Author Archives: larryehu

NHIS needs new funding sources – Mahama

Former President John Mahama says the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIA) needs new sources of funding. “We are also proposing sources of funding for the  Health Insurance. The health insurance as it was designed was to cover a period of ten years. “We have gone far past that number of years and the subscriber base has increased phenomenally and the ...

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Reinstate PDS by October 30 or lose $190m – US govt threatens Ghana

The US government is threatening sanctions against Ghana over the termination of the controversial Power Distribution Services (PDS) Ghana Limited deal with the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG). Government in a letter dated October 18, 2019 to the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) announced the termination of the agreement which came into effect on March 1, 2019, and saw PDS take ...

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NPP to hold presidential primaries April 2020

The governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) has set April 25, 2020 to hold presidential primaries for the general elections that year. The party will also hold primaries for constituencies with NPP MPs that year, a statement from the party announced Monday. The party has already elected candidates for constituencies where the party does not have  incumbent legislators. A statement by ...

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‘No Christian should ever pay tithe’ – Renowned Pastor

A popular pastor has waded unto the ongoing debate of whether it’s compulsory for Christians to be paying their tithes or not. The preacher identified as Sam Adeyemi is the senior pastor of Day Star Christian Centre. According to him, he has conducted comprehensive and unbiased research into this controversial topic and has never come across anything that suggests that ...

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‘Don’t trust these 5 officials’ – NDC demands prosecutions over PDS deal

The opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has charged the Akufo-Addo government to prosecute officials for willfully causing financial loss to the state in the PDS (Power Distribution Services) deal. NDC General Secretary Johnson Asiedu Nketia at a press conference Monday would not mention names but said a “proper” forensic audit into the deal would unearth officials to stand in the ...

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Chris Attoh loses dad months after wife was murdered

Few months after his wife was brutally murdered, actor Chris Attoh has lost his dad. The actor disclosed the news in a post on Instagram Monday that his father has passed. JoyNews gathers that Chris Attoh’s father, who was the Chief of Jamestown, died at age 92. It is unclear when Nii Fred Attoh, who was born in 1927, passed ...

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NPP gov’t cares like a mother – Chief of Staff

Chief of Staff, Akosua Frema Osei Opare, says  the NPP government is the only government that behaves like a mother to the nation when in office. According to her, a government that does not have the heart of a mother can never bring development to its people. “If you check, the only government that has helped the needy in so ...

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