The prospect of losing the only copy of her master’s thesis during a robbery was just too much for one South African student to bear. Noxolo Ntusi, 26, grappled with armed attackers to hold on to it during the incident in Johannesburg on Tuesday. “There’s no way I will let them take it,” she told ...
Closing the health gap for Africa within a generation is achievable if opportunities afforded by a rapidly growing workforce are seized and if health systems are transformed to target the needs of individual countries and communities, according to a new report published by The Lancet Commission on the future of health in Sub-Saharan Africa. ‘The ...
The combined superior negotiation skills of Ghana’s Energy Minister, Boakye Agyarko, and the CEO of the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation, Dr K K Sarpong, have saved Ghana over $1 billion in a new LNG transaction that will allow for the addition of up to 1,000MW to Ghana’s power supply. The new GNPC LNG deal, ...
Ghana’s inflation reached 12.3 percent in August 2017. This represents a negative 0.2 percent change in the inflation rate between July and August 2017. The inflation for July 2017 stood at 11.9 percent. Inflation measures the average rise in the prices of all consumer goods and services in the country. The inflation rate for August ...
New Patriotic Party (NPP) member, Gabby Otchere-Darko, has sued Revelap Publishers & Suppliers limited, the publishers of the Ghana Palaver newspaper, and a Ghanaian citizen, for defamation. The defamation concerns a news story published in the Ghana Palaver Newspaper on Tuesday, September 12, 2017, alleging that the Finance Minister, Ken Ofori Atta, gave Mr. Otcehre ...
Some labour analysts are demanding clarity from Price Waterhouse Coopers (PwC) in the decision to terminate the contract of employees of defunct UT and Capital banks. They argue that the terms indicated in the termination letters served the employees of the two banks may be short of the labour law which protects the interest of ...
The Member of Parliament for Klottey Korle Constituency Zanetor Agyeman Rawlings has called on corporate entities to devote sufficient resources to providing support for the educational sector. Speaking at the donation ceremony, where furniture and other educational materials to three schools in her constituency the Klottey Korle legislator emphasized the need for companies to support ...
The President of the Ghana Institute of Freight Forwarders (GIFF) Kwabena Ofosu Appiah says it is not true that freight forwarders are impeding the paperless process at the Port as reported in sections of the media. He said GIFF is as soon as practicable calling for a road map for version 1:1 of the paperless ...
Majority Leader, Osei Kyei Mensah Bonsu, has backed the decision of the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ), to demolish portions of the Old Parliament House building. The demolition of the structure that housed the Gold Coast Legislative Assembly from 1951 when Dr. Kwame Nkrumah became the leader of government Business under British ...
Government’s implementation of the Free Senior High School education policy has been met with praise by the African Union Commission. The Commission affirmed the policy as a sure way of ensuring the growth of the country and Africa as a whole. Ghana joins countries like Rwanda, Uganda, and Namibia that provide free education at the Secondary level. ...
About 400 inmates of five alleged witches camps dotted across the Northern Region are starving. According to them, they lack basic social amenities such as food, water, clothing and shelter. A situation they bemoaned has made life unbearable for them and their caregivers. The leadership of the Alleged Witches Network brought this to the fore ...
The Ministry of Health has referred the undocumented purchase of some 30 ambulances estimated at $2.4 million, under the Mahama administration, to the Economic and Organized Crime Office (EOCO) for investigations. 30 out of 200 ambulances procured by the Ministry of Health in 2016, did not meet specifications, compelling the ministry to suspend the purchase ...
Police in India have reopened the case of a 10-year-old girl after forensic tests revealed that her baby’s DNA samples did not match those of her uncle who is charged with raping her. After the Supreme Court denied her permission to abort, she gave birth to a baby girl last month. The 10-year-old was not ...
Six people at a Florida nursing home that was left without power for days after Hurricane Irma have died. Police evacuated 115 residents on Wednesday from the facility, whose air conditioning was cut by the storm. Broward County Mayor Barbara Sharief said three were found dead at the nursing home in the city of Hollywood. ...
The Ghana Association of Medical Laboratory Scientists (GAMLs) has bemoaned the lack of urgency and progress in police investigations into the shooting of a medical laboratory scientist at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital. Solomon Quarshie, was reportedly hit by a stray bullet around 4:00pm on Monday evening. A statement signed by the Public Relations Officer of GAMLs, Dennis Adu-Gyasi, lamented ...
The Volta Regional Branch of the opposition National Democratic Congress, NDC, is calling on parents in the region not to pay the fees for their continuing students in protest against what they described as a deceitful promise by the New Patriotic Party ( NPP). In a statement signed by their Communication Office in the region, the ...
Congolese music legend Kanda Bongo Man will headline the 2017 edition of Vodafone African Legends Night coming off September 30th in Accra, organizers of the event Global Media Alliance has announced. The 6th edition of the music show will take place at the Banquet Hall State House in Accra. Born January 1, 1955, Kanda Bongo ...
A photo of a 12-year-old boy shown without his eye was removed by Instagram. Harry Beswick was born with Goldenhar syndrome. He is missing an eye, eye socket, nostril and ear from one side of his face. His mother, Charlie Beswick posted a photo of Harry without his prosthetic eye on Monday. It was later ...
The UK will “soon regret” leaving the EU, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker has said. Mr Juncker told the European Parliament that Brexit would be a “sad, tragic” moment for the EU but that the 27-member union would “move on”. “Brexit is not the future of Europe. It is not the be all and end ...
Argentina forward Carlos Tevez is “overweight” and will not play for Shanghai Shenhua until he gets fit, says the club’s new coach Wu Jingui. The 33-year-old is reportedly one of the world’s highest-paid players but has only scored two goals in 12 games since making his debut in March. Wu, who took charge of the ...
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