Новости за 06.08.2019

Private healthcare providers are threatening to sue the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) over monies it owes them. According to the private companies, collectively known as the Responsive Healthcare Service Providers Association of Ghana and the Private Health Facilities Association of Ghana, the debts owed them accrued over a 10-months period. They have given government a 2-week ultimate to cause the NHIA to pay them their monies or face their wrath. According to execu ...

The Chiefs and Elders of the Ada Traditional Council have crowned First Lady Rebecca Naa Okaikor Akufo-Addo as the champion of their Development. She has been given the stool title, ldquo;Naana Ode Ope Eoo I. rdquo; That was when she joined them to celebrate this year 39;s annual Asafotufiami festival. The honour was bestowed on the First Lady in recognition of her many philanthropic projects undertaken through The Rebecca Foundation of which she is Founder and co-chairperson. ...

The Government plans to introduce a 48-page passport to help Ghanaians who travel frequently. The Minister of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration Shirley Ayorkor Botchway who made this known at Today 39;s Meet the Press Series in Accra said the plan will be executed by the end of the year. ldquo; hellip;There are plans to introduce 48-page passports to satisfy the needs of frequent travellers before the end of this year, rdquo; she said. Current ...

The Central Regional Police Command has nabbed four suspected car snatchers who robbed a man of his KIA Picanto. According to Irene Oppong, the Central Regional Police PRO, police officers made the arrest after receiving a distress call when they were witnessing the commissioning of the Gomoa Okyereko Police Station. They were told that a group of armed men had robbed a taxi driver of his car and were heading towards Gomoa Dominasi. ldquo;We had intelligence while we were commis ...

About 220 Ghanaian medical students have successfully graduated in Cuba after a six-year programme in medicine. The medical doctors are due to return home this month to offer their services to the country 39;s health sector. The Minister of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, Shirley Ayorkor Botchway, disclosed this when she took her turn at the Ministry of Information Meet The Press series in Accra on Tuesday, August 6, 2019. She said an additional 200 medical students, i ...

The Ministry of Sanitation And Water Resources has sealed a Supply Contract Agreement with British company, Aqua Africa Limited to enhance the delivery of potable water to rural and peri-urban communities in the country. The agreement is in line with government rsquo;s vision of making clean water accessible to all citizens in all parts of the country as spelled out in the New Patriotic Party rsquo;s manifesto. The Ministry of Sanitation and Water Resources, led by Hon. Cecili ...

The Chief Executive Officer of gold dealership company, Menzgold, Nana Appiah Mensah aka NAM1 has been released from police custody days after he was granted bail by an Accra Circuit court. This comes on the back of the variation of his bail conditions by the court on Tuesday. Nana Appiah Mensah was granted bail on July 26, 2019, but had been in police custody due to his inability to meet the conditions including GHc 1 billion bail bond with five sureties of whom three are to be just ...

The Ghana Police Service says it has discovered a fourth set of human remains in a well at Nkroful new site in Takoradi. on Tuesday, August 6, 2019. According to the police, the remains were discovered at an uncompleted building where Samuel Willis Udutoek, one of the suspected kidnappers of the three missing Takoradi girls was re- arrested. Police made similar discovery last week, and DNA tests are expected to be conducted on the remains to confirm if they are those of the missing g ...

A Chief at Osenase, a community near Akwatia in the Denkyembuor District of the Eastern Region has allegedly been assassinated by an unknown persons. The deceased Nana Ofori Dadiako, 68, was the Dwantoahene of Osenase. He was found dead in a pool of blood Monday August 5,2019 in his room barely an hour after his wife and two children had left the house to the market. He was stabbed in the abdomen by his assailants. -Starrfm.com.gh ...

Madamfo Ghana Foundation, a German-based Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), has donated various food items and cooking utensils to the Attakrom primary school in the Tain District of the Bono region to augment the school feeding programme in the school. The items were 5bags of rice, 1 bag of gari, 1 bag of beans, 1 rubber barrel, football, 10 packs of toilet rolls, 5 gallons of cooking oil, 4 boxes of tin tomatoes, 2 boxes of keysoap and a sack of washing powder. It also included 300 rub ...

The President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, says Founders' is the most appropriate day to signify Ghana's recognition and appreciation of the collective efforts of her forebears towards the founding of a free, independent Ghana. According to President Akufo-Addo, Government believes that the most appropriate way to honour them is to commemorate the day on which the two most significant events in our colonial political history, that led us to freedom and independence, occurred ...

The suspected killers of the female police officer, Agatha Nana Nabin, are expected to appear before a Tamale court on Tuesday, August 5, 2019. About five persons believed to be connected to the murder have been arrested and assisting with police investigations. The law enforcement officers involved in the arrest operation reportedly fired and wounded one of the suspects. They were arrested last Thursday after a swift move by the police. The operation was conducted by a combined team ...