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The Ghana Health Service has announced that it will adopt a quota system in employing medical doctors and dentists in the country. According to the Director-General of the Service, Dr Anthony Nsiah Asare, the quota system will help check the practice where young doctors posted to rural areas reject such appointments. Ghana’s doctor to patient ratio currently stands at one ...

Angry residents from Nyinahin mostly youth in the the Atwima Mponua District of the Ashanti Region have prevented Engineers and Planners from depositing mining equipment at a bauxite concession in the area. Heavy duty equipments were being taken to the area with the view of prospecting and mining bauxite but the residents prevented the drivers of the vehicles belonging to ...

Pastor Mensa Otabil has said the collapse of Capital Bank, of which his church, International Central Gospel Church (ICGC), owned 3%, is a reprisal attack from the devil whose eye the church poked during its 2017 Greater Works summit in Accra. Greater Works is an annual spiritual event organized by ICGC which brings an array of internationally-renowned men of God ...

One of Ghana’s best-known Catholic priests, Msgr. Roger Aboteyuure, has asked Ghanaians searching for examples of “useless graduates” to look no further than successful degree holders who have turned their backs on their deprived hometowns. The widely travelled preacher, quite upset over the pitiable conditions in which some communities in the Upper East region have been caged for ages, is ...

Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia has been compelled by vile propaganda directed at him to fire a salvo at the opposition and minority National Democratic Congress (NDC). It follows claim by the deputy minority leader, James Klutse Avedzi, who is also the Member of Parliament (MP) for Ketu North Constituency in the Volta Region, to the effect that the vice president ...

THE Deputy Transport Minister, Daniel Nii Kwartei Titus-Glover has debunked rumours in the media that he has passed on. Mr Titus-Glover who is a lawmaker representing the constituents of Tema East in Parliament was reported to have died on the Accra-Kumasi road. Social media platforms, especially Facebook and Whatsapp were flooded over the weekend with reports that the vociferous MP ...

Chairperson of the Electoral Commission (EC), Charlotte Osei, is under intense pressure to explain how her outfit was able to auction about 40 vehicles without proper documentation. The demand for explanation has come from the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of Parliament. It wants the EC to provide further and better particulars of all the vehicles auctioned, which Dr. Kwadwo Afari-Gyan, ...

A 38-year old taxi driver has been sentenced to two years imprisonment by an Accra Circuit Court for sucking the breast of his 13-year-old daughter and inserting his fingers into her vagina. This was after the court had found Alfred Boakye guilty on the charge of indecent assault at the end of the trial. Prosecuting Chief Inspector Kofi Atimbire told ...

The former Moderator of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana Rt. Rev. Prof Emmanuel Martey has backed President Akufo-Addo to deliver on the promises he made to Ghanaians during electioneering. Akufo-Addo in the run-up to the 2016 elections made several pledges to Ghanaians including the provision of Free Senior High Schools, one-million-per-constituency and one-district-one-factory policies. Speaking at the 17th General Assembly ...

The Executive Chairman of JL Holdings Dr. James Orleans-Lindsay has backed government’s decision to back down on the mandatory tow levy. The Transport Ministry announced over the weekend the government has scrapped the project until the tow law is reviewed. “The government has decided not to implement, the mandatory towing levy which was scheduled to have commenced on 1st July ...