The Nursing and Midwifery Council of Ghana has suspended a midwife, Sarah Serwah Major, and an enrolled nurse, Susana Adu, for unprofessional conduct. This follows complaints received from clients of the two. They will both serve a three-year ban from their professions. The council has ordered the pair to return their licence and practice cards […]
The Ghana Education Service (GES) has approved some subjects for study leave without pay for the 2019/2020 academic year. In a press statement issued to the Ghana News Agency and signed by Ms Cassandra Twum Ampofo, Head of Public Relations of the Service, the approved subjects applied to both teaching and non-teaching staff. The subjects […]
The Special Prosecutor, Mr Martin A.B.K. Amidu, has taken full responsibility for the defects in the drafting of the charge sheet in the case against the Member of Parliament (MP) for Bawku Central, Mr Mahama Ayariga, and another. “All we have to do is to make sure that our particulars meet the standard. I welcome […]
Police operatives attached to Operation Puff Adder have between 5th June, 2019 and 19th June 2019, arrested a total of Thirty-two (32) kidnap suspects including 4 involved in the kidnap of UBEC Chairman, his daughter and the killing of his driver. The Operatives also recovered Eleven (11) AK47 Rifles, Two (2) Pump Action Guns, Three (3) […]
Ghana came third after Botswana and Malawi respectively in the most peaceful country in Africa in the latest Global Peace Index. Ghana placed 44th in the world with Iceland leading the overall chart as the most ‘peaceful’ nation on Earth in the 2019 Global Peace Index. In addition, the world’s overall ‘peacefulness’ has improved for […]
The Ashanti Regional Police Command has issued a stern warning to Ghanaian spare parts dealers at Suame in Kumasi to desist from unprovoked attacks on their Nigerian counterparts. The warning follows recent attacks and in some instances, closure of shops belonging to the foreign traders at the Suame Magazine area. Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) […]
The National Union of Ghana Students on Monday, June 17, 2019 embarked on a gas safety sensitization tour in some selected Junior High Schools to fully equip the students with the requisite safety precautions in the use of gas domestically and elsewhere. In collaboration with the Ghana National Gas Company and the Ghana National Fire […]
The Management of the University of Education Winneba has dismissed Prof. Augustine Uzoma Mwagbara for some unsavoury comments he made about some institutions in the country including the education sector. The Nigerian Professor of English who was on sabbatical at the University of Education Winneba was caught in a video which has since gone viral […]
The Ghana Railway Pensioners Association (GRPA) under the Cap. 30 pension scheme have appealed to the government to pay all pension arrears due them following the recent increment in public sector salary. Government on the 1st January 2017 and 1st January 2019 announced a 12 and a half and 10 per cent separate salary increases […]
The International Central Gospel Church (ICGC) has donated three Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT) machines to psychiatric hospitals to boost psychiatric healthcare across the country. The equipment, which were presented to the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Mental Health Authority, Dr Akwasi Osei, is to be used to induce seizures to provide relief from mental disorders. […]
President Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has inaugurated a five-member Committee to make recommendations on the salaries and allowances payable, and the facilities and privileges available, to article 71 office holders. The inauguration was done in accordance with, article 71 (1) of the Constitution and the Committee is expected to submit the recommendations to him and to Parliament. […]
A widow in her 80s is in a serious condition in hospital after an accident involving the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge’s convoy. William and Kate were on their way to a ceremony in Windsor on Monday when a marked police motorbike in their convoy was involved in a collision with the woman on Upper […]
