Financial Services Provider BEIGE has launched a Tier-3 personal pension scheme targeted at ensuring financial independence for subscribers during retirement. The ‘EveryDayPension’ retirement plan allows subscribers to save at least GH¢50 a month to enable them to secure comfortable financial future. Speaking at a forum Thursday before the launch of the scheme at the Holiday Inn in … Read more
The Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) in Kumasi has been hit by acute shortage of medical doctors, forcing the hospital authorities to prioritise only emergency cases. New emergency cases have however been suspended. Authorities say they are currently concentrating on inpatient care for the over 250 patients on admission. A total of 150 junior doctors … Read more
Chief Justice nominee Sophia Akuffo has kicked against suggestions that the Ghana School of Law should be scrapped. “I am not one of those who subscribe to the Ghana School of Law being scrapped,” she told parliament’s Appointments Committee on Friday, June 16, during her vetting. Many law luminaries have suggested in the past that … Read more
The parents took him to the police station but were advised to seek psychiatric treatment A 5 year-old boy, Kwame Frimpong who lives with his parents at Prestea Mankessem in the Western Region attempted poisoning his 6 months old brother, Kingsford. Narrating the incident to Nyankonton Mu Nsem on Rainbow Radio 87.5Fm, Abrewa Nana an … Read more
The docket has been sent to the Attorney-General’s Department for advice and direction The Kumasi Circuit Court Two has adjourned the case in which eight persons, said to be members of a group calling itself the Delta Force, and reported to be aligned with the governing New Patriotic Party, are standing trial for storming a … Read more
A Kumasi circuit court has denied bail to eight persons arrested for storming the facility last Thursday and freeing 13 members of the militant group, Delta Force. The 13 members of the group that is affiliated with the New Patriotic Party (NPP) had been standing trial for attacking the Ashanti Regional Security Coordinator. The eight … Read more
A Kumasi circuit court has denied bail to eight persons arrested for storming the facility last Thursday and freeing 13 members of the militant group, Delta Force. The 13 members of the group that is affiliated with the New Patriotic Party (NPP) had been standing trial for attacking the Ashanti Regional Security Coordinator. The eight … Read more
A young woman has allegedly dumped her day-old baby into a gutter at Krofrom, a suburb of Kumasi, the Ashanti Regional capital. The naked toddler was found dead and lying in the dirty and stinking gutter by some residents in the area Friday morning. The mother (name withheld), who is believed to be 19 years … Read more
The Akufo-Addo-led government should strive to complete the abandoned maternity block project for the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) which was started in 1974 by the Kutu Acheampong regime, Dr Victor Dedzo, a former medical officer of the hospital and ex-Deputy General Secretary of Ghana Medical Association, has said. According to him, successive governments over … Read more
Government has reiterated its decision to amend sections of the Criminal Offences Act, 1960 to make corruption and other related offences felonies instead of misdemeanours under the current statutes. It said the decision was to deter public servants from illegally enriching themselves with state funds. President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo reiterated his government’s position in … Read more
The Government would consider the introduction of non-custodial sentences that use community service programmes to reform petty, crime offenders. President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, who announced this, said the reforms would serve the dual purpose of providing the appropriate punishment for an offence while getting some public good out of the service that would be … Read more
The Government would consider the introduction of non-custodial sentences that use community service programmes to reform petty, crime offenders. President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, who announced this, said the reforms would serve the dual purpose of providing the appropriate punishment for an offence, while getting some public good out of the service that would be … Read more
Management of the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital in Kumasi has denied claims that the facility has been hit by oxygen, leading to the death of patients. Although management admits the oxygen plant at the facility is producing below capacity for daily consumption, there are backup arrangements to meet the demands of patients who require oxygen. … Read more
The emergency centre of the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital in Kumasi which is described as the “centre of excellence” is now a death trap, killing five people in seven days, senior doctors at the facility have suggested. A letter written to the Chief Executive of the Hospital and intercepted by Myjoyonline.com indicates the facility is … Read more