Members of the Ashanti Regional New Patriotic Party (NPP) communications team have said they have lost interest in the government to provide them jobs as they were promised in opposition.

An environmentalist, Mr Emmanuel Ocran, has urged the government and environmental agencies in the country to urgently come up with strategies aimed at restoring damaged rivers and other water sources in the country. According to him, this has become necessary in order that the country is taken out of the ‘water stress’ it is currently experiencing.

Members of the Ashanti Regional New Patriotic Party (NPP) communications team have said they have lost interest in the government to provide them jobs as they were promised in opposition.

The neglect of mental health and related issues has made it difficult to get data on mental health, including suicide, the Director of the Accra Psychiatric Hospital, Dr Pinaman Appau, has indicated. She said the situation had also led to inadequate mental health personnel, lack of funding and the non-passage of a legislative instrument to back the Mental Health Act, Act 846, which was passed in 2012.

The Danish government will, this year, come up with a number of programmes to help Ghana improve its decentralisation process. According to the Danish Ambassador to Ghana, Ms Tove Degnbol, the programmes will be in partnership with the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development.

A deputy minister designate for Energy, Dr Mohammed Amin Adam, has asked politicians to desist from playing politics with the energy sector, saying what politicians should rather be concerned about is how to meet demand.

The Minister of State-designate in charge of Tertiary Education, Professor Kwesi Yankah, has defended the four-year Senior High School (SHS) curriculum, saying students who went through that system performed better than their counterparts who went through the three-year course. He, however, proposed a window to be opened for well-endowed schools that could complete the three-year system with the hope of posting good performance without restrictions.

Award winning gospel artiste, SP Kofi Sarpong has entreated his colleagues in the gospel music industry not to take their craft as a “cheap commodity” but work hard to make it attractive.

The Rotary Club of Accra-Labone has presented 30 wheelchairs to the 37 Military Hospital in Accra as part of the club's Wheels for Hope project. The project aims to donate over 100 wheelchairs to health facilities across the country.

The report of the ad hoc committee that investigated the bribery allegation made against the chairman and some members of the Appointments Committee of Parliament (ACP) was laid in Parliament yesterday.

The Chinese government says it fully supports Ghana’s efforts to deal with Chinese nationals who breach the laws of the country in their quest to pursue benefits through illegal mining. It, therefore, called for stronger collaboration with Ghana in its determination to fight the menace of illegal mining involving Chinese in the country.

‘India Business Day’ seminar has been held in Accra with a call for the two countries to deepen their economic cooperation and collaboration for mutual benefits. The business interaction event which was organised by the World Trade Centre, Accra and brought together high-profile business executives from both countries was on the theme: ‘Promoting India-Ghana Business Relations through Trade and Investment’. It was aimed at showcasing the

The two deputy ministers designate for Justice and Attorney-General have backed the President’s decision to appoint a special prosecutor to prosecute cases of corruption in public office to free the Attorney-General from the burden of handling such cases.

Send Ghana, a civil society organisation, is calling on the Ghana Education Service (GES) to step up monitoring of the enrolment data captured under the Ghana School Feeding Programme (GSFP) to block leakages. The recommendation, which comes on the back of a study conducted by SEND Ghana, is to help block possible leakages and also ensure effective planning and budgeting for the programme.

Carlton Cole will reunite with his former Chelsea teammate Michael Essien after signing a one-year deal with Indonesia Super League club Persib Bandung. Cole, 33, spent 14 seasons in the Premier League, including nine years with West Ham United, last played for American second-tier team Sacramento Republic in 2016.

The National Pensions Regulatory Authority (NPRA) has urged all corporate entities, especially those in the private sector, to register pension schemes with a corporate trustee and pay the second-tier pensions deductions of their employees. According to the authority, both the first and second-tier pension contributions were mandatory and did not matter whether a company was private or sole proprietorship.

Yes, the news that defunct music group, Wutah will come together to perform at the Rhythms On Da Runway show on Saturday, April 1 is true. But the news that the duo is coming back as a group for good is not true. There are no plans for a permanent come back.

The President of the Presbyterian University College, Rev. Prof. Emmanuel Adow Obeng, has challenged universities to have a balance between what he called ‘academic and professional degrees’. He observed that most professional degrees in science, technology, health and business normally had a positive influence on the socio-economic development of the nation.

Big, they say, is beautiful and that is exactly what these celebs are saying here with their bold fashion statements. They pull off their numbers so well.

The Vice Chancellor of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Prof. Kwasi Obiri-Danso, has urged the government to invest more in research to build credible data to accelerate the country’s development. ‘No country can develop without credible data,’ he told funders, academics, researchers, educators and policy makers in Kumasi last Tuesday at the second ‘Building Stronger Universities (BSU)’ project under a bi-partnership