The Medical Director of Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, Dr. Baffour Awuah, has been appointed Director-General of the Ghana Health Service. According to a letter dated November 5, 2019, and signed by Executive Secretary to the President, Nana Bedietuo Asante, Dr. Awuah will head the GHS in an acting capacity “…pending …
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My children are extremely traumatised – ACP Agordzo’s wife cries
Wife of the senior Police Officer who has been charged with treason says their children are extremely traumatised. In an interview on NEAT FM’s morning show ‘Ghana Montie’, Mrs Patience Agordzo said her 17-year-old daughter who visited her father at the BNI headquarters on Tuesday broke down in tears after …
Read More »Robbers break into Bawumia’s house
Reports reaching Ghpage.com has it that robbers have broken into the house of the vice president of Ghana, Dr. Alhaji Mahamudu Bawumia. According to the reports, the armed robbers scaled over the house of Dr. Bawumia’s house at Kperiga, a suburb of Walewale in the West Mamprusi Municipality of North …
Read More »COCOBOD loan: School kids to enjoy cocoa drink everyday – Fiifi Boafo
COCOBOD says every schoolchild in Ghana will now receive a cocoa drink a day following the passage of the $600-million loan agreement for the Cocoa Productivity Enhancement Project. According to Fiifi Boafo, the executive secretary at the office of the COCOBOD CEO, the move is to develop taste of Cocoa …
Read More »Electing MMDCEs on partisan basis won’t divide Ghana – Ato Arthur
The Head of Local Government Service, Nana Ato Arthur has debunked claims that electing Metropolitan Municipal and District Chief Executives (MMDCEs) will divide the country. He said such a move will rather strengthen local governance and hasten development in the country. Nana Ato Arthur who was speaking in a Citi …
Read More »Lift ban on recruitment to Gulf States – Employment agencies beg govt
Some private employment agencies in Ghana are unhappy with government’s continuous ban on recruitment of Ghanaians to the Gulf States. Following reports of maltreatment meted out to some Ghanaian workers in the Gulf States, Government in 2017 placed a ban on such recruitment activities as part of efforts to sanitize …
Read More »‘NDC betrayed me’ – Koku Anyidoho speaks
Former Spokesperson at the Presidency (2009-2012) and now Chief Executive Officer of the Atta Mills Institute, Koku Anyidoho has revealed that the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) betrayed him during his detention by the Bureau of National Investigations (BNI) last year. He argued that his detention by BNI was a …
Read More »GBC risks going off-air
The National Broadcaster, the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation and its many outlets across the country risk going off-air if the company’s indebtedness to the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) is not paid immediately. At a meeting of the National Media Commission (NMC) and President Akufo-Addo, Chairman of the Commission, Yaw Boadu-Ayeboafoh …
Read More »Trump impeachment hearings to go public next week
Congressional Democrats have announced the first public hearings next week in an inquiry that may seek to remove President Donald Trump from office. Three state department officials will testify first. So far lawmakers from three key House committees have heard from witnesses behind closed doors. The impeachment inquiry centres on …
Read More »Treason Trial: ACP Agordzo sends ‘direct message’ to Akufo-Addo
ACP Dr Benjamin Agordzo after court proceedings on Wednesday morning sent a direct message to President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo over his trial for treason over a WhatsApp platform chat. Mr Agordzo told journalists that President Akufo-Addo asked Ghanaians to be citizens and that is what he did by expressing …
Read More »VIDEO: GhanaPostGPS on robbery victim’s phone aids police to track down armed robber
A suspected armed robber has been arrested with the aid of the recently introduced digital system the GhanaPostGPS, MyNewsGh.com has gathered. A victim of the robbery attack only identified as Nana Appiah on Facebook, gave account of how the Digital Address System led to arrest of his attackers who raided …
Read More »We’ve not approved any SHS book containing same-sex family lessons – GES
The Ghana Educational Service (GES) has rejected claims that it has approved a new syllabus for Senior High Schools in the country. Images of a purported Social Studies text book have gone viral on social media following inscriptions on it which suggests that it was from a new SHS syllabus …
Read More »GHS boss Nsiah Asare reassigned to Presidency
The Director General of the Ghana Health Service Dr Nsiah Asare has been reassigned to the Presidency as advisor on health matters to the president. His reassignment took effect on November 1,2019. He is to be replaced by the deputy director general of the Ghana Health Service Dr. Anthony Ofosu, …
Read More »CALBANK Nominates Mr. Philip Owiredu As New CEO
The Board of Directors of CalBank have nominated Mr. Philip Owiredu as the new Chief Executive Officer of the Bank, subject to Bank of Ghana’s approval. Mr. Owiredu has been the Bank’s Executive Director/Chief Financial Officer (CFO) since 2011. Upon approval, Mr. Owiredu will assume the Chief Executive Officer position …
Read More »An Open Letter To The Candidate With No Alternative Solution
Dear Mr Reviewer General, For the past three years, you have been singing dirges about hardships having scourged the Ghanaian people due to what you describe as the Akufo-Addo administration’s failure to provide a better leadership for the country. You go about labelling yourself as the Messiah to save the …
Read More »Presec-Legon denies flu outbreak reports; urges calm
Senior Housemaster of the Presbyterian Boys Senior High School at Legon in Accra (Presec-Legon) has denied reports of a flu attack at the school. He has urged the public to remain calm. Mr Kofi Yesu said there was no cause for alarm because although school authorities have received reports from …
Read More »ACP Agordzo drafted protest speech, incited ‘coup plotters’ – prosecutors allege
State prosecutors are alleging that ACP Dr Benjamin Agordzo drafted a protest speech for a group that was allegedly scheming to take over the reins of government illegally. The group, Take Action Ghana (TAG), according to prosecutors, intended to organise demonstrations against the government in preparation to take over government machinery. …
Read More »UEW VC Afful-Broni in fresh trouble
Rev Prof. Afful-Broni, the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Education, Winneba has found himself in fresh trouble as pressure has begun to mount on the University Council to remove him. This because the Member of Parliament for the Effutu constituency in the Central Region, Alexander Kwamena Afenyo-Markin, has written to …
Read More »Parliament approves $600m cocoa loan
Ghana’s parliament on Wednesday, 6 November 2019 approved the $600-million loan agreement for the Cocoa Productivity Enhancement Project. Several initiatives such as mass cocoa-spraying exercises, agronomic support and input subsidies are expected to be undertaken under the project. The loan is sourced from AfDB. The House approved the loan through …
Read More »33 out of NDC’s ’51 family list’ have no ties with Akufo-Addo – NPP
The National Youth organizer of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) Henry Nana Boakye has accused the NDC of ‘campaign of hate and division’ after it accused President Akufo-Addo of stocking his government with his family and friends. According to National Youth Organiser of the party Nana Boakye, appointments of …
Read More »I’m suffering in prison – Sexy Don Don
The woes of Daniel Asiedu, the man accused of killing Mr J.B. Danquah-Adu, the late Member of Parliament for Abuakwa-North in 2015, are deepening in prison. The accused, popularly known as “Sexy Don Don”, told the Accra High yesterday (Tuesday) that a colleague inmate at the Nsawam Medium Security Prison …
Read More »30 students quarantined by health officials at PRESEC Legon
Some 30 students of the Presbyterian Boy’s Secondary School (PRESEC) at Legon in Accra have been quarantined by health officials. This is after some students reported to the school’s clinic complaining of headaches and general weakness. There are claims that the development is another case of a Flu outbreak but …
Read More »Double-Track: Over 1400 SHS students pregnant – Minority
The Minority in Parliament has alleged that the double-track system being implemented by the Education Ministry has caused a lot of teenage pregnancies among female students nationwide. According to the Minority, over 1400 female students have been impregnated since the double-track system was implemented in September 2018. The NDC MPs …
Read More »Esperance negotiating to sell Kwame Bonsu for US$ 15 m to unnamed Chinese club
Tunisian giants Esperance are holding out for US$ 15 million to sell midfielder Kwame Bonsu to an unnamed Chinese Super League side. Bonsu’s representatives Club Consult Africa has confirmed to GHANASoccernet.com primary negotiations have begun and the deal is far from being stitched up. The former Asante Kotoko player has …
Read More »Grieving husband dies 24 hours after wife’s demise
Residents of Ajao Estate in the Isolo area of Lagos State are in mourning following the death of a mother of four, Mrs Chibuzor Balogun. Chibuzor, whose 14-year-old son, Uche, said was a little above 30 years, died at their residence, No. 2 Raji Aliu Street, off the Airport Road, …
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