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The Fisheries and Aquaculture Minister Elizabeth Afoley Quaye has said her Ministry is investigating claims that some Chinese engaged in fish farming in the country are using steroids to produce tilapia. “At the moment, the Water and Research Institute is testing the fish to find if there is any presence of steroids at all, and also to establish the genetic ...

The government of Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has been renaming the policies and projects started by the Mahama administration in order to take credit for those projects, Edward Acquah (Fayah), the Ekumfi Constituency Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), has said. According to him, the Planting for Food and Jobs programme launched by Mr Akufo-Addo is the brain child ...

Squatters occupying the shoulders of the tunnel linking East Legon to the Spintex Road have been advised to vacate the area in two weeks in their own interest. The presence of the trespassers is hindering attempts to speed up the construction of a second subway in the area. Government is working with a contractor to put up a second by-pass ...

The One Million Community Health Workers (1mCHW) Campaign of Millennium Promise and its partners, Ashanti regional health directorate of Ghana Health Service (GHS) and the Youth Employment Agency (YEA), have hit their target of training 1,800 Community Health Workers to deliver quality health care services at the door steps of people living in rural communities in Ghana. This follows their ...

A Medical and Social Entrepreneur Dr. Yao Mfodwo is proposing that senior citizens must constitute majority of government boards. Speaking at the first annual stakeholders’ forum on ageing matters held in Accra, Dr. Mfodwo argued senior citizens have a lot of experience which must be tapped to improve Ghana’s corporate governance system. He reiterated that retiring at age 60 is ...

The interdicted Head of IT for the Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) Dr. Caleb Afaglo has dismissed claims that his academic credentials are questionable. The Economic and Organised Crimes Office (EOCO) has interdicted Mr. Afaglo over claims that his certificates are fake and therefore he does not deserve his position at SSNIT. But responding to the charge in ...

A High court in Tamale has granted bail to a man brought before it on police charges that he defrauded and stole nearly one million cedis from a company he worked with to bankroll activities of the New Patriotic Party in the Northern region. The court had delayed making a decision on whether to grant him bail on Thursday, August ...

Gunmen wielding AK47 rifles and other sophisticated weapons and wearing mask to cover their identity have attacked General Secretary of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Johnson Asiedu Nketia at Teacher Mante, near Suhum in the Eastern Region Monday afternoon. According to Asiedu Nketia, the attackers who were driving a Toyota Tunda vehicle accosted him and other occupants of his ...

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) Member of Parliament for Assin South in the Central Region, Rev John Ntim Fordjour, has lashed out at some Ghanaian gays in Canada who are canvassing for support from the Canadian government to put pressure on the Ghanaian government to decriminalise same-sex relationships in the country.A group of eight Ghanaian men living in Canada, led ...

For the defenders of the Electoral Commissioner Madam Charlotte Osei,please give us a break because it’s not even that serious, as Americans would say. It has been said that “where ignorance is a bliss, it’s foolish to be [the wisest]” among the pack. More important, it is worth reminding ourselves or telling those who may not know that the most ...