GENERAL NEWS

Don’t Leverage The Lives Of Patients For Conditions of Service – Health Ministry Appeals To GRNMA

The Ministry of Health has urged the leadership of the Ghana Registered Nurses and Midwives Association (GRNMA) to rescind its decision to embark on industrial action beginning from Monday June 2, whilst the minister continues to engage all stakeholders involved. The Ministry noted that using the lives of patients as …

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Bryan Acheampong Forms Exploratory Committee Ahead of NPP Flagbearer Bid

Former Minister for Food and Agriculture and current Member of Parliament for Abetifi, Dr. Bryan Acheampong, has announced the formation of an exploratory committee to assess the viability of a presidential bid within the New Patriotic Party (NPP). In a statement issued on Thursday, May 29, Dr. Acheampong said the …

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Ken Agyapong Offers To Stand As Surety For Chairman Wontumi

Former Member of Parliament for Assin Central, Kennedy Agyapong, has offered himself as one of the sureties for the Ashanti Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Bernard Antwi Boasiako, popularly known as Chairman Wontumi. This follows efforts by Chairman Wontumi’s legal team to secure a GHS50 million bail …

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Over 128,000 Nurses And Midwives Threaten Strike By June 9 Over Delayed Conditions Of Service

More than 128,000 nurses and midwives across Ghana are preparing to withdraw their services within the next ten days, citing the government’s continued delay in implementing their agreed conditions of service. At a press conference held in Accra on May 28, the President of the Ghana Registered Nurses and Midwives …

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President Mahama Removes ‘Fake Doctor’ Anne Sansa Daly From NHIA Board

President John Dramani Mahama has revoked the appointment of Anne Sansa Daly from the Board of the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA), following concerns about her lack of a valid license to practise medicine in Ghana. In a letter from the Office of the President, the government announced that Prof. …

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Ghana’s President Mahama Writes: Trump’s Unfounded Attack On Cyril Ramaphosa Was An Insult To All Africans

The meeting at the White House between Donald Trump and the South African president, Cyril Ramaphosa, was, at its heart, about the preservation of essential historical truths. The US president’s claims of white genocide conflict with the actual racial persecution and massacres that took place during the two centuries of …

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President Mahama Nominates New MCEs For Effutu, Assin Central Assemblies

President John Dramani Mahama has nominated two new Municipal Chief Executives (MCEs) for the Central Region, pending approval by their respective Assemblies. This comes under Article 243(1) of the 1992 Constitution and Section 20(1) of the Local Governance Act, 2016 (Act 936), as amended. In a statement released by the …

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Education Ministry Renames UHAS After Late Prof. Mills

The Minister for Education, Haruna Iddrisu, has announced that the University of Health and Allied Sciences (UHAS) in Ho has been renamed the Professor John Evans Atta Mills University of Health and Allied Sciences. The Minister made the announcement during the inauguration of the university’s new Governing Council at the …

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