Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has expressed the government’s concern over the increasing rate of negligence and other unprofessional conduct by some healthcare workers in the country. Addressing members of the Medical and Dental Council in Accra on the occasion of the Council’s 50th Anniversary Celebration and 2022 Conference on Monday, 29 August 2022, Dr. Bawumia urged the Council to suggest solutions for the effective management of such practitioners for the public good. He also reiterated the government’s commitment to continuing its vision of expanding access to healthcare through infrastructure development and pro-poor policies, such as the expansion of health...
Col Damoah’s good fortune ends as letter reveals his contract expired 13 October 2021
Commissioner of the Customs Division of the Ghana Revenue Authority Col Kwadwo Damoah (Rtd) seems to have come to the end of his tenure as President Akufo-Addo has directed him to hand over to acting Deputy Commissioner (Preventive Service), Mr. Seidu Iddrisu Iddisah. Mr Seidu Iddrisu Iddisah was to have started acting in the stead of Col Damoah from 26 August 2022. This was contained in a letter that has popped up on Social media dated 26 August 2022 issued and signed by Secretary to the President Nana Asante Bediatuo. According to the letter, Col Damoah’s contract of service as...
GJA to launch Media Awards 2022 on Wednesday
The Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) will launch the ‘GJA Media Awards 2022’ on Wednesday, August 31, 2022, at the Ghana International Press Centre in Accra. A seven-member GJA Media Awards Committee to select winners to be celebrated will also be inaugurated at the ceremony. This year’s event is tentatively scheduled to take place in November. The flagship programme of the GJA is organized annually to recognize and reward excellence in journalism by members of the Association. The awards ceremony was last held in 2020 but controversy surrounding the recent GJA elections did not permit the organization of the awards in...
Oyerepa FM resumes operations
The Kumasi Traditional Council has resolved its impasse with the management of Kumasi-based Oyerepa FM/TV. To this end, the Council has asked the management of the media house to resume operations. The Council asked the management of the media house to render an apology to them for allowing its platform to be used to defame chiefs in the region without evidence. Management of the station was accompanied by former Presiding Bishop of the Methodist Church of Ghana, Most Reverend Professor Emmanuel Asante to render the apology. The founder of UPP Akwasi Oddai Odike had alleged on Oyerepa FM that the...
Telecoms companies to start restricting calls of customers this week.
Dr Ken Ashigbey, CEO of Ghana Chamber of Telecommunications in an interview with TV3 says, telecom companies will start restricting calls of customers who have not yet registered their sim cards. Dr Ken Ashigbey stated that, there’s the need to find a way to separate customers who have their Ghana cards but fail to register their sims from those who are yet to get their Ghana cards. ” We need to find a way in which we promte customers who have the Ghana card, who have the ability to register but who are still not doing so to be able...
OFFICIAL: PUMA unveils 2022 Away Kit for Ghana
Kit sponsor of Ghana’s National Football Teams, Puma, has officially unveiled a second jersey for the 2022 International football calendar confirming a report by CITI Sports. (Click highlighted text to read report) The strip has been designated as the “Away kit” and is set to be debuted by the Senior National Men’s Football Team, the Black Stars, in the run up to the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar. The heavy red kit with black, yellow and green colour elements from Ghana’s National Flag plus the Ghana Football Association (GFA) logo are inscribed on the jersey. Earlier this year, a...
Accra Zoo closed down after lion kills intruder
The Accra Zoo has been closed down. The move by the Forestry Commission is to allow for investigations into the death of the middle-aged man who reportedly scaled the fence and entered the lions’ cage. The Head of Corporate Affairs and Media Relations at the Forestry Commission, Joyce Ofori Kwafo told Citi News “a staff of the Accra Zoo was going round yesterday and noticed a lifeless body in the lion cage. He quickly drew closer to assess the situation. They quickly called in the Achimota police after which the body was conveyed to the mortuary.” “After a closer look, we realised that...
I don’t have any means to apologise – Odike breaks silence
2012 Presidential Candidate and Founder of United Progressive Party (UPP) Akwasi Addai Odike says he does not have any means to reach out to the Kumasi Traditional Council to apologise for comments he is said to have made against the Asantehene. He said he has since been banished and “if anybody sees you around the vicinity, they can kill you”. Speaking on TV3‘s Midday Live on Monday, August 29, Mr Odike says the traditional rites performed to banish him from the Ashanti kingdom is making it difficult for him to appear before the authorities to offer any remorseful gesture for his comments. The UPP founder was banished by...
Father arrested after his 9-year-old son drives to school
A nine-year-old in school uniform was stopped by police in Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, while driving to school with his father in the front passenger seat. The saloon car was stopped before it entered a private school in Athi River, on the fringes of the city, after police gave chase when the boy accelerated after being flagged down. His younger sister was found seated at the back also in school uniform. Kenyan law prohibits those under 18 years of age from driving. The boy was reportedly speeding on the Nairobi-Mombasa highway, one of the busiest in the country. The father was...
Ghana card to be sole card for accessing healthcare under NHIS – Okoe Boye
The National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) says the Ghana card will soon become the sole document for the provision of services under the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) at credentialled facilities. Chief Executive of the Authority, Dr. Bernard Okoe Boye brought this to the fore when he interacted with a cross-section of the media in his office. He advocated the need for all NHIS members to merge the two cards via the short code *929# in line with the NHIA’s agenda of “One nation, one card for healthcare service.” The National Health Insurance Scheme remains Ghana’s leading vehicle to achieve Universal Health Coverage (UHC) by...