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Government will from Monday, July 1 begin recruitment of nurses who graduated from public and private health training institutions in the country between 2012 and 2016. Qualified trainees seeking employment are to apply online to select the preferred agency under the Ministry of Health they wish to be posted to. A statement issued by the Ministry of Health Tuesday said prospective applicants have up to Friday, July 12 to submit their application for the recruitment exercise. It however did not say the number of trained nurses the government intends to employ from the hundreds of qualified nurses some of who…

Regional Minister for the newly created Western North, Kingsley Aboagye-Gyedu, has accused his deputy of undermining his authority with the ultimate aim of having him booted out by President Nana Akufo-Addo. Mr Aboagye-Gyedu claims his deputy, Alex D. Tetteh, who is a member of parliament for Sefwi-Akontombra, has used all means available to sabotage and project him not only as incompetent, but also unpopular in the eyes of the chiefs and people of the Western North. Troubled by what he termed “the undermining activities and behaviour” of his subordinate, the Minister has in a letter dated June 11 sighted by…

A total of 26 students have graduated from DPS International Ghana, based in Tema, Community 25.  The 26 graduands have also written their Cambridge A-Level examination. They included Chelsea Naa-Adei Nikoi, Dzidzor Yawo Adrakpanya, Bill Blankson, Nana Banyin Ayeyi-Djan, Pranav Tyagi, Bhaarat Chandu Thakwani, Jedidiah Ahuble, Swaraj Sanjeev Sakharkar, Anamano Editi Ikoh, Wilma Ama Obenewaa Obeng, Vishal Mukesh Thakwani, OM Patel, Aseda Abla Nyaho. The rest are Nana Afra Korankye, Nana Kwame Ainoo, Jude Nana Osei-Sarpong, Oluwaseun Oluwasegun, Josephine Manye Lomokwor Alimo, Princess Jewel Ofori-Attah, Nana Kweku Adu-Asah, Ama Denkyira Obiri-Yeboa, Papa Kojo Adom Mark-Hansen, Sidney Claude Nana Poku Appau,…

Head Coach of the senior national team, the Black Stars, James Kwesi Appiah, has said his side will give Cameroon a good challenge as they seek to record their first win in the second game of Group F, at the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON), at the Ismailia Stadium on Saturday, June 29. According to coach Appiah, Ghana would approach the game with all the needed seriousness and aggression in a bid to secure a vital win to cushion the Stars into the final group game against Guinea-Bissau on July 2, at Suez Stadium. Cameroon tops group F with…

I first met undercover journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas in a small, hot room on the rooftop of a building I was told I could describe, vaguely, as a safe house. We were in a relatively quiet corner of bustling Accra, the capital of Ghana, across town from the office Anas has long used as a base for his investigative-reporting team and for the private-eye company he founded, both of which are known by the same name: Tiger Eye. The office had been abandoned since last year, a precaution that couldn’t save Ahmed Hussein-Suale Divela, one of Tiger Eye’s investigators, who was…

The Parliament of Ghana has commenced processes to pass a law that will regulate the use of modern technologies to aid childbirth. The practice, referred to as Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ARTs) which includes In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) and surrogacy, will be operated within a regulated space when the new law is eventually passed by the house. IVF involves fertilization by extracting eggs or embryo from the woman, retrieving a sperm sample from the man, and then manually combining an egg and sperm in a laboratory dish. Surrogacy is an arrangement, often supported by a legal agreement, whereby a woman…

Pioneering technology firm, Esoko, has signed a 12-month contract with the government of Liberia to embark on data collection in the West African country. The project, being funded by the World Bank through USAID, aims at collecting social data of 200,000 households, as part of the government of Liberia’s Household Social Registry Project. About one million deprived people living in households under extremely poor, food and nutrition insecure conditions, to be captured under the project, will benefit from social protection packages such as cash transfers and other social resilient services. The initiative is under the auspices of the Ministry of…

Pioneering technology firm, Esoko, has signed a 12-month contract with the government of Liberia to embark on data collection in the West African country. The project, being funded by the World Bank through USAID, aims at collecting social data of 200,000 households, as part of the government of Liberia’s Household Social Registry Project. About one million deprived people living in households under extremely poor, food and nutrition insecure conditions, to be captured under the project, will benefit from social protection packages such as cash transfers and other social resilient services. The initiative is under the auspices of the Ministry of…

The Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) has introduced a new kind of litter bins on some streets of Accra to help keep the city clean and also prevent the bins from being stolen. Litter bins positioned at certain places for pedestrians to drop in their garbage have been stolen, with some destroyed by some unknown individuals. Following this, the AMA is introducing new litter bins which will be caged and kept under lock to prevent them from being stolen or destroyed. According to the Deputy Head of Waste Management at the AMA, Victor Kottey, the Assembly is determined to safeguard the…

After years of struggling to have babies of her own, trader Ama, who wants to be known by that, has finally delivered quintuplets. She delivered three boys and two girls through a Caesarean Section under retired gynaecologist DCOP Dr. Samuel Amo-Mensah. Having married for over eight years, conceiving children of her own had been a tough task for Ama. Efforts to make her fertile proved futile, making her lose hope. The situation made her mostly stay indoors as she could not stand societal rejection. For her, Friday, June 21, 2019 will forever remain a great day in her life as…