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The Regional branch of the National Democratic Congress, NDC in the Upper West Region has hit the streets demanding with immediate effect the commissioning of all governmental projects that have been stalled by Akufo-Addo government. The party members marched through the principal streets of the Upper Regional Capital, Wa to the newly constructed hospital where they addressed party members and ...

Asante Kotoko supporter Seidu Mba is in the custody of Police over the kidnappings of two Canadian girls in the Ashanti Region, according to reports. The staunch Kotoko fan is believed to be the mastermind behind the kidnappings of the girls who went missing for sometime now. A Police statement in the early hours of Wednesday morning revealed the girls ...

GE Healthcare has kicked-off a two-day “Healthcare Dialogues” event in Ghana, bringing together public and private sectors’ industry stakeholders including policy makers, healthcare professionals, decision makers, academia, investors and financing institutions to drive conversations around innovative sustainable healthcare solutions to help progress Ghana’s Universal Health Coverage (UHC). Under the theme of Elevating Healthcare through Collaborations, key topics to be discussed ...

A Joy News Hotline Documentary has highlighted how projects originally awarded for 81m million cedis using oil resources, turned 395 million cedis after completion. Delay and deliberate stalling of the projects have been cited by the Public Interest and Accountability Committee (PIAC) as a strategy by some stakeholders to make more money. According to the PIAC, the delays allow for ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo was on Tuesday honoured with Guyana’s highest national award, The Order of Excellence of Guyana. The award was conferred on him at a state luncheon held in his honour by the President of the Co-operative Republic of Guyana, David Arthur Granger, in the Guyanese capital Georgetown. President Akufo-Addo is on a five Carribean nation working ...

A Deputy Minister of Information, Pius Enam Hadzide, has assured that the security services are seriously working to rescue the kidnapped Takoradi girls. The assurance came after the two Canadians, who were kidnapped in Kumasi last week, were rescued in the early hours of Wednesday, June 12. The swift rescue of the two Canadian women who were kidnapped by unidentified ...

Some 150 children from across Ghana are receiving medical attention at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) after mistaking caustic soda for drinking water. Doctors at the theatres of the premier hospital say each of the affected children needs a repair or a replacement of the throat (the food pipe) which has been seriously damaged by the corrosive substance. “In ...

Two Canadian women have been rescued after they were kidnapped last week by gunmen in Ghana’s second city, Kumasi, a government minister has said. The two unnamed students, aged 19 and 20, were working as volunteers for a charity when they were seized. Kidnappings in Ghana, regarded as one of West Africa’s most stable states, are extremely rare. However, there ...

A 14-year-old Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) candidate is reported missing in Koforidua in the Eastern Region, missing four papers. Valerian Osei-Nyarko who visited his father in Koforidua, was put in a bus last Saturday to return to Kumasi where he has been staying with the aunt, to begin the BECE but was said to have got down from bus ...

The National Petroleum Authority is cautioning against attempts to politicize the soon to be implemented Cylinder Recirculation Model. Under the model the NPA will convert high risk LPG refill outlets into exchange and distribution centers to make the marketing of LPG safer. It is also expected to double access to LPG to 50 percent by 2030. Addressing a stakeholder forum ...