The headmaster of La Presbyterian School in Osu, Samuel Salamat, who notably said first-year students had to pay GH¢80 for desks or risk standing in class during teaching, has also been interdicted by the Ghana Education Service. He was among the head-teachers summoned by the GES for allegedly charging illegal fees under the Free SHS policy. Mr. Salamat, however, refused ...
The leadership of the Ghana Federation of Labor has ostensibly passed a vote of no confidence in the running of the Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT), following the scandal concerning the bloated $72 million spent on Operational Business Suite (OBS). The Federation in a statement said this scandal was only “one of the symptoms of ...
The Ghana Education Service has sacked two head-teachers and interdicted six others, pending investigations, for allegedly extorting monies from students. 19 teachers were invited for questioning on Thursday. The interdicted head teachers will be demoted and reassigned to different regions to teach. – More soon…
The Chief of Assorku in the Shama District of the Western Region, Nana Brekrom II has launched a book for traditional leaders as part of activities marking his first anniversary as chief of the community after taking over from Nana Brekrom I in 2016. The book titled “Doing our part for the community we aspire” ...
Officials of the Auditor General’s Department have revealed that some members of Parliament have been pleading on behalf of corrupt state officials who are being investigated by the department. According to a representative of the department, Vincent Odikro Nyame, these actions by some MPs are frustrating their efforts to fight corruption in the public sector. ...
More than 100 “Chibok girls” freed from Nigeria’s Boko Haram have been reunited with their families and will soon return to school. Now young women, they were among 276 girls kidnapped by Islamist militants in 2014, and have spent months undergoing rehabilitation therapy. Women Affairs Minister Aisha Alhassan says they are now “fully recovered”. They ...
The State Housing Company Limited (SHC), is asking persons and developers who have encroached its lands nationwide to vacate by close of this month or face demolition. According to them, the demolition exercise will begin in Adenta and Frafraha within the Greater Accra Region and later across the country. The Housing Company has bemoaned the ...
Fernando Llorente says he joined Tottenham over Chelsea after a last-minute call from Mauricio Pochettino on Deadline Day. The Spanish striker had been a reported target for Chelsea head coach Antonio Conte after the pair worked together at Juventus, but joined Tottenham after Pochettino convinced him of the club’s ambition. Llorente made his first appearance ...
The German football league (DFL) are set to follow the Premier League and vote on bringing forward their summer transfer deadline to before the season begins. Reinhard Rauball, the DFL president, wants to move the German deadline to August 1, after the Premier League’s clubs voted to move theirs to August 9, 2018. The subject will ...
When you meet a guy who’s attracted to you, it’s great. But, as you know from experience, simply attraction is not enough. After you’ve seen a few guys come and go, it becomes important to know how men bond with women they’re dating. With that in mind, here are 3 signs that he wants to commit to ...
Kofi Kinaata’s ‘Confession,’ has found its way into academia, after winning him great spurs in the 2017 Vodafone Ghana Music Awards. The lyrics of the song, has appeared in a Level 200 Literature in English course material at the Kwame Nkrumah Nkrumah University of Science and Technology. Kofi Kinaata on Wednesday evening, made the announcement ...
Thousands of people are fleeing Ethiopia’s Somali region following clashes in recent days. Eighteen people are confirmed dead following protests which erupted in towns in the east of the country, Adisu Arega, spokesperson of the Oromia regional government, told the BBC. He said 12 of the dead were ethnic Somalis while the remaining six were ...
Pro New Patriotic Party (NPP) youth group in Tamale, the Kandahar Boys, have dismissed media reports that they vandalized proprieties of the Saganarigu district assembly complex in the Northern Region. Some irate NPP youth in protest against the District Chief Executive, Mariam Iddrisu, damaged properties of the assembly complex. Media reports attributed the dastardly act ...
Members of a group calling itself Ashanti Youth for development are threatening to stage a massive demonstration in the United States next Thursday against the Akufo-Addo government, for revoking the mining license of Exton Cubic Group Limited. According to them, the planned demonstration will coincide with President Akuffo-Addo’s visit to the U.S for the UN ...
The failure of government’s technical team to inspect the production of 200 ambulances caused the country to incur a $2.4 million loss as it only discovered the vehicles were unfit for the purpose after it was received from the manufacturers. According to the Executive Director of the National Ambulance Service, Prof. Ahmed Zakariah, there should have been ...
Entrepreneur and council of State Member, Dr. Nii Kotei Dzani, has commended the Akufo-Addo administration for implementing its Free Senior High School policy. As a major manifesto pledge of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) since 2008, the government has commenced the programme which has seen only first year students entering public senior high schools for ...
The deplorable nature of sections of the Sunyani-Kumasi road remains a death trap to passengers and drivers who use the highway. During a visit, the Ghana News Agency sighted some trenches had developed at certain sections along the Abesewa-Nsuta corridor of the highway. The visit was necessitated by the persistent complaints from commercial drivers and ...
Members of Uganda’s ruling National Resistance Movement Tuesday unanimously backed a motion seeking to amend the Constitution to remove the presidential age limit. The move is seen as a significant step towards securing a free run for President Yoweri Museveni, 72, to seek re-election in 2021. President Museveni, 72, is barred by the current Constitution ...
Government says it is compiling a list of road construction companies in the country. This was captured in a public announcement from the Roads and Highways Ministry. “The Ministry of Roads and Highways wishes to inform the General Public that it is in the process of compiling names of prospective companies who have the expertise ...
As the free senior high school education policy takes effect, the government may not be able to assuage the fears of private senior high schools in the short-term, but it is open to formal proposals on how it can collaborate with schools in the private sector, going forward. Speaking to Citi News, a Deputy Information Minister, Kojo ...
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