The Ghana Education Service says it is not responsible for most of the labour agitations in the sector. Most of the institutions, including the Polytechnics have embarked on a series of demonstration this year. Lecturers in the country’s Polytechnics embarked on a three week strike in June and asked their students to proceed on a ...
Africa Centre for Energy Policy (ACEP), an energy-policy think-tank,  has asked government to facilitate more comprehensive governance reforms pertaining to oil contracts to make the country a model of good petroleum resource management. It adds that government should demonstrate good faith beyond the new anti-corruption clause in its petroleum agreements (PAs). These are contained in ...
The Minister of Gender, Children and Social Protection, Nana Oye Lithur says the Ministry needs more resources to promote gender and children’s issues. She has therefore appealed to civil society organisations to support the Ministry in advocating for more resources. The Minister made the appeal at the weekend in a speech read on her behalf ...
A group calling itself Concerned Youth of Kokomba says some recent actions of President John Dramani Mahama is compelling most of the party members to leave the NDC. The group said many were leaving because of the president’s recent reshuffle exercise and new appointments. The group says the  removal of  Nayon Bilijo as the Minister of ...
From Left to Right:Ophelia Swayne, Abeiku Jackson, Nana Kwabena Antwi, KwesiAbbiw Jackson and Kwaku Addo The Ghana Swim Team makes its debut participation at the XX Commonwealth Games scheduled to be held in Glasgow, Scotland from the 23rd July to 4th August 2014. This historical feat is as result of the steady progress made by ...
Jedidiah Amoako, Ghana’s representative in this year’s track cycling event at the Commonwealth Games, says he hopes his debut at the Games will break the ceiling and develop the sport of track cycling in Ghana. Amoako , who has been staying in Scotland for 14 years, took up the sport less than a year ago ...
Nine year old schoolboy Saneie Masilela has become the world’s youngest groom after marrying 62-year-old South African Helen Shabangu at a formal ceremony witnessed by her children and grandchildren. Dressed in a silvery tuxedo, baby-faced Saneie clutched the hand of mother-of-five Helen Shabangu, as they repeated their vows a year on in front of 100 ...
A jury in northwestern Florida awarded a staggering $23 billion judgment late Friday against the country’s second-largest tobacco company for causing the death of a chain smoker who died of lung cancer at the age of 36. The company, the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, promised a prompt appeal. Michael Johnson Sr. died in 1996 ...
The Ghana Police Service has appealed to Organised Labour to embark on their nationwide demonstration on ‘’regional basis’’. According to the Police, they  will not be able to provide protection for the protestors nationwide. Head of Police Public Affairs, DSP Cyphas Arthur in an interview with Citi News noted that the Police agrees in principle ...
The Ghana Police Service has appealed to Organised Labour to embark on their nationwide demonstration on ‘’regional basis’’. According to the Police administration it will not be able to provide protection for the protestors nationwide simultaneously. Head of Police Public Affairs, DSP Cyphas Arthur in an interview with Citi News noted that the Police agrees ...
The Dean of the Faculty of Arts of the University of Cape Coast (UCC), Professor Dora Edu-Buandoh, has advised female graduates to endeavour to find some form of employment for themselves before venturing into marriage. That, she said, was good for self-dignity and respect. Professor Edu-Buandoh gave the advice at a reception organised for national ...
The cashew industry generated 170 million dollars in the form of foreign exchange earnings for the economy in 2013. Mr Justice Samuel Adjei, Deputy Brong-Ahafo Regional Minister who made this known in Sunyani said the industry is the largest contributor to non-traditional export crops. The Deputy Regional Minister was speaking at the closing session of ...
Talented Nigerian striker Patrick Friday Eze has said Ghana captain Asamoah Gyan has been his mentor and is determined to reach the height of the Al Ain forward. The Lagos-born attacker noted that the former Sunderland goal poacher has been an inspiration both on and off the pitch. “I like him because he is a ...
An Economist, Godfred Bokpin has praised organised labour’s decision to embark on a national protest, describing it as “good for Ghanaâ€Â. Organised Labour declared its decision to embark on a one-day protest on Thursday, 24 July, 2014 and asked “all workers in the formal and informal sector to stay away from work and converge at designated ...
Gunmen have killed seven people, including four police officers, after attacking a passenger bus in Kenya’s coastal county of Lamu. The gunmen opened fire on the bus near the town of Witu, some 50 km (31 miles) from the resort island of Lamu. They then targeted a police vehicle that had arrived at the scene. ...
Western countries have demanded that Russia put pressure on Ukrainian rebels to allow unhindered access to the site of Thursday’s Malaysia Airlines crash. Dutch PM Mark Rutte said he had told Russian President Vladimir Putin that time was “running out” to show he could help. Most crash victims were Dutch. The US and Britain also ...
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