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Madam Victoria Agbotui, the mother of former President Jerry John Rawlings, has died at age 101. The death of Madam Agbotui has been confirmed by multiple sources close to the Rawlings’ family. According to the sources, the mother of Mr Rawlings who recently celebrated her 101st birthday on September 9, 2020, had been unwell for a while. The late Madam Victoria ...

Seven persons who robbed a Supreme Court judge and a banker of their vehicles, a laptop and other personal effects at gun point, have been sentenced to a total jail term of 175 years by an Accra Circuit Court. Nene Kwadwo Tetteh, aka Chairman Obed, who was not present while judgement was to being pronounced, has been sentenced to 25 ...

The Electoral Commission has extended the voter register exhibition exercise by two more days. The exercise will now end on Sunday, September 27. The EC in a statement said the move is intended to avail more Ghanaians the opportunity to verify their details in the register. It comes after the opposition National Democratic Congress raised concerns over the integrity of ...

The National Labour Commission (NLC) has given the Ghana Registered Nurses and Midwives Association (GRNMA) and government one month to resolve the impasse over service conditions of the healthworkers. According to the GRNMA General Secretary David Tenkorang, the NLC at today’s meeting told the party’s to report back to them on the status of negotiations after the four weeks period. ...

Charles Cromwell Nanabanyin Onuawonto Bissue, the Presidential Staffer infamous for the Galamsey task force saga, says he did not physically attack George Mireku Duker, who represents the people of Tarkwa-Nsuaem in Parliament. “I neither physically attacked nor bit the finger of the MP for Tarkwa-Nsuaem Constituency, Honourable Mireku Duker as widely reported. I was not the aggressor in this situation, ...

Government has extended the free water package in the wake of COVID-19 to the end of the year, the Water and Sanitation Ministry has announced in a statement. The statement noted the move to enable Ghanaians continue with the handwashing protocol in the combat of the deadly virus. It, however, urged Ghanaians to be judicious in the water of water. ...

The Technical University Teachers Association of Ghana, TUTAG, has warned that, government would face their wrath in the coming days if it refuses to address their concern on the subject of conditions of service. The last time TUTAG’s conditions of service was reviewed was in 2006, according to the union. The situation remained the same for over 14 years even ...

Explainer: These are all the allowances the striking Ghanaian nurses are demanding A nationwide strike by members of the Ghana Registered Nurses and Midwives Association (GRNMA) on Monday, September 21, 2020, debilitated health delivery across the country. Harrowing tales of how sick patients needing emergency medical attention were turned away at public hospitals have inundated news report of the strike. ...

Fishermen at Adafienu, a fishing community near Denu in the Ketu South Municipality of the Volta Region in the early hours of Monday, September 21, 2020, brought ashore a giant creature which many believe is a humpback whale. The creature has been killed with some of its parts; tail and wings already removed. According to the owner of the fishing ...

The Ghana Registered Nurses and Midwives Association has accused government of not regarding them as essential service workers. According to the group, if government respected them as essential workers, their issues regarding improved conditions of service would have been addressed within the shortest possible time. Nurses and midwives around the country embarked on a strike Monday, September 21, 2020. The ...