Staff Writer
The minority side of the Health Committee in Parliament has given government a week to put to use some eight abandoned Mobile Clinic vans parked at the Biomedical Engineering Unit of the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital in Accra. The Ford mobile medical vehicles, according to the ranking member of the Hea
President Akufo-Addo will later Tuesday, January 28, commission ambulances procured by the government for distribution to all constituencies in fulfillment of his one-constituency one-ambulance promise. The event, which critics including members of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) d
US investigators are working to determine the causes of the helicopter crash that killed basketball star Kobe Bryant in California on Sunday. All nine people on board the helicopter died, including Bryant's 13-year-old daughter, Gianna. Investigators are expected to focus on the weather conditions,
The death toll from the new coronavirus now stands at 106, with the number of infections almost doubling in a day. The number of total cases confirmed by China rose to 4,515 as of 27 January, up from 2,835 a day earlier. Japan is sending a plane to Wuhan to evacuate its citizens, as efforts [&hellip
Some executives of the People’s National Congress (PNC), including the leader and former flagbearer, Edward Mahama, have been accused of hoarding funds and resources meant for the advancement of the party. A total of one million cedis was said to have been released by the Akufo-Addo government to Dr
I followed with keen interest the implementation of the Right to Information Act 2019 (989), which spells out the processes and procedure for Ghanaians to access information from public offices; a right guaranteed under Article 21 (1)(f) of the 1992 Constitution. I followed the sensitization driv...
The National Road Safety Authority (NRSA) has described as woefully inadequate the GH¢6.5 million the government allocated it for road safety sensitisation as part of an action plan to curb road crashes. Public Relations Officer of the Authority Kwame Kodua said the money as was announced to the gen
A mobile application developed by the Student Representative Council (SRC) of the Wisconsin International University College, Ghana, has been adjudged the best in Africa according to a 2019 research done by a United States based organization, AppGrooves. AppGrooves collects, reviews, and ranks apps
The Chief Fire Officer of the Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS), CFO Edwin Ekow Blankson, has said his regional commanders will not hesitate to show up at the 6th March Independence parades in motorized tricycles known in Ghanaian parlance as “Pragya” if they are not provided official vehicles. Add
It must have been a great relief for many, especially media practitioners, to have finally heard the announcement by the government, through the Ministry for Information, that the much-anticipated Right to Information Act, 2019 (Act 989) is now effective. “Long overdue!”, one would say, but as to wh
It must have been a great relief for many, especially media practitioners, to have finally heard the announcement by the government, through the Ministry for Information, that the much-anticipated Right to Information Act, 2019 (Act 989) is now effective. “Long overdue!”, one would say, but as to wh
On 8 January 2010, the Africa Cup of Nations in Angola was just days away. I was in the province of Cabinda, preparing to cover Group B for the BBC World Service, and was also charged with handing over the BBC African Footballer of the Year trophy to the newly-crowned winner, Ivory Coast captain Did
There are many who have for a long time thought of the Right to Information (RTI) Act, Act 989, as the law that will give Ghanaians the right to access information in public institutions, thereby holding public officers accountable. Several others have also understood it to mean that it will give jo
Nigerian first lady Aisha Buhari's call for social media regulation has caused an uproar online. Mrs Buhari who was speaking during the Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs General Assembly and National Executive Council Meeting over the weekend said social media ought to be regulated before
Upcoming Ghanaian highlife/hiplife singer Ramiforson has criticized contemporary Ghanaian music for what he describes as “lacking its originality”. He observed highlife is a typical prestigious Ghanaian music genre which fuses "melodic and main rhythmic structures of traditional Akan music,” which o
