A law which protected rapists from punishment if they married their victims has been scrapped in Jordan. The Jordanian cabinet revoked Article 308 on Sunday, after years of campaigning by women’s activists, as well as Muslim and Christian scholars and others. The law had meant rapists could avoid a jail term in return for marrying ...
Law enforcement officers have been warning BBC Trending radio about a growing number of social media accounts wrongly purporting to be teen idols like Harry Styles and Justin Bieber, speaking inappropriately to young children. The growing world of social media apps with big teenage audiences has made the situation even more difficult to police, they ...
Opinionated Ghanaian artiste, Kwame Asare Obeng aka A Plus, has questioned the credibility of music awards that exclude dancehall artiste Charles Nii Armah Mensah aka Shattawale. “Music awards without Charles Nii Armah Mensah aka Shatta Wale, is that one too an awards night?” he posted on his Facebook timeline. Even though he did not mention ...
A new malaria vaccine will be tested on a large scale in Kenya, Ghana and Malawi, the World Health Organization said Monday, with 360,000 children to be vaccinated between 2018 and 2020. The injectable vaccine RTS,S could provide limited protection against a disease that killed 429,000 people worldwide in 2015, with 92 percent of victims ...
The Coalition of Unemployed Bonded Diploma Nurses on Monday stormed the Ministry of Health to demand clearance for employment. According to members of the coalition, they are yet to be posted two years after the completion of their programme. The Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia had disclosed that about 11,000 nurses had been given clearance ...
The President of Groupe Nduom, Dr. Papa Kwesi Nduom believes more urgency on the part of relevant state institutions could have lessened the damage caused by the fire that ravaged parts of his Coconut Grove Regency Hotel in Accra. In a Facebook post, he suggested the need for reforms with respect to the attitude of ...
The average interest rate for mortgage loans among commercial banks reached 33.8 percent in March 2017. The figure recorded a 2 percent increase as compared to the 33.6 percent recorded at the end of February 2017. According to the Bank of Ghana’s Annual Percentage and Average Interest report, GCB Bank still offers the highest interest ...
Government’s five-year Multilateral Mining Integrated Project (MMIP), an alternative livelihood programme for illegal miners, is expected to cost $10 millin. The programme is underway according to Mr. John Peter Amewu, the Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, who said the programme is looking at “margin of not less than $10 million when it gets to ...
There are measures to employ 11,000 health trainees who graduated between 2012 and 2016, and 181 doctors who also completed their housemanship seven months ago. Government has also allocated GH¢ 252 million Ghana cedis for the restoration of nurses and teacher trainees’ allowances. These measures are aimed at improving the health delivery system in Ghana, ...
The National Labour Commission (NLC) is blaming the leadership of the Judicial Services Staff Association of Ghana (JUSSAG) for the unresolved issues over the payment of their outstanding allowances. The NLC Executive Secretary, Adongo Bawa Duah, explained to Citi News that the leadership of JUSSAG did not pursue all the possible avenues at the commission with respect to ...
Lands and Natural Resources Minister, John Peter Amewu could not come to terms with the explanation provided by the Chief Executive Officer of the Minerals Commission, Dr. Tony Aubyn over a prospecting license given to Okobeng Mining, a small scale mining company operating in the Nzema East Municipality of the Western Region. Okobeng Mining, despite the ...
Illegal mining remains a major threat to River Pra and the Daboase water treatment plant in the Wassa East District, according to the Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL) in the Western Region. This is despite the expiration of the three-week ultimatum from the government for the cessation of illegal mining. Speaking to Citi News, the ...
The Public Accounts Committee of Parliament would hold public hearings from next Tuesday to Friday to consider financial infractions of the Bank of Ghana, Food and Drugs Authority and other agencies. Dr James Klutse Avedzi, the Chairman of the committee said four reports of the Auditor General would be considered during the sitting. These are; ...
Ghana’s Music Maestro, Kojo Antwi has hinted in an interview with Kasapa FM’s Fiifi Banson on a new music project he is embarking on to help curb the ‘galamsey’ menace. The former chairman of the Ghana Music Right Organisation (GHAMRO) acknowledged the harmful effects of ‘galamsey’ activities, hence his move to collaborate with some other ...
Centrist Emmanuel Macron has gone through to the second round of the French election, where he will face far-right leader Marine Le Pen. Mr Macron, a former banker, is seen as a political outsider, having never run an election campaign before. After topping Sunday’s vote, he is now favourite to win the run-off on 7 ...
Asante Kotoko got through to the Round of 32 but they needed penalties to put away Bekwai Youth Academy at the Gyamfi Park. The match ended 1-1 after Jawu Thomas scored a 94th-minute equaliser to cancel Kwame Boateng’s goal in the 46th minute. The tie went into the shootout and Kotoko prevailed 3-1. Hearts of Oak ...
Consider this alternative history: In his first week in office, Nana announced that the next time he drove past a broken traffic light in his motorcade, he would fire the person(s) responsible for maintaining that traffic light. The result? 100 days later, there would have been no broken traffic light in Accra. It’s such a ...
The Peasant Farmers Association of Ghana (PFG) has impressed on the Ministry of Agriculture and key stakeholders in the sector to put in measures to curb the smuggling of fertilizer if government’s flagship ‘Planting for Food and Jobs’ project will succeed. Under the ‘Planting for Food and Jobs’ project, 2.5million farmers will enjoy 50 percent ...
Groupe Nduom, the parent company of GN Bank and Gold Coast Fund Management has announced that customer deposits at the companies are safe in spite of a fire disaster that razed the offices of the two companies on Saturday. It said the company will open for business on Monday to enable customers transaction regular business. A ...
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