Rotational nurses have given the government a two-day ultimatum to pay their allowances else they strike. Addressing a press conference today, Wednesday, 29 September 2021, the Vice-president of the Ghana Nurse-Midwife Trainees’ Association, Mr Madugu Kwame Richard, said the nurses have not been paid their allowances for the past eight months since they started the mandatory service. He said since ...

The confirmation of Municipal and District Chief Executive nominees for the Savannah Region is set to begin today, Thursday, September 30. The Region has seven administrative MDAs, comprising five Districts and two Municipal Assemblies. Bole, Sawla-Tuna-Kalba, North Gonja, North East Gonja and Central Gonja Districts and East Gonja and Central Gonja Municipality. In all, a total of 218 elected and ...

Manu, the Western region representative in Ghana’s Most Beautiful, revealed that her biggest fear was not getting to the finals and disappointing her family. Juliana Afful spoke highly of the contribution her relatives have made towards her progress in the house. According to Manu, her family is her rock! “The people I would have really disappointed is my family first of ...

The Right To Information (RTI) Coalition has noted that for effective and efficient implementation of the RTI Act, there are pertinent fundamentals that should accompany it. Sadly, the Coalition said, two major limitations have hindered the effective implementation of Act 989 in Ghana. First is the delay of government to pass a fees regime that would guide the appropriate cost ...

The National Democratic Congress has dismissed allegations that its 2020 flagbearer John Mahama masterminded the Takoradi kidnapping incident. Controversial politician Ernest Owusu Bempah had alleged that the flagbearer alongside the NDC national chairman Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo joined forces in executing the crime. The party has in a statement asked Ghanaians to “treat the effusions of Ernest Owusu Bempah with utter contempt.” ...

Qatar Airways announced on Monday that it suffered a more than $4bn loss in revenues over the last fiscal year, as lockdowns triggered by the coronavirus pandemic slashed demand for long-haul travel. The major loss, which the state-owned airline largely attributed to the grounding of its Airbus A380 and A330 wide-body jets, highlights the dramatic toll of the pandemic on ...

Effective immediately, all official 2021 Population and Housing Census (PHC) paraphernalia for field officers used during the data collection exercise are no longer valid for official use, the Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) has announced. The paraphernalia includes the blue census T-shirts, blue census reflective jackets, white census caps and ID cards. The GSS has, thus, cautioned the public not to ...

Naa Deidei Botchwey, crowned Ghana’s Most Beautiful (GMB) 2020, has rigorously pursued her inclusive education initiative to impact society positively. Through her foundation, Naa Deidei Botchwey (NDB) Foundation, she helped 20 brilliant but needy females to gain a scholarship to pursue a Marine Engineering Mechanic program at the Regional Maritime University, funded by the Ga Mantse Foundation. Speaking to Cookie on TV3 ...

The Bank of Ghana has revealed that new loans and advances by banks totalled GH¢21.6 billion in the year to August 2021, marginally above the GH¢20.7 billion for the same period in 2020. Addressing the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) press conference in Accra on Monday September 27, Governor of the BoG Dr Ernest Addison said the Non-Performing Loans (NPL) ratio ...

Borussia Dortmund CEO Hans-Joachim Watzke has revealed his anguish at Manchester United‘s treatment of his former player Jadon Sancho. Sancho, 21, moved from the German side to Old Trafford this summer for £73million but is yet to fully break into the starting team and has only made one 90-minute appearance so far. And Dortmund chief executive Watzke told Sport1 the ...