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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…

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…

Russia says that chemical gas that killed and injured dozens of civilians in a rebel-held town in northern Syria came from rebel weapons on the ground. Its defence ministry acknowledged that Syrian planes had attacked the town of Khan Sheikhoun in Idlib province. But it said the aircraft had struck a depot producing mines filled with a poisonous substance, for use in Iraq. The US and others said Syrian planes had dropped chemical weapons, which Damascus denied. UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson responded to the Russian statement by saying: “All the evidence I have seen suggests this was the [Syrian…

The Chamber of Petroleum Consumers (COPEC) is advocating for a national transport policy as a means of regulating transport fares in the country. The call has become necessary, due to the recent hikes in petroleum prices and transport fares. Transport fares have gone up by 15 percent, after a meeting between transport unions and the transport ministry. According to COPEC, the transport policy will replace the current phenomenon where a few people will decide the increases in transport fares. COPEC says the transport policy will make provisions for both upward and downward reviews using instruments that represent the totality of…