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Trump says King will be ‘very safe’ during US visit after security talks
Posted on with No CommentDonald Trump has said King Charles III will “be very safe” during his state visit to the US, which is due to begin later on Monday. Further security talks took place between the White House and Buckingham Palace after a … Read more →
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DVLA embarks on electronic vehicle registration Oct 1
Posted on | CommentBeginning October 1 to December 31, this year, the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Authority (DVLA) will embark on a new electronic vehicle registration and documentation system. The 90-day exercise would begin with vehicles with customised number plates to re-certify their registration … Read more →
Pope Francis condemns child sex abuse by Priests
Posted on | CommentPope Francis on Monday acknowledged the failure of the Catholic Church to act on allegations of sexual abuse by priests against children. His unusually forceful “Letter to the People of God” referred to a Pennsylvania grand jury report last week on … Read more →
Unemployed Nurses: ‘Post Us By August Or Face Street Protests’
Posted on | CommentUnemployed nurses have given government an August 2018 deadline to post them or face unabated street protest dubbed ‘one million walks’ through the principal streets of Accra to the Jubilee House, the seat of government. “If eight (8) months into … Read more →
Gov’t consulting Kofi Annan’s family on funeral plans
Posted on | CommentThe government will open a book of condolence on Wednesday at the Accra International Conference Centre for late Ghanaian and former Secretary-General of the United Nations (UN), Kofi Annan who died over the weekend at age 80. Speaking on the Citi Breakfast Show on … Read more →
Greece emerges from eurozone bailout programme
Posted on | CommentGreece has successfully completed a three-year eurozone bailout programme designed to help it cope with the fallout from its debt crisis. For the first time in eight years, Greece is now free to borrow money on the financial markets. As … Read more →
Gov’t Hospitals Granted Power To Do Individual Recruitment
Posted on | CommentThe Director General of the Ghana Health Service (GHS) Dr Nsiah Asare has stated that government has agreed not to directly post health workers to health facilities in the country. According to him, the various regional and district hospitals, based … Read more →
UniBank: ‘BoG Denying Us Access To KPMG Report’
Posted on | CommentThe shareholders of uniBank have expressed worry over the Central Bank’s refusal to make available to them an official copy of the KPMG Report on the Financial Condition and Future Prospects of the bank. According to the shareholders, the Bank of … Read more →
FDA prohibits 44 diseases for advertisement
Posted on | CommentGhana’s Food and Drugs Authority (FDA), has listed more than 44 diseases for which advertisement for treatment, prevention or cure are prohibited in the country. The FDA has directed that no media house or a person should advertise a drug, … Read more →
DVLA To Recertify Customized Number Plates
Posted on | CommentThe Driver and Vehicles Licensing Authority (DVLA) is set to embark on a new electronic vehicle registration and documentation exercise. The exercise will begin with “vehicles with a customized number plate to re-certify their registration and enroll them in the … Read more →
Jailed UBS trader Kweku Adoboli to be deported from UK
Posted on | CommentKweku Adoboli, the former UBS trader who was sentenced to seven years in prison after running up the largest unauthorised trading loss in UK history, is on the verge of being deported to Ghana. The 38-year-old, who caused a $2.3bn … Read more →
15 things to know about Kofi Annan
Posted on | CommentFormer United Nation’s Secretary-General, Kofi Annan passed away on Saturday at the age of 80 after a short illness. Kofi Annan died at a Hospital in the Swiss city of Bern. Reports indicate that Kofi Annan was hospitalized in Geneva and … Read more →
Struggling Ambulance service to get funding from Insurance Commission, NHIS
Posted on | CommentGovernment says it is considering a number of measures to solve imminent health crisis confronting the nation due to inadequate health facilities and a deficient emergency response system. Among some options available to it, government is considering slicing funds from … Read more →
Fire kills SDA pastor’s wife, 3 children and mother-in-law at Dansoman
Posted on | CommentFive family members of the Pastor of the Dansoman District of the Seventh-Day Adventist (SDA) Church, including his wife and his three-week-old baby boy, were burnt to death in a fire that engulfed their home at Dansoman Akokofoto in Accra … Read more →
World Leaders Honour Former UN Chief
Posted on | CommentWorld figures have been paying tribute to former UN secretary-general and Nobel laureate Kofi Annan, who has died at the age of 80. Current UN chief Antonio Guterres hailed him as “a guiding force for good” and Russian President Vladimir … Read more →
N/R: Soldiers Deployed To Kanvili Over Religious Tension
Posted on | CommentArmed military personnel have been deployed at Kanvili in Tamale in the Northern region after religious tension on Saturday morning resulted in a near clash. The tension was renewed following efforts by the Ahli Sunna Islamic sect attempted to stop … Read more →
C/R: Man, 23, Arrested With Human Parts
Posted on | CommentThe Police at Gomoa Fetteh Kakraba in the Awutu Senya West district of the Central region has arrested one person for unlawfully possessing human parts. The suspect, Samuel Dzame, 23, was found returning from the town’s cemetery with a human … Read more →
Driver jailed 12 years for sexually abusing minor
Posted on | CommentAn Accra Circuit Court on Thursday sentenced William Kwasi Okyere a driver to 12 years imprisonment for having sex with a 14-year-old girl at Teshie in Accra. Okyere had pleaded not guilty to the charge of defilement, but the trial … Read more →
Dr Obengfo’s alleged murder case duplicate docket before AG
Posted on | CommentDuplicate docket on the alleged murder case involving Dr Dominic Kwame Obeng-Andoh, Proprietor of Obengfo Hospital at Weija, has been forwarded to the Attorney General’s Department for advice, Prosecution told the Court on Thursday. Detective Sergeant Rose Animah who held … Read more →
Court sentences sales person for stealing GH¢ 10,000.00
Posted on | CommentAn Accra Circuit Court has sentenced a 38-year-oldman to a fine of GH¢ 3,600.00 for stealing GH¢ 10,000.00 belonging to his employer. He will spend 24 months imprisonment in default. Eric Allotey had denied the offence but was found culpable. … Read more →
Driver remanded over sexual abuse
Posted on | CommentA driver who allegedly gave a 14-year old girl one Ghana cedi to buy him yoghurt but ended up defiling her, has been remanded into Police custody by an Accra Circuit Court. George Owusu is said to have given the … Read more →
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