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President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has cut the sod for the commencement of the building of a new 400-bed maternity block and 100-bed urology center at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital. He said the project is expected to reduce drastically cases of maternal mortality in the country. The President cut the sod on Tuesday August 11. It is expected to be completed by the end of this year. Speaking at the ceremony Mr Akufo-Addo explained that the he made a promise earlier that a new block was going to be constructed because the current one is not fit for purpose.…

The Chairman of the Ghana Education Service (GES) Council, Michael Nsowah, has revealed that the Senior High School students who destroyed school properties over the West African Senior High School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) are going to be surcharged. He told Alfred Ocansey on the Sunrise show on 3 92.7 FM Tuesday August 11 that although the President has asked for their punishment to be relooked, a call that has been accepted, the students will be made to pay for the damages. The GES has been engaged by the Minister of Education, Dr Matthew Opoku Prempeh, at a meeting on Monday,…

National Organizer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Joshua Hamidu Akamba has said former president, John Dramani Mahama will not heed calls by the General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party (NPP)  to apologise for some comments he made regarding the just-ended voter registration exercise. Mr Akamba insisted the former president will continue to expose what he called the wicked agenda of the NPP against some tribes in the country. John Boadu in a press conference demanded an unqualified apology from Mr Mahama over his alleged ethnocentric comments during the registration exercise. The NDC flageaber in a Facebook Live interview…

The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) of the Ministry of Communications, in collaboration with the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service and the National Cyber Security Technical Working Group, have nabbed the administrator of the notorious website, empress leak. Empress Leak is a website known for the publication of child pornographic and adult sexual content. The website records about 600,000 monthly users who are located in Ghana, Nigeria and the United Kingdom. The Minister of Communications, Ursula Owusu-Ekuful revealed this during a joint press briefing held on Monday August 10, 2020 in Accra, to announce the arrest…

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has noted that although emerging market economies have instituted measures to deal with the impact of the Coronavirus (Covid-19) on their economies, the economies remains clouded by considerable uncertainty. The Bretton Woods institution in its latest June World Economic Outlook update noted that many emerging market economies including South Africa, eased monetary policy during the cycle. In a few cases, limited room to cut policy rates further and distressed market conditions induced use of unconventional monetary policy measures for the first time. These included purchases of government and corporate bonds, although the amounts remain modest…

 Member of Parliament for Ningo Prampram, Samuel Nartey George, has criticised the government for failing to honour its promises in ensuring that every Ghanaian obtains a bank account. It will be recalled that the Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia speaking at the official opening of the Innovation Week organised by the Ghana- India Kofi Annan Centre of Excellence in Accra, in December 2017 expressed government’s desire for every Ghanaian to have a bank account by 2018. This, according to him was to ensure a financial inclusion in the country. Dr Bawumia said “Financial inclusion is very key to the economy.…

Senior lecturer at the department for the Study of Religion at the University of Ghana, Dr Harry Agbanu, has noted that laws must be enacted to deal with issues of witchcraft in the country. Dr Agbanu told Alfred Ocansey on the Sunrise show on 3 92.7FM Tuesday August 11 that the issues of witchcraft have become deeply-rooted among those who practice it. This he said, has resulted in untold hardship on people, especially old women who are mostly accused of being witches. He also suggested that the state must make conscious effort to educate the people against the practice. There…

The Ghana Police Service has cautioned against explosions at the La Beach in Accra. According to a statement  dated August 10, 2020 and signed by head of Public Affairs , DSP Efia Tengey, the caution has become necessary following an explosion which caused injuries to four children who were playing along the La Beach on August 5. All four children have so far been treated and discharged, according to the statement. “The Accra Regional Police Command is advising the general public especially parents, community leaders, local folks among others, to be wary of strange objects they chance upon and immediately…

The Ghana Airport Company Limited (GACL) has said claims by former President John Mahama that an investment of $600 million was made at Kotoka International Airport (KIA), is incorrect. Mr Mahama claimed that there was an attempt by the government to hand over 66% share of KIA  to TAM-SUMMA Consortium, a Turkish company. He described such move as wrong, the kind he said must be stopped. But a statement issued by the management of the GACL said the comments are inaccurate. The management said the amount quoted by Mahama may be referring to the entire funding for projects in all…

Member of Parliament for Ningo Prampram, has noted that the government of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has failed farmers and Ghanaians in general with regard to the fight against the invasion of the fall armyworms. He said the government failed to resolve the challenges that saddled farmers in the country, a situation he believed plunged the farmers into severe economic hardship. Speaking in an interview with TV3’s Johnnie Hughes on  New Day Tuesday August 11, the lawmaker indicated there will be no need to give incumbent Akufo-Addo a second term because in his view, he failed in his first…