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President John Dramani Mahama says the establishment of the University of Ghana Medical Centre (UGMC) with ultra-modern equipment will make the institution one of the best in Africa.

He said this at the inauguration of the first phase of the Centre yesterday in Accra.

The president in his address said the UGMC project marked another milestone by the country in its quest for quality healthcare service delivery and the completion of the project is a dream come true.

President-elect, Nana Akufo-Addo on Tuesday announced his first set of appointees ahead of his inauguration on 7th January as President of Ghana.

The President's appointees consist of people who - prior to their appointment - were acting in those roles. . .

ACCRA, Dec 15 (Reuters) - The World Bank Group said on Thursday it would provide $517 million to Ghana in debt and guarantees to support the $7.7 billion Sankofa oil and gas project being developed by Italy's ENI and upstream trader Vitol Ghana.

The finance adds to a $700 million guarantee package and brings its total financing to around $1.217 billion for the offshore project, whose gas component is set to open in 2018, a statement said.

The vote, which saw opposition candidate Nana Akufo-Addo defeat President John Mahama, was only the second time an incumbent leader had been ousted in multiparty elections in West Africa.

El-Rufai was in Ghana to observe the elections as part of a delegation from the United States’s National Democratic Institute.

As Charlotte Osei, chairwoman of Ghana’s Electoral Commission (EC), prepared to release the official results on 10 December, El-Rufai said that Ghana had set a “gold standard” for elections.

Legal reforms

After peaceful and successful elections, I woke up on a bright Sunday morning to the #CNNGetItRight hashtag.

Like many Ghanaians, I have been worried about the way some international media organizations always portray Africa in a negative manner. Some even go to the extent of telling stories that are untrue. The article on the CNN website claimed that Ghanaians had elections in 1998 (which is false).

We're expecting the Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari to arrive in The Gambia today in an attempt to persuade President Yahya Jammeh to step down after he lost the election.

Mr Buhari is expected to be joined by Liberian leader Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, Sierra Leone's Ernest Bai Koroma and Ghana's John Mahama, who himself lost an election last week and has said he will step down as president next month.

After initially accepting defeat, at the end of last week he claimed he no longer accepted the result and asked for a new poll run by a "Godfearing" electoral commission.

Humanity has gotten pretty good at tracking down planets in other solar systems. Between 2009 and 2013, the Kepler telescope discovered thousands of worlds orbiting distant suns. But finding out what those exoplanets are like has been more of a challenge. Luckily, we're getting better at it.

Anthony Joshua vs Wladimir Klitschko is a brilliant fight, make no mistake of that. However, it is not the fight and that is because Fury is not in one of the corners

There is a dreadful inconvenient truth attached to the far reaches of the glorious halo currently engulfing the fight at Wembley Stadium between Anthony Joshua and Wladimir Klitschko next April and it is called Tyson Fury.

The planned fight could generate nearly fifty million pounds and could also change the very landscape of boxing for a long, long time.

Accra, Dec. 11, GNA - Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, the President elect, has been asked to call to order the supporters and members of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), who are allegedly attacking followers of the National Democratic Congress (NDC).