The Ghana Medical Association (GMA) has raised the alarm over the health crisis in Ghana’s prisons and called for urgent and comprehensive healthcare for inmates in various prisons across the country. It has identified overcrowding, drug abuse, poor diet and hygiene, infections and substandard healthcare as the cause of the …
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You are even incompetent when it comes to handling a mower- Wontumi jabs Mahama
The Ashanti Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party has mocked former President Mahama for pulling a “fake PR stunt” when he grabbed a mower to clear weeds at the new Military Cemetery in Accra. Mr. Bernard Antwi-Boasiako in an interview with Peacefmonline.com stated that desperation has caught up with …
Read More »HOT AUDIO: Namoale reveals the only relative in Mahama’s govt
LISTEN TO THE AUDIO BELOW: Former Member of Parliament (MP) for La Dadekotopon constituency, Nii Amasah Namoale, says former President John Mahama had only one family member in his administration. According to him, the special aide to Mr Mahama, Joyce Bawah Mogtari, was the only relative he had in his …
Read More »John Mahama shares position on Akufo-Addo’s economic management
John Mahama, the flag-bearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has empathised with traders on their poor sales, attributing the situation to unfavourable economic climate created by the government. Addressing market women in Sogakope in the Volta region, John Mahama said the economic hardship Ghanaians are enduring is a fact nobody can deny. …
Read More »Kokofu exposes Sammy Gyamfi, says Akufo-Addo has given him 2 appointments
Former Member of Parliament for Bantama Constituency in the Ashanti Region, Henry Kwabena Kokofu has denied reports that the ruling government has been unfair to him as far as appointments are concerned. The National Communications Officer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Sammy Gyamfi is reported to have stated at …
Read More »Ghana Medical Association threaten to withdraw services next week
The Ghana Medical Association (GMA), mother body of doctors in Ghana, has indicated that it will soon withdraw its services in the various government hospitals over the failure of government to address issues relating to conditions of service of its members. The health professionals gave the indication in a communiqué …
Read More »St. Mary’s Boys SHS students injured after cutlass attack by assailant
Two students of St. Mary’s Boys Senior High School at Apowa in the Western Region have sustained serious cutlass wounds after they were attacked by an unknown assailant. The two whose identities have been withheld, are currently on admission at the Cape Coast Teaching Hospital. Reports indicate that they were …
Read More »Ibrahim Mahama was more than a vice president – Vim Lady fires NDC
The 2020 general election is around the corner and as such, political issues are headlining conversations on media platforms. Some vocal media personalities have also given Ghanaians a piece of their thoughts in relation to ongoing debates. The NDC announced a controversial list of 51 public officers alleged to be …
Read More »Apologize or face us in court for slandering Gabby Otchere-Darko – Aide to Sammy Gyamfi
A leading member of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), Gabby Asare Otchere-Darko is demanding an unqualified apology and retraction from the Communications Director of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Sammy Gyamfi for making supposed derogatory remarks about him. Sammy Gyamfi at a press conference on Tuesday accused President Akufo-Addo …
Read More »‘Jealous’ NDC MMDCEs killed one another with juju – former NDC mayor
Former National Democratic Congress (NDC) Metropolitan Chief Executive (MCE) of Takoradi, Kobena Prah Annan, has made a shocking revelation that the quest for power within the NDC led to the killing of his colleagues through the use of “juju”. “…it was my own NDC folks who made sure that I …
Read More »Baffour Awuah is new Ghana Health Service boss
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 …
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 »‘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 »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 »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 »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 »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 »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 »Wife of ACP Agordzor reveals those behind her husband’s detention
Wife of Senior Police Officer, ACP Dr. Benjamin Agordzor arrested over his alleged involvement in a coup plot says she suspects some politicians to be behind her husband’s arrest. Patience Agordzor stated that, her husband’s reputation is being dragged in the mud because of his early rise to fame and …
Read More »Akufo-Addo mocks Mahama for poor record
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo in his most scathing response to his predecessor’s incessant attacks on his performance has described the opposition flag bearer as one bereft of a defensible record and prescriptions for the future of the country. It was an obvious response to former President John Mahama’s recent …
Read More »Akufo-Addo the ‘most nepotistic leader in the world’ – NDC
The largest opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has accused President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo of appointing over fifty (50) of his relatives in his administration including the entire nuclear family of his Executive Secretary, Nana Asante Bediatuo. At the party’s Moment of Truth press conference on Tuesday, National Communications Officer …
Read More »I’ve no regrets in implementing Free SHS – Nana Addo
President Nana Akufo-Addo has reiterated that he has no regrets whatsoever for implementing the Free Senior High School (SHS) programme despite the huge cost involved. According to him, it is better to invest the country’s scarce revenues in the future generations than for a few politicians to mismanage them. He …
Read More »NDC lists 51 relatives, cronies in Akufo-Addo gov’t including ‘entire nuclear family’
The opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has presented names of persons it says are relatives and cronies within the Akufo-Addo government. At a press conference Tuesday, the National Communications Officer Sammy Gyamfi listed 51 names of relatives and cronies which he said pointed to “classic and unprecedented” nepotism within the …
Read More »You’re no saint either – Ghanaians blast Rawlings
Ghanaians on social media have descended heavily on former President John Jerry Rawlings after his rampant attacks on his successor, John Agyekum Kufuor. The two former presidents have been in a tug of war recently after the former accused the latter of being responsible for the perennial floods in the …
Read More »Free SHS saved me from fishing – 12-year-old student
A 12-year-old General Science student of the Akatsi Senior High Technical School in the Akatsi South District of the Volta Region has paid glowing tribute to the Free Senior High School policy, saying, but for the policy, he might have been fishing on the Volta lake. Master Gadausu Emmanuel who …
Read More »God not wicked to return Mahama to power – Akufo-Addo
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has stated that God is not wicked and an unjust person to return former President John Mahama and the National Democratic Congress to power. Speaking to Chiefs and people in the Volta Region on Monday as part of a two-day tour of the region, the …
Read More »Ghana to export nurses to Germany
Germany IS set to consider the importation of trained nurses from Ghana to help in the provision of proper healthcare in that country. Dietnar Brockes, Chairman of the Committee for European and International Affairs, State Parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia, Federal State of Germany, made the disclosure in Kumasi when he …
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