Elderly persons in the Ejura Sekyere-dumasi district in the Ashanti region will benefit from free ‘Eban’ welfare card with a rebate of 50% of their transportation fares when they board public buses. The aged who were registered on the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), will board Metro Mass, O.A buses as well as vehicles of […]
A Chinese National identified only as Lee Fou alias ‘Soldier’ is suspected to have shot his Ghanaian in-law Kwaku Marfo, at Koko-Tabuom in the Atwima Kwanwoma district in the Ashanti region of Ghana. Reports say Marfo has lost his toes in the incident. Fou, who is engaged in some sort of mining in the area reportedly
The Ministry of Gender Children and Social Protection has extended its registration of Prison inmates onto the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) to the three prisons in the Ashanti region. About 1,700 prisons inmates in Ashanti are expected to be captured after the registration of prisons inmates in the Manhyia, Kumasi Central and Amanfrom camp
Chairman of the Ghana Prisons Council, Rev. Stephen Wengam says Ghana’s current legal system need serious overhauling. According to the Prisons Council Chair, the hitches in the judicial service impacts negatively on the activities of the prisons service. He was making a submission on Daybreak Kapital Tuesday November 3, 2015, concerning the country’s current legal
Health personnel in the Talensi District of the Upper East Region, have express worry over the increasing cases of crude abortion practices involving teenagers in the district. Teenagers in the district mostly pupils in Junior High Schools (SHS) and Senior High Schools lately, have resorted to the wrong procedures in conducting abortions which has resulted
Ghana football legend Abedi Ayew Pele has given up on his ambition to become the president of the Ghana FA. The three-time African Footballer of the Year and former Black Stars captain contested Ben Koufie in the 2001 FA presidential race only to withdraw at the eleventh hour. Meanwhile, some connoisseurs have been courting the
About 120 persons have been killed in road accidents between first to third quarters of this year alone in the Ashanti Region according latest statistics from the National Road Safety Commission (NRSC). Out of the number indicated, 39 reported deaths were recorded within the third quarter with a total of 264 case involving 337
Dr Alfred Oko Vanderpuye, a National Democratic Congress aspiring Member of Parliament (MP) for the Ablekuma South Constituency has promised the constituents of a total economic transformation if he is given the mandate. Dr Oko Vanderpuye said he has the ability to improve the economic life of traders, including fish mongers, fishermen and all business
A 40-year-old woman has poisoned her two daughters to death at Essikado in the Western region.The incident has thrown the community into a state of shock.The woman, whose name was only given as Naana and is believed to be mentally challenged allegedly laced some pesticide with food to feed her innocent children late in the
Former United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan says more effort needed to be made to improve regional trade in agricultural products. “ If a farmer cannot sell his/her produce in the next country, it is much harder to develop a profitable business,” he adds. He’s urged the private sector in Africa to show interest in the
