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An elaborate plan to make Ghana a major force in the export of petroleum products in the West African sub-region and beyond should make significant strides by the end of this year, Deputy Energy Minister in charge of Petroleum, Mohammed Amin Adam, has revealed. Dr. Adam says a Petroleum Hub taskforce has already been established to develop a master plan ...

The Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO) has launched investigations into the breakdown of MRI and CT scan machines at five major government hospitals in the country. The Magnetic Resonance Imagining (MRI) and Computed Temography (CT) scan machines at the five major government hospitals have all broken down since their installation in 2013, bringing discomfort to patients and medical practitioners ...

Attend all the schools you can, and obtain all the grades you can, but without an influential father, who is politically connected to place you in the topmost echelon of a state institution, you will end up jobless, poor, wretched and useless. This is the story of Senior Minister, Yaw Osafo Maafo, who has strategically pushed and placed his two ...

Former President John Dramani Mahama is not leader of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC). Deputy General Secretary, Koku Anyidoho explained that, a flagbearer ceases to be leader when the party loses an elections. National Executive Council of the NDC amended the party’s constitution and made Mr. Mahama then flagbearer leader. The General Secretary of the NDC in declaring former ...

The leadership of the Ghana National Association of Graduate Teachers (NAGRAT) has accused the Education Minister, Hon Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh of running the Education Ministry in the media warning him against the continuation of such a practice. “The minister on several occasions chooses to communicate every information he wants to get in the media”, NAGRAT president, Christian Addia-Poku alleged. ...

Heads appear to be rolling following the collapse of two financial institutions – UT Bank and Capital bank – on Monday as a result of their insolvency. Information reaching DAILY GUIDE indicates that Stephen Antwi-Asimeng, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the defunct UT Bank and Gillian Slater, Chief Operating Officer (COO), have been asked to go home with immediate effect. ...

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 ...