The Ministry of Health, (MOH) has opened the application for the recruitment of Medical Doctors and Dentists into the country’s health service. The applicants are supposed to have completed their house job and have been verified by the Medical and Dental Council under the 23rd list. A statement released by the Ministry and signed by the Acting Chief Director, Kwabena ...

Scores of residents of Elubo and other communities in the Western Region have staged a demonstration on Thursday September 2, asking President Akufo Addo to open the Elubo border. They said the persistent closure of the border is having negative effect on their living conditions as economic activities are gradually grinding to a halt. Ghana’s land borders together with the ...

A former deputy general secretary of the main opposition National Democratic (NDC) has wondered how the party will win the 2024 general elections when it has been “antagonising all the small political parties”. “Today, all the small political parties are your enemies”, Mr Koku Anyidoho told Kwame Appiah Kubi on Accra100.5FM’s Ghana Yensom on Tuesday, 31 August 2021 in an ...

The Libyan national soccer team trained for the first time at the Benina Martyrs Stadium, in the outskirts of the city of Benghazi under the leadership of its Spanish coach, Javier Clemente. Clemente was appointed Lybian manager after replacing Montenegrin Zoran Filipovic last June. It is Clemente’s second stint as Lybian manager after leading the team between 2013 and 2016, ...

The Paris Court of Appeal on Monday rejected an appeal request by the widow of former Rwanda’s President Juvenal Habyarimana to end a probe into claims she played a role in the 1994 genocide. Agathe Habyarimana has been under investigation since 2007 for “complicity in genocide and crimes against humanity. She is suspected of being one of the masterminds of ...

President Nana Akufo-Addo Monday cut sod for construction work to begin on sporting facilities that will host 2023 African Games to be staged in Ghana. Akufo-Addo performed the sod-cutting ceremony at Borteyman, Accra, where a 50,000 capacity Olympic standard stadium will be built for the 13th edition of the continent’s flagship games. The stadium will host facilities for about 25 sporting disciplines ...

Even when the media warfare between some Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) and the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) over the deal with Aker Energy is yet to go down, the Energy Minister, Dr Mathew Opoku Prempeh, has announced plans to assist GNPC acquire blocks of the Jubilee and Tweneboa Enyenra Ntomme Oil (TEN) oil Fields. He also announced that there ...

Ghanaian gospel artist Da Prince has accused Christians in high corporate positions of not supporting gospel musicians and events. He said that they will face the wrath of Jesus one day when they meet in Armageddon. Speaking on Anigye Mere, Da Prince revealed that Christians would drag their feet and deny their fellow Christain brand endorsement or sponsorship. He said ...

Ultra-modern oxygen cylinders and medical equipment worth over US$38 million are left to rot at the abandoned Afari Military hospital in the Ashanti Region. The hospital is a 500-bed facility which according to media reports was expected to be completed in December 2018. However, the expectation was not met. In February 2021, the then minister-designate for Defence, Dominic Nitiwul, while ...

The cedi’s 2021 overvaluation has abated – by 14ppt to 113.2% – since 2020, with recent currency weakness helping close the overvaluation gap. This is according to RMB-the investment banking arm of First National Bank’s most recent Milk Index, released today Tuesday August 31. The Economist’s Big Mac Index measures purchasing power parity between currencies and looks at how market ...