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The election was held at a closed-door meeting for the First Ladies at the 19th General Assembly of OAFLA organised on the side-lines of the 29th AU summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The theme for this year’s OAFLA summit is ‘‘Building on 15 years of engagement to harness the demographic dividend of Africa through promoting the needs of adolescents and ...

The Energy Ministry has announced reforms in the petroleum sector to deal with the discharge and sale of contaminated products. Energy Minister, Boakye Agyarko, says the yearly contamination of large volumes of products presents a major challenge to the Ministry and has assured that the new measures will make it impossible for unlicensed companies to operate in the sale of ...

More than 17 illegal miners, popularly known as ‘galamsey’ operators, have been confirmed dead in a mining pit at Nsuta, a gold mining community near Bondaye in the Prestea Huni Valley District of the Western Region. The unfortunate incident, which occurred at about 3:00 a.m., on Sunday, July 2, 2017, has since left many residents of the area wondering what ...

Ace investigative journalist, Anas Aremeyaw Anas, was awarded at the just ended maiden Ghana Shippers Awards for his outstanding work in crusading against corruption. His explosive investigative work at the Tema Port in 2011 brought major changes in port operations and brought to the fore the loopholes through which the nation was losing millions of Ghana cedis. He was excited ...

Male students of the University of Cape Coast (UCC) have been fingered as being behind the high rate of teenage pregnancies in the Cape Coast metropolis. The Central region, especially the capital Cape Coast has in the past weeks received massive media attention for the wrong reasons as some teenage girls there are reportedly being paid Ghc1 and recharge cards ...

Ghanaian chef, Chef Elijah Amoo Addo has accepted a request by Queen Elizabeth to cook for her. Elijah Amoo Addo, a food stylist, was in the UK to receive the Queen’s Young Leaders Award for his contribution to community development in Ghana. “The most fascinating of it all is having to meet the Queen and for the Queen to ask ...

Former Deputy Ashanti Regional Minister, under the erstwhile NDC government, Joseph Yamin is predicting the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP)defeat in 2020 due to frustration. In his view, a government barely a year in office is finding it difficult to make ends meet due to the lies it peddled in the 2016 electioneering campaign. Joseph Yamin’s comment comes after NPP ...

Government is determined to increase the number of military hospitals in the country, in spite of the infrastructural and logistical challenges facing the 37 Military Hospital. The Finance Minister, Ken Ofori Atta who was speaking at the 75th Anniversary Celebration of the medical facility revealed, plans are far advanced for the construction of a third medical facility in the country. ...

Graduates nurses from private institutions will now have same job opportunities to apply and work like their counterparts who have graduated from state-owned institutions following an announcement by government to stop bonding them. “They are also Ghanaians who pay their fees and taxes to the government so why do we have to block them from working in our public sector ...

Local pharmaceutical giants have expressed their fear of serious health implications following the decision of the United Kiingdom (UK)-based I pharmaceutical company, GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) Export Ltd, UK, to terminate its distributorship contracts with them in favour of Worldwide Health Ltd (WHL),a wholly Indian-owned company operating in Ghana Implications The local companies fear that the distribution of several critically important medical ...