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Tamale, Ghana – About 500 mass registration web station operators (MRWOs), commissioner for oaths (CFOs) and card verification officers (CVOs) recruited for the nationwide registration of the national identification cards by the National Identification Authority (NIA) have had their October and November salaries blocked, Savannah News has learned. According to a …

Tamale, Ghana – The Damongo Youth Parliament, a civic rights group based in Damongo the Savannah Regional capital is supporting demands by the King of Gonja (Yagbonwura) to have all key government departments centralised in the capital. The group has also served notice that if by December 16th, 2019 the president …

Ghana’s medical emergency care need a lot of input to meet WHO standards. There is serious lack of the needed skill-mix of personnel, consumable, medications at the in-hospital level, while at the pre-hospital level there is lack of knowledge and skill by the public on Basic Life Support (BLS), inadequate …

Accra, Ghana – The Minister of Finance, Ken Ofori Atta in the 2020 Budget Statement presentation described the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) Mobile Renewal as a “phenomenal innovation.” The Finance Minister without mincing words remarked, “Mr. Speaker, Renewal of NHIS registration via mobile phone has been introduced. It is …

Kumasi, Ghana – The National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) is on a regional tour to clamp down unauthorized Private Health Insurance Schemes’ Operators. Director of the Private Health Insurance Schemes’ Directorate at the NHIS Head Office, Mr. Hudu Issah’s team activated the operation in the Ashanti Regional capital, Kumasi. Ahead …

Tamale, Ghana – The Ghana Veterinary Medical Association (GVMA) has recommended to the government to workout strategies to roll out the cultivation of forage on commercial basis to support the livestock industry and also for export. The GVMA said observed that, government’s “Rearing for Food and Jobs” is one of …

Kumbungu, Ghana – The Pan African Organisation for Research and Protection of Violence on Women and Children (PAOR-VWC) has engaged community stakeholders on how to reduce or end the high incidence of child marriage. Early, Child and Forced marriages are much pronounced in most parts of the region preventing several …

Tamale, Ghana – The Northern Regional Communications Directorate of the ruling New Patriotic Party has donated a motorbike to one of its committed members from the Tolon constituency, Abukari Adamu. The donation which took place at the Northern Regional Headquarters of the NPP at the instance of its Regional Communications …

Accra, Ghana – Member of Parliament for Ablekuma West Mrs. Ursula Owusu-Ekuful has launched the second phase of a work, pay and own taxi scheme in her constituency. The move, aimed at empowering the unemployed in her constituency economically kick started in May 2019 with 10 taxis on a 3-year …

Tamale, Ghana – A leading activist of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Nandom Constituency, Wilson Dabuo, has adviced the Member of Parliament for the area to take steps to unite the party or risk losing his seat in the 2020 general elections. He observes that happenings in the …