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The Food and Drugs Authority in the Northern region is alarmed at the large quantity of expired drugs that were still kept at the Tamale Teaching Hospital, describing the development as unacceptable. The facility for the first time in 10 years on Friday, September 15, 2017 disposed of nearly GH¢400,000.00 worth of expired drugs since its upgrade in 2009. Dozens ...

General Secretary of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has described as “a waste of time” President’s Akufo-Addo’s decision to move founder’s day from September 21 to August 4. According to Johnson Asiedu Nketia, the move when implemented will amount to changing Ghana’s history in favour of the Danquah-Busia-Dombo tradition. President Akufo-Addo has come under a barrage of attacks after ...

The implementation of the Free Senior High School (SHS) programme by the Akufo-Addo-led government has not reduced the economic challenges facing Ghanaians, John Jinapor, Member of Parliament for Yapei Kusawgu and former Deputy Minister of Power, has said. According to him, the cost of living in Ghana has gone up with the high cost of fuel prices, a situation that ...

There is a figure head in every struggle for independence, and Dr Kwame Nkrumah is the leader who guided Ghana to independence hence must be celebrated as such, Dr Edward Brenya, a political science lecturer at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, has said. “…the truth remains that there was only one President that took Ghana to independence ...

President Akufo-Addo says the African Continent wean itself from foreign aid within the next fifty years if the continent is mindful to implement the AU Agenda 2063. Addressing participants of a World Leader Forum at the 5th Annual International Conference on Sustainable Development held at the Earth Institute, Columbia University, New York, President Akufo Addo says African can no longer ...

Senior research fellow at the Institute of African Studies, Dr Kojo Opoku Aiddo, says Ghana’s past achievements and ongoing development cannot be attributed to any singular person or group. He notes that one of the best ways to resolve the ongoing debate about Dr Kwame Nkrumah’s status as the founder of Ghana is to acknowledge that the country’s liberation efforts ...

The embattled Managing Director of Times Corporation has said she did not promise to improve wages of workers at the firm as they have claimed. According to Carol Annang, accusation of broken promises against her by the staff is unfounded and baseless. Staff of the state media organization early today, Monday September 18, 2017, halted business activities there, protesting poor ...

The Editor-In-Chief of the Informer Newspaper, Andy Kankam, has dared former President John Dramani, that if he is not behind what Appiah Stadium a sympathizer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), is doing he [Mahama] should issue a statement by close of day today [Monday] to disown him. The maverick sympathizer of the NDC has reportedly described former President JJ ...

Ghana’s former Ambassador to the Netherlands, Dr Tony Aidoo says Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia was a problem for the NDC to handle in the 2016 election. According to him, the then-vice presidential candidate of the NPP was the Achilles’ heel of the NDC despite his flaws in some economic matters. Dr. Tony Aidoo in his first interview with TV3 ...

Togbe Afede XIV, Paramount Chief of Asogli Traditional Area, disclosed that the people of the Volta Region, are leveraging on government’s industrialization policies. According to the Paramount Chief, measures are being taken at the local level by stakeholders in the Volta Region in tandem with the National Policy of establishing industries in each district. He said the region has already ...