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.
Egyptian President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi has approved stringent new counter-terrorism laws to fight a growing jihadist insurgency.
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.
The former head of Burundi’s army has been shot dead outside his home in the capital Bujumbura. Col Jean Bikomagu, who led the armed forces during the country’s civil war, was gunned down as he drove through the gates of his house. His daughter was badly injured in the attack, a family member told AFP.
Three persons have been confirmed dead in clashes at Kwapong, a town near Sankore in the Brong Ahofo Region. The Saturday dawn hostility started after a young man was stabbed to death by a fetish priest. Deputy Regional Police Commander, DCOP Maxwell Atingani, told Accra-based Joy FM the fetish priest was arrested after a complaint
Government has released a draft document detailing some conditions of service for public sector doctors who have been striking for weeks.
Multimedia’s Seth Kwame Boateng has been adjudged the 2015 GJA/Prof. PAV Ansah Journalist of the Year for his ‘Locked and Forgotten’ documentary about the plight of remand prisoners in Ghana. “God has been indeed good. I am grateful to God. It is a miracle…..I didn’t dream a day like this will come,” Seth Kwame Boateng
