Parliament Approves GHc2.2m For NHIS
Parliament has approved the formula for the disbursement of the National Health Insurance Fund for 2017. A total of 2.2 million Ghana Cedis has been allocated to the NHIS which has struggled in...
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Five Bodies Spotted In Collapsed Ghana Mine
Five bodies were spotted in an illegal goldmine that collapsed in Ghana, a government official said Wednesday, as the search for at least 17 miners entered its fourth day. The abandoned mine in...
VP Bawumia Clears the Air On Controversial $15bn Sino Cash
All about the Chinese-Ghana deal… Dr. Mahamadu Bawumia has cleared the air on speculations suggesting that government has borrowed a $15 billion loan facility from the Chinese government. The Vice...
Via Social Media, Priest Recounts Horror of Central Africa Violence
"Heavy gunfire in Zemio. Impossible to go out. They have cut the phones and we can't go out -- it's just too dangerous. So I am posting on Facebook." The sense of fear and urgency is palpable as...
[Photos] Connect FM Marks 1st Anniversary
Takoradi-based Connect FM 97.1 MHz over the weekend marked its first anniversary at the Freeman Methodist Church in Kwesimintsim in the Western Region. Led by Station Manager Kwame Karikari, the...
Akufo-Addo-Led Gov’t Has No Commitment To Fight Corruption – Minority
The Minority in Parliament has launched a scathing attack on the Akufo-Addo/Bawumia government, saying they have displayed no commitment to fighting corruption. “What we have been treated to in...
Jail Term Sought In Paris Graft Trial of E. Guinea VP
Paris prosecutors said Wednesday they were seeking a three-year jail term and a 30-million-euro ($34 million) fine for Equatorial Guinea's Vice President Teodorin Obiang, on trial in absentia for...
Aayalolo Bus System Is A ‘joke’- Road Engineer
A road Engineer, Mahama Abdullai has described as a joke the Quality Bus System (QBS) also known as the Aayalolo bus service which has been struggling to make profit, eight months after its first bus...
Cowbell Cycling Challenge Ends In Accra
Fans were thrilled at the Nungua junction mall in Accra on Saturday July 3, 2017 by cyclists who participated in the annual Cowbell Cycling challenge. The challenge which is the flagship race of the...
A Wounded and Bleeding Ghana/ Africa
“Politics is too important to be left to politicians alone.”—Kofi Annan, former UN Secretary General. For many years now, I have been concerned about the plunder and pillage, the open thievery,...
Weija Property Owners Hot
INFORMATION available to Today indicates that fear has gripped residents and developers in the Ga South Municipality of the Greater Accra Region who own structures around the Weija Hills. The...
Toll Booth Job For PWDs; Gov’t Kicks Off With 80 People
The Ministry of Roads and Highways has launched the Persons with Disability (PWDs) Road Toll Initiative. The initiative forms part of commitment the sector Minister, Kwasi Amoako Attah pledged during...
Sheek Africa Empowers Women *In Entrepreneurship and Leadership
Sheek Africa Media has organised the first edition of the ‘IWOMAN TALKS’ conference, an annual event that brings together accomplished and emerging women in career, business, ministry and...
Deal With Us For Burial Space, Not Cemetery Wardens – AMA
The Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA), has admonished residents within the metropolis to desist from acquiring burial space from cemetery wardens instead of the assembly. AMA in a statement signed by...
Toll Booth Job For PWDs; Gov’t Kicks Off With 80 People
The Ministry of Roads and Highways has launched the Persons with Disability (PWDs) Road Toll Initiative. The initiative forms part of commitment the sector Minister, Kwasi Amoako Attah pledged during...
‘Are We Really the Problem?’ Ask Aid Groups Saving Migrants
Privately-run aid organisations rescuing migrants off Libya have slammed the idea of creating a "code of conduct" for them to follow, saying European ministers tackling the crisis are bungling their...
Guinean Former Fashion Model Digs Into West African Mining
Leaving behind chic gowns and catwalks to stomp in the mud in heavy work boots, Guinean former fashion model Tiguidanke Camara has made herself west Africa's first woman mine owner. In the small...
Libya Rocket Attack Kills Five On Tripoli Beach
A rocket hit a beach in Tripoli killing five people, including at least one child, and wounding 25 others, the Libyan health ministry said. The blast Tuesday hit the beach in front of Mitiga airport...
Wa All Stars Sack Coach Adepa
Latest: Who is Professor Kwasi Opoku-Amankwa at all? I want to stay and win more trophies – Arsenal’s Olivier Giroud Defending Ghana Premier League (GPL) champions, Wa All Stars, have parted ways...
La Monada Holds 2nd Graduation Day
Beauty institution, La Monada Haven Beauty College, has held its second graduation day in Accra. In all, sixteen graduates passed out this year. The short and brief ceremony took place over the...