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Builsa South MP Clement Apaak has described as moot, the reason of animal cruelty cited by international animal rights activist Natasha Choolun for which she has petitioned President Nana Akufo-Addo to ban dog and cat meat in Ghana. “Dogs and cats are not food, but loyal companion animals that should be treated with kindness and respect, not brutalised and eaten,” ...

A student of the University of Education, Winneba (UEW) has died after crash-landing from a celebratory backflip after the end of his final exams. The Level-400 student was rushed to the 37 Military Hospital but died two days later from his injuries. Majeed was displaying some acrobatic skills with his mates on Tuesday, 7 September 2021 to mark the end ...

Ghanaian-born American judge Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong has been nominated by US President Joe Biden as his judge for the US District Court for California. The Yale-trained judge was among eight new candidates for the federal bench announced by the US leader on Wednesday, September 8. With her nomination, Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong becomes the first Black woman to serve on the ...

The Minister for Communications and Digitalisation, Ursula Owusu Ekuful, has urged the Ghana Post to maximize the use of existing infrastructure to position itself as the front runner in the industry. The legislator made this call on her visit to some rehabilitated post offices in the Central Region under the e-transform project. The e-transform project under the MoCD financed by ...

The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Youth Employment Agency (YEA), Mr Justin Koduah Frimpong, has said the Akufo-Addo government job-creation credentials are unparalleled. Speaking to Class News about the thousands of young men and women who thronged the Accra International Conference Centre (AICC) on Thursday, 9 September 2021 to look for jobs at a Job and Career Fair organised ...

The Kumasi Circuit Court has sentenced a 45-year-old woman, Theresa Asamoah, to six (6) years in prison with hard labour for her alleged involvement in a baby theft incident that happened at the Kumasi South Government Hospital. According to a Police investigation, Mrs. Asamoah and her daughter, Priscilla Appiah on June 10, 2019, tricked a nursing mother who was delivered ...

Information Minister, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah has sworn in 6 new board members of the Ghana Publishing Company Limited (GPCL). At a brief ceremony in Accra on Thursday 9th September 2021, Mr. Oppong Nkrumah tasked the new board members to consolidate the gains the company has made in the last four years to strategically position it as the spearhead of the ...

President Akufo-Addo has reassured the Chiefs and people of the Oti region that his government is committed to constructing a bridge over River Oti. The construction of a bridge over the Oti river remains a demand on top of government’s priority projects to be undertaken in the newly created Oti region. The President who is currently on a two-day tour ...

The Youth Employment Agency (YEA) says it put in place proper arrangements ahead of the career fair, which suffered a near-stampede at the Accra International Conference Centre on Thursday. There was a massive turn-out on the first day of the fair, which provided, among others, on-the-spot job interview to get unemployed youth to employers. But those who trooped to the ...

Recovered Covid-19 patients risk experiencing Covid symptoms after a long period in what has been termed Long Covid. However, physiotherapists have been noted as a point of call in dealing with Long Covid. They are drawing attention to this condition which affects about 80% of recovered Covid-19 patients, as they mark World Physiotherapy Day. Eight out of every ten persons ...