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Information Minister Kojo Oppong has assured the media that the government of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo will be fair to all media houses in terms of regulation. He also aid there will be fairness in the area of capacity enhancement programmers. Mr Oppong Nkrumah said this on Tuesday August 24 at the Graphic Business/Standbic Bank Breakfast meeting. “There is ...

Eight more COVID-19 patients have died in Ghana taking the fatality toll to 982, the latest figures from the Ghana Health Service (GHS) indicate. Some 423 new cases were also confirmed as of 20 August 2021. The active caseload is currently 6,850. The critical cases have fallen to 20 from 28 while the severe cases have dropped to 34 from ...

A Zimbabwean lecturer has declined a senior lecturer post at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) in the Department of Physiotherapy and Sport Sciences over poor salary. In a letter declining the offer by the university, Dr Matthew Chiwaridzo stated that the annual salary of Ghc55, 104.05 (USD 760.00 per month) is not comparable to a monthly basic ...

African health ministers met on Tuesday August 24 to take stock of the continent’s fight against COVID-19 as the pandemic continues to stretch health systems to breaking point in some countries and just 2% of all Africans are fully vaccinated against the virus. Ministers assessed immediate actions needed to curb Africa’s third wave, which saw COVID-19 cases in Africa surpass ...

*Dr. Bawumia & NPP Government Never Promise Free Cars to Okada Riders in 2020: Razak Kojo Opoku Writes to Franklin Cudjoe/NDC Members* I have read a news item emanating from the camp of the Founding President of IMANI, Franklin Cudjoe and NDC Members, asking the whereabouts of the cars Dr. Bawumia proposed to the Okada riders during the 2020 general ...

Political pundit Ben Ephson has wondered whether the vetting and prior approval of the Electoral Commission Chair by parliament, as proposed by the main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), as one of its plethora of electoral reform recommendations, will be the thing that ensures the EC Chair is not biased or partisan. The proposals were compiled by a team of ...

The father of the 15-year-old boy, Stephen Sarpong, who was allegedly killed and his body cut into pieces and stored in a double-door fridge, has described the suspect, Richard Appiah as a friend and business partner. The 28-year-old suspect is in police custody in Sunyani after he butchered the JHS 2 student and two others. The lifeless body of the ...

Hunting of wild animals has been a very important aspect of life in Ghanaian societies. Hunting provides the main source of animal protein to many people in the rural areas in the past and more recently palatable meat for the affluent in the urban societies. At present-day Ghana, some people such as Bushmeat dealers, Chop bar operators, and market women ...

Former Finance Minister Seth Terkper has urged the government to utilise the US$1 billion Special Drawing Rights (SDR) allocation by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) within the framework of the law. His comment comes after the inance Minister Ken Ofori Atta had said the funds will be used to support government’s budgetary needs. “The minister of finance was quoted as ...

According to the MP for Assin, Kennedy Agyapong, it is high time Ghanaians repurpose vocational training to aid national development. He cited the technical and vocational skillfulness of the Ewes as an essential national skill that needed to be adopted by all ethnicities in the country. Kennedy Agyapong mourned the steady erosion of the representation of technical and vocational skills ...