Author: Papa Linc

Eight hundred and seventy-five maternal deaths were recorded in the country last year, the Minister of Health, Kwaku Agyeman-Manu, has disclosed.The figure represented an increase of 12.3 per cent over the 776 recorded in 2020.At the opening of the 2022 National Health Sector Annual Summit, Mr Agyeman-Manu described the situation as not good enough, indicating that the health sector recorded a mixed state of performance last year as far as its service indicators were concerned.“Our institutional maternal mortality ratio has increased from 109.2 per 100,000 live births to 119.5 per 100,000 live births in 2021 representing 9.4 per cent.Institutional neonatal…

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The Saudi Arabia Ministry for Hajj and Umrah has announced that Ghana’s quota for this year’s hajj is 3,069 pilgrims. This was made known by the Chairman of the Hajj Board, Sheikh I C Quaye, at a meeting with members of the Hajj Agents Association of Ghana. The Chairman also said potential pilgrims above 65 years of age will not be allowed into Saudi Arabia to perform the Hajj. The Saudis have also hinted that this year’s Hajj will be expensive for three main reasons, such as the increment of Value Added Tax (VAT) from 5 to 15 percent, and…

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The Minister for the Interior, Mr Ambrose Dery, has called for the empowerment of the youth in the country to lead the fight against Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing (AML/TF). He said the youth should acquire the necessary knowledge and skills to prevent them from falling victims and becoming perpetrators of crimes. The participants and dignitaries at the forum Photo Anita Nyarko-Yirenkyi “The role of the young people in the prevention and fight against AML/TF in the country cannot be downplayed,” he added. Mr Dery stated this in a speech read on his behalf at the 13th edition of a forum…

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Black Sherif’s performance at the 2022 Vodafone Ghana Music Awards has stirred up controversies. The young musician climaxed his performance by boarding a yellow tricycle on the stage. Apart from the colour of the tricycle, there was a supposed MTN number on it. Some people have tagged it as ambush marketing for Vodafone Ghana’s competitor, MTN Ghana. READ ALSO: I Tried To Stop Snap From Suing Black Sherif But… – DJ Slim Tells It All But speaking in a discussion monitored by Zionfelix.net on Hitz FM’s ‘DayBreak Hitz’, hosted by Andy Dosty, the PRO for Charterhouse, Robert Klah defended what…

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American billionaire businessman, Elon Musk has disclosed that he’s okay with going to hell after his death. The Tesla boss made this disclosure via his official Twitter page on Monday, May 9, while responding to a Twitter user. It can be recalled that the World’s richest man shared a disturbing tweet where he spoke about the possibility of him dying under mysterious circumstances. “If I die under mysterious circumstances, it’s been nice knowin ya,” Musk tweeted. Read here Reacting, a Twitter user had advised him to profess the existence of a supreme being before he draws his last breath so…

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The new eco-mansion that will be home to NFL GOAT Tom Brady – who sensationally announced his come back from retirement in March – and his model wife Gisele Bundchen is starting to take shape in its waterfront slot on Miami’s exclusive ‘Billionaire’s Bunker’.The celebrity couple purchased the plot of land for $17 million in late 2020. Since then, they’ve torn down a pre-existing 5,772-square-foot home on their lot and are building a state-of-the-art eco-friendly mansion in its place.Indian Creek Island is referred to as ‘the world’s most exclusive municipality’, and with just 34 properties available across 300 acres –…

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CNN reviewed the articles, which were taken down almost immediately after they were published on a pro-Kremlin news site. Some were pegged to the 77th anniversary of the Soviet Union’s defeat of Nazi Germany, while others criticized Putin for using Russia’s Victory Day to justify his violent onslaught in Ukraine. Reporters Egor Polyakov and Alexandra Miroshnikova made several claims in their articles, including that Russian defense officials were “lying to relatives” of those killed on the Russian Navy’s Black Sea Fleet flagship. They directly accused Putin of launching one of the “bloodiest wars of the 21st century.” “Putin and his…

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The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has been ordered to pay former coach Gernot Rohr just under $380,000 in compensation after ending his contract early.Nigeria’s longest-serving manager having taken charge in August 2016, Rohr lost his job as Super Eagles coach in December just four weeks before the delayed 2021 Africa Cup of Nations kicked off in Cameroon.The NFF had agreed to pay Rohr’s salary until the end of his contract, which expires in December 2022, but the Franco-German went to football’s world governing body Fifa to demand an additional sum for breach of contract without just cause.Rohr, 68, had sought a total of…

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