Dr Otchere Addai-Mensah, acting Dean of the Faculty of Allied Health Sciences at the College of Health Sciences of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) has declined President Akufo-Addo’s appointment as the Director of the Ghana Standards Authority (GSA), Graphic Online has gathered. The development followed criticisms by New Patriotic Party (NPP) supporters that, Dr Addai-Mensah was someone who did not believe that Nana Akufo-Addo could

Today at the Tarkwa T&A Park Kotoko’s resolve to stay top of the ladder will be tested when they engage Medeama SC in a crucial mid-week duel. The Porcupine Warrior, who dropped vital home points after being held to a barren draw by visiting Inter Allies last Sunday at the Kumasi Stadium, will find this away encounter a daunting task.

The pollution of water bodies in the country through the activities of illegal miners is posing a threat to the quality of water in neighbouring Cote d’Ivoire. The situation, according to the Minister of Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation (MESTI), Professor Kwabena Frimpong-Boateng, had the potential to spark a misunderstanding between the sister countries if care was not taken to stop galamsey.

Three organisations have joined forces to launch a three-year road safety programme in selected schools in the country to secure the safety of children as they walk to and from school on a daily basis. They are Amend-Ghana, a Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) that focuses on road safety, the Federation Internationale de I’Automobile (FIA) Foundation and Puma Energy Foundation. The programme, which is to implement and

The Ghana Football Association (GFA) says the re-appointment of James Kwasi Appiah as the coach of the senior  male football team, the Black Stars, is out of its own choice and not an imposition. According to the GFA, Appiah very much impressed at the interview last Friday and per the criteria set for the search committee, became the obvious choice to fill the job made vacant by the exit of Israeli Avram Grant.

The President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on Tuesday welcomed Princess Anne, the daughter of Queen Elizabeth II, to the Flagstaff House in Accra. Princess Anne is on a two-day visit to Ghana to celebrate the unique friendship between the UK and Ghana at a time that Ghana is observing its 60th independence anniversary. 

Statistics from the Ghana Health Service (GHS) show that reported cases of abortion among adolescents in the Brong Ahafo Region increased from 1,161 in 2015 to 1,224 last year. This represents 12.7 per cent of the national figure, making the region the third highest region with reported adolescent abortion cases. However, at the national level, recorded cases of abortion among adolescents during the period decreased from

The ministries of Food and Agriculture (MoFA) and Lands and Natural Resources are developing a programme that will protect cocoa farms in the country from the operations of small-scale and illegal miners (‘galamsey’). The move, according to a Deputy Minister designate for Food and Agriculture, Mr William Agyepong Quaitoo, had become necessary because the country was fast losing its cocoa lands to the activities of miners.

The President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on Tuesday evening sworn in four additional Ministers of State into office to bring the total number of approved ministers to 60 out of the 110. The four are Ms Sarah Adwoa Safo, Minister of State at the Office of the President responsible for Public Procurement; Mr Brian Acheampong, Minister of State at the Office of the President; Dr Nurah Gyiele, Minister of State at the Ministry of Agriculture and Prof Kwesi Yankah, Minister of State

Some workers of TV3 Network Limited,  an Accra based private television station, yesterday massed up at the Trades Union Congress (TUC) to protest the dismissal of 32 of their colleagues. Although a court injunction prevented the group from demonstrating in front of the TV station, that could not stop the aggrieved workers from expressing their displeasure at the dismissal of their friends.

A Deputy Minister of Works and Housing designate, Ms Freda Prempeh, says she will push for the Public Works Department (PWD) to be restructured to make it more efficient to maintain state bungalows that are often left to rot because of the lack of maintenance.

Parliament last Monday passed the Energy Sector Levies (Amendment) Bill, 2017 to reduce the energy sector levies imposed on consumers. The Act, which amends the Energy Sector Levies Act, 2015 (Act 899), provides for a reduction in the levies for Public Lighting and the National Electrification Scheme on petroleum products. It reduces the National Electrification Scheme Levy (NESL) from five per cent to two per cent and

The Eastern Regional Police Command has arrested 10 people, including seven Chinese nationals, for allegedly carrying out illegal mining at Denkyira, a village near Nkawkaw in the Eastern Region. The Chinese suspects were named Lou Hong Long, 37, Ji Lian Hong, 47, Li Ri Zhu 46, Lou Hong Heng 47, Gao Suba 43, Wu Shao Ling, 44, and Wu Enxing, 45, while their Ghanaian accomplices were also identified as Amaning Benjamin, 22, Raymond Ayambilla, 30,

The Some Traditional Council has asked residents of Adina and its environs to remain calm while it resolves a fracas between them and an Indian salt factory, Seven Seas, operating in the area. The residents in recent times have been up in arms against the salt factory with demonstrations and riots for allegedly polluting their potable water and taking away their livelihood.

The Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) has stepped up the fight against corruption through execution of the tenets of the National Anti-Corruption Action Plan (NACAP).  Mr Joseph Akanjolenur Whittal, CHRAJ Commissioner, told the Ghana News Agency  (GNA) in Accra that the development of NACAP was an unqualified contribution to the fight against corruption and the promotion of national development.

The acting General Secretary of  the Convention People’s Party (CPP), Mr Asani Tano, has been dismissed from the party. This follows his wilful breach of Articles 13, 111, 121 and 124 of the party’s constitution which forbid members from campaigning for other political parties other than the CPP.

South Africa's powerful trades union federation Cosatu has called for President Jacob Zuma to step down.

The Ghanaian media Tuesday began the single biggest journey ever to rescue the nation from the scourge of illegal mining (galamsey) with the launch of the media coalition against Galamsey to advocate a complete cessation of the illicit activity. The coalition, made up of the Graphic Communications Group Limited (GCGL), the New Times Corporation, the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC), the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA), the Ghana Independent

Four aid workers have been kidnapped by members of the Somali Islamist militant group, al-Shabab.

There is uneasy calm at Kumasi Academy following the death of a fourth student of the school at the Ahenkro Community Hospital, near Offinso in the Ashanti Region, last Monday. His body has been deposited at the St Patrick Hospital at Offinso awaiting autopsy on Friday.