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Following a Financial Clearance granted by the Ministry of Finance for the recruitment of Medical officers, the Ghana Health Service (GHS) wishes to inform the general public, particularly, Medical Officers who were given financial clearance on 15th January 2019, and assigned to GHS, that it will commence recruitment process into the agency from Wednesday, 3rd April, 2019. Therefore, Medical Officers who are part of this group whose clearance has been received and intend to work in the various regions under the Ghana Health Service are requested to formally apply online by logging onto the online application portal  https://mohcrp.com  and follow relevant instructions to select the preferred region with available vacancies. Deadline for submission of application is Wednesday, 10th April, 2019.   T hose who have been placed in other agencies like the Teaching Hospitals, CHAG, and the likes, are entreated not to apply.  This online application is strictly for GHS pl

Ken Ofori Atta is Finance Minister Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta has bemoaned that the President Akufo-Addo’s administration has been facing tough times healing the Ghanaian economy which he said was broken under former President Mahama’s government. He noted that the healing process has not been easy; ‘it has been tough; it has been restraining.’ According to him, “the economy under the Mahama’s administration was in severe crisis.” He said the economy was broken but has had to be fixed by the President Akufo-Addo’s administration. Mr. Ofori-Atta said these in an address to lawmakers in Parliament today, March 28, 2019, on Ghana’s successful completion of the International Monetary Fund (IMF’s) Extended Credit Facility. His address also focused on Ghana’s historic $3 billion Eurobond, and recent developments on the foreign exchange market and the Ghanaian cedi. He noted that the year 2016 under the Mahama’s administration was characterized by excessive fiscal dominance more th

Ahmed Hussein-Suale was shot thrice on January 16 Two persons have been arrested in connection with the murder of undercover journalist with Tiger Eye PI, Ahmed Hussein-Suale. The two were arrested in separate swoops. While one is still being held and interrogated by BNI officials, Kotobabi police are believed to have granted the other bail. This was revealed by the Brong Ahafo Regional First Vice Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Kwame Baffoe alias Abronye DC. He disclosed on NET 2 Television on Wednesday followed by MyNewsGh.com that one of the suspects is currently in the custody of the Bureau of National Investigations BNI while the other was released by the Kotobabi police after he managed to use money to influence his way. “Are you aware that the police patrol team arrested one of the suspects in connection with the death of Ahmed Suale? When they took him to the Kotobabi police station he was released within 30 minutes in collusion with some officers. The one who pu

Legal Practitioner, Samson Lardy Anyenini After 19 years, Parliament has finally passed the Right to Information bill but a campaigner says there is no mood for celebration. “It has been very exhausting,” Samson Lardy Anyenini, who is a member of the RTI coalition, summed up in a concerted struggle to push Parliament to act. The bill is meant to operationalise Article 21 (1) (f) of the Constitution which states that “All persons shall have the right to information subject to such qualifications and laws as are necessary in a democratic society.” It was first drafted in 1999 under the auspices of the Institute of Economic Affairs. But it would be first introduced on the floor of Parliament on February 5, 2010. It has taken approximately 6,988 days, the tenure of three Parliaments and three Speakers of the House, a chamber full of MPs who have talked, debated, vowed, referred it, suspended it and finally passed it – late into Monday night. "This is a landmark achievement,” the S

Security forces separating violent conflict between Chokosis and konkombas in Chereponi in the North East region have captured a 26 year old hardened member of a notorious Togolese mercenary gang allegedly hired into the porous district to assist in the renewed land related clashes among the two long-standing indigenous neighbours. This comes after repeated assertions by both factions that foreign fighters had invaded the area, some in military uniforms and using hard-body pickup vehicles, unleashing indiscriminate rogue operations including raiding villages of their targets and ambushing fleeing civilians. It also followed an announcement made by the Northern regional minister, Salifu Saeed, during a news conference days ago that, security forces specialised in cross-border crimes and counter terrorism had been deployed to the troubled area. Sporadic violence over land has persisted between the two ethnic tribes since mid 2000. It renewed in 2017 at the ground zero community of Nado

Parliament House of Ghana Parliament has put on hold the approval of Minister-designate for the newly created Bono region Mrs. Evelyn Ama Kumi-Richardson over her academic credentials with 18 others sailing through. Mrs. Kumi-Richardson until she appeared before the Appointments Committee of Parliament had her name preceded with a doctorate title. It was conspicuously missing on her CV during her vetting, raising concerns from the members of the committee and a barrage of questions from Samuel Okudjeto Ablakwa, the Member of Parliament for North Tongu and member of the committee. Announcing the list of the nominees recommended by the Appointments Committee to be approved, the chairman of the committee said “…the consideration of one nominee is still ongoing.” Below is the list of the approved ministerial and deputy ministerial nominees Kwabena Okyere Darko-Mensah – Western Region; Solomon Namliit Boar – North East Region; Kofi Amoakehene – Bono East; Kinglsey Aboagye Gyedu – Wester

Benito Owusu Bio A group calling itself Concern Youth of Atwima Nwabiagya North are describing it as unconstitutional, attempts by the constituency executives to allow Member of Parliament for the constituency, Hon Benito Owusu Bio to go unopposed in the party’s approaching parliamentary primaries. According to the group, the constituency executives in a series of meetings with the polling station executives concluded that nobody wi ll be allowed to contest the sitting MP, a decision most of the polling station executives are not happy with. Starting from first week of April, the constituency executives will send an endorsement forms to all the polling station executives to sign as they only need 40% and above the MP. Concern youth of Awima Nwabiagya North believes this is totally against the party’s constitution and must be condemned. The major political parties in Ghana have been democratizing their candidate selection process, allowing candidates to be freely selec

MP for Atwima Nwabiagya North, Benito Owusu Bio Ahead of a novelty Parliamentary primaries of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) is being characterized by confusion at various polling stations in the Atwima Nwabiagya North constituency as the polling executives are divided over the endorsement of the incumbent Member of Parliament, Hon Benito Owusu Bio to go unopposed which is contrary to Article 11 of the NPP constitution. There is an audio going viral on social media platforms purported to be r recording of a meeting between the Atwima Nwabiagya North constituency Executives and polling station executives, where the polling station executives have been asked to sign an endorsement form presented to them to allow Hon Benito to go unopposed. The meeting was held on Sunday 24th March, 2019 Adankwame electoral area, and in the audio, the first vice chairman of the constituency, Hon Frank Sarkodie was heard asking the polling executives to just sign the endorsement form

EC Chairperson-Jean Mensah The Electoral Commission (EC) has deployed personnel to inspect the offices of political parties and also check on their activities. The exercise is scheduled to take place tomorrow in all 10 previously existing regions across the country. Already, the EC has inspected the National offices of political parties and will continue with the inspection in districts after the regional inspection. The exercise is backed by the Political Parties’ Act, (Act 574) which insists that all political parties have a nationwide presence, including having offices at the national and regional levels and in two-thirds of districts across the country. However, there are growing concerns that the EC has been lenient on political parties which are said to show up during elections, only to fold up afterwards. But the EC says it will not relent on its duties henceforth. Background   The Political Parties Act, 2000 (Act 574) mandates political parties to have offices at the nation

Major Gen. Albert Kwesi Ocran, the last member of the National Liberation Council (NLC), the military cum police junta that overthrew Dr Kwame Nkrumah in 1966, has died. He died at the weekend in his hometown, Brakwa in the Asikuma Odoben Brakwa District of the Central Region at the age of 89, a family spokesperson said. Maj. Gen. Ocran was born on July 21, 1929 and was commissioned as an officer in the Gold Coast Regiment of the United Kingdom's Royal West African Frontier Force in 1954. He later rose to become a Colonel in the Ghana Army after independence. He was the commander of the First Infantry Brigade of the army, now known as the Southern Command, at the time of the coup d'état in 1966. Maj. Gen. Ocran was promoted to Brigadier following the coup and made Chief of Army Staff, a position he held for six months. Read also; 157 foreign trained Ghanaian doctors fail Medical, Dental Council exams He was reappointed Chief of Army Staff in May 1967 and again promoted to th

Ghana’s parliament has consoled the families of those killed in Friday’s twin road crashes, as well as the survivors of the two road disasters following a backlash of the legislature by Ghanaians on social media, for sidestepping the home incident and rather observing a minute’s silence and making statements on the floor of parliament on Monday, 25 March 2019, in honour of the 50 Muslims killed by a white supremacist in New Zealand about two weeks ago, as well as the killing of about 750 people and the displacement of over 100,000 others by Cyclone Idai in Mozambique, Malawi and Zimbabwe. Speaker of Parliament, Professor Mike Oquaye was unhappy about the public criticism of the legislature for its silence on the accidents which killed close to 70 people. According to him, the MP for Kintampo South, who had submitted a statement on the subject, was not available in the chamber on Monday to speak on the incident. Professor Oquaye said parliament wanted the Kintampo South MP to lead in