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According to her, although government is instituting social intervention programmes such as the one-factory, one-district programme, and the school feeding programme, attention should be shifted to controlling the numbers. “We should be looking at the supply side of the population and not only the demand side…population growth is key to national development,” she told the host of The Lounge, Kwaku ...

To mark the 10th edition of its 21 days of Y’ello Care staff volunteer programme, telecommunication giant; MTN Ghana has reconstructed the Street Academy School at Mensah Guinea Beach in Accra. The school’s wooden structure was pulled down and replaced with a concrete building to provide a conducive teaching and learning environment for pupils of the Street Academy School. The ...

The acting Director of Public Affairs of Parliament Kate Addo has rebutted claims by the Minority that the Speaker of the House Prof. Mike Oquaye is biased. The comment comes after the Minority accused the Speaker of bias and threatened to impeach him following his decision to deny their leader Haruna Iddrisu a follow-up question during an encounter with the ...

Former Ghana High Commissioner to South Africa, Mr Kwesi Ahwoi has denied knowledge of posters which has appeared on social media announcing his interest in the presidency on the ticket of the National Democratic Congress (NDC). Mr Ahwoi told Accra based radio station, Class FM that he has not contracted anyone to do that on his behalf adding that such ...

Professor Agyeman Badu Akosa, a former Director–General of the Ghana Health Service (GHS), has faulted the leadership of the country for neglecting its healthcare system. He argued that from time immemorial, the leadership of the country has always utilized medical services outside Ghana, and as such they are not concerned about the state of healthcare in the country. He then ...

Minority Leader Haruna Iddrisu has accused Speaker of Parliament, Professor Aaron Mike Oquaye of threatening democracy in parliament. The Minority staged a walk-out in protest to what they described as the referral of a motion to the Energy Committee without prior debate. The motion was filed by Member of Parliament (MP) for Adansi-Askowa, K.T. Hammond to seek cancellation of the ...

One of the beleaguered deputy chairpersons of the Electoral Commission Amadu Sulley has accused his boss of sidelining him as the wrangling at the commission continues. In a new string of accusations contained in a letter addressed to Charlotte Osei, Mr. Sulley bemoans the decision of the chair to engage other officials over responsibilities that fall within his domain. “..Per ...

Dr Lawrence Tetteh, an Economist and International Evangelist, is to hold a healing crusade at Denkyira Obuase in October, where a mob action led to the death of Major Maxwell Adam Mahama, a Detachment Commander. Dr Tetteh, also the President of the UK based Worldwide Miracle Outreach told the Ghana News Agency in Accra on Tuesday that he would rally ...

Ghana’s Parliament has ratified an agreement to allow the two ex-GITMO detainees to stay in the country. The Minister of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration Shirley Ayorkor Botchway on Tuesday informed the House, her ministry and other stakeholders will work on an “exit plan” by the time their two-year stay in Ghana expires January 6, 2018. She stressed that there ...

The Deputy Chair of Operations at the Electoral Commission, Amadu Sulley has called on the Commission’s Chairperson, Charlotte Osei to act in accordance with the structures of the Commission, following what he describes as her non-recognition of his presence. In a leaked memo, Mr. Sulley complained that Mrs. Osei had refused to recognize his presence in the office since she ...