The first edition of the 2017 MTN Invitational Golf Tournament is set to tee-off at the Takoradi Sports Club tomorrow. The competition is expected to attract about 80 golfers, mainly from the Western and Central regions, as well as others across the country. According to the organisers, the tournament would be played in a short gun format and a stable [...] The post MTN 2017 Invitational
Western Planets and Tamale Utrecht Academy will face off in the maiden national U-15 final on Saturday at the Ghanaman Soccer Centre of Excellence in Prampram. Tamale Utrecht academy emerged victors in the Southern zone while Western won the Southern zone. The novelty youth league was made up of 16 teams, comprising of 13 regional teams selected from colts clubs [...] The post National U-15 finals
African governments should allocate 10 percent of Pension Funds to support the private sector especially entrepreneurs, Tony O. Elumelu, Chairman of the United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc has suggested. He said African governments were still following the model being used by the developed countries in administering Pension Funds, which made it difficult for the private sector to access such [...] The post Allocate
Professor Agyeman Badu Akosa, Chairman of Child Malnutrition Foundation, has expressed worry that a report indicates that 5.5 million Ghanaian adults are malnourished during infancy, causing them to suffer cognitive deficits. He indicated that malnutrition was partly responsible for the poor socio-economic state of the country, According to him, Ghana has a huge number of malnourished persons, who contribute nothing [...] The post 5.5
A total of 138 maternal deaths were recorded in the various hospitals and clinics in the Northern Region last year, according to Dr. Braimah Baba Abubakari, Deputy Regional Director of Ghana Health Service in charge of clinical care. He said this was the highest figure recorded since 2012 which is the highest in the country. Dr. Abubakari, who was speaking [...] The post Northern Region
Government is poised to complete all the viable infrastructural development projects which were ongoing before it assumed office, the Volta Regional Minister, Dr. Archibald Letsa has assured. He mentioned the Ho Aerodrome and the Eastern Corridor Road projects as well as the Ho Library project which commenced eight years ago, among others which he said were dear to the heart [...] The post Govt
Four deputy regional ministers-designate on Wednesday appeared before Parliament Appointments Committee (PAC) to answer questions on their ability to support the regional ministers. They are Thomas Yaw Agyei Baffoe, Central Region, Maxwell Quophy Blagoge, Volta Region, Evans Opoku Bobie, Brong-Ahafo Region and Joseph Tetteh, Eastern Region. Mr Baffoe expressed concern about the growing poverty in the regions in spite of [...] The post Parliament
The Catholic Church has appointed Most Reverend Gabriel Edoe Kumordji as the new Bishop of the Diocese of Keta-Akatsi in the Volta Region. He succeeded retired bishop, most Reverend Anthony Kwami Adanty. Announcing this at a press conference in Accra yesterday, the Secretary General of the National Catholic Secretariat, Very Reverend Lazarus Anodee said, until his appointment, Bishop Gabriel was [...] The post Kumordji
Mr. David Agbenu, General Secretary of the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) has asked delegates to renew his mandate to take the association to another level. He said the GJA was at the cross roads, needing competent executives to address new challenges confronting it. Mr. Agbenu said the GJA constitution, which was drafted in 1994 was meant to cater for only [...] The post Renew
Some ‘foot soldiers’ of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the Eastern Region yesterday prevented their regional party executives from attending a scheduled meeting with the 2016 Election Review Committee of the party in the Koforidua. The irate supporters blocked the entrance of the Eredec Hotel,the venue of the event with logs, stones and motorcycles, amidst the singing of war [...] The post Koforidua
The creation of new regions as promised by the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) will not be an easy task due to the required voter turnout in the referendum, a deputy chairman of the Electoral Commission (EC), in charge of Operations, Amadu Sulley, has said. Mr. Sulley has anticipated a major challenge in the sense that the 69.2 per cent [...] The post Creation of new regions huge task
A former Rector of the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA), Professor Stephen Adei, has urged government to provide a proper justification for the appointment of 110 ministers – the highest-ever by any administration in the Fourth Republic. He said the Minister of Information, Mustapha Hamid’s explanation that government needed more ministers to implement an ambitious development agenda [...] The post Prof.
Frank Fuseini Adongo, Upper East Deputy Regional Minister-designate, was yesterday grilled over his altercation with the National Health Insurance Authority for overbilling drugs dispensed at his medical facility, FFA-faith Clinic. Though the medical facility has been purged from the charge, and has since had its license restored as health service provider, the deputy minister-designate, who was then the Director of [...] The post 2
Communications Minister, Mrs. Ursula Owusu-Ekuful, has advocated that suicide should be decriminalised, saying any attempt by someone to take his or her own life must be seen as a call for help than an act of criminality. She said the current system where attempted suicide was punishable by law was unacceptable and should not be encouraged. Instead of criminalising the [...] The post Decriminalise suicide
In recent times, a number of stories about deaths emanating from suicide have emerged in various parts of the country, sending shivers down the spine of many people. Some of these suicide acts took place on our university campuses while others occurred at homes and in surrounding bushes. Not long ago, for example, a 30-year old driver at Half Assini [...] The post Curbing Suicide appeared first on
Madam Akua Donkor, Founder and Leader of the Ghana Freedom Party (GFP), yesterday told the Accra Circuit Court “One” during cross-examination that the accused, who robbed her last year, wanted to send her to the Achimota Forest and kill her there. But, she was only saved by insisting that her driver should take a different route to the Kotoka International [...] The post Accused
The ring leader of the recent attacks on residents at Agbobloshie and its environs in Accra, has been arrested by the Accra Regional Police Command. Yakubu Alidu, alias Bullet, was arrested with a member of his gang,who has been identified as Mohammed Iddrissu, 20. The Regional Commander, Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCOP) Osabarima Oware Asare Pinkro III told journalists at [...] The post Agbobloshie
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