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A former Health Minister, Alex Sebgefia is skeptical about government’s decision to restore allowances to trainee nurses.

Published in Local News
Wednesday, 09 August 2017 14:46

Password guru regrets past advice

The author of an influential guide to computer passwords says he now regrets several of the tips he gave.

Published in Technology
Wednesday, 09 August 2017 08:09

Tony Baffoe joins Bundesliga Legends Network

Former Black Stars defender, Anthony Baffoe, has been chosen as one of 9 former Bundesliga players to be part of the newly-formed Bundesliga Legends Network.

Published in Sports

A senior political science lecturer with University of Ghana says former President Jerry John Rawlings is not immune to criticism, despite his contributions towards Ghana's democracy.

Dr Aggrey Darkoh said it is important and natural for citizens to articulate certain concerns in a democratic society like Ghana without fear or favour.

“That should be the nature of our politics…[but it should be done] within an atmosphere of civility and decorum,” the lecturer told Emefa Apawu on Joy FM’s Top Story Tuesday.

Dr Darkoh was reacting to an article written by former deputy Chief of Staff, Dr Valerie Sawyer under former President John Mahama.

Dr Aggrey Darkoh

In the article, the environmental consultant took a dead aim at Mr Rawlings and former Attorney-General, Martin Amidu for their criticisms that she believes led to the defeat of Mr Mahama in the 2016 elections.

“They say he booms [but] I say he buzzes…like an agitated mosquito…looking for his next victim,” she said of Mr Rawlings.

She decried the holier than thou attitude of the founder of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) which she found disappointing.

“Is he trying to say that his reign was unblemished or that his twin brother’s (President Addo) reign is unsullied? Really?” the former deputy Chief of Staff asked in her opinion piece.

She also said the problems with Mr Amidu are his “pomposity, over-bloated ego and sense of self-importance.”

Dr Sawyer said the weaknesses of the former A-G are to blame for his downfall in the NDC as a rising politician.

“I am not a soothsayer, neither am I a harbinger of gloom and doom…but once again I say to you…this time with a nation full of witnesses…that your Achilles heel will destroy you,” she said.

But while sections of Ghanaians believe the former deputy Chief of Staff was harsh with the former President and former A-G, Dr Aggrey Darkoh said there is nothing wrong with that.

"What it indicates is that we ought to be democrat at heart," he said, adding although criticism is important in a functioning democracy, it has to be done with decorum and civility.

Published in Politics

An Iraqi court has sentenced to death 27 men for their involvement in the massacre of up to 1,700 soldiers by so-called Islamic State (IS) in June 2014.

Published in Mid-East

The family of the man killed in Obuasi when illegal miners clashed with Operation Vanguard patrol team say they are waiting for the autopsy report to determine the next line of action.

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A member of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) and former Attorney General, Martin Alamisi Amidu has accused his party of appointing Charlotte Osei to the Electoral Commission to rig Ghana’s election in its favour when they were in office.

Published in Politics

Have you driven on the motorway recently? How was the experience? For those of us who use that stretch almost every day, we can only thank our stars that we make it safely to our destinations. The fast deteriorated motorway has become a death trap, a disaster awaiting its turn after those avoidable May 9, June 3 etc were allowed to slip through.

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'Yɛnkͻ nkwoa' hit maker, Eduwordzi has revealed that some of his colleagues in the music industry tried destroying his music career with ‘black magic’ (juju).

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The anti-illegal mining task force commissioned last week on Sunday evening clashed with illegal miners in the Ashanti Region, leaving one illegal miner dead.

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