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Community based health delivery key to achieving MDGs – Dr Awoonor-Williams
Dr John Koku Awoonor- Williams, Upper East Regional Director of Health Services, has said there is the need to institute cost effective measures to ensure that targets of the Millennium Development Goals on health are achieved.
He said the…
Chief remanded for allegedly misappropriating community’s $150,000
Nana Osabarima Twiampomah III, Chief of Banka in the Ashanti Akim South District, was on Wednesday remanded into police custody by an Accra Fast Track High Court for allegedly misappropriating $150,000 belonging to his community.
The sum…
AngloGold’s $4m Obuasi airport inaugurated
The Minister of Transport, Alhaji Collins Dauda yesterday inaugurated a $4 million airport built by AngloGold Ashanti at Obuasi.
The airport, a refurbished old airstrip promises to open up a new chapter in the socio- economic development…
Ghana shamefully overtaken by evils of massive corruption – Appiah Menkah
Lawyer Appiah Menkah, a politician and one of Ghana’s foremost businessmen on Wednesday noted that Ghana over the past 16 years had been shamefully overtaken by the evils of massive corruption.
He said the country has also been overtaken…
Africa needs to create labour-intensive programmes to reduce poverty – Prof Thwala
Professor Wellington Thwala of the University of Johannesburg in South Africa, on Wednesday said the creation of more labour- intensive programmes in African countries can help eradicate the unemployment and poverty problems on the…
Enact law to insulate public servants from victimization – PAC Chairman
Mr Albert Kan-Dapaah, Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) in Parliament, on Wednesday called for the enactment of a law that would guarantee the professional independence of civil servants and to protect them against…
NPP promises free health care for children under 18 years
The New Patriotic Party (NPP) on Wednesday said it would ensure that children below eighteen years enjoyed free quality health care when voted into power in the December general election.
This, according to the Party was its commitment to…
Ghana court grants Latvian bail in assault case
Mihail Laricevs, the Latvian engineer, who assaulted a military officer was on Tuesday granted a bail of GH¢10,000 with two sureties to be justified.
Laricevs was remanded into custody last Friday for allegedly slapping the Takoradi Air…
New food initiative to lift 50 million people out of poverty launched in Accra
The New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition, an initiative to lift 50 million people out of poverty over the next 10 years through sustained agricultural growth, was on Wednesday launched in Accra.
Initiated by the G-8 nations,…
Upper East makes strides in maternal health delivery
The Upper East Regional Health Directorate, in a bid to reduce maternal deaths, successfully increased its supervised deliveries from 13,483 in 2011 to 14,383 in the first half of this year.
This represents an increase from 32.5 per cent…