The Minister of Health, Sherry Ayittey has directed the Chief Executive Officer of the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) to proceed on leave “with immediate effect.” This follows the hospital’s inability to produce the bodies of three missing babies as directed by the Ministry. The hospital’s board has been subsequently directed by the Ministry to ...

Asante Kotoko go into Wednesday’s First Capital Plus Premier League against Heart of Lions with the aim of staying on top of the table and getting closer to their third straight league title. The Porcupine Warriors are 11 points clear of second-placed Hearts of Oak but according to their team manager, Godwin Ablordey, they remain ...

Nana Akufo-Addo has warned Ghana and Nigeria against their growing dependence on crude oil exports. Addressing an audience of high profile corporate leaders in Lagos, Nigeria,Tuesday, Nana Akufo-Addo urged the leaders of Africa’s oil producing countries to not lose sight of the dangers that fracking poses to Africa’s future status as a pillar of global ...

The 2012 vice presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has described the current state of Ghana’s economy as a crises situation. At a lecture delivered on Tuesday at the Central University College in Accra, Dr. Bawumia said: “The government has to admit that the economy is in crisis so that ...

The 2012 vice presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has described the current state of Ghana’s economy as a crises situation. At a special lecture delivered on Tuesday at the Central University College in Accra, Dr. Bawumiah said: “The government has to admit that the economy is in crisis so ...

Former Deputy Governor of the Bank of Ghana Dr Mahamadu Bawumia has downplayed the effect the ban on the quotation of goods and services in dollars will have on saving the cedi from further fall. As part of moves to save the cedi from further fall the Bank of Ghana in February this year introduced ...

The 2012 Vice Presidential Candidate for the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Dr. Mahamadu  Bawumia has said that Ghana is heading back to the unsustainable debt regime that eventually forced the country to become a Highly Indebted Poor Country (HIPC). He however stated that “the difference this time is that the HIPC debt relief will not ...

The 2012 vice presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has stated that Ghana’s excessive borrowing has put the country’s oil discovery in danger. “Over the last five years, the accelerated borrowing, the massive increase in debt has basically compromised Ghana’s oil discovery and the benefits that we could have gotten ...

Two executives of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the Sissala East Constituency were on Tuesday convicted by a Tumu Magistrate Court presided over by Salifu Buguri Ayajiba (ESQ). Mahama Razak, the constituency organizer and the deputy constituency treasurer, Mujeeb Ayamga were convicted to a one-week jail term each for assaulting one Batong Alhassan ...

President John Dramani Mahama has revealed that cabinet will on Thursday give approval to the amendment by the Constitutional Review Implementation Commission (CRIC). “With the Constitutional Review Implementation Commission almost having finished its work; I know on Thursday, cabinet is going to give approval to the amendment…,” he said. He made this known on Tuesday ...

China is offering a breath of fresh air to tourists affected by its high pollution levels – with plans to sell bottles of oxygen. In an attempt to address its dangerous smog levels – described as an environmental crisis by the World Health Organisation – canned air is due to hit the streets. The bottles ...

Air pollution kills about 7 million people worldwide every year, with more than half of the fatalities due to fumes from indoor stoves, according to a new report from the World Health Organization published Tuesday. The agency said air pollution is the cause of about one in eight deaths and has now become the single ...

The Electoral Commission is proposing an amendment of CI 75 to allow for attestation during the day of election. According to the EC, the move will help prevent registered voters not verified by the biometric machine on the day of elections from being disenfranchised. Speaking at consultative forum on voter registration on Tuesday, the Chairman ...

The first ever summit for leading Christian entrepreneurs and business leaders in Ghana is set to take place at the African Regent Hotel in Accra on Saturday, March 29, 2014 at 10:00am. The event dubbed, Spiritpreneurship (spiritual entrepreneurship) will assemble chief executive officers, managing directors, aspiring entrepreneurs, youth leaders, ministers of the gospel, gospel musicians ...

Five other African countries will for the first time feature in the 2014 Cowbell National Cycling tour. Riders from neighboring  Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cote d’Ivoire as well as Kenya will join seven other Ghanaian clubs for the top prize. The Public Relations Officer of the Ghana Cycling Association (GCA) Dennis Moore revealed in an interview ...

President John Dramani Mahama has promised the people of Akwapim in Akropong massive infrastructural development as well as fulfill all campaign promises by 2016. The President made the promise when he addressed a gathering of chiefs and people of Akwapim in Akropong on his two-day working tour of the Eastern Region. “By 2016 we will ...

The Chief of Agona Asafo, Nana Nyanfu Esuako XI, has urged Guidance and Counseling Institutions in the country to periodically organize seminars and forums to counsel the youth on the implication of practicing Occultism. Nana Esuako said this at a forum organized by level 400 practicum II Group I Students of Counselors and Psychology of ...

The Nigerian Football Federation (NFF) are demanding that Stephen Keshi  defend every player named in his provisional World Cup list. The reason? The World Cup is not a “tea party”. Chairman of the body’s technical committee, Chris Green, gave this hint ahead of Keshi’s impending 35-man squad naming for screening in early April. This will ...

The President of the Ghana Heart Foundation, Professor Kwabena Frimpong-Boateng has appealed to health practitioners to introduce pragmatic strategies to enhance health communication in the society since “health illiteracy” was a cause of poor health conditions. He said effective health communication will help provide multifaceted approaches and comprehensive interventions as well as messages which would ...