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It seems former President John Mahama is not doing away with sharp bitterness towards the introduction of the Free Senior High School (SHS) programme by the Nana Addo led government. The former President whose opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) party claims to be a socialist party and as such expected to be pro-poor, has been kicking against the Free SHS ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo will next week cut the sod for the construction of Tamale Interchange, which forms part of the country’s road infrastructure development. The road infrastructure development is under the two billion dollars Sinohydro Bauxite Barter Transaction between the Government of Ghana and Sinohydro Group Limited of China. The government said US$1.5 billion of the amount ...

Mr Ross Berizaya Ayine, a son of former Deputy Attorney General Dr Dominic Ayine, has testified to the fact that the 30 per cent cut in import levies on cars has started taking effect at the ports as announced by Vice-President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia. Mr Ayine said he cleared a Honda Civic Touring at GHC31,000 last week but cleared the ...

A scandal is emerging in Ghana’s upstream petroleum sector as a whopping 13.3 million barrels of oil worth US$827 million from the Jubilee, TEN and Sankofa fields cannot be accounted for by authorities. Careful scrutiny and analysis of Petroleum Receipts and Distribution Reports released quarterly by the Ministry of Finance from 2011-2017 reveal a cumulative figure of 239,738,762 barrels of ...

Het bevolkingsonderzoek naar darmkanker is een groot succes. Dat blijkt vandaag uit onderzoek in opdracht van het RIVM. De poeptest onder senioren toont meer darmkanker aan dan voorzien en de opkomst is hoger dan verwacht. Bij dit bevolkingsonderzoek, dat loopt sinds 2014, sturen mensen hun poep op ter controle. Een test toont sporen bloed aan in die ontlasting. Een ongunstige ...

All commercial and goods carrying vehicles with gross weight of 3.5 tonnes and above are to be fitted with speed limiters as part of mechanisms to reduce growing road crashes in the country. The move, according to Minister of Transport, Kwaku Ofori Asiamah, was in line with Regulation 135 of L.I 2180 (Road Traffic Regulation, 2012) which mandates all such ...

Pressure group, OccupyGhana have outlined 12 measures it believes must be undertaken to addressing the increasing spate of road carnage in the country. In a statement the group said the situation can be attributed to the poor nature of the country’s roads, lack of enforcement of traffic laws among other reasons. “Most of our roads are in an abominable state. ...

It has emerged that, leader of one-man Independent People’s Party (IPP), Percival Kofi Akpaloo, is having difficulty executing the US$2 million energy contract awarded him and his wife; Delvine Akpaloo by the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG). The almost $2 million contract, mentioned as one of several last minutes contracts awarded to cronies of the Akufo-Addo government on September 14, ...

Zo’n 300.000 huurders komen in aanmerking voor bevriezing of verlaging van hun huur. Dat heeft de Woonbond becijferd. Het gaat om mensen in een sociale huurwoning met een hoge huur en een laag inkomen. Wie wil weten of hij tot de gelukkigen behoort, kan dat vanaf vandaag checken op de site van de Woonbond. De belangenclub van huurders kwam eind vorig jaar ...

Eet jij genoeg vezels? Waarschijnlijk niet. Jammer, vinden onderzoekers Jurriaan Mes en Nicole de Wit van Wageningen Universiteit en Research. Vezels helpen je bloeddruk gezond te houden en ziektes te bestrijden. Boost voor bacteriën Wetenschappers begrijpen steeds beter hoe vezels de darmen van dienst zijn. ,,We leren meer over de invloed van vezels op bepaalde bacteriestammen’’, zegt Jurriaan Mes. ,,Zo ...