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Aggrieved staff of Pantang Psychiatric Hospital will hit the street today to press home their demand for encroachment on their lands by private developers to be stopped. They have already suspended OPD and other non-emergency services, leaving patients and their relatives stranded. Today’s protest may lead to the shutdown of the facility, despite a planned visit by the Health Minister. ...

Human trafficking has become a canker that is threatening the very survival of persons nationally and globally as the menace is on the ascendancy. It is on this backdrop that the Minister of Gender, Children and Social Protection, Otiko Afisa Djaba calls on all stakeholders to see the fight against human trafficking as a national obligation as government is committed ...

A former Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, Alhaji Inusah Fuseini, is pleading for clemency from his successors over his inability to inform them about a planted spy camera at the office after leaving post. An audio-visual recorder planted behind a Coat of Arms plaque in the office was detected by officials of the national security. Alhaji Fuseini has confessed ...

Deputy Minister of Trade and Industry, Robert Ahomka-Lindsay last week told diasporans to stop ‘whining’ about things not working in Ghana. “Nobody likes whiners, people that spend all the time whining all the time really get on people’s nerves so stop whining,” the Deputy Minister said at the Diaspora Homecoming Summit at the Accra International Conference Centre on Thursday. He ...

Mr Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, the Majority Leader has dismissed criticism from the Minority in Parliament that the government is taking too long to bring its bills before the House. According to him, the claim by the Minority was not true because government was within time and had not delayed in presenting the bills before the House. Mr Mensah-Bonsu made the statement ...

The flag bearer of the People’s National Convention (PNC) has rejected claims he sacked some individuals in the party for accepting roles in previous governments. His comments follow accusations by the Chairman of the PNC, Bernard Mornah, who has condemned him for accepting the role of Ambassador-at-large under the current New Patriotic Party (NPP). According to him: “He [Bernard Mornah] ...

The Central Regional Chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Bernard Allotey Jacobs has slammed a former Lands and Natural Resources Minister, Inusah Fuseini, for installing ‘spying’ devices in his office. “It is wrong for the Minister to do that…it did not lie under his purview to do that, if he wanted security protection, he should have contacted National Security…,” ...

Former Lands and Natural Resources Minister Nii Osah Mills has expressed dismay following revelations, all his days in office were under the watch of a secret camera. “I feel naked” he complained to Joy News’ Raymond Acquah, Tuesday. It is a feeling made worse by the confession by his predecessor, Insuah Fuseini that he planted the device while he occupied ...

The Minister of Food and Agriculture of Ghana, Hon. Dr. Owusu Afriyie Akoto, had his moments of brilliance at the ongoing World Coffee Producers Forum underway in Medellin, Columbia, when he was recognised by the former President of the United States of America, Mr. Bill Clinton. The former US President and Hon. Dr. Owusu Afriyie Akoto engaged in a hearty ...

The flagbearer of the People’s National Convention (PNC) during the 2016 elections Dr. Edward Mahama has said there is nothing wrong accepting an ambassadorial appointment in the Akufo-Addo government. Dr. Mahama has come under immense public backlash, especially from his party over his alleged failure to consult executives before accepting the position. Despite the flak, the gynecologist is optimistic he ...