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The Ghana Navy is in hot pursuit of pirates who hijacked a vessel from the Tema anchorage and proceeded towards Togolese waters but abandoned the operation midway. The Officer Commanding the Eastern Naval Command Commodore, James Kontoh, said this shortly after a Ghana Navy operation rescued five persons, one of them a Ghanaian, from the abandoned vessel. Some of the ...

Violent crime in the country increased by 43 percent in the second quarter of 2019, according to the Ghana Public Safety and Crime Report released by the Bureau for Public Safety, (BPS). The report also revealed that the most reported occurrence of violent crimes in the first half of the year are murder or manslaughter, armed robbery and assault cases. ...

Sanitation minister Cecilia Dapaah has told off a Multimedia intern, emphasising, her request for an interview is disrespectful because she is an intern. ‘Who gave you the permission to call me to speak to me directly like that?’ she sternly told Rahinatu Abdul Bach who is also a student of the Ghana Institute of Journalism. ‘You don’t respect…please go off’ ...

Member of Parliament (MP) for Assin Central, Kennedy Agyapong has observed that the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) is the best thing to have happened to Ghana. In his estimation, each time the party is in power there are a lot of development in all sectors of the economy compared to the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) that has disappointment ...

The Police CID which investigated allegations of corruption against the secretary of the Inter-ministerial Committee on illegal mining Charles Bissue has cleared him of any wrong doing. “Mr. Bissue was not found to be culpable of any offense, a parallel investigation by the office of Special Prosecutor is however still ongoing,” the Graphic quoted the police report as saying. The ...

Majority Leader in Parliament and Minister of Parliamentary Affairs, Hon. Osei Kyei Mensah Bonsu has taken on those attacking him explaining why he chose to ignore comments and opinions about him on the proposed $200m parliamentary chamber. “People roasted me on their Facebook pages and other social media platform. I read everything but I chose not to go into the ...

The Northern Regional Directorate of the Ghana Health Service (GHS) will from next week, July 22 to July 28, undertake a mass administration of a new anti-malaria drug to children in the region. A total of 68,983 children between the ages of three months to 59 months are to receive the new Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention (SMC) drug and the GHS ...

An offshoot of the Ghana Registered Nurses and Midwifery Association (GRNMA) in the Upper West Region, has called on the GRNMA to with immediate effect, halt the automatic addition of members to the group. The group, known Concerned Nurses, has also asked that the association to desist from what they termed “illegal deduction of dues from their salaries”. The members ...

A former Minister of Education, Professor Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemanghas called for a long term educationaldevelopment planthat focuses on peculiar situations to resolve challenges in the sector. She said the long term plan, which would be aimed at reforming education in the country, should be hinged on research into an evaluation of previous reforms and how it was implemented. The former ...

How many volunteer teachers in rural communities have taken the initiative to help the schools they have offered their service to for short periods? Not many. But Frank Abeku Adams, whose research studies for his undergraduate certificate took him to Ekumfi, as a volunteer teacher, decided to help the community senior high school Thanks to crowdfunding, Frank, an agri-business investor, ...