Pupils of Azanlogo Primary School in Sherigu, a suburb of Bolgatanga in the Upper East Region are compelled to use a mud structure and the Church of Christ as classrooms due to inadequate classrooms for teaching and learning. The school, which has an enrollment of 456 students also have their nursery pupils studying under trees ...

The Ministry of Health has said the huge debt left by the the John Mahama government is taking a toll on the sector. According to the Minister of Health, Kwaku Agyeman Manu, the Mahama government committed a debt of over GHC 100 million cedis which they are struggling to settle and concurrently run the sector. ...

China’s most famous political prisoner, the Nobel laureate and democracy icon Liu Xiaobo, has died at the age of 61. The Chinese intellectual and activist, who championed non-violent resistance as a way of overcoming “forceful tyranny”, is the first Nobel peace prize winner to die in custody since German pacifist Carl von Ossietzky, the 1935 recipient, who died under ...

With barely two weeks to the opening of the 2017 edition of the Pan-African Historical Theatre Festival, (PANAFEST), GCB Bank Limited has joined the crop of corporate institutions determined to ensure that the 25-year-old Pan-African cultural forum regains its glamour with a donation of Ghc 75,000.00. Mr. Anselm Ray Sowah, Managing Director of GCB Bank ...

The Asuogyaman District Education Directorate in the Eastern Region has threatened to close down the Serdom Basic School because residents in the area defecate in the classrooms. Because the area does not have a public toilet, the residents have thus resorted to using uncompleted school block students of the Serdom Basic School as a toilet. ...

A Human Rights division of the High Court has dismissed an application seeking to stop the General Legal Council from organizing entrance exams and interviews  for potential law students seeking enrollment into the Ghana School of Law. A group of law graduates calling themselves the Concerned LLB Graduates had gone to the court to seek ...

Participants at a day’s public forum in Tamale which focused on the need to disband political parties’ vigilante groups have called for a national security summit to deliberate on the human security threat. They have also advocated the establishment of an independent appointing authority to take charge of appointing the nation’s security heads. The Coalition ...

Management of the Northern Electricity Distribution Company of the Volta River Authority (NEDco-VRA) has served notice that the company is at the verge of collapse largely due to power theft. The company’s Corporate Communications Director, Maxwell Kotoka brought this to the fore at a news conference in Tamale where he disclosed that 45 percent of ...

A Kumasi Circuit Court in the Ashanti Region has adjourned to August 8, 2017 the case involving thirteen (13) members of pro- New Patriotic Party (NPP) vigilante group, Delta Force. A representative for the prosecutor in the case, C/Inspt, Hannah Acheampong, pleaded with the court presided over by Her Honor Mary Nsenkyire for an adjournment ...

President Akufo-Addo has said he is saddened by last night’s [Wednesday] fatal motor crash involving the Kumasi Asante Kotoko team that has left one person dead. He has also wished the injured who are still receiving medical attention a speedy recovery. The President conveyed these sentiments in a tweet on Thursday morning. Former President John ...

Some players of Asante Kotoko Football Club who were involved in an accident last night [Wednesday] have been discharged from the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital. They are Evans Kwaw, Eric Donkor, Saddick Adams, Frank Sarfo Gyamfi, Baba Mahama, Osei Agyeman, Augustine Sefa, Michael Akuffo and Awudu Nafiu. The team manager, Godwin Abloddey and some other ...

Dangote Group, controlled by Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote, plans to invest $3.8 billion in sugar and rice and $800 million in dairy production in the next three years as the company seeks to expand and deal with a shortage of dollars in its home market of Nigeria. The conglomerate plans to increase its production ...

The deputy equipment officer of Kumasi Asante Kotoko Sporting Club, Asare Thomas has been confirmed dead after a fatal motor accident involving the team bus on Wednesday night. The team including the coach, Steve Polack was returning to Kumasi from Accra after a week 22 Premier League game when the unfortunate incident occurred. Thomas Asare is ...

The deputy equipment officer of Kumasi Asante Kotoko Sporting Club, Asare Thomas has been confirmed dead after a fatal motor accident involving the team bus on Wednesday night. The team including the coach, Steve Polack was returning to Kumasi from Accra after a week 22 Premier League game when the unfortunate incident occurred. Thomas Asare is ...

Last year’s failed coup attempt in Turkey is nothing but a false flag orchestrated by Turkey’s autocratic President Recep Tayip Erdo?an and his henchmen to create a pretext for a mass persecution of critics and opponents in a state of perpetual emergency, a new detailed study titled ‘July 15: Erdo?an’s Coup’ by Stockholm Center for ...

Students of agriculture colleges in the country have lamented what they call government’s seeming neglect of their challenges, and have thus called for a restoration of allowances paid to them. Addressing a news conference in Accra, the President of the Agriculture College Students Union, Sampson Chimbur Sanika, complained about how the various institutions lacked infrastructure ...

Several Ghana Premier League clubs have sent goodwill wishes to Kumasi Asante Kotoko after their team bus was involved in a fatal car crash on Wednesday night. The team was returning to Kumasi after their 1-0 defeat at the hands of Inter Allies at the El-Wak stadium, when the bus they were travelling in ran ...

Multiple Award-winning dancehall act and CEO of Burniton Music Group, Stonebwoy, who recently inked a milky record deal with Zylofon Media was in Elmina, Central Region on Monday, 10th July, 2017. As part of a series of activities which included a commercial shoot for Menzgold as brand ambassador, the 2015 BET Best International Act: Africa, ...

Ghanaian exporters have intensified appeals for the government to improve their lot and make them competitive ahead of the eventual implementation of the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA). According to them, they should be able to stand the competition from their foreign counterparts should they operate within favourable business environments. Some of them who have been ...