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Ashanti Regional Chairman of the ruling New Patriotic Party is accusing minority leader in parliament of employing secret strategy to over shine former president John Mahama ahead of the party’s internal contest. According to Bernard Antwi Boasiako, Haruna Iddrisu as a lawyer must have fair appreciation of circumstance that led to the discharge of the NPP’s vigilante group, delta force. ...

Last week you wrote a letter to me, demanding a copy of a child labour documentary done by the BBC. I was shocked at your demand, but I managed to respond to you, as briefly as I could, and I did indicate, to your Director who followed up, that, I would do an open and a broader response in my ...

Nine of the 20 government appointees at the Kassena-Nankana West District Assembly in the Upper East region have been dismissed and replaced to pave way for the confirmation of the District Chief Executive nominee, Clement Dandori. Their dismissal, coming a week after the nominee was denied the required two-thirds of the votes cast in the first confirmation meeting, was announced ...

The Medical Director at the Ridge Hospital, Dr. Thomas Anaba has said he will sue the Health Minister, Kwaku Agyemang Manu for unduly transferring him from his post. Last Monday, a letter addressed to Dr. Anaba directed to him hand over to the Public Services Commission three years short of the expiration of his tenure. Although no reasons were given, ...

The Ghana Health Service (GHS) has directed all regional health directors in the country to be on alert after the Democratic Republic of Congo reported an Ebola outbreak in the North-east. The World Health Organisation said as at May 14, 2017, three deaths are being linked to the virus, and it is taking the situation “very seriously”. One of those ...

The General Secretary of the Peoples National Convention (PNC) Atik Mohammed, has said the Nana Akufo Addo governing will sink itself soon, if it continues commiting avoidable mistakes and courting problems for itself. According to him, the government has set itself for destruction and it appears the NPP will want to take it’s 5 months in office to repeat the ...

To end the country’s erratic power distribution and billing system, government says it needs over US$1billion capital, which it seeks to realise from the private sector. The Minister of Energy and Petroleum, Boakye Agyarko, speaking at day-two of the maiden National Policy Summit in Accra, noted that there is the need for critical investment in power distribution and billing infrastructure, ...

Dr Felix Anyah, the CEO of the Holy Trinity Medical Centre has been appointed new Chief Executive of the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital in Accra. The appointment takes effect on June 1,2017, a letter signed by the Health Minister noted. Dr, Anyah takes over from Dr. Gilbert Buckle who had several brushes with staff of the biggest referral hospital in ...

45 senior officers of the Ghana Immigration Service (GIS) have been transferred. They include two Deputy Commissioners of Immigration (DCOI), two Assistant Commissioners of Immigration (ACi), 18 Chief Superintendents of Immigration (C/SUPT.), eight Superintendents of Immigration (SUPT.), 11 Deputy Superintendents of Immigration (DSI) and four Assistant Superintendents of Immigration (ASI). A letter dated May 17, 2017, and signed by Comptroller-General ...

A former Attorney General, Martin Amidu is of the view the Ashanti Regional State Attorney did not err in her decision to drop charges against members of the pro-New Patriotic Party (NPP) group, Delta Force, without consulting the Attorney General. Mr. Amidu, per his assesment of the case, described the State Attorney’s handling of the matter as unassailably professional. The ...