Wimbledon champion, Boris Becker, has been appointed head of men’s tennis in Germany. The 49-year-old, who won six Grand Slams between 1985 and 1996, will take up the new role immediately,...
View ArticleGh¢2.7m missing at EOCO
Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO) is yet to unravel the mystery surrounding an excess transfer of $619,039.16 (Gh¢2,748,977) to an applicant following a court order, investigations have...
View ArticleGovt indebtedness to SSNIT hits GH¢ 560M
Government’s indebtedness to the Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) stood at 560 million cedis as at December 2015. This represents of the total indebtedness to the pensions scheme...
View ArticleCODEO aims to curb political party vigilantism
The Coalition of Domestic Election Observers (CODEO) will wrap up its nationwide engagements on political party vigilantism on August 23, 2017. The Coalition has so far engaged stakeholders in nine...
View ArticlePolice live in fear in Aveyime
Families of police officers stationed at Aveyime in the North Tongu District of the Volta Region are demanding transfer for their spouses. This development follows several threats on their lives by...
View ArticlePPI drops to 2.0% in July
The month of July recorded a Producer Price Index (PPI) of 2.0 per cent, the lowest in about two years. The figure is down from the 3.2 per cent recorded the previous month. According to the Ghana...
View Article‘Ghana deserves “Laftta Fest” comedy’
The rise of the Gh comedy industry has been very impressive these past few years. Gh comedy has seen lots of patronage from the people who once upon a time doubted them. The industry has also seen a...
View Article‘I regret beefing Reggie, Chicago’
Rapper, Ex-Doe, is full of regret for engaging in two of the fiercest rap beefs in Ghana in the late 1990s. Well known for his beefs with Chicago and Reggie Rockstone, the rapper said he now regrets...
View ArticleThe mandatory tow levy [Article]
Following public protests, the executive arm of government has decided NOT to implement the above LI, passed in 2012– 5 years ago. According to a statement, this followed extensive consultation...
View ArticleGovt to shut witch camps in Northern Region
Government has served notice of shutting all witch camps scattered across the Northern Region. Minister for Gender, Children and Social Protection, Otiko Afisah Djaba, gave the hint when she paid a...
View ArticleBeating one of our own, oh no!
THERE is no doubt that journalists play crucial roles in nation-building. A country where press freedom is not practiced or where journalists are not allowed to work freely tends to deprive the...
View Article‘Men in showbiz not trustworthy’
Ghanaian dance Afropop artiste, Vera Hamenoo-Kpeda, popularly known in music circles as MzVee, has said she will not date any man in the showbiz fraternity. Speaking to Yvonne Okoro on the ‘Dinner...
View ArticleGhana becomes 2nd African country to own a satellite dish
All is set for Ghana to launch a satellite dish that would enable scientists from around the world to view and study the world space from within the country at Kuntunse, near Accra. The launching of...
View ArticleDo more prostate cancer research —Dr. Obu urges
Prostate cancer crusader and researcher, Dr. Raphael Nyarkotey Obu, has urged medical practitioners in Africa to do more research into prostate cancer. “If the disease is within us, we have to find a...
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