The Deputy Eastern Regional Minister, Mavis Ama Frempong, has advised women to reduce their expenditure on funeral cloths and rather invest in the education of their children. She gave the advice at the formal opening of the Eight Biennial Diocesan Christian Mothers’ Association Congress at the St Theresa’s Catholic Church at Suhum. She said the ...

The charity Medecins sans Frontieres (MSF) has told the BBC that Liberia’s medical services have been completely overwhelmed by the Ebola outbreak. The MSF co-ordinator in Liberia said official figures were “under-representing the reality”, and that the health system was “falling apart”. Nearly 1,000 people have died and 1,800 have become infected in West Africa. ...

There is a saying in Akan “wo nim ewuo aa hw3 nda” meaning, if you don’t know how death looks like take a look at sleep. In 2014, cholera still remains an epidemic Ghana has been unable to effectively combat and now, we have to deal with almighty Ebola disease which we are told is ...

Communications and Governance Consultant, Kathleen Addy says the people of Nkoranza North highly regard Eric Amoateng because he satisfied their needs in ways governments over the years have failed to fulfil. According to her, they would not have hailed their ex-Member of Parliament (MP) if systems worked efficiently in Ghana. “There is an element of ...

Guinea has announced the closure of its borders with Sierra Leone and Liberia in a bid to halt the spread of Ebola, the virus that has killed nearly 1,000 people in the three West African countries this year. At least 367 people have died in Guinea since March and 18 others are being treated in the country in isolation, but the ...

Nestle Ghana has introduced paternity leave for its male employees to support exclusive breastfeeding for infants within their first 1000 days in life. Speaking to climax the World Breastfeeding Week Celebration in Accra, Moataz El Hout Managing Director of Nestle said the company had introduced paternity leave for its employees. The Company is also scaling ...

A 22-year-old national of Gabon has been arrested on suspicion of stabbing an Ivorian to death at Weiman in Accra. John Maviane, a student of the Ambassador University College at Lapaz, is believed to have struggled with the 24-year-old Ivorian, Madeleine Josian E. Souaduo, before stabbing her in the abdomen several times. The police also ...

The Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development will query Metropolitan, Municipal and District Chief Executive (MMDCE) who fails to furnish the Ministry with evidence of action taken against sanitation offenders within the next two months. Julius Debrah, the sector Minister said he has observed that MMDCEs are not enforcing the sanitation bye laws and ...

Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, Deputy Minister of Education in-charge of Tertiary Education on Saturday inaugurated a 17–member Governing Council for KAAF University College. The Council, chaired by Professor Kwamena Ahwoi would supervise the administration of the University to ensure that it achieves the mandate for which it was established. Speaking at the inaugural ceremony, Mr Ablakwa ...

Union Savings and Loans through its Small and Medium Scale Enterprise (SME) Clinic has offered free education on the new 17.5 percent VAT/NHIL to clients. Education on the provision of the VAT Act 2013 (Act 870) on financial services for which fees and commissions are imposed has generally been low in Ghana. According to the ...

Caterpillar has evacuated a handful of employees from Liberia. Canadian Overseas Petroleum Ltd. has suspended a drilling project. British Airways has canceled flights to the region. ExxonMobil and Chevron are waiting to see whether health officials can contain the danger. The Ebola outbreak, which has claimed nearly 1,000 lives, is disrupting business and inflicting economic ...

A special programme initiated by the Department of Social Welfare to rid the streets of Accra of children used as aides to the physically and visually impaired to solicit for alms has been suspended due to lack of funds. “The budget available to the department is too small. We are waiting for government’s response and ...

Some houses at the Buduburam Refugee Camp in the Central Region were demolished on Saturday under the supervision of the Ghana Police Service. The Buduburam camp houses over 12,000 Liberian refugees who fled their country during the first and second Liberian civil war in the late 90s. It was established by the United Nations High ...

Contractors at ArcelorMittal SA’s iron ore mine in Liberia are evacuating the country and other miners are sending staff home to prevent the spread of the deadly Ebola virus. Mining companies in West Africa are acting swiftly to keep Ebola at bay, screening employees and restricting access to remote mining camps while keeping production of ...

The Ashanti Regional Chairmen of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and National Democratic Congress (NDC) are accusing each other of being responsible for the recent acts of violence at some registration centers. There were reports of violence at some registration centres in the region resulting in the destruction of some registration equipment and the stabbing ...

Financial analyst and anti-corruption crusader, Sydney Casely-Hayford says Ghana can only access $569 million as bailout from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) due to the nature of the economy. According to him, Ghana has a special drawing right with the IMF which allows it to only access $569million as bailout due to the underlying values ...

Four Silicon Valley companies including Apple and Google failed to persuade a U.S. judge to sign off on a $324.5 million settlement to resolve a lawsuit by tech workers, who accused the firms of conspiring to avoid poaching each other’s employees. In a ruling on Friday, U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh in San Jose, California, said the ...

The bodyguards of Mr Edwin Nii Lante Vanderpuye, Deputy Minister of Local Government and Rural Development and Ms Mavis Ama Frimpong, Deputy Eastern Regional Minister were assaulted in Nsawam at the weekend. The incident occurred on the Nsawam – Suhum road when a three-vehicular convoy of the ministers, returning to Koforidua after a tour of some ...

Dr. Kent Brantly, one of the two US doctors who contracted the Ebola virus in Liberia, has spoken out for the first time. He released a statement from his isolation room at Emory University in Atlanta where he’s being treated after he was flown out of Liberia last week. He is the first Ebola patient ...

The board of Asante Kotoko have ended the services of David Serebuo, the deputy Accra representative of the Kumasi-based club, following an alleged disagreement between him and the club’s acting general manager Opoku Nti. It is alleged that Serebuo questioned the direction of the club and critically criticised Nti over his poor managerial skills which ...