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Abandoning A Plane For The Pulpit; The Rare Story Of A Ghanaian Pastor
There are several stories of medical doctors and other professionals metamorphosing into preachers of the gospel of Christ as the irresistible power of God calls on them. But in what appears to be a rather unusual transmutation, a Ghanaian pastor, Dr. Michael Boadi Nyamekye, a trained pilot, has abandoned the cockpit for the pulpit. With
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MH370 Families Vent Anger At Inquiry
Relatives of those missing on Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 are angry at apparent mixed signals over whether part of the plane has been found.
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University Teachers In Ghana On Strike Over Book & Research Allowance
In the wake of series of strikes in the Ghanaian health sector, members of the University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG) on Thursday, August 6 also laid down their tools following what they say is government’s delay to pay their 2014/2015 Book and Research allowances.
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PPP’s Dr. Nduom Urges Ghanaian Doctors To Go Back To Work
Founder of the Progressive People’s Party (PPP) Dr Papa Kwesi Nduom is appealing to striking Ghanaian doctors to return to work and save thousands of lives as negotiations on better service conditions continue.
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Ghanaian Doctors’ strike to worsen as 24-hour ultimatum closes in
Effective Friday August 7, the ongoing strike by the over 2,000 members of the Ghana Medical Association, GMA, will worsen as negotiations for better conditions of service has hit a deadlock. The association has in their latest threat given government 24 hours, to address their concerns or they withdraw emergency services across all public hospitals.
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Uganda bride price refund outlawed
Uganda’s Supreme Court has ruled that the practice of refunding the bride price, or dowry, on the dissolution of a customary marriage is unconstitutional and should be banned. The judges said it suggested that women were in a market place, and infringed on their right to divorce. But they rejected the argument that the bride
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Ghana’s labour union wades into gov’t-doctors’ impasse
Organised Labour has chastised government for not acting in good faith on the grievances of doctors, and health workers in general.
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ACEP questions economic value of Ghana’s Sankofa Gas project
The Executive Director of the Africa Centre for Energy Policy, Dr. Mohammed Amin Adam, has questioned the economic sense of the Sankofa Gas Project agreement. The project is expected to transform the country’s power sector by boosting gas supplies to generate up to a thousand megawatts of clean power. In this bid, the board of
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Power barges: Ghanaians to pay more for electricity
Consumers of electricity are to pay more for electricity by the last quarter of this year due to the arrival of the barges
