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The Deputy Minister for Gender and Social Protection nominee, Francisca Oteng-Mensah has denied allegation of conflict of interest levelled against her in the procurement of sanitisers during the peak of Covid-19 pandemic. The Kwabre East MP was accused of using her influence as the Board Chairperson of the National Youth …

The Abossey Okai Spare Parts Dealers Association has denied the Ghana Private Road Transport Union’s (GPRTU) claim of increases in the prices of spare parts. The GPRTU after a slight reduction in fuel prices refused to reduce transport fares arguing that prices of spare parts and lubricants have also been …

Ghana’s President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has alleged that the government of neighbouring Burkina Faso has given Russian mercenaries a mine as payment to help fight an insurgency in their country. President Akufo-Addo, who is in Washington for the US-Africa Leaders Summit, raised the claims at a meeting on Wednesday …

The Ghana Education Service has delayed the vacation of all public basic schools across the country to enable primary four pupils to write National Standardised Test. The said National Standardised Test is scheduled to be written on Friday, 16th December 2022, which delays the vacation by one day. The basic …

Nurses in England, Wales and Northern Ireland are to go on strike from 08:00 on Thursday in the largest action of its kind in NHS history.   Staff will continue to provide “life-preserving” and some urgent care but routine surgery and other planned treatment is likely to be disrupted. The …

Exclusive documents available indicates that the Special Prosecutor, Kissi Agyebeng and his staff are yet to receive their salaries, sixteen months after assuming office. According to the said documents, only the Deputy Special Prosecutor has been paid; leaving other staff of the office agitated. The documents further disclosed that the …

Chiefs in the Ashanti Region who have had their lands invaded by illegal miners will be summoned by the Asantehene for questioning and possible sanctions. Otumfuo Osei Tutu II says chiefs should not sit aloof while illegal mining activities ravage arable farmlands and water bodies. He says the failure of some …

A 61-year-old retired computer programmer, who slapped the Greater Accra Regional Minister, Henry Quartey, in traffic, after threatening to kill him, has been granted bail by an Accra Circuit Court.   Nii Odoi Kwao II a.k.a. Robert Koomson was granted bail in the sum of GH₵50,000 with three sureties who …

A video circulating on social media shows how a ‘Trotro’ (commercial vehicle) driver and his mate (conductor) severely assaulted a police officer in uniform in Cape Coast. The video captured the police officer being dragged on the ground by the driver and his mate and given severe beatings. A situational …

US President Joe Biden has announced billions of dollars in new funding for Africa at a summit of dozens of the continent’s heads of state. “The United States is all in on Africa’s future,” President Biden told the 49 African leaders attending the Washington DC summit. It is the first …