Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia says the Akufo-Addo government is determined to do more to ameliorate the suffering of Ghanaians, despite significantly reducing, or eradicating a number of sufferings imposed on Ghanaians by the NDC prior to the NPP taking office in 2017. In a Facebook post on Friday to …
Read More »A/Region: Turnout for Johnson & Johnson vaccine impressive – GHS
The Ashanti Regional Directorate of the Ghana Health Service (GHS) is impressed by the massive turnout for vaccination in two of the region’s districts, Kwadaso and Kumasi Metro, where the exercise commenced with the Johnson & Johnson vaccine. The Deputy Regional Director, Dr. Michael Rockson Adeii in an interview on Eyewitness …
Read More »If you’ve received AstraZeneca jab, don’t take Johnson & Johnson – GHS warns
The Director-general of the Ghana Health Service has advised persons who have been vaccinated with AstraZeneca not to present themselves to be inoculated with the Johnson & Johnson vaccine as they may put their lives at risk. Dr. Patrick Kuma-Aboagye said the Ghana Health Service does not have adequate evidence …
Read More »SSNIT reacts to Auditor-General’s report on non-performing investments
The Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) says it has taken steps to ensure that it gets the best deals from companies it liquidates. SSNIT’s statement was in reaction to the recent Auditor General’s report that cited the company for a US$11 million loss from liquidations it carried out. The report …
Read More »Pressure from my pregnant partner forced me to steal – Trader
A 27-year-old trader who stole sacks of used cloths and shoes from his colleague traders valued at GH¢10,570. Kingsley Kwame Yeboah told an Accra Circuit Court that he was forced to steal based on pressure mounted on him by his pregnant partner. He said his work was not earning him …
Read More »Deployment of single dose vaccines expected Monday
The deployment of the 177,600 Johnson & Johnson’s single-dose schedule vaccines is expected to begin latest by Monday, the Manager of the Expanded Programme on Immunisation (EPI) at the Ghana Health Service, Dr Kwame Amponsa-Achiano, has disclosed. He told the Daily Graphic in Accra yesterday that the vaccines were targeted …
Read More »Buffer Stock dispatches food to Damongo SHS to forestall shutdown over food shortage
The National Food Buffer Stock Company Limited has dispatched a truckload of food items to the Damongo Senior High School in the Savannah Region following reports that the school is on the verge of a shutdown. Reports suggest that the school has run out of food to feed students and …
Read More »Ghana’s Anti-LGBTQI draft bill a ‘recipe for violence’ – UN experts
United Nations human rights experts are urging the government of Ghana to reject the anti-LGBTQI draft bill currently being reviewed by Parliament’s Constitutional, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs committee. The 13-member experts said the bill intends to establish a state-sponsored discrimination and violence against LGBTQI people. “The draft legislation argues that …
Read More »Former Ghana Standards Authority boss received double salary for 6-yrs – Audit report
A former Executive Director of the Ghana Standards Authority, Dr. George Ben Crentsil, has been cited for taking double salary for six years while in active service at the institution. This is according to a 2020 report of the Auditor-General’s Department. According to the report, Dr. Crentsil, between January 2011 …
Read More »Audit Service to construct 19 regional, district offices
The Ghana Audit Service has secured parliamentary approval to construct 16 district offices and three regional offices at the cost of €13 million. After the award of contracts, the projects are expected to be completed in nine months. The Ag. Auditor-General, Mr Johnson Akuamoah-Asiedu, who disclosed this to the Daily …
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