The Regional Health Directorate has described the trend as worrying as it tries to reduce the figures going forward. In 2021, 161 died while giving birth but the figure shot up to 182 in 2022. According to the Ashanti Regional Health Directorate, eclampsia, postpartum haemorrhage and late referrals to health …

Businessman Ernest Kwaku Kobeah, who was one of four members of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) to pick presidential nomination forms, has withdrawn from the race. He says he is backing former President John Dramani Mahama. The party has scheduled Saturday, May 13 on which to go to polls to …

Fuel prices to fall between 2% and 9% from April 1 Fuel prices will fall between 2% and 9% for the third consecutive time from April 1, 2023, with Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) expected to witness its biggest decline in recent times. According to the Institute for Energy Security, LPG …

A five-member committee of inquiry has been inaugurated by the Deputy minister-designate of Local Government Osei Bonsu Amoah in Kumasi. The Committee Chair by Professor The Ophiuchus Adjei-Kumi from KNUST’s Department of Construction Technology and management. The Committee has three weeks to investigate the cause of the Kejetia Market and …

The Police, through an intelligence operation on 27th March 2023, arrested three suspects for possession of firearms without lawful authority and acts of vigilantism at Japa near Wassa Akropong in the Western Region. The three suspects, Godfred Appiah alias Nana Kobina Gyan, Isaac Amoako alias Nana Owusu and Theophilus Yeboah …

The second deputy speaker of parliament Andrew Amoako Asiamah has condemned the actions of some members of parliament who took pictures and videos of themselves during the secret voting last Friday to approve ministerial nominees and supreme court judges. At least two members of the minority, a member of parliament …

Philip Basoah died on Monday, March 27 at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, where he had been on admission for a serious ailment. He was one of the three MPs absent at last Friday’s voting on the ministerial nominees of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo. In a tweet on Tuesday …

A couple of weeks ago, our NDC group in Parliament announced a principled position not to approve any new ministers until the President has taken steps to significantly reduce the size of his government. This position was supported by a broad section of Ghanaians and public advocacy groups. Unfortunately, Ghanaians …

A Professor at the University of Ghana, Ransford Gyampo has advised the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Members of Parliament to stop the bitterness that was occasioned by the removal of the previous minority leaders and support the new leadership. He said it would be politically smart to eschew the bitterness. …

Member of Parliament for Cape Coast South, Kwaku Ricketts-Hagan has said the approval of all the ministerial nominees was a disgrace to the Minority. He described this as a self-inflicted embarrassment. “We the minority disgraced ourselves. After whipping up the excitement of people we are not going to approve the …