Japan has restarted its first nuclear reactor under new safety rules following the 2011 Fukushima disaster. All Japan’s nuclear plants were gradually shut down after a series of meltdowns at the Fukushima plant sparked by the tsunami and earthquake. But after passing stringent new safety tests, Kyushu Electric Power restarted the number one reactor at […]
Retired doctors are likely to replace striking members of the Ghana Medical Association (GMA) as they prepare to resign as a group on Friday. One of such retired doctors willing to fill the gap of the agitating GMA members is a former Director General of the Ghana Health Service, Dr Elias Sore. Dr Sore told
Executives of the incumbent National Democratic Congress in the Mpraeso constituency of the Eastern Region, who were locked up for assault, were on Monday granted bail by an Mpraeso Circuit court. Their bail bond was set at Ghc8,000, and they are to reappear in court on Friday, August 14. The five executives including, the constituency
The National Catholic Health Service has sacked 14 doctors in its Holy Family Hospital in Techiman.
An Accra Fast Track Court has dismissed an order for Interlocutory injunction filed by Dr. Charles Wereko-Brobby seeking to restrain the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC) from sharing collecting TV license fees with other private operators. The court presided over by Justice RR Bature, said GBC can go ahead to collect the fees but must refrain
The gender-based violence Circuit Court in Accra, has admitted an 84-year-old man to 80,000 cedi bail with two sureties, one to be justified for compulsion of marriage. The accused, Mallem Gado, pleaded not guilty to forcing his 17-year-old Senior High School student into marriage. Mallam Gado, who appeared before the court presided over by Rita
A survey conducted by Catholic Relief Services, CRS, has indicated that access to footwear is a luxury for the people of Litani, Ticheritaba and Langbina in the East Mamprusi District of Northern Region. In these areas, residents only use footwear during festivities and other special occasions to but not on daily bases. This was revealed
Violence has flared in Turkey’s largest city, Istanbul, with two assailants opening fire outside the US consulate, just hours after a car bomb attack on a police station.
The Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS) has disclosed that a total of 2,707 cases of fire outbreaks nationwide were recorded from January – May this year, with the loss of property estimated at GHȼ10, 244,493. Dr Albert Brown Gaisie, Chief Fire Officer, who made this known in Cape Coast during the opening of a two-day
Available statistics show that a total of 1,296 girls in the country were defiled, while 335 other women were raped in 2014 alone, according to the Police Domestic Violence and Victims Support Unit (DOVVSU). Mrs. Christiana Ankamah, Ashanti Regional Director of the Gender, Children and Social Protection Ministry, who revealed the startling figures, said 17,778
