The British High Commissioner to Ghana Mr. Jon Benjamin has called for support for youth entrepreneurship in the country. Mr. Benjamin made the call after a visit to the Yonso project and Boombers Bicycles, producers of Bamboo Bicycles at Apaah in the Mampong Municipality. The British government through its program is supporting youth entrepreneurs in the […]
The veteran rapper was honored with the W.E.B. DuBois Medal during a ceremony at Harvard University on Wednesday (Sept. 30), Associated Press reports.The Queens native received the award for his involvement and contributions to culture, human rights, and the arts central to the African and African-American community.Other recipients alongside the “Cherry Wine” lyricist includes the
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
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 Rwandan soldier serving as a peacekeeper in the Central African Republic (CAR) has shot dead four colleagues before killing himself, the Rwandan Defence Ministry has said. Eight others were wounded in the attack, a statement said. A Rwandan military spokesman called the incident “deplorable”. Those dead served under the UN’s mission in CAR, deployed
Government has denied reports in the public domain that it has agreed to pay 50% of doctors salaries as their professional allowance. Government’s reaction comes on the back of speculations attributed to Accra based Joy Fm which indicated that “government has accepted to pay 50% of basic salary per month as the professional allowance.” The
An international research team from the University of Ghana, University of Aberdeen and Wuhan University in China has discovered a set of new alkaloids from a novel Ghanaian microorganism.
The West African Examinations Council (Waec) has released provisional results of the 2015 West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE).
