GENERAL NEWS

Parliament’s Appointments Committee will resume its vetting of ministerial nominees appointed by President Akufo-Addo on Monday, February 22. A total number of 14 appointees are expected to face the Appointments Committee this week to elaborate on policies they will undertake to assist the second administration of President Akufo-Addo. Samuel Abdulai …

Some 60 health workers at the Savelugu Hospital in the Northern Region have tested positive for Covid-19. This follows mass testing of staff of the hospital after an upsurge of cases in the Savelugu Municipality. Sources say there are still some samples at the laboratory yet to be tested. The …

Senior Vice President of IMANI Africa, Kofi Bentil, says Ghana will lose the $55million case Chinese company Beijing Everyway has filed against it in the Court of International Arbitration. Speaking on Newsfile, he said that Ghana wrongfully breached the contract it signed with the company which was expected to handle …

Two girls have been found dead in an abandoned mining pit at Denkyira Dominase in the Upper Denkyira West District of the Central Region, the police have confirmed. Akua Boahemaa, 14, and Baaba Mensah, 10, got drowned in the pit on Friday 19 February in the company of their friends …

Russia’s RDIF sovereign wealth fund said on Saturday that Ghana had granted emergency authorisation for the use of the Sputnik V vaccine against COVID-19, becoming the 31st country to do so, and the fifth African state. The Russian vaccine was approved by the West African country’s health ministry, the Russian …

Dear Amanda Ghana, I am worried as a son of the Sissalaland, a citizen of Ghana and an African. I’m highly concerned about the way, over the years, our education seems to have not prepared us quite adequately to contribute massively to our nation building. We always seem to depend …

The Ghana Catholic Bishop’s Conference (GCBC) has asked President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to immediately shut down the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexuals, Transgender and Queer Individuals (LGBTQI) office in Accra. A statement issued by the Ghana Catholic Bishops’ Conference said “We the Catholic Bishops of Ghana write to condemn all those who support …

Parliament’s Appointments Committee will approve all ministerial nominees put forward by president Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo because so far there are no constitutional blocks facing any of them.   This was the view of Insuah Fuseini, a lawyer and former lawmaker, whose submissions GhanaWeb monitored on NewsFile, Joy FM’s news …

Ghanaian hiplife artiste Emmanuel Kofi Botchwey, known in showbiz circles as Kwa w Kesse, has described a decision by the government to construct a national cathedral at a time that Ghana lacks adequate medical facilities as “stupidity”. This follows reports that Finance Minister-designate, Ken Ofori-Atta, was flown to the United …

It appears the villages and rural settings are the last places most men from the urban areas, particularly the towns and cities, look to find women of their choice to marry. Even though some of these young women are married to men within the rural settings, a lot more remain …