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One hundred and thirty-three district directors of the National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO) who have been demoted and transferred from their duty posts have sued the Organisation and its Director General, Eric Nana Agyemang-Prempeh. The workers claim their demotion and transfers were done without recourse to the conditions of Service of NADMO and in contravention of the Public Service Commission’s Regulation, hence want the court to reverse the decision. According to the workers, the Director General of NADMO in January 2018 issued appointment notices to some New Patriotic Party executives, with lower ranks, to take over from them as acting…

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Francis Ocloo (right) making the donation[/caption] The Awareness Army, a virtual social media-based networking group visited the Royal Seed Home at Kow Bondzi, a rural community near Kasoa in the Central Region over the weekend to interact with inmates and management. The group also made donations to the Home; they also feted the inmates and socialised with them. The delegation toured facilities of the Home and were briefed by its Founder, Mrs Naomi Esi Amoah about past and ongoing efforts resulting in the rehabilitation of many orphaned and abandoned children and their successful integration. The Awareness Army gave a cheque…

I’m not sharing my story to get sympathy from the public. I don’t need sympathy, I only believe someone out there should hear my story. I’ve been thinking about sharing my story with you the day I read the story you published about the woman who found out her husband was gay. I didn’t find out she was a lesbian, she confessed it a week to our wedding. I’ve dated a lot of women I had the intention to get married to but most of the relationship didn’t work out. They leave me just when I thought everything was going…

I’m not sharing my story to get sympathy from the public. I don’t need sympathy, I only believe someone out there should hear my story. I’ve been thinking about sharing my story with you the day I read the story you published about the woman who found out her husband was gay. I didn’t find out she was a lesbian, she confessed it a week to our wedding. I’ve dated a lot of women I had the intention to get married to but most of the relationship didn’t work out. They leave me just when I thought everything was going…

A 23-year-old man who put up for sale the decapitated head of a boy has been arrested at Sankro, a village near Dixcove in the Western Region. Police say Alex Tetteh was arrested Tuesday at about 5:15pm by the people of the village when he was searching for a potential buyer for the head, which is believed to be that of a 12-year-old boy. He was handed over to the Dixcove Police which also transferred him to the Agona Nkwanta Police, and currently in Police custody assisting in investigation. The suspect told investigators he “cut the head of the boy…

The legality of the request by the Auditor General to be given the power to prosecute individuals and institutions indicted in the annual audit reports is being questioned by a legal practitioner, Justice Srem-Sai. The Auditor-General, Daniel Yaw Domelevo, announced Monday that it has applied to the Attorney General to be given prosecutorial powers to deal with state institutions and persons at the various ministries, departments and agencies who engage in financial malfeasance. “…if a fiat is given by the Attorney General to Audit Service just like it has been given to the police and others to prosecute…which I have…

A 120-bed capacity hospital has been commissioned at Atuba to take care of the healthcare needs of the people in and around Binduri District in the Upper East Region. The multi-million facility, Azimbe Hospital, has two consulting rooms, Out Patient Department, theatre, laboratory, male and female wards and a kitchen among others and it is expected to run a 24-hour service. The Binduri District has since its creation in 2012, not had a hospital to receive medical referral cases from the various health centres dotted within the district. The Azimbe Hospital is expected to receive such referral cases in the…

About seven container shops and two cars as well as school feeding foodstuffs for the Nurul Islamic Basic School have been destroyed by a Tuesday dawn fire at Suame Magazine, a suburb of Kumasi in the Ashanti Region. The incident happened at a cluster of mechanic shops at a spot called Zone 10. Victims who had their belongings burnt in the fire have begun counting their losses. Although the cause of the fire is not immediately known, the victims mostly artisans, had their belongings including vehicle spare parts and refrigerators, all destroyed by the fire. The incident according to some…

Veteran actress Grace Omaboe, known in showbiz as Maame Dokono, is advocating the decoupling of creative arts from the Ministry of Tourism, Arts and Culture to ensure proper running of affairs in the creative arts industry. Speaking on New Day, TV3’s magazine show, on Monday, she observed the industry has been relegated to the background and the focus shifted more on tourism. “I don’t think they should attach the Creative Arts to the Tourism Ministry. They should have separate ministries,” she said. In her estimation, persons placed at the helm of affairs at the ministry do not understand the creative…