GHC2m NHIS debt cripples Kwesimintsim hospital

The Kwesimintsim hospital in the Western Region is in dire need of financial support as government is unable to pay its nine months national health insurance payments amounting in excess of 2 million Ghana...

TIN requirement before filing of cases unconstitutional – SC

A seven-member Supreme Court panel presided over by Justice Sophia Ophilia Adjeibea Adinyira has by a unanimous decision declared as unconstitutional, null and void, the provision of Paragraph 2(8) of the first schedule of...

Ghana ‘exports rosewood timber illegally to China’

About six million rosewood trees have been cut down in Ghana for illegal export to China since 2012, an environmental group says. The rare species, which takes 100 years to grow, is mostly used to...

GEPA donates GH¢45, 000 worth of medical supplies to Abompe

Akyem Abompe is known for the production of bauxite beads invented by ancestors of the indigenes several centuries ago. This indigenous knowledge trickled down from generations has been the mainstay of residents aside farming. The...

Kaneshie Area Church of Pentecost inaugurates Workers Guild

The Kaneshie Area of the Church of Pentecost has inaugurated its Workers Guild for the church at the Kaneshie Central Auditorium, Accra. The ceremony which took place on Monday, July 29, 2019, saw members of...

Man, 20, rapes visually impaired, cerebral palsy patient

A 20-year-old Electrician apprentice, Gabriel Mawuli, has been arrested by the Domestic Violence and Victims Support Unit (DOVVSU) of the Eastern regional Police Headquarters for allegedly raping an 18-year-old cerebral palsy patient who is...

Communication tax ‘completely unnecessary’ – Economist

An economist Dr. Ebo Turckson has described the increment in the communication tax by government as unnecessary. According to him, there other viable means of revenue mobilisation that could be explored in shoring up revenue...

Supreme Court judge Sophia Adinyira retires

A senior Judge of the Supreme Court of Ghana, Justice Sophia Ophilia Adjeibea Adinyira, retires today, July 30, 2019. She will deliver her Valedictory Judgement in the case of the Centre for Juvenile Delinquency verses...

Israel upgrades two Neonatal Units in Kumasi

The State of Israel has upgraded its 10 years old Neonatal Units at the Kumasi South and Suntreso Hospitals in the Ashanti Region to enhance infant delivery and reduce mortality. In a special inauguration...

N/R: Nurse rapes patient on sickbed

A male nurse on duty has raped a first-year student of the Northern School of Business in Tamale on her sickbed at the school’s sickbay. The girl (name withheld) was sick and reported to the...