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HIV infections are increasing in the Tano North Municipality of the Brong-Ahafo Region, report from the St John of God Hospital, the largest health facility in the Municipality has revealed. Statistics shows that the Municipality recorded 184 percent increase in HIV infections in 2018, says Mrs Eva Aryee, the Tano …

A group of final year counselling students of the University of Education, Winneba (UEW), have appealed to stakeholders to join the awareness creation on the treatment and prevention of Hepatitis B. Mrs Georgina Anafo, a student of the Department of Psychology and Education of the University, made the appeal on …

One master Kwofie, a final year student of the Ghana Secondary Technical School (GSTS) is in the grips of the Western Regional Police Command for faking his kidnap. The student is alleged to have planned the act with three of his friends to demand an amount of GH¢9000 from his …

Pope Francis has appointed Reverend Father John Alphonse Asiedu, a Priest of Society of the Divine Vocation (SVD) as the new Apostolic Vicar for the Donkorkrom Apostolic Vicariate, in the Eastern Region. The new Apostolic Vicar replaces the Most Reverend Gabriel Edoe Kumordji SVD, who is now the Bishop of …

An Accra Circuit Court on Monday remanded two persons for allegedly defrauded a policewoman of GH¢60,000.00 under the pretext of clearing her two vehicles from the port for her. Foster Afomale was charged with obtaining electronic payment falsely and defrauding by false pretence whilst Kwaku Agbetor, a Togolese was charged …

An Accra Circuit Court on Monday sentenced one Evans Kwame Adabila, a Vulcanizer to ten years imprisonment in hard labour for possessing eight compressed parcels of dried leaves suspected to be narcotic drugs. Evans who pleaded not guilty to the charge was found guilty by the court presided over by …

Two persons were on Monday handed a 30-year jail term by an Accra Circuit Court for conspiring to commit crime and robbery. The two, Yaw Antwi Boasiako and Kwaku Akorsah, were said to have conspired with two other persons Kofi Danso and Faisal, now at large to robbed one Gideon …

Africans should never again permit themselves to be subjected to the dehumanizing conditions under which slavery was carried out, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo said on Monday. He said Africans ought to strengthen their commitment to ensuring that that blot on the Continent’s history did not repeat itself. President Akufo-Addo …

The Registrar General’s Department (RGD) on Monday called on the public to disregard any call by persons or individuals demanding monies from companies to renew their business names and pay penalty for non-filing of annual returns. The RGD said it has not authorized any group of persons or individuals to …

The Forum of Public Sector Registered Pension Schemes on Monday expressed concern over the computation of past credits and gave the Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) up to February 28 to implement the agreed computation. The Forum said it was not happy about SSNIT’s own method of computation …