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The Ghana Physicians Assistants Association is likely to declare a nationwide strike by close of today, April, 16, 2018, if the Ghana Health Service does not heed to their demand to have one of their colleagues release from police custody. The Eastern Regional branch of the Association on Friday begun a sit-down strike to solidarize with their colleague, Simon Takramah ...

Sacked rector of the Ghana Institute of Journalism (GIJ), Dr. Wilberforce Dzisah, is demanding a whopping GH¢25 million as compensation and damages for what he deemed ‘wrongful and unlawful’ termination of his appointment both as a rector and a lecturer of the Institute. The appointment of Dr. Dzisah as rector was due to expire on September 1 but was terminated ...

The Ghana National Association of Teachers, GNAT, has endorsed the directive from the Ghana Education Service to all staff due for retirement to leave their posts. GNAT however wants the Ghana Education Service to kick out all such persons beyond issuing the directive. The GES last week ordered all its Regional, Metropolitan and General Managers of education units nationwide to ...

Eight people in military uniforms who come under a group called “United Army,” are currently in the grips of the police assisting in an investigation. They were reportedly found loitering around the presidential apartment at the Peduase Lodge, near Aburi in the Eastern Region. The leader, Abdul Rashid Mohammad, 20, was apprehended by the Combat 8 patrol team from Accra, ...

A 31-year-old radio presenter at Dess FM at Asante Bekwai in the Ashanti region has been murdered in her room. Ama Adjeiwaa Kodie, a newscaster popularly known as Portia was allegedly stabbed by unknown assailants. However, reports indicate that Kodie’s boyfriend is suspected to have committed the crime after he was seen with her around 3pm Sunday. The body has ...

The Institute for Energy Studies (IES) is predicting a hike in fuel prices this month. “Guided by the fundamental indicators such as rise in price of Gasoline, Gasoil and Brent crude on the international oil market, the country’s fuel stock as well as the fair-stability of the country’s local currency against the U.S. Dollar; the Institute for Energy Security (IES) ...

Unknown armed gang killed a fire officer on Saturday, April 14, on his farm in a small village near Damongo, West Gonja District capital as police is yet to find similar gang who killed another officer of the Mole Game Reserve weeks ago. Mahama Cosmos Eliasu, 35, was found dead few miles away from his farmland in Janforo, by worried ...

The Chamber of Petroleum Consumers(COPEC-GH) wants the National Petroleum Authority and the Security Agencies to step up efforts to disband operations of fuel smuggling syndicate, whose activities appear to be rife in Ghana. Ghana lost over $150 million to fuel smuggling in September and November 2016, the Executive Secretary of the Chamber of Petroleum Consumers has said. Current poor levels ...

Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, has called for urgent reforms in the Attorney General’s Department in order to reduce bureaucracy and unnecessary delays in responding to cases sent to the office for advice and onward prosecution in the courts. The reforms, according to him, have become even critical in view of the establishment of the Office of the Special Prosecutor ...

Nine former Ministers under the erstwhile Mahama administration and Members of Parliament who are under Police investigations for allegedly taking double salaries are expected to appear before the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service. The CID has already written to the ex-government officials and demanded that they appear for questioning. About 22 former appointees were named by ...