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Toxicology tests suggest a German former nurse murdered at least 100 people at two hospitals where he worked, prosecutors say. Detectives believe Niels Hoegel, who is already serving a life sentence for two murders, systematically administered fatal doses of heart medication to people in his care. He wanted to impress colleagues by resuscitating them but many died. Fresh charges against him are expected next year. Hoegel is now said to have killed 38 patients in Oldenburg and 62 in Delmenhorst, both in northern Germany, between 1999 and 2005. Investigators say he may have killed more but potential victims have been…

Former President John Dramani Mahama has been beseeched by Regional Chairmen of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) to contest the 2020 presidential election on the ticket of the party. A statement signed by the ten Regional Chairmen and issued on Thursday said their call is in tune with the wish of many in the country. “[We have] called on HE John Dramani Mahama to consider the request of teeming supporters of the NDC and Ghanaians to lead the party to the 2020 General Elections”, the statement said. The Regional Chairmen came into this conclusion after a meeting held with…

The Petroleum Commission, Ghana, will soon come out with modalities to sanction Ghanaians fronting for International Oil Companies (OICs) under the guise of joint venture agreement in the oil and gas industry. The Petroleum [Local Content Local Participation] Regulations, 2013 L.I. 2204 prohibits such fronting since OICs use it as a ‘veil’ to evade tax payment. Th acting Chief Executive Officer of Petroleum Commission, Egbert Faibille in an interview with 3news.com at the third local content conference organized by the Commission in Takoradi on Wednesday said his outfit is aware of these “illegal arrangements”. The understanding of the commission according…

Professor Kenneth Attafuah, the acting Executive Secretary of National Identification Authority (NIA), has urged stakeholders and the general public to support the Authority as it produces a national identification card called the “Ghanacard” for use by citizens and foreigners in Ghana. Briefing the management of Ghana Education Service (GES) in Accra recently, Professor Attafuah said the national identification exercise, which started in 2008, was halted in 2014 following some interruptions and that, “The Authority has thoroughly reviewed the challenges that it encountered in the past and it has put appropriate measures in place, including having to upgrade the 2D barcode…

Coach Kwesi Appiah is sweating over the fitness of captain Asamoah Gyan and winger Christian Atsu ahead of Sunday’s clash with Egypt in 2018 Fifa World Cup qualifying. The two players are doubtful for the final match-day encounter in Cape Coast after pulling out of training on Wednesday. Gyan has battled with injury all year and it recurred in training on Wednesday, this time suffering “what looked like a thigh injury” and will undergo tests in Accra to ascertain the extent of damage. Newcastle United attacker Atsu also failed to complete Wednesday’s session as an injury picked up while playing in the EPL against Bournemouth continues…

A development campaign by Media General Radio, operators of Accra-based Onua FM 95.1 and 3FM 92.7, to push authorities to fix nonfunctional streetlights on major roads across the country has begun yielding results. The two radio stations have since November 6, 2017 used their morning shows to discuss the issue of nonfunctional streetlights on highways, link and access roads in the country and how that has contributed to attacks on people and accidents. Listeners have since the start of the Let There Be Light (#LetThereBeLight) campaign, called into the respective morning shows to tell authorities areas without functional streetlights and…

The World Bank and the United Nations University World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WiDER) have published an academic paper co-authored by Ghana’s Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia centered on Ghana’s oil find. The paper is on the topic – Oil Discovery and Macroeconomic Management: The Recent Ghanaian Experience. The paper analyses the evolution of fiscal and monetary variables in Ghana, from the discovery of oil in 2007 through to 2014. It documents the deterioration of fiscal and monetary discipline over this period, which resulted in a rebound of debt, a deterioration of the external balance, and a decrease in…

Health Minister, Kwaku Agyeman Manu, has justified the ‘dismissal’ of Dr Thomas Anaba as the Medical Director of the Ridge Hospital in Accra, something that triggered power struggle at the facility six months ago. Dr. Anaba was appointed on February 1, 2016 by the Mahama government as the Medical Director of the Hospital for a four year term, but the Akufo-Addo government per a letter dated May 10, reassigned him to the University of Development Studies (UDS), where he previously worked. But Dr. Anaba refused to leave his duty post, claiming his transfer was done in bad faith and without…

The destruction of classroom blocks of the Breman Baako D/A Basic School in the Central Region has forced school authorities to run a shift system. A rainstorm on November 1 ripped off the roof of a section of the classroom blocks and has since rendered the affected places uninhabitable. Classrooms of Primary 6 to JHS 2 were affected.Learning materials including textbooks, exercise books and some record keeping books were also destroyed by the storm that occurred at about 4:00pm at a time the school had closed. No casualties were recorded. Meanwhile, in view of the limited classrooms occasioned by the…

One of the greatest edifices or monuments that the people of Central Region would remember the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) for is the Kasoa Interchange. Apart from the people of the region, everyone who plies the Kasoa stretch of the international road would attest to the fact that, even though the project has not totally been completed, it has eased the unbearable traffic congestion there. The then President John Mahama on November 29, 2016 commissioned the first phase of the $160-million 270-meter interchange at Kasoa. The first phase of the commissioning was the main Kasoa-Cape Coast section after its near completion leaving Bawjiase…