Domestic air flights have resumed in Ghana after a strike by Air Traffic Controllers early Tuesday morning saw domestic flights grounded. Transport Minister Dzifa Ativor who was involved in discussions to get the striking workers return to work, has said that firm assurances have been given the workers, whose action was to back demands for the urgent resolution of certain administrative and technical challenges.She told Asempa FM in Accra that the strike had nothing to do with salaries or working

The Ghana Highway Authority (GHA), would from Monday 10th March 2014, close the Adomi Bridge to all vehicular activities to undertake major rehabilitation works. A message copied to the Ghana News Agency on Tuesday said the closure would last for 24 months and motorists are to use ferry services that had been provided at Senchi and Akrade to cross the Volta River from 0600 hours to 1800 hours daily. The statement said maximum length of a vehicle that would be allowed on the ferry would be 18 metres. It

The Ankaful Psychiatric Hospital in the Cape Coast Metropolis of the Central Region has been compelled to place an embargo on new admissions as a result of erratic flow of funds and drugs from the government. The Hospital has also discharged many of its patients, particularly those whose conditions were said to be “a bit ok” and they are to report either daily or weekly leaving 82 patients including 22 women whose conditions are said to be serious and needed constant medical attention and those

In his bid to divorce his wife, a retired Major of the Ghana Armed Forces, Major Daniel Kwame Bessah, allegedly served his wife with a fake divorce certificate, for which reason he has been remanded by the Accra Circuit Court. Major Bessah (retd) is alleged to have connived with Akwasi Asare Jnr, a clerk of the Judicial Service, and Charlotte Ofori, a typist at the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA), to forge the said divorce certificate. He has pleaded not guilty to two counts of possessing forged

The Circuit Court in Accra Monday remanded a lawyer in custody for persistently failing to appear before it to answer criminal charges levelled against him. Jah Josiah, who allegedly stole his client’s $23,125 in 2011, was first put before the court in 2012 but he has not been regular in court. He was remanded by the court, presided over by Ms Ellen Vivian Amoah, to reappear on March 17, 2014. The last time he appeared before the court was in August 2013 and has since failed to show up or show

Preliminary work on the collection of data on the distribution of employment, unemployment and industrial accidents under the Labour Market Information System (LMIS) project has been completed. The completion of  the work has paved the way for the implementation of a pilot project of the LMIS in the Central and the Greater Accra regions this month. The Minister of Employment and Labour Relations, Nii Armah Ashietey, made this known in an interview with the Daily Graphic on the sidelines of the

The British High Commission in Ghana yesterday presented two million malaria diagnostic kits to the Ministry of Health in Accra. The kits are to assist in the accurate and timely diagnosis of malaria in the country. The presentation of the malaria diagnostic kits forms part of the British government’s GH¢168 million budgetary support to the ministry for the period 2014 to 2017. Presenting the items, the British High Commissioner to Ghana, Mr Peter Jones, stressed the need for Ghanaians to test

An eight-month-long programme to mark the 15th anniversary of the installation of the Okyenhene, Osagyefuo Amoatia Ofori Panin, has been launched at Kyebi, the traditional headquarters of the Akyem Abuakwa State. Osagyefuo Ofori Panin, known in private life as Odeshie Kwame Boakye Ofori Atta, ascended the Ofori Panin Stool in 1999. He is the 35th occupant of the Ofori Panin Stool of the Akyem Abuakwa State, which was established by Atta Apeanin Kwaframoa Woyiawonyi in 1362. Virtues Unveiling a plague

A partial withdrawal of service by a section of Air Traffic Controllers (GHATCA) has left domestic travellers stranded at the Kotoka, Kumasi and Tamale airport terminals. International flights are however, not affected. The Director-General of the Ghana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA), Air Commodore Kwame Mamphey who admitted the strike in an interview with Radio Gold Tuesday morning, said it is in connection with a number of issues the controllers have raised and were being addressed at both board

The Rector of Takoradi Polytechnic has argued that but for greed and avarice, the country has all the laws required to combat the high level of corruption at all levels. Professor Daniel Agyapong Nyarko also deplored the situation where people got paid for virtually doing no work, while others on fixed salaries idled about in offices waiting patiently for the end of the month to draw their salaries.  Again,  he said, official vehicles served personal and private interests, while self-seeking

The Deputy Minister of Food and Agriculture, Dr Hannah Louisa Bisiw, has indicated that the government is working on a proposal for funding to revamp the poultry industry in the country. That is part of efforts to ensure the production of adequate meat, animal and dairy products to meet the country’s protein requirement, the deputy agriculture minister said. It will also help the country to cut the huge import bill on meat and meat products, which is currently pegged at over $300 million. She

This year’s Independence Day which falls on Thursday, March 6, 2014, has been declared a statutory public holiday. It is an anniversary marking Ghana’s 57 years of freedom from the colonial rule. A statement signed by the Minister of Interior, Mr Kwesi Ahwoi, said the day is a statutory public holiday and should be observed as such throughout the country. The celebration will be marked with a march past and displays by students at the various regional and district capitals during which the regional

The Deputy Head of the Africa Office at the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Mr Nikoley Heiberg, has hinted that Denmark will soon wean Ghana off its development support. He, however, said the process towards the change in Denmark’s relationship with Ghana from a development-oriented to an economic-focused co-operation, would take some years to become operational. Mr Heiberg, who was briefing a group of 12 African journalists from Ghana, Kenya and South Africa on a study tour of Denmark (and

This year’s Independence Day which falls on Thursday, March 6, 2014, has been declared a statutory public holiday. It is an anniversary marking Ghana’s 57 years of freedom from the colonial rule. A statement signed by the Minister of Interior, Mr Kwesi Ahwoi, said the day is a statutory public holiday and should be observed as such throughout the country. The celebration will be marked with a march past and displays by students at the various regional and district capitals during which the regional

The Wildlife Division of the Forestry Commission (FC) has received little attention over the years as far as the development of the sector is concerned, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the FC, Mr Samuel Afari Dartey, has said. He indicated that the division could do more to enhance the national economy, if the government could channel enough resources to the sector.  Mr Dartey was speaking at the World Wildlife Day celebration in Accra.  According to him, the country only concentrated on

An Accra circuit court Monday sentenced an unemployed man, Abass Suleman, to 40 years in prison for robbery. The court also remanded in prison custody four other persons charged with dishonestly receiving stolen items. The accused persons are Issah Mohammed, Sulemana Mobarik, Prince Kuadadze and Mohammed Kassina and they are to reappear on March 17, 2014. Facts of the Case Police Chief Superintendent Duuti Tuaruka told the court, presided over by Mr Francis Obiri, that the complainant is a German

The Odaw River, which runs through the Accra metropolis,  continues to be one of the most polluted rivers anywhere. This river flows from the Abokobi and Adjankote hills through Ashongman,  Atomic Energy area, West Legon, Achimota,  Alajo,  Avenor, Agbogbloshie and finally into the Atlantic Ocean through the Korle Lagoon. Along the line, the various communities dump their refuse  and waste into the river. It has become the receptacle of Accra’s rubbish and  solid waste. It is a place  for

Total Petroleum Ghana has held a corporate dinner in honour of the visiting Vice-President of Total Africa and the Middle East, Mr Momar Nguer, at the Golden Tulip, Accra. The Managing Director of Total Petroleum, Mr Guillaume Larroque, in an address, said their transporters had been strategic links between the company and their customers had worked tirelessly to ensure the delivery of quality products. He said Total spent GH¢30 million in 2013 as financial package for the rehabiliation of 50 trucks. “We

An Accra-based businessman, Mr Augustine Oteng Kusi, 53, has sworn the oath of allegiance to the Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, as the new Domeabrahene under the stool name Obrempong Nana Kusi Obodum I. Obrempong Obodum succeeds Nana Kwabena Opoku who died 17 years ago. At a swearing-in ceremony at the Manhyia Palace in Kumasi, Obrempong Obodum thanked the Asantehene and the chiefs for the confidence reposed in him. He said unity among his people was his priority and that he would not hesitate

The first ever Ghana Women’s Summit has been held in Accra, with a call for equal opportunities for both women and men towards holistic national development. “The truth is, until the government leads the process to establish pragmatic measures and strengthen the institutions that will address the inequality gaps between men and women, we are going nowhere as a nation,” Mrs Gifty Afenyi Dadzie, the National Prayer Director of AGLOW International, Ghana, who gave the keynote address at the summit,