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Indications from the Minister of Health, Kwaku Agyeman Manu, are that the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) is still cash-strapped. He has said the scheme might collapse if investors are not brought on board to rescue it. According to him, the Health and Finance Ministries are making frantic efforts to get new sources of investment. Speaking on Accra-based Joy FM, the sector ...

The National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) says it is strengthening its legal and audit systems to easily detect financial infractions by service providers who present false claims to the Authority. A former Medical Superintendent of the Essikado District Hospital, in the Western region, Dr N. K. Ametewee was on Thursday jailed 10 years by the Sekondi High Court for defrauding ...

The Central Regional Chairman of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Bernard Allotey Jacobs, says he cannot be blamed for the party’s defeat in the 2016 general elections in the region. According to him, he worked with the likes of former Vice President, Paa Kwesi Amisah Arthur, and a former Deputy Finance Minister, Cassiel Ato Forson in the region, and ...

Two-time winners of the National Science and Maths Quiz, Achimota School have been knocked out of the 2018 NSMQ competition after they lost to Tamale SHS in Monday’s contest in the ongoing one-eighth session. Tamale SHS, who qualified for the one-eighth stage as a seeded school based on their good performance in 2017, won the contest with 48 points, against ...

The Tema Oil Refinery (TOR), has shut down again following a shortage of crude oil at the facility. The refinery, which has the capacity to refine about 45,000 barrels of crude oil a day, has been operating below capacity for some time now. Confirming the shutdown to Citi News, the Executive Director of the Institute of Energy Security, Kwasi Anamua ...

Investment research outfit, GN Research, has waded into the Ghana Cedi depreciation debate, arguing the local currency is performing better than 2016 when the National Democratic Congress (NDC) was in power. Former president John Mahama and vice president Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia have been throwing jabs at each other over which government best managed the Cedi. Ahead of the presentation of ...

Hundreds of victims of online Ponzi scheme, Savanna Brokerage, are threatening a nationwide demonstration against MTN. The victims are blaming the telecom company of doing little to help in the retrieval of about GHC11 million investment locked up in MTN Merchant accounts. These victims paid monies via MTN Merchant accounts to invest into Savanna Brokerage’s ponzi investment packages. The Juiciest ...

Construction work on the 1.2-kilometre Nima-Maamobi storm drain has stalled as a result of lack of funds. The Brazilian Construction Company, Queiroz Galvao, working on the project abandoned the site early last year when resources for the project ceased to flow. The storm drain was part of an urban expansion project and was scheduled to be completed in October 2017, ...

Government’s dream to revive the defunct Ghana airways by December 2019 is in limbo as most of the prime routes have been offloaded to the South African Airways. The last aircraft of Ghana Airways, a 276 seater capacity plane purchased from the US, had been converted into a ‘chop bar’ (La Tante DC 10 restaurant), situated right opposite the Marina ...

The Managing Director of the Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL), Clifford Briamah, has described as baseless calls for the removal of the Board Chairman of the Company, Alexander Afenyo Markin, by some workers of the company. Some members of the Public Utility Workers Union (PUWU) of GWCL in the Ashanti Region, last week called for the immediate dismissal of Mr. ...