2021

Telecom Union workers on Tuesday suspended a strike they embarked on Monday to protest against poor conditions of service, unfair treatment and threats to their members. A statement signed by Mr Israel Edem Agbegbor, General Secretary of…

The National Development Planning Commission (NDPC) on Monday opened a two day regional consultation workshop on a successor policy framework for the Medium-Term National Development Policy Framework (MTNDPF 2018-2021). The successor…

The Extended Programme on Immunisation (EPI) of the Ghana Health Service (GHS) says it has received about 1,000 reports of adverse effects from persons vaccinated against the COVID-19. These are people vaccinated within 12 days of the…

The mortal remains of 11 out of the 13 teenagers who got drowned on the beach of Apam on Sunday, March 7, have been laid to rest at Apam in the Gomoa West District of the Central Region. This was after an interdenominational joint burial…

A team of climbers belonging to Bahrain's Royal Guard have arrived in Nepal for the spring expedition of Mount Everest, authorities said on Tuesday. No climber has climbed Mount Everest from the Nepal side since 2019 due to the COVID-19…

A professor of experimental medicine at London's Imperial College said the decision to temporarily stop the roll-out of the Oxford/AstraZeneca jab could be a "disaster." Professor Peter Openshaw assured those who were waiting for an…

The press freedom organization, Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) has sued the National Communication Authority (NCA) over a Right to Information (RTI) Law request. This is the first time a suit is being filed in an RTI request issue.…

The World Health Organization (WHO) needs an additional $1.96 billion in 2021 to continue coordinating the global COVID-19 pandemic response. More than 60 per cent of this amount would go towards requirements for the “Access to COVID-19…

Dr Leticia Adelaide Appiah, the Executive Director of the National Population Council (NPC), has called for the need to link the annual budget with population dynamics to propel economic growth. “The Budget is about people and it is…

The Chamber of Petroleum Consumers (COPEC) has urged Parliament to kick against government's plans to introduce Sanitation and Pollution Levy, which will charge 10 pesewas per litre of petrol/diesel. Mr Duncan Amoah, the Executive…