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The first lady, Rebecca Akufo-Addo has called for concerted efforts in ending Mother-to-child transmission of HIV and other health conditions that affect the well-being of women and children in the country. Speaking at the launch of the National Acceleration Plan for Paediatric HIV Services at Ho in the Volta region on Thursday, she underscored the need for an all-hand-on-deck approach ...

Some nursing and midwifery training institutions across the country are charging unapproved fees, contrary to the Ministry of Health’s (MoH’s) directive not to do so. Some of the bills stumbled upon by the Daily Graphic showed that those institutions were charging a combined fee of almost GH¢2,400, as against the MoH directive instructing them to charge GH¢1,400 as normal fee ...

The General Agricultural Workers Union (GAWU) has launched a scathing attack on the government over claims that it has defeated the army worms which invaded farms across the country. According to the Union, the government’s claims are untrue. It made this known Thursday after visiting a number of farms in the Upper East region, where armyworms invaded numerous farms. More ...

A report of the Special Budget Committee of Parliament has revealed how the Chairperson of the Electoral Commission (EC) Charlotte Osei, requested for more money for the commission, although the general elections have been concluded. She was demanding approval for the balance of GH¢223,000,751 from GH¢1,093,000,751 which was required for the 2016 general elections. However, an audit report indicated that ...

Electricity is very critical to individuals and businesses, but for residents of ‘Katapie’ in the Ahafo Ano North District of the Ashanti Region, it has remained a wish. Amid the unfortunate developmental vacuum, comes the flourishing mobile phone charging business. Thirty-five-year old ‘Katapie’ resident, D.K. Emmanuel, as he prefers to be called, is the brain behind the initiative. He is ...

The Eastern Regional Minister, Eric Kwakye Darfour, has expressed concern at what he describes as an unwarranted craze for gold in the country which is giving rise to activities of illegal miners. According to him, the situation has reached a stage where the illegal miners are now going the extra mile of using sophisticated machinery to mine even in water ...

The Akyem Oda Divisional Police Command has destroyed mining equipments belonging to some illegal miners at Akyem Aboabo in the Birim Central Municipality of the Eastern Region. Kasapa News Eastern regional Correspondent Kojo Ansah reports that the equipments destroyed are Chanfai machines which were being used for alluvia mining on the Birim river. The Oda Divisional Police Command upon a ...

The Ministry of Interior has indicated that Friday, September 1, 2017, which marks the Eid al-Adha festival, is a statutory public holiday and must be observed as such throughout the country. This was contained in a statement by the Interior Minister, Ambrose Dery, on Thursday, August 24. In the Islamic lunar calendar, Eid al-Adha falls on the 10th day of ...

The acting National Chairman of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) Freddie Blay has said Paul Afoko remains suspended from the party indefinitely. Speaking Thursday on Accra based Citi FM, the chairman of the National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) said, “I am not sure that is going to happen.” “The one who I replaced was suspended and will remain suspended so ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on Thursday inaugurated the Ghana Astronomy Radio Observatory at Kuntunse in the Greater Accra Region, describing the development as the beginning of a new era in the country’s quest to harness the potential of space science and technology for accelerated national development. The new era, he said, would not only witness the deepening of knowledge ...