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Reha Medical Group Limited, a leading importer of health equipment into Ghana and other countries in Africa has presented a sponsorship package to the Medical Students' Exchange Programme.
Some members of the country's Parliament yesterday expressed worry at the rate at which violence is being perpetrated against women. In their various submissions in the House yesterday, the MPs for Savelugu, Ahafo Ano South and Mion constituencies, Mary Boforo Salifu, Balado Manu and Dr. Yakubu Alhassan respectively condemned violence against women in no uncertain terms.
Some residents at James Town and Korle Gonno- both suburbs of Accra, who were affected by the demolition exercise embarked upon by the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) yesterday protested vehemently against the decision of the city authorities.
The Regional Minister and Chairman of the Upper East Regional Security Council (REGSEC), Mark Woyongo, has endorsed or justified what has been described as "ill and unprofessional" conduct of some soldiers, who allegedly brutalised and stripped naked two suspects in the Bawku conflict.
The laws governing mining activities in the country mandate mining companies operating in the country to pay between 3 to 6% percent of their earnings to the government as royalties, but as if by design, all the mining companies have settled for the minimum 3% royalty payment, despite gains gold has been making on the international market.
The government of Ghana, an evolving democracy beloved of western donors, has pledged tough new checks on spending as it wrestles with a record budget deficit inherited from the former administration.
Forty-five employees of AngloGold Ashanti's were conferred with various degrees at a colourful congregation at Ghana the Institute of Management and Public Administration at Greenhill in Accra last Saturday, after successful course at the institute. They undertook courses in bachelor and postgraduate diploma course in management.
The Gushegu District Director of Health Services, Mr. Mark Bugri Ayaba, has called on the Ministry of Health to post at least 103 additional health personnel to facilitate quality healthcare delivery at the ultra-modern Gushegu Government Hospital, and also to ensure maximum utilisation of the facility.
THE Western Regional branch of the Ghana National Association of Chemical Sellers (GNACS), the Food and Drugs Board (FDB), the Pharmacy Council and the Ghana Police Service, have given their commitment to collaborate effectively in the fight against drug peddling in the region.
AS a sign of commitment to improve the lives of the poor in communities within Sekondi Takoradi, the Rotaract Club of Takoradi, recently donated assorted medicines and health items worth thousands of Ghana cedis to the Sofokrom community, a suburb of Inchaban in the Sekondi Takoradi metropolis.
THE Western Regional branch of the Ghana Bar Association (GBA) has elected new executives to steer the affairs of the association. Mr. Ebenezer A. Kwaitoo of Just Course Chambers in Takoradi was elected President, with Mr. Samuel Kwesi Agbottah as Vice President.
A SECTION of Members of Parliament (MPs) in the Kumasi Metropolis have denied claims by the Audit Service, as contained in annual audit report on the accounts of the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA) for the financial year which ended on December 2007, that a total of GH¢34,040.58 scholarship payments were not supported by documents.
It is not in doubt that agriculture employs more than 60% of the working population of this country, yet unfortunately, those who are engaged in this sector have not seen much improvement in their standard of living, due to post harvest losses and the primitive method of farming.
DCOP Timbillah warns persons who engage in hooliganism would be prosecuted
The government has directed all district assemblies to complete a programme of naming all streets and numbering houses within their jurisdiction by the end of 2010.
President John Atta Mills would not remove any Civil Servant from office, solely on the account of political or party affiliation to fulfil the demand of some party activists.
Former governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and Sylvester J.K. Parker-Allotey, consular-general of Ghana have agreed there should be massive inter-African trade and called on both Nigeria and Ghana to do everything in their power to make such a continental market a reality.
Various experts and media practitioners are gathering together in Accra, Ghana, today, to fashion out ways in which the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) can be quickly achieved in West Africa, before the global deadline date of 2015.
Ghana's enthusiastic efforts to become a major oil industry player in Africa could be short lived, as the country would only mine the 'Black Gold' for just 20 years. Furthermore, data from the World Bank and International Monetary Fund have projected that Ghana could rake a total of $ 247.44million as oil revenues in 2011, which would decline to $1,550 in 2017.
Political analyst, Pollster and Editor-In-Chief of The Daily Dispatch newspaper, Ben Ephson, whose views matter a lot in modern-day Ghanaian politics, says the National Democratic Congress (NDC), as a party, does not need former President Jerry John Rawlings to survive any given elections.
It is clear that the problems brewing within the rank and file of the membership of the Tema West branch of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) has not died down.
At long last, the local Junior High School (JHS) at Heman-Buoho, which is currently being run from a rented premises, is about to be relocated to a permanent place.
THE TWENEBOAH Koduah Senior High School at Kumawu, in the Sekyere Afram Plains district of the Ashanti Region, has launched a year long programme of activities to mark the 50th Anniversary of its founding.
Two aspiring youth organisers of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), Messrs. Prince Armah and Aboagye Boateng, are at each others throat, fighting to win support among the youth in the party.
President John Atta Mills would not remove any Civil Servant from office, solely on the account of political or party affiliation to fulfil the demand of some party activists.
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