Новости за 02.01.2020

The secretary to the Chief of Gbintri in the Mamprugu Traditional area of the North East region has been murdered in cold blood. Aremeyaw Nasigri was shot dead by unknown gunmen on Wednesday night at a drinking spot in the community. East Mamprusi Municipal Chief Executive (MCE), Abdul Nasir Baba who confirmed the incident to JoyNews, said the deceased was having drinks with his colleagues when the attackers arrived on a motorbike and shot him multiple times. Quoting eyewitnesses ...

Asantehene Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, has admonished politicians in the country not to use this year 39;s electioneering campaign to promote political violence among the citizens. According to him, there is the need for all political actors to behave with the assuredness on the campaign trail since any abuse will be unwarranted, adding that a good campaign devoid of violence promotion would surely win the day. Speaking at a New Year service organized by the Asante Presbytery of the Presb ...

The National Identification Authority (NIA) has extended the mass registration exercise in the Ashanti Region from 10th January to Thursday, 16th January this year. This, according to the Authority, is to restore ldquo;the two registration days (27th and 28th December) lost to the Region because of the Christmas holidays rdquo; and also ldquo;account for the challenges encountered in the first two days of the exercise in many communities across the Region rdquo;. The Authority, mak ...

The sad news trickling in indicates that anti-corruption campaigner Daniel Batidam, who was also the right-hand man of former President John Mahama, is dead. Reports say he died on New Year 39;s Eve Wednesday, January 1, 2020, at Akwapim Mampong in the Eastern Region. Mr Batidam, a former Executive Director at the Ghana Integrity Initiative (GII) had been battling cancer and was receiving treatment at a health facility in Mampong. Mr Batidam was also a representative for ...

The Savannah Regional Women 39;s Organizer of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), Hajia Mohammed Safiah, has donated assorted items to patients at the Buipe Polyclinic and the Holistic Medicare. The gesture according to her, is to have time with the sick and make them feel part of the society. Hajia Safia also used the opportunity to encourage women especially pregnant women to seek medical attention rather than resorting to self-medication and medication over the counter. We ...

The Ministry of Education has announced that it will approve the textbooks and see to its publication for public basic schools by February this year. This follows calls by stakeholders to government to make available textbooks and learning materials for the basic schools after the introduction of its new education curriculum. As part of ongoing reforms in the Education Sector, the Ghana Education Service (GES) launched its new education curriculum for kindergarten to primary s ...

Fire has gutted about 100 barrels of fuel at a filling station at Tolon and extended to four nearby houses in the Tolon-Kumbungu district of the Northern Region. According to reports, a fuel attendant was filling the tank of a customer when one jerrycan caught fire and begun to burn other barrels that were packed at the place. http://cdn.modernghana.com/images/content/11202080635-1j041q5ccw-759192771536 7991274740339.jpeg An eye witness Sulemana Zakaria told Joy Ne ...

As a characteristic of ex-President Rawlings, he tailored his speech at the 38th Anniversary celebrations of the December 31, revolution to trigger humour. Interspersed with what some may call controversial and serious topics, the former President took time off to display wits by making light of issues from Obinim to interesting dance moves. JoyNews rsquo; Joseph Ackah-Blay explores that line of the Winneba event in the following report. https://www.youtube.com/embed/39Hc 6 ...

The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Tamale Teaching Hospital, Dr. David Z. Kolbilla , has been asked to step aside for investigations into allegations leveled against him. A document signed by the Chairman of the TTH Board, Mahmoud Nassir-Deen and sighted by DGN Online, indicated that the Tamale Teaching Hospitals Board at its sitting on 31st December, 2019 agreed that to uphold the principles of transparency and fairness, Dr. Kolbilla should be asked to temporally step aside and th ...

Barely an hour into the New Year, a 74-year-old tailor died untimely in a fire outbreak which consumed his shop at Asamankese in the West Akim Municipality of the Eastern region. The deceased whose name has only been given as Gyamirah died at about 11 pm on Tuesday evening his daughter Mama Dede disclosed. She said stated that Mr Gyamirah, ldquo;was in his shop when a fire ravaged through a number of wooden structures. rdquo; According to her, at about 11 pm on December 31, 2019 ...

An amount of Gh cent;2 million was spent in repairing some faulty biometric devices prior to the December 17 district-level elections held on December 17, 2019. This was disclosed by the Deputy Chairman in-charge of Operations at the Electoral Commission, Samuel Tettey on Tuesday, December 31, 2019, as the Commission continues to make a strong case for the compilation of a new voters rsquo; register for the 2020 polls. In a media encounter, Mr. Samuel Tettey noted that most of ...