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The Rotational Nurses and Midwives Association (RNMA) in Ghana are calling on government to pay them their allowances. Rotational Nurses and Midwives are newly qualified health professionals who are obliged do a mandatory one-year national service within the various hospitals across the country. The Rotational Nurses and Midwives number about …

Vice President of IMANI Africa, Bright Simons, has asserted that private power producers who supply more than 50% of the country’s electricity have given government a 3-week ultimatum to start paying its arrears of about $1.5 billion. He noted that the failure of the government to settle its debt will lead …

The Member of Parliament for North Tongu, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, is asking more questions about how Ghana got childhood vaccines delivered on March 12 despite a global shortage as claimed by government. Ablakwa in a March 13 social media post had alleged that the consignment of vaccines delivered to help …

The government has announced the settlement and listing of newly issued bonds which will become the new benchmark bonds for the fixed-income market. According to an update from the Finance Ministry on February 27, 2023, it stated that it would work with the relevant stakeholders to ensure that the new …

Professor Fiifi Ofori-Acquah, Director of the Ghanaian Genome (GhGenome) project, has called on the Government to institute a national programme where every baby born in the country is screened for sickle cell diseases. He said, “The reason we advocate screening of newborns for sickle cell is once you have been …

German’s Ambassador to Ghana, Daniel Krull has called on the government of Ghana to consider a cut in its budget expenditure while it continues to seek debt relief from the country’s creditors. Speaking at a press conference on Friday, February 24, 2023, the Ambassador noted that Ghana cannot be asking …

Christian Atsu will get a befitting burial, Vice president Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia disclosed on February 19, 2023 at the Kotoka International Airport (KIA). The former Black Stars winger was trapped in the February 6, 2023 earthquake that hit parts of Turkey and Syria. After a 12-day search, his remains were …

The late Former President Jerry John Rawlings is one of the few people Ghana has seen do things that could not easily be understood. He is famously known for recruiting most of his Ministers and other government appointees who never had political background or even had a higher educational background. …

Former Chief Justice, Sophia Akuffo, has described government’s move to include pensioners in the debt exchange programme as wicked, disrespectful and unlawful. According to her, it is wrong for government, through the Ministry of Finance, to sacrifice pensioners’ hard-earned monies to save the government after serving the nation. While bemoaning the …

Dr Tiah Kabiru Mahama, a technical advisor at the Office of the Vice President, has warned Ghanaians against voting back former President John Dramani Mahama to power. Speaking in a Good Morning Ghana interview monitored by GhanaWeb, on Thursday, February 9, 2023, Dr Kabiru Mahama said that Mahama has had the …