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Source: GhanaMIRROR.com - Learn more about Cannabis; Weed etc. download our Power Point presentation. and lean more.
What are the risk of Cannabis? All questions answered. (File below) - 3.05 MB Source: myjoyonline.com - The Ghana Broadcasting Corporation says it will go ahead with the collection of the new TV licence fees tomorrow despite a writ filed by Dr. Charles Wereko Brobby against it..
Source: NHIA - The National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) registered 1,500,324 extremely poor people across the country in 2014 for free.  The figure which covers the period between January and December, 2014 is an improvement on 2013’s performance and the best since the inception of the Scheme.
It represents about 70% of the total indigent population in Ghana. According to the Ghana Living Standards Survey Round Six (GLSS 6), Ghana has about 2.2 million extremely poor people. 1,230,602 extremely poor people were registered in 2013, while 393,453 people from the same category got onto the Scheme for free in 2012. Source: Daily Graphic Ghana - The Foods and Drugs Authority (FDA) has imposed an administrative charge of GH¢50,000 on GB Pharma, a pharmaceutical company, for attempting to repackage drugs destroyed in the June 3 floods for distribution.
The fine also covered the company’s operation of an unlicensed warehouse for medicine storage. Source: kasapafmonline.com - The case in which an assassination attempt was made on President John Mahama has assumed international dimension, as a UK-trained Ghanaian international lawyer Godwin Adjei-Gyamfi has petitioned Amnesty International-UK over the matter.
Aspiring Member of Parliament For Lawra constituency, Anthony Abayifa Karbo has hit hard at the General Secretary of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC), Johnson Asiedu Nketia for making disparaging remarks about the New Patriotic Party (NPP).
Source: atinkfmonline.com - The Member of Parliament for Assin North Constituency in the Central Region, Kennedy Ohene Agyapong says government is too broke to pump $20 million daily into the economy.
The MP says the government has misused all the monies available to the Bank of Ghana (BoG) and that such a policy is not sustainable. Source: TV3network.com - The T.I Ahmadiyya Senior High School in the Northern Regional town of Salaga, has been closed down indefinitely following violent clashes between students and the police that left one resident dead.
Source: B&FT - With 50% low yield and high cost of infrastructure, maintenance and electricity, it will be very difficult for local farmers to compete with Crude Palm Oil (CPO) imported from the Far East without the duty protection, smallholder oil palm growers have said.
Source: citifmonline.com - An Accra Fast Track Court has struck out the West Blue case brought against the government.
A private freight forwarder, Michael Kweku Djan was seeking an injunction to stop government from contracting West Blue Ghana limited to manage its single window policy. The suit was premised on a May 12, 2015 letter from the Chief of Staff directing the Minister of Finance, Seth Terkper to solely engage the West Blue consulting for the purposes of the single window implementation project. Source: GNA - The Postal and Courier Services Regulatory Commission has advised companies, which are not courier service providers but render such duties, to regularise their operations and obtain the necessary licensing.
Source: Daily Graphic Ghana - The Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, has added his voice to the view being expressed by some Ghanaians that the pumping of $20 million daily into the economy to stabilise the cedi may not be sustainable.
Source Public Agenda newspaper - In Ghana, one newborn dies every 15 minutes, and 90 die daily. In all, as many as 30,000 newborns die annually before reaching the first month of life.
The major causes of these deaths are complications from preterm births, complications during birth, breathing difficulties just after delivery and infections. Founder and leader of the United Progressive Party (UPP), Akwasi Addae Odike has stated that Ghana’s continuous borrowing from foreign countries may lure the country to legalise same sex marriage.
“Sooner than later, we will be asked to legalise same sex marriage when we go in for loans because those we borrow money from have legalised it. They have become back seat drivers; they want to dictate for us...,” he said. Source: atinkaonline.com - An 80-year-old sick woman rushed in an ambulance from Battor in the Volta Region to the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital earlier Thursday was left to her fate as there were no doctors at post to treat her ailment.
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