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Executives of the Psychiatric Nurses Group have expressed their utmost support for nurses at Ankaful Psychiatric Hospital in their demand to get their director removed. According to the group, nurses all over the country are willing to adapt to any form of change that is aimed at improving healthcare delivery. “We wish to categorically state that, no nurse in Ankaful and for that matter, Ghana, in general, abhors change. Change is inevitable and change is a process. The change will reduce the workload and improve productivity,” the group said in a statement. They noted, contrary to the impression created by…

The Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolitan Assembly (STMA) is expected to generate 300 megawatts of energy daily from waste starting 2018. The initiative of turning waste into energy by the Assembly is under government’s flagship policy, one district one factory. The Metropolitan Chief Executive Officer for STMA, Anthony K. K. Sam announced this during the Assembly’s town hall meeting to disseminate government’s policies (both implemented and yet to be implemented ones) to residents. He said the project will require a volume of 300 tons of waste a day to enable a production capacity of 300 megawatts energy. He said the assembly will be…

Government has set up an Inter-Ministerial Advisory Committee and a National Cyber Security Secretariat as Ghana begins the implementation of a National Cyber Security Policy and Strategy, the Vice President, Alhaji Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has disclosed. The two bodies have been tasked to advise, devise and oversee a robust defense of Ghana’s cyber security assets, especially in light of the Akufo-Addo government’s digitisation agenda as part of plans to formalise the economy. “The rapid growth of exponential technologies in the country, comes with its associated security concerns.  In view of this impending threat, our government has set up an Inter-Ministerial…

The Agricultural Development Bank (ADB) has reiterated its unbridled support to farmers across the country with the setting up of dedicated desk to deal with issues related to agric in all the regions of the country. Managing Director of the Bank, Dr. John Kofi Mensah, speaking at the recent National Farmers’ Day, in Kumasi on last Friday said the bank has create a special agricultural desk in 36 of the ADB 78 branches nationwide. “The setting up of the desk is to dedicate a staff to deal with issues of agriculture from our farmers who need all the needed advice…

The Kumasi Academy is to be closed down indefinitely after three days to allow health officials conduct a thorough environment assessment with the view to identifying the root cause of the mysterious disease that has claimed the lives of four students within a week. The Ashanti Regional Director of Health Services, Dr Emmanuel Tinkorang, told a gathering of the school authorities and parents Tuesday that preliminary results from blood samples of the diseased proved negative of meningitis and haemorrhagic. He said they currently suspect atypical bacterial infection hence they have resolved to give all the students a broad spectrum antibiotic…

Your resume is your first chance to make a good impression with hiring managers. One misspelled word might not seem like a huge deal, but it can mean the difference between looking competent and appearing lazy. A 2014 Accountemps survey of 300 senior managers found that 63 percent of employers would reject a job candidate who had just one or two typos on their resume. Most misspellings on resumes slip through the cracks because spellcheck doesn’t catch them. The most common misspelling on resumes is a shockingly simple word—or so you’d think. Career coach and resume writer Jared Redick of Resume…

Your resume is your first chance to make a good impression with hiring managers. One misspelled word might not seem like a huge deal, but it can mean the difference between looking competent and appearing lazy. A 2014 Accountemps survey of 300 senior managers found that 63 percent of employers would reject a job candidate who had just one or two typos on their resume. Most misspellings on resumes slip through the cracks because spellcheck doesn’t catch them. The most common misspelling on resumes is a shockingly simple word—or so you’d think. Career coach and resume writer Jared Redick of Resume…

Former Attorney General, Martin Amidu, has suggested President Nana Akufo –Addo cannot be blamed for his government’s inability to prosecute persons alleged to have engaged in corrupt practices. In the run up to the 2016 general elections, the New Patriotic Party led by the then candidate Nana Akufo-Addo accused the John Mahama administration of gross corruption and vowed to prosecute officials found culpable if voted into power. Eleven months after taking over the governance of the country having won the elections of December 7, the Akufo-Addo government is yet to prosecute any former government official of corruption. Many people, especially…

Mr. Malik Kweku Baako, the Editor-in-Chief of the New Crusading Guide Newspaper, expressed confidence that Mr. Alfred Agbesi Woyome’s latest foray to the Africa Court and the consequential orders from that court to stay the execution of the judgment and orders I obtained against him at the Supreme Court to refund the over GHS51million unconstitutionally paid to him by the previous Government was just a transient irritation – he will vomit the money. I have written about the corrupt stratagem being adopted to substitute the Republic of Ghana for me as the plaintiff in the substantive case. I have raised…

One more student of the Kumasi Academy Senior High School has died Tuesday morning, bringing the death toll to  four within a week. Anxious parents Tuesday besieged the school premises to take their wards home following news of the death of the the female second year student studying science. Though some of the parents managed to forcefully take their wards from campus, others were prevented by the police from doing so. The identity of the student who died at the KNUST Hospital is yet to be revealed by the school authorities, sources close to the School told 3News. Three students…