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The minority members on the Appointments Committee of Parliament Wednesday boycotted the vetting of some deputy ministers appointed by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo in order to push for the Parliament House to rise for recess. Deputy Minority Leader James Klutse Avedzi told 3FM parliamentary correspondent Mercydalyne Lokko Tuesday that notwithstanding an agreement by the House to go on recess Wednesday, the majority side of the House is making attempts to delay it to Friday. According to him, the consensus to go on recess on Wednesday was informed by the fact that there is no business available for the House…

The argument that the people in galamsey threatened communities must rise up in protest sounds good on the face of it, but is a misplaced one in the light of the current exigencies. First of all, we the people have handed the state all the coercive powers to maintain for us absolute peace and safety. We pay taxes to ensure this. Our monies go to support a standing army and the police force. Now that we are confronted with real existential danger, the state appears to slink into a corner, sipping tea in stakeholder forums, while calls are being tooted…

Former Transport Minister and cadre Mike Hammah has blamed the humiliating defeat suffered by the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in last year’s presidential election on the former President, John Dramani Mahama. The former president got his priorities wrong, according to his assessment. Mike Hammah said ex-president Mahama’s emphasis on infrastructure development to the detriment of the physiological needs of the masses, was the downfall of the NDC. He spoke on Onua FM’s Morning Show ‘Yen Nsem Pa’. The former Transport Minister told Bright Kwesi Asempa that although Mr. Mahama did his best in governing the country, that was not enough…

Four key members of the National Democratic Congress are calling for an early congress in a bid to end what they termed as despondency that is creeping into the party in the aftermath of the 2016 elections which the party lost. According to them, the “humiliating defeat” of the party in the elections is a clear manifestation that the NDC needs reorganisation “if it is to be relevant in the current political dispensation and to recover itself”. A statement issued by the four – Benjamin Kunbuor, Antwi Boasiako Sekyere, Mike Hammah, and Akuamoah Ofosu Boateng – claim the NDC in…

An autopsy report released by the Ghana Health Service in the Ashanti region into the death of four students of the Kumasi Academy Senior High School (KUMACA) has revealed that they died of meningitis. This followed days of speculation that the students died out of food poisoning, forcing parents and guardians to withdraw their wards from the school. After days of investigation, the report which was read out by the Ashanti regional minister, Simon Osei Mensah indicated that a thorough research was done to arrive at this conclusion. Addressing the media on Wednesday, the minister said “there have been several…

Deputy Ashanti Regional Minister has threatened to ‘beat’ any parent who refuses to send her children to school in the region. Madam Elizabeth Agyeman does not understand why under President Akufo-Addo’s governance, children of school going age would be left to loiter instead of going to school to study. The former Member of Parliament for Oforikrom Constituency in the Ashanti Region was speaking on Onua FM’s Ghana Dadwene on Tuesday. She said in twi, “I will beat women who refuse to send their words to school, because the school feeding is coming, the capitation grant is coming, free school policy is…

Dr Anthony Nsiah-Asare has been appointed Director General of the Ghana Health Service by the President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo. His appointment took effect from March 1, 2017. He takes over from Dr. Ebenezer Appiah-Denkyira who has retired from active service Dr. Nsiah-Asare prior to his current appointment, worked in the health sector spanning over 36 years in senior management position and as a surgical specialist at the St Patrick Hospital in Offinso-Ashanti and Tamale Teaching Hospital. He also worked at the KomfoAnokye Teaching Hospital as a Chief Executive Officer and Consultant General Surgeon. Between 1997 and 2001, DrNsiah-Asare served…

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Anti-corruption campaigners are divided over the controversial donation by a Chinese company to the Ghana police service. The Police Service has come under serious criticism from some Ghanaians after it received a GHC50,000 from Chinese company, CAITEC. The money is to support the construction of the Nima office of the Police Intelligence and Professional standards. But while some have questioned the donation on grounds that it would influence the Police to soften its work at clamping down on illegal small scale miners, others have disagreed. Programmes Officer at the Ghana Integrity Initiative, Mary Addah, told 3FM Wdensday that it is…

If you see a guy on a bicycle riding around Richmond in the middle of the night, dropping off dreams on people’s doorsteps, don’t be alarmed. It’s just a dream delivery service. And Mathias Svalina, 41, is the dream deliveryman. Svalina is a poet who’s returning to Richmond to deliver dreams by hand in the middle of the night. The dreams are surrealist, prose poems that cover everything from drinking a beer with actor Tom Skerritt to knitting a complicated sweater. “I try to write a unique dream for everybody every day,” Svalina said from his temporary digs in Oregon…