News of Wednesday, 2 May 2018

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NPP foot soldiers chase out Regional Health Director as other staff live in fear Sack Hackman! - COCOBOD staff to Akufo-Addo Thank you for collapsing our Association – Jobless graduates to Akufo-Addo 13 NDC executives entitled to their decision to resign – Nketia No cover-up in alleged ‘filthy deals’ – Amidu warns MMT Pastor narrates how a man left his wife after she allowed robbers to rape her to spare his life

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Opinions

• Your Excellency President Akufo-Addo, would you please grant Mahama’s heart’s desire?
• Thumbs-up to all Ghanaian Workers as we celebrate Labour's Day
• My take on Shatta Wale's Gringo song/video
• Farida Yusif writes: Makaranta; a school for Muslims; not a noisy place
• IMF review of Extended Credit Facility (ECF) with Ghana: The take home message
• From an honest reflection: An ancestral epistle
• Ghana’s Nation Builders Corp, Politics or Panacea to Graduate Youth Unemployment?
• Ghanaians must change for better tomorrow
• NPP destroying rural development in Afram Plains

General News

• 22 rusticated UCC students recalled after court order
• Education Minister rejects claim about collapsing private schools
• Ex-workers of GPHA accuse Mahama over unpaid benefits
• Give statistics of supposed 1m jobs created – Quashigah dares Employment Minister
• Recruiting nurses under NABCO dangerous – Labour expert warns
• NaBCo not solution, admit you have job creation problem - Quashigah to government
• LIVESTREAMING: Badwam on Adom TV
• Reconstitute NPRA board to address pensions in Ghana
• Pregnant teenager raped; others brutalized by robbers at Budumbumram
• Osafo Maafo to head ‘Ghana Beyond Aid Committee’
• Today at the News stands
• Teenager raped; others brutalized by robbers at Budumbumram
• Government will need $200m annually to make NABCO succeed - ILAPI-Ghana Boss
• RTI Bill, attacks on journalists remain top concerns as Ghana marks Press Freedom Day
• NPP ministers received double salary under Kufuor's government - Inusah Fuseini
• GHC700 allowance for NaBCO beneficiaries modest - Akufo-Addo
• NaBCO ridicules make NDC a 'nation destroyer corp' - NYA CEO
• Sack Hackman! - COCOBOD staff to Akufo-Addo
• 11 things you need before applying for the Nation Builders Corps
• Adaklu Assembly pays BECE registration for candidates
• Osafo-Marfo to head Ghana Beyond Aid committee
• Government breaks down 1 million job claim
• CID grills double salary suspects
• Government breaks down 1million job claim
• 100,000 jobs for grabs; President launches Builders’ Corps
• Deal swiftly with police renting guns to robbers – Small Arms Commission
• Three inmates break out of police cells at Bodi
• Deal swiftly with police renting guns to robbers – Small Arms Commission
• Barbara Mahama reminisces how she spent her May Day with late husband last year
• Chiefly duty not transferable – GTC warns Nii Adote Obour
• Good news for nurses
• Police assures journalists of protection
• Islamic University College holds graduation ceremony
• GJA hosts international journalists
• Let’s do government work like we would ours
• Ban on Small Scale mining will be lifted before 2018 ends – Ministry
• Akufo-Addo’s 1 million jobs non-existent – Minority
• LIVESTREAMING: Launch of 2018 World Press Freedom
• 'Laced-drink' carjacking on the rise – Police
• NaBCO workers won’t benefit from SSNIT - Dr. Ibrahim
• Sustainable jobs needed – MP
• NDC backs workers’ concern over special assistants
• NaBCO copying YEA modules – Quashigah
• COCOBOD staff demand removal of Hackman as Board Chair
• Take advantage of NaBCO - Youth urged
• We’re creating atmosphere for job creation – Akufo-Addo
• NaBCO: Government destroying jobs to create jobs – Whip ridicules
• Danquah Institute 'lashes' Mahama 'over loose talk'
• 22 rusticated UCC students recalled after court order
• Thank you for collapsing our Association – Jobless graduates to Akufo-Addo
• Show us the jobs you have created – Minority to Akufo-Addo
• Pastor narrates how a man left his wife after she allowed robbers to rape her to spare his life
• Pay journalists well to ensure real press freedom - Ato Afful
• Super OD to be buried on May 19 at Agona Abodom
• Baby battles spinal tumor; family can’t raise GHC10,000 for surgery
• Hamid buys roadside corn at Nima
• Gov’t won’t compromise morals for your pro-gay interest – NPP to Asiedu Nketiah
• Auditor General 'shocked' at snail-pace progress into CMS fire probe
• AMMA Health Director slapped with GHC71,000 fine for diverting MCHPS World Bank funds
• Over 200 undervalued bus sale cost GHC1m loss in shady Metro Mass Transit deal
• Over 200 undervalued bus sale cost GHC1m loss in shady Metro Mass Transit deal
• Akufo-Addo is the real con man - Akandoh returns Amewu’s salvo
• Full list: Breakdown of jobs created by government so far
• SSNIT hid PwC’s caveat on OBS findings – Lawyer
• ‘Robbery has reduced based on our trend analysis’ – ACP Eklu
• I can’t get close to Akufo-Addo - Professor Alabi
• Don’t trade your integrity for headlines – Hamid to journalists
• No executives have resigned in the Eastern Region
• Suspected ‘Sakawa’ coffin found in front of Man’s room at Maame-Krobo
• ‘GH600m for NaBCO’ - Government
• LPG violations rampant in Western Region – National Petroleum Authority
• Ghana Beyond Aid’ committee mediocre – Adongo
• Nowhere to dispose of refuse - Royal Waste CEO
• NPP foot soldiers chase out Regional Health Director as other staff live in fear
• Workers demand immediate intervention to save 'dying' Neoplan Ghana
• Mahama amended mining law to arrest offenders but suspended efforts to arrest - Baako
• Governments urged to allow media freedom
• No cover-up in alleged ‘filthy deals’ – Amidu warns MMT
• Corruption fight: We need the youth on board - Dr. Kojo Asante
• Origin8 hosts UEW, Central University students
• Armed robbery cases have reduced significantly – Police
• Do not tamper with evidence – Amidu cautions MMT
• 14-year-old boy serves as the only ‘veterinary doctor’ in 15 communities
• Unemployed nurses threaten to protest again
• 13 NDC executives entitled to their decision to resign – Nketia
• Galamsey fight: Did you apply sense during your tenure? – Minister asks Mahama
• Akufo-Addo has employed only 5 in his government – NDC MP
• Church of Pentecost an example that Ghana beyond aid is possible - Bawumia
• Jobless nurses threaten demo against Nation Builders Corps
• Government using sack-and-replace tactics to create 1m jobs - Minority
• Gravity of malfeasance at MMT shocking - MP
• Ho Technical University SRC elects first Female President
• If it is fake, it is not news” – Senior Journalist
• Aviation Minister to speak at Accra Weizo 2018 as organizers honor Top 100 Hotels in West Africa

Politics

• NDC executives in Western Region laud Bagbin's 'political track record'
• Mahama taking undue advantage of NDC's 'divisive' Unity Walk - Lecturer
• NPP pegs filing fee for chairmanship position at GHC10,000
• Dr. Jasaw congratulates newly elected Wa East Constituency NDC executives
• Don’t entertain Crabbe in Ashanti Region – NPP warns members
• Blows over NDC polls
• NDC lauds party executives for 'successful' branch elections
• Akufo-Addo is running the proper ‘family and friends’ government - Murtala

Crime & Punishment

• 17 robbers who posed as spiritualists arrested
• Prison Officer jailed 13 years for smuggling Indian Hemp
• Three arrested over alleged theft of Tano shrine
• Police probes suspected murder of 16-year-old okada rider
• Ankaful Prison officer jailed 13-years for possessing narcotics
• 11 fined GH¢13,000 for WASSCE fraud
• Police gun down suspected robber at Kwabenya, others arrested

Religion

• ‘Obinim is possessed’ – Kenyan-based pastor claims
• AUCCF presents HolyThon 2018
• Ghana to celebrate Prophet Emmanuel Badu Kobi on 3rd May
• Churches, other religious bodies crucial for success of Ghana Beyond Aid - Bawumia

Health News

• First Lady intensifies social media support for immunisation
• Tafo government hospital gets completed baby care unit from Cal Bank
• 30 per cent deliveries in Ghana occur among teenagers
• Polluted air kills seven million people each year - WHO
• IMAGHE rescues 150 people from Hypertension and Typhoid in Volta Region

Regional News

• Fight over May Day T-Shirts mars celebration in Wa
• Midwives in Upper East decry working without gloves, other basic tools
• Our mission is to improve the quality of life of our people - Kwahu East DCE
• KenyasI residents get ultra-modern health facility
• NCCE intensifies campaign against corruption
• Chieftaincy clashes loom at Nsoatre