The Chief Priest of Asantehene Baffour Sumankwahene Asare Ababio on Sunday stormed racecourse market in the Kumasi metropolis to perform rituals for River Subin following traders complaints of low patronage of their goods. It will be recalled that the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly(KMA) on November 6, 2017, embarked on decongestion exercise to relocate traders and transport operators from unauthorized places to ...
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15 Agogo State college students arrested for rioting over water and power cuts
Fifteen students of the Agogo State College in the Asante Akyem North District of the Ashanti Region have been arrested for rioting over erratic power cuts and water crisis. The protest, which was led by female students has left several school property including school buses damaged. In all, ten female students and five male students participated in the protest on ...
Read More »New Land Law to tackle landguards menace – Deputy Lands Minister
A proposed Lands bill, which is before the Lands and Forestry Committee of Parliament, has prescribed new sanctions for landguards who terrorise landowners in major cities and towns of the country, Deputy Minister for Lands and Natural Resources, Benito Owusu-Bio, has revealed. “[With the proposed Land bill] we have even gone to the extent of bringing in and defining people ...
Read More »Giving 500,000 extra students free education not senseless – Oppong-Nkrumah chides Mahama
Information Minister-designate, Kojo Oppong-Nkrumah, has taken a swipe at former President John Mahama for repeatedly questioning the ‘sense’ in the implementation of the Free Senior High School and double track programs. Government rolled out the Free SHS policy in September 2017 in fulfilment of its campaign promise in the build to the 2016 general election. A year after its implementation, ...
Read More »Stint moet per direct van de weg, conclusies inspectie vernietigend
De Stint is vanaf middernacht niet meer toegestaan op de openbare weg. Dat heeft minister Van Nieuwenhuizen (Infrastructuur en Waterstaat) besloten. Haar besluit volgt op het tragische ongeluk in Oss waarbij 20 september een Stint onder een trein terechtkwam. Vier kinderen kwamen daarbij om het leven. De eerste resultaten van technisch onderzoek naar de Stint zijn onrustbarend. Onderdelen vertonen mankementen, constateerde de ...
Read More »Akuffo-Addo Declares 2019 Diasporan Return Year
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo last Friday officially proclaimed 2019 as the Year of Return for all Diasporan descendants of Africans who were captured and transported into the Americas as slaves in the 17th and 18th centuries. Titled, ‘Year of Return, Ghana 2019’, the proclamation was read at a ceremony at the United States National Press Club in Washington DC ...
Read More »Government Transforming Lives With $1m Per Constituency – Hawa Koomson
Ms Mavis Hawa Koomson, Minister for Special Development Initiatives, has stated that Government was impacting lives under the Infrastructure for Poverty Eradication Programme (IPEP) to improve livelihoods across the country. She said under the audacious IPEP policy initiative, the President was delivering on his promise to re-orient the national capital expenditure, to place focus on local constituency-specific needs to properly ...
Read More »Bill On Election Of MMDCEs Submitted To Parliament
The Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development (MLGRD) has presented to Parliament a bill on the amendment of some articles in the 1992 Constitution. The amendments when passed will allow Ghanaians to vote for metropolitan, municipal and district chief executives (MMDCEs). The articles slated for amendment are Article 243 (1) on the appointment of MMDCEs by the President and ...
Read More »Onderzoek in Turkije naar bijstandsfraude mag
AMSTERDAM – Gemeenten en de Sociale Verzekeringsbank (Svb) mogen in Turkije op zoek naar verzwegen onroerend goed van bijstandsgerechtigden. Bewijs dat in Turkije is verkregen is rechtsgeldig. Dat heeft de Centrale Raad van Beroep (CRvB) maandag in hoger beroep geoordeeld. Eerder kwamen rechtbanken al tot dezelfde conclusie. De CRvB deed uitspraak in vier zaken. Bijstand verlenende instanties mogen controleren of ...
Read More »Schoon huis lijkt kinderen dikker te maken
Te veel schoonmaken zou ervoor kunnen zorgen dat kinderen overgewicht krijgen. Hun darmbacteriën veranderen door de schoonmaakmiddelen. Dit maakt hen dikker dan hun leeftijdsgenootjes. De aanwijzingen voor deze bijzondere link tussen een schoon huis en overgewicht zijn gevonden door Canadese wetenschappers. Zij publiceerden hun bevindingen in vakbladCanadian Medical Association Journal. ,,We ontdekten dat kleine kinderen die opgroeien in huishoudens waar ...
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