The Chief Executive of Kessben Group of Companies, Mr Kwabena Kesse who is standing trial for money laundering and forgery of documents, has been granted bail. An Accra Circuit Court Thursday morning granted him bail in the sum of GHȻ350 million with four sureties, two to be justified according to Graphic Online court correspondent, Victor Kwawukume. Mr Kesse is also to deposit his passport with the registry of the court and to report once a week to the investigator. He has been charged {....}

The Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH), the nation’s second largest referral facility, has set up an isolation ward at its polyclinic to deal with any suspected Ebola case. All the clinical Directorates have also been tasked to create and designate one of their side wards as emergency isolation rooms where in-patients, showing symptoms of the deadly viral haemorrahagic fever could be quickly moved and quarantined. Dr Denis Odai Laryea, Head of Public Health at KATH, in an interview indicated that {....]

The Head of the Human Security Department of the National Security Council Secretariat, Brig. Gen. Joseph Nunoo-Mensah (rtd) is pushing the government to suspend salaries of striking Polytechnic teachers in Ghana. Polytechnic teachers of the West African country (Polytechnic Teachers Association of Ghana) have been on strike since May 15 over book and research allowances, which are in arrears. The strike has led to the closure of all 10 polytechnics in the country. The former National Security Advisor {....}

President John Dramani Mahama says the decision to open discussions with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is not because of the failure of government’s own home grown solutions, but rather because of the need for policy credibility and confidence from the international financial institutions, capital markets and investors for the measures being implemented to restore economic stability and growth. He noted that turning to the IMF was a decision to gain the seal of approval from the Bretton Wood institution {....}

Twenty-one police personnel were dismissed from the Ghana Police Service in the first quarter of 2014 for various acts of misconducts, investigations by The Finder have revealed. Out of the number, two were Cor­porals (Cpl), 15 were Lance Corporals (L/Cpl), and four Constables (Const.). Nine personnel, including one Su­perintendent, one Chief lnspector, one Corporal and six Lance Corporals, were also reduced in rank. A Chief Superintendent (C/Supt.) and one Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) {....}

Government has indicated plans to restructure the current management of the Millennium Development Authority (MiDA), as it completes the signing of the second MCC compact with the US government. Ghana on Tuesday signed $498 million under second compact of the Millennium Challenge Account to be used for the improvement of power distribution in the country. A day after the ratification, Finance Minister Seth Terkper says the team that supervised the management of the first compact would {....}

Deputy Minister in-charge of Tertiary Education, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa has said that final year polytechnic students of the 2013/14 academic year will undertake their national service in 2014. According to him, the students who have not completed their polytechnic education will be posted to regions where their schools are located so as to be able to combine the final academic work and national service. Polytechnic Teachers have been on strike since May 15, 2014 demanding payment of their book {....}

Fredrik Sunesson had high hopes when the first tanker truck unloaded feces from some of Accra’s 4 million residents at his recycling plant in Ghana’s capital. Seventeen months later, those expectations have been dashed. A combination of red tape and disputes over payments mean Sunesson’s Slamson Ghana Ltd. is running far below capacity, he says. Most of the 140 tankers moving the contents of Accra’s toilets each day drive instead to a foul-smelling point near the Gulf of Guinea known as {....}

President of the Polytechnic Teachers Association of Ghana (POTAG), James Dugrah, says teachers will not return to the classroom unless government pays their book and research allowance. According to him, the book and research allowance is the ‘’basic tool’’ for the work of the teachers. ‘’I think you know want goes into teaching; if you don’t research can you go and teach. If you don’t research how can you just get up and go and be teaching…,’’ he told the host of the Citi Breakfast Show, Bernard Avle {.....}

The National Teaching Council of the Ministry of Education (MoE) has indicated that from the year 2015, teachers will have to meet both certification and licensing requirements by the service to be able to teach. The Council is to license and give certificates to all teachers, enforce policy on ethical and professional standards and advise the sector ministry accordingly. Teachers would be issued a 14-digit identity card to be renewed at regular intervals, said Dr Augustine Tawiah, Executive Secretary {....}

Dr. Cadman Mills, Ambassador of Ghana to the United States of America and brother of late President John Evans Atta Mills says the late Professor is probably the most underestimated politician that Ghana has ever produced. According to him, this phenomenon is due to the fact that the late President was rational, familiar with his merit and demerits and played accordingly. In an interview with Alhassan Suhuyini on the Gold Power Drive Wednesday, Dr. Cadman Mills said the late Professor {....}

Child Prostitution has emerged as the leading problem for parents and children issue in the Upper West Region. Child Migration, Child Marriage and Defilement, are other pressing child protection issues peculiar to the communities in the region, a baseline study by the Domestic Violence and Victim Support Unit (DOVVSU) has revealed. The baseline study showed that there were 162 cases of child prostitution recorded, followed by child migration which registered 150 cases, while {....}

President John Dramani Mahama says the government will mobilize funds to find solutions to complications that may arise from climate change. “Government will adopt innovative means of mobilizing sustainable public and private financing to support the implementation of the policy from both national and international sources,” he said. The president said this at the launch of the National Climate Change Policy and National Environment Policy held in Accra. According to him, this {.....}

A second-year day student of the Agona Swedru School of Business (SWESBU), Miss Lvy Owusu was on Monday found hanging in an uncompleted building at Agona Swedru. A Police spokesman pleading anonymity who made this known to newsmen at Agona Swedru on Tuesday, said the mother of the girl, Madam Ekua Amoafowah told them that the girl did not go to school on Monday because she owed school fees. The policeman said the woman claimed that she asked {.....}

I will advise President Mahama to use his office to stop any group of unemployed youth and adults with their fat-feeding minders on free taxes that I hear are planning a demonstration against the United States Embassy for suggesting that we all truly sacrifice, fight grand theft and corruption, stop the talk, be prudent monetarily and fiscally. Whilst we have every right to be angry at hearing the obvious and the truth, we should be minded that as long as Ghana begs the US government for money {....}

Sacked Director of Human Resources (HR) at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital (KBTH), Tahir Abdul-Islam Mahmoud, has petitioned the then Minister of Health against the decision of the hospital’s Board to remove him. In a long petition dated May 24, 2014 and sent to the then Minister of Health, Sherry Ayittey, Tahir Abdul-Islam Mahmoud claims he was victimized by the Board Chairman Eddie Annan and Acting Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Reverend Albert Okpoti Botchwey who has been {....}

Employment and Labour Relations Minister, Haruna Iddrisu says government is engaging organised labour with the hope of talking them out of an intended nationwide demonstration on Thursday. "The wish of government is that this strike shouldn't happen," he revealed in an interview with Joy News Editor, Dzifa Bampoh. Ahead of the planned demonstration on Thursday, members of the Industrial and Commercial Workers Union (ICU) have hit the streets protesting harsh living conditions in {....}

Solar lanterns being distributed to rural folks in the North Gonja District in the Northern Region are being sold at Ghc80 instead of Ghc30, TV3 has gathered. The situation is making it difficult for the rural folks - for whom the lanterns were specially made - to buy them. The lanterns are being distributed to reduce the overdependence on kerosene lamps for lighting. The Ministry of Energy and Petroleum initiated the distribution of the lanterns under the Solar Lantern Distribution Programme. The Programme {....}