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  600 junior nurses strike at Korle Bu Teaching Hospital About 600 junior nurses of the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital (KBTH) are on strike over unpaid salaries and other allowances close to a year. The nurses with their red band tied to their wrist, hair, door knob and other places to signify anger and seriousness marched through the length and breadth of the hospital to register their displeasures. According to them, they have explored every available channel to resolve the problem with the hospital authorities but all proved futile. The nurses, exclaimed they are not resuming to their duty post until all arrears is settled. One of the protestors lamented “we want them to come to an understanding with us and sign a memorandum of understanding as to when they are going to pay us”. Another protester bemoaned that they are tired and fed up of working for 21-month without a salary. “In fact the junior nurses do most of the work in Korle Bu than the seni...

Abuja Killings: The truth, lies and politics BY LEVINUS  NWABUGHIOGU Were the victims of Apo Shooting on September 20, 2013 really members of Boko Haram as advanced by the Department of  State Security Service (DSS) or mere squatters in an uncompleted building allegedly owned by a retired Army General? Was that a case of another extra Judicial killing in the Federal Capital Territory by the operatives of security agencies? Saturday Vanguard in this special report reveals all the sides of the story. Like almost always, mum is the word. But the rage is on. The anger and the public outcry have reached a crescendo. Questions are flooding the streets. Whodunit? But no one, not even the Department of Security Service (DSS) which is obviously, centrally involved in the controversy could lend a more convincing voice. And the Army whose men provided military back-up from Guards Brigade, according to reports, is yet to officially tell their role in the developmen...

Girls urged to report sexual violations against them Ms Jamilla Ariori, Project Manager of Human Rights Advocacy Centre (HRAC), has urged girls who are victims of rape and defilement to report such cases to the police for prompt action. She said victims should not to be discouraged by the refusal of some police personnel to prosecute the rich and the influential in the society who violates them. “But rather be courageous to report the case to more superior police officers or civil society organisations that are into human rights issues for urgent attention,” she said. Ms Ariori said there are good and duty conscious people in the Ghana Police Service who would not compromise their work for bribes from the powerful persons in the society but would hear their case and take the necessary action. The Project Manager was reacting to questions from pupils at a sensitisation forum on “Prevention and management of gender based violence in schools,” at New Abirem in th...

Kaneshie footbridge now a death trap THE KANESHIE footbridge is gradually warming itself to become a death trap and threat users as some part of it has spotted developing cracks that would soon put a burden on the nation if attention is not drawn to it. The IREPORTER findings can reveal that this situation is escalating as a result of the pressure that has been piled on the bridge by street hawkers who have outnumbered themselves and made it a wont to always sit there and sell their wares. What is worrying is that, these hawkers stay on the bridge supposed to be used in easing pedestrians’ access to cross the major roads and this attitude despite the Accra Metropolitan Assembly attempt to prevent them from selling on such places has proved futile. I took a stroll in the city specifically, Kaneshie and it was amazing, and there were human traffic over the footbridges as a result of hawkers selling their goods on the footbridges impeding the movement of pedes...

Baby pulled alive from Mumbai building wreckage A baby has been pulled alive from the wreckage of a five storey building that collapsed in India's financial capital of Mumbai this morning. Hundreds of onlookers cheered as rescuers brought the tiny child out of a tunnel in the rubble. Rescue workers are still trying to reach dozens of people who could be trapped in the debris of the residential building - some of whom can reportedly be heard calling for help. Up to 90 people are feared dead - with the bodies of three people having been recovered already. Twenty five people have been pulled alive from the rubble so far. The building, which is reportedly owned by Mumbai's municipal authority, is believed to home up to 22 families. It crumbled just after 6am near Dockyard Road in the city's south-east. Crowds have gathered near the rubble of the flattened building - with many people desperately waiting to hear news of loved ones. Dozens of firefighters...

ADDRESS BY H.E. THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF GHANA, JOHN DRAMANI MAHAMA TO THE 68TH UNITED NATIONS GENERAL ASSEMBLY Thursday September 26, 2013 Mr. President, Mr. Secretary-General, Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, It is with a heavy heart that I address you today. Before I left Ghana to attend this assembly, I learned of the terrorist attack that took place in Nairobi, Kenya. I was shocked and deeply saddened to hear of the many lives that were lost to those senseless and cowardly acts of violence. As the death toll increased, so too did my grief, knowing that each additional number symbolized one more human life. Those numbers symbolized individuals who may have been strangers to you or to me but were of prime significance in the lives of the people who loved them: parents, children, husbands, wives, friends, colleagues. Soon enough, I got word that one of the people massacred was a person who held significance in my life and in the lives ...

Michelle Obama's ID details hacked from data brokers The social security numbers of Michelle Obama and many others were stolen from data brokers. Hackers stole millions of social security numbers by cracking open the networks of large US data brokers, reveals an investigation. The ID details of US First Lady Michelle Obama and many other famous people were exposed by the hack attack. Journalist Brian Krebs tracked the information back to hackers who ran an online market for confidential data. He found they got their data by compromising computers sitting on the data brokers' corporate networks. Deep access In March, Krebs, as well as the FBI and US Secret Service, started looking into how the exposed.su website was getting hold of social security numbers and other details of many famous Americans. The mysterious website, which has now been closed down, published confidential information about Bill Gates, Beyonce Knowles, Jay-Z, Asht...