Government has pulled out of conditions of service negotiations with striking members of the Ghana Medical Association (GMA). According to government, it cannot negotiate with the doctors while they are on strike. The GMA last month called the strike demanding that government puts in place conditions of service for its members. The two parties have […]
The Majority Leader in Parliament, Mr Alban S.K. Bagbin, has said the frequent reshuffle of ministerial appointees is the bane of the country’s development. He said if reshuffles were too frequent appointees did not get enough time to transform the sectors they were assigned to. Mr Bagbin was speaking with the Daily Graphic in Accra
It was a few years ago at the then Central Regional (now Cape Coast Teaching) Hospital. We were grossly understaffed those years. There was no opening or closing time. You worked as long as there were cases, day or night. I remember often being called two to three times in a single night to perform
A Ugandan journalist with a background as an entrepreneur, radio and TV reporter and presenter has won the first BBC World News Komla Dumor Award. Nancy Kacungira, a television anchor for Kenya’s KTN television channel, was selected from nearly 200 applicants. She will spend three months at the BBC in London and also report from
Indonesian search and rescue teams are heading to a remote part of the western Papua region where a plane is believed to have crashed on Sunday.
A group of remarkable Ghanaian artistes are coming together to mark the fifth anniversary of the passing away of legendary musician, Mac Tontoh. Tontoh, a founding member of Ghanaian International music group, Osibisa, died after suffering a stroke at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital in August 2010. To celebrate what he stood for as a musician,
Egyptian President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi has approved stringent new counter-terrorism laws to fight a growing jihadist insurgency.
Ghana international Abdul Baba Rahman has formally joined English champions Chelsea, after the club announced his signing on their website on Sunday. The 21-year-old left-back joins from German Bundesliga club Augsburg. “Chelsea Football Club is delighted to announce we have reached an agreement with FC Augsburg for the transfer of Abdul Baba Rahman,” a statement
Professor Kwesi Yankah, President of the Central University College has predicted that the number of unemployed graduates would likely surge to 271,000 this year up from the existing figure of 200,000. “The graduate unemployment will swell up by 71,000, including new graduates to be churned out during the year,” he said. The grim unemployment situation,
Ninety-five people, 85 of them firefighters, are still missing four days after multiple blasts in the north-eastern port of Tianjin, Chinese authorities have said.
