The Ghana Non-Communicable Diseases Alliance (GhNCDA) has raised concerns about the alarming but preventable deaths of some 94,000 persons from Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) in Ghana each year. The alliance last Tuesday launched the Ghana Advocacy Agenda of People Living with NCDs, with an appeal to government and other stakeholders in the health delivery system to […]
The Centre for Defence and Security has called on government to introduce a comprehensive regulatory regime for small arms import, storage, distribution, retail of fire arms and civilian gun ownership. This call was contained in a press statement dated May 21 and signed by the executive director of the centre, Yaro Kasambata. This regulatory regime, […]
The Member of Parliament for Ledzokuku constituency, Dr. Okoe Boye, has supported the More Hope for Disabled Foundation with a bus worth Ghc60,000 to aid their movement to and from. The presentation of the bus coincided with the launch of Dr Okoe Boye Skills Support Programme. Chartered Accountant Clifford M. Kortey schooled the gathering on […]
A form two student of Asamankese senior high school in the Eastern region has accused her Elective Biology teacher of sexual harassment. The student alleged Mr Samuel Boakye Donkor once forced her to kiss him as well as rub his manhood but she refused. She said the tutor has since been stalking her having shared […]
Madam Shirley Ayorkor Botchway, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, has said that Ghanaians in the diaspora have not been left out in the extension of passport services. She said six Ghana Diplomatic Missions abroad currently issue biometric passports to Ghanaians in their respective jurisdictions including countries of concurrent accreditation. The Missions are London, […]
The National Union of Ghana Students on Wednesday, May 22, 2019 visited Asanteman Senior High School and Ejisuman Senior High School in the Ashanti region to acquaint itself with the conditions under which students are pursuing academic work and also to learn about the needs and experiences of students sitting the ongoing West African Secondary […]
There was drama in court when a special adviser to the Minister of Agriculture fumbled, for greater part of cross-examination, as he tried strenuously without much success to remember names of American NGOs he claimed he worked with between 2014 and 2016. Dr. Yaw Adu-Ampomah had in previous sitting told the Accra High Court presided […]
The Chairperson of the Electoral Commission (EC), Madam Jean Adukwei Mensa, Deputy Commissioner of the EC in-charge of Corporate Services, Dr. Bossman Asare; Deputy Director in-charge of Operations at the EC, Samuel Tetteh, and other leading officials, on Wednesday, visited the Despite Media Group as part of a familiarisation tour. This is the first time such a […]
A former security guard at the State Enterprise Commission (SEC) has been jailed two years by an Accra Circuit Court for threatening to kill the Executive Chairman of the Commission, Mr Stephen Asamoah Boateng. The convict, Arafat Issah, pleaded guilty to one count of threat of death and was accordingly sentenced on his own plea. […]
The Takoradi Habour Marine Police have arrested two fishermen from New Takoradi for flouting the closed-season ban which took effect on Wednesday 15th May 2019. Confirming the arrest to Citi News, the Marine Police Commander, ACP Seidu Iddi said the community members arrested the two suspects and took them to the Chief Fishermen’s house before the police […]
The Special Prosecutor has begun the prosecution of Bawku Central MP after charging him for fraudulently evading tax and dealing in foreign currency without a license. Mahama Ayariga has been charged with the fraudulent evasion of taxes after he paid the duty of ¢6,000 when he imported three Toyota land cruisers instead of approved duty […]
The work of ace investigative journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas has always been a dangerous one; his methodology has helped in blowing the cover of the ‘bad’ people in the society. Like his mantra ‘name, shame and jail’, Anas always goes to the extent of making sure that the bad guys are named and shamed in […]
