NEWS

PARDA uncovers 4 CHPS compounds running without midwife

A project initiated by the Participatory Action for Rural Development Alternatives (PARDA) to ensure that mothers and their babies remain alive and well before and after delivery has led to the discovery of four Community-based Health Planning and Services (CHPS) compounds running without a midwife. The discovery comes two years after Ghana’s Minister for Health, Kwaku Agyemang Manu, had promised ...

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WASSCE: Engage Police to stop rioting students – CHASS to headmasters

The Conference of Heads of Assisted Senior High Schools (CHASS) has ordered Headmasters in the Ashanti Region to alert the Police anytime students intend demonstrate. According to the council of heads of Assisted Secondary Schools in the Ashanti region school heads must call in the police if students begin showing signs of converging for any protests. The directive follows mass ...

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Ghana: Eight more people die from COVID-19; death toll now 199

Eight more persons in Ghana have died from COVID-19, taking the country’s death toll to 199, according to latest figures by the Ghana Health Service. According to the GHS, 574 COVID-19 new cases have also been recorded pushing the national cumulative tally to 39,075. Meanwhile, a total of 35,563 people have also recovered and have been discharged. The country’s current ...

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Okoe Amartey reappointed UPSA VC

The Council of University of Professional Studies, UPSA has given Professor Abednego Feehi Okoe Amartey a second term as Vice-Chancellor for the University. The decision was taken at a Special Meeting of the Council of the University held on Monday, August 3, 2020 where members unanimously approved a second term for the Vice-Chancellor. Prof. Amartey’s first term as VC expires ...

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Akufo-Addo has no plans to sack Domelovo – Oppong Nkrumah

The Information Minister, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, has dismissed suggestions that the directive for the Auditor General, Daniel Domelovo, to proceed on leave is a ruse being used by the president to sack him. Speaking in an interview on GHONE TV on Wednesday, Oppong-Nkrumah justified the directive stating that the Auditor-General will resume work after he exhausts his leave. Mr Domelovo ...

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I was not groomed to attack Rawlings – Omane Boamah counters Ahwoi

Former Communications Minister Dr Edward Omane Boamah has denied claims by Professor Kwamena Ahwoi that he and other young politicians in the NDC were purposely groomed to speak up to JJ Rawlings. The NDC kingpin in his book ‘Working with Rawlings’ has suggested that some young ministers under the erstwhile Mills administration were created to counter attacks on the late ...

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My brother’s refusal to contest Mills soured our relationship with Rawlings – Prof. Ahwoi

The once cosy relationship between the Ahwoi brothers and former President Rawlings went sour after Ato Ahwoi, a former Secretary (Minister) of the PNDC, refused to contest the late Prof. Atta-Mills. According to Prof. Kwamena Ahwoi, if his brother had contested Atta-Mills, it would have been a betrayal of a good relationship Ato Ahwoi had with Atta-Mills. Therefore, the Ahwoi ...

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