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Top Story: Former President, John Dramani Mahama, has described the government’s ambitious agenda 111 hospital projects as an afterthought.

Top story: President Akufo-Addo has envisioned that Agenda 111 will play a critical role in making Ghana the centre of excellence for medical care in West Africa by 2030. Breaking grounds for the construction of the hospitals at Trede, in the Ashanti Region on Tuesday, the President noted that the project is expected to also increase the country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) by $2 billion and create direct and indirect jobs in the sector.

Top Story: An Accra Labour Court 1 has slapped the University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG) with GHC3,000.00 fine over what the court describes as a waste of its time.

Top Story: The Minority in Parliament is raising red flags about the alleged payment of GHS109 million by the government for the procurement of Johnson and Johnson vaccines.

Top Story: Deputy Majority Leader is fighting off claims that the Health Minister lied to the parliamentary committee that probed the botched Covid-19 vaccine procurement.

Top Story: A 2020 report of the Auditor-General has unravelled how prepaid meters and conductors procured by the Electricity Company of Ghana, ECG, have been left unused for five years.

Top Story: The Minister of Health, Kwaku Agyeman-Manu, has been granted a two-week leave to enable him to attend to some personal issues.

Top Story: The Minister of Health, Kwaku Agyeman-Manu has written to Sheikh Al Maktoum with whom he signed a deal to procure Sputnik V vaccines, to refund the money for the non-supplied doses.

Top Story: The Parliamentary Committee probing the controversial Sputnik V vaccines procurement contract has recommended that the Finance Ministry retrieves GH¢16,331,640 paid toSheikh Ahmed Al Maktoum.