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The controversy surrounding the installation of a substantive Ga Mantse reached another crescendo on Monday when the Ga Traditional Council (GTC) installed Kelvin Nii Tackie as the ruler of the Ga State. Under the stool name Nii Taki Teiko Tsuru, he becomes the fifth Ga Mantse to be installed since the death of Nii Amugi II about 13 years ago. ...

Medical doctors and dentists in the country will from next year have security stamps to differentiate them from quack ones. The move follows the arrest of some nineteen people who were practising as doctors without licenses. Some of the quack doctors were arrested after prescribing wrong medications to patients. The Registrar of the Council, Dr Eli Atikpui told a news ...

The Roads and Highways Minister has ordered four traffic islands on Kumasi-Ejisu stretch of the main Kumasi-Accra Road be removed for the free flow of traffic. Akwasi Amoako Atta wants traffic lights to be installed to replace the rounds-about he describes as problematic. He gave the directive on the first leg of a three-day working visit to the Ashanti Region. ...

The 2016 flag bearer of the Progressive People’s Party (PPP), Dr. Papa Kwesi Nduom, has decided to bow out of the 2020 presidential contest. His decision aims at giving the ‘younger generation’ of the party frontline roles, which he believes will give the political grouping a better chance of securing a parliamentary seat and eventually occupying the Flagstaff Staff House ...

Matron of the Buipe Senior High School in the Central Gonja District of the Northern Region, Madam Alidu Rahinatu has been handed over to police after she was intercepted carting away a large quantity of food stuff belonging to the school. Madam Rahinatu was arrested last night through a combined effort of two assembly members of the area who have ...

Government has offered to pay the medical bills of all persons injured in Monday’s train derailment at Tesano in Accra that left some passengers injured, the Ministry of Railways Development has announced. A three-member committee has meanwhile been set up to look into what caused the Accra-bound train from Tema to derail as well as make recommendations on how to ...

Defeated boxing champion, Bukom Banku has called on Ghanaians to give him a break as according to him he is not the first person to have been defeated in a contest. Bastie Samir stopped Bukom Banku in round 7 of their scheduled 12 round non-title bout in front of a huge crowd at the Bukom Boxing Arena on Saturday night. ...

About four auxiliary organizations including the World Food Programme have suspended support for the Northern Regional Secretariat of the School feeding programme following raging controversies that have bedevilled the programme since the change of government. The World Food Programme, an integral partner which provides meals for some selected schools in the region, The Hershey company, which also provided Vivi snacks ...

The Ashanti Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Bernard Antwi-Boasiako popularly known as Chairman Wontumi is certain that the suspended General Secretary of the ruling NPP Kwabena Agyei Agyepong will not be given back his post. According to him, NPP will gladly accept the General Secretary of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Johnson Asiedu Nketia instead of ...

President of the Diabetes Association of Ghana, Elizabeth Esi Denyo, has launched a blistering attack on Joy FM’s Super Morning Show anchor, Kojo Yankson, accusing him of stealing her “Sugar Project” concept. The Sugar Project, which was launched in 2015 by Kojo Yankson with support from Joy FM, is a campaign to provide easy access to efficient and reliable diabetes ...