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The protesting jobless nurses and health professionals have given the government two weeks to act on a petition they submitted to the Health Ministry, demanding their financial clearance and a review of the Heal Ghana module under the Nation Builders Corps. Like many other groups before them, they have threatened to picket at the Health Ministry if their demands are ...

Over 100 residents in Nsumia, Lantei, Chinto and its environs in the Eastern region have been displaced following a demolition exercise, the residents say was ordered by the court. The demolition started last Friday after some elders of Nsumia had claimed the plots which the affected individuals were occupying belongs to them. Many of the affected persons Monday morning besieged ...

Renowned pollster, Ben Ephson has revealed that former president John Mahama is “mending fences” with executives of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) through the organization of Unity walk. Mr Ephson, the Editor of the Daily Dispatch newspaper who was speaking on the Morning Xpress on Monday stated that he has been reliably informed Mr Mahama is making peace with ...

A staunch supporter of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Hajia Fati, has justified slapping a journalist from The Multimedia Group at the party’s office, Friday. She admitted slapping Adom FM’s newscaster, Ohemaa Sakyiwaa Ahwenepa but said she only took that action because the reporter had not sought her permission before taking pictures of her, neither did she introduce herself as ...

The Economic and Organised Crimes Office (EOCO) is on the hunt for a fake lecturer of the Koforidua Technical University (KTU) who was employed for nine years. Richmond Kweku Frempong, who was engaged in 2006, rose through the ranks to become the Dean of the Faculty of Business and Management. The Auditor General has indicted the management of KTU for ...

Hundreds of nurses and health professionals are threatening to vote out the New Patriotic Party government in 2020 it fails to review some terms and conditions governing the Nation Builders Corps (NaBCo). “He [President Nana Akufo-Addo shouldn’t worry. 2020 is coming. We voted him in and we will vote him out,” some nurses shouted in unison to Citi News as ...

An Accra High Court presided over by Justice Daniel Mensah has dismissed a preliminary application by the Food and Drugs Authority seeking to have a suit filed by the Cosmetics Association Ghana over the ban of some bleaching creams overturned. The FDA which is the second respondent in the case filed a preliminary application challenging the procedure in which the ...

Aerospace Medicine Specialist, Dr. Yakubu Akparibo, has defended Africa World Airlines (AWA) over the decision to prevent a lady living with disability, Rita Kriba, from boarding its Kumasi-bound flight on Saturday. Dr. Akparibo told Daniel Dadzie, the host of the Super Morning Show on Joy FM, Monday that International aviation standards require persons with diminished mobility to notify the flight ...

The Ghana Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) Operators Association has alleged more than 7,000 people will lose their jobs if government goes ahead with its Cylinder Recirculation Module (CRM). President Akufo-Addo last year, in the aftermath of the ghastly gas explosion at Atomic junction, Madina a suburb of Accra ordered the implementation of the cylinder recirculation module. The program will stop ...

The controversial list containing 998 staff said to be working at the Jubilee House is likely to double by end of 2018, former Minister for Trade and Industry, Dr. Ekow Spio-Gabrah has hinted. Answering a question concerning the number of persons the current government has employed to work at the Presidency and their relationship to the President in an interview ...