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The government is preparing to send relief supplies to Sierra Leone, a nation mourning the tragic loss of nearly 400 lives in a flooding disaster. “We are also trying in our own small way to put together a package”, Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister, Charles Owiredu said after contacting NADMO officials and the Finance Ministry. The Deputy Minister said Ghana is ...

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) Member of Parliament (MP) for Sekyere Afram Plains in the Ashanti Region, Alex Adomko-Mensah, has been robbed at gunpoint by some unknown persons. Three suspected robbers, who wielded guns and knives, forcibly took away valuables belonging to the MP, including an amount of GH¢5,000, iPad and iPhone, among others. The MP was travelling from Kumasi ...

Some tutors in the nursing training colleges have hailed government’s decision to introduce the quota system in the various colleges. The tutors, most of whom are in the Cape Coast nursing training college say the quota system will help improve the quality of nursing training in the country. There has been huge public uproar against government’s introduction of a quota ...

The Auditor-General’s report has indicted Gilbert Addison, an accountant of the Nursing and Midwifery Council in the Western region, for embezzling over GH¢150, 000 belonging to the State. This was contained in the 2015 Auditor General’s report which is being scrutinized by the Public Accounts Committee of Parliament (PAC). According to the report, Mr. Addison used part of the stolen ...

A man has five senses. But when you sit in the Alfa Romeo Stelvio, you immediately gain two more. With its pedestrian object sensors, the car detects obstruction a moment quicker than a tired or distracted driver, long enough to prevent a lethal hit. Or take the speed limit function which immediately slows you down when the fun of accelerating ...

Switzerland-based gold company, Swiss Gold Global, says it is not affiliated to Ghanaian gold trader, Menzgold Ghana and has not authorised it or Menzbanc to use its name. Swiss Gold Global in an e-mail conversation with Joy News’ Manasseh Awuni Azure Tuesday, said it has no association whatsoever with Menzgold, contrary to claims by the latter. The revelation contradicts the ...

The Auditor General (AG) has uncovered a disturbing practice at the Judicial Service where various sums of money cannot be reconciled. The AG said in its 2015 report that “the service consistently failed to obtain bank statements from HFC bank, as a result it was unable to reconcile revenue totaling GHS2,969,409.39 and deposits amounting to GHS2,846,435.82 and £75,000.00” collected on ...

The Coalition of Bonded Allied Health Professionals has revealed that over 500 of its members have been notified of their employment. According to Coalition, the recruitment is the result of the protests they held at the Ministry of Health over their lack of employment. President of the Coalition of Bonded Allied Health Professionals, Solomon Yeboah, told Accra-based Citi FM that ...

GCB Bank is not under any obligation to keep employees of UT Bank and Capital Bank who may be rendered jobless after the collapse of both banks, Labour Analyst, Kofi Davor has said. At least about fifty percent of the workers of UT and Capital bank will be laid off, following the acquisition of the banks by GCB. Citi News ...

The Marine Police and personnel from the Air Force Military will soon join the Operation Vanguard Taskforce in the Eastern region to help clamp down on about 3,500 defiant illegal miners engaging in alluvia mining on the Birim River. The illegal miners popularly known as Chanfai are still working on the Apapam to Akyem Fosu stretch of the Birim River ...