Reports making the rounds indicate that government through the Ministry of Education has directed the Controller and Accountant General’s Department to freeze the salaries of the striking polytechnic teachers for the month of August and subsequent months if they continue with their industrial action. The government is also considering whether or not to deduct from […]
Mr. Okoe Vanderpuye The statistics of the cholera outbreak in Accra is still grim: forty deaths, over 4,000 infections and still counting, is an emergency. Were it to be a weather challenge, it would have been upgraded to another level. We are even tempted to believe that some interments have been done outside the radar […]
I seldom have more than five hours’ sleep a day nowadays. But school being on vacation has afforded me the opportunity to make amends. I now take a nap in the morning after the Fajr (dawn) prayer. I study till deep in the night for an upcoming ICM (UK) examination, so the morning nap is […]
It’s not funny; not at all. US$600million cannot vanish from the motherland’s safe. The terrible news is that it has gone missing, unaccounted for, from a central bank’s account. I never stop wondering whether there will come a day compatriots will not wake up to scurrilous acts that wrench and break hearts. Repeatedly, we get […]
Jerry John Rawlings Former President Jerry John Rawlings has joined the National Democratic Congress (NDC) race for national officers to be elected at a conference scheduled for October this year. Mr. Rawlings is said to have started talking to party chieftains on who should be elected, and charged delegates to elect persons who have the […]
 Nana Akufo-Addo Three leading figures of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), some Members of Parliament, regional executives and 22 out of the 23 constituency chairpersons in the Central Region, have endorsed the candidature of Nana Akufo-Addo as the man to lead the NPP in the December 2016 general elections ahead of the August 31 Special […]
Hon. Osei Ameyaw As the furore generated by New Patriotic Party (NPP) UK branch election results to test the popularity of the seven presidential candidates vying for the flagbearership slot of the party is yet to settle, the Germany branch has also released its results with Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo topping the rest. Nana Akufo-Addo […]
Kwadwo Marfo(middle) with Sampson Nyamekye(left) and Fred Joe Awuah A Broadcast  journalist, Kwadwo Marfo, was shot by unknown assailants on Sunday. Mr. Marfo, Morning Show host of Kapital Radio, was said to have been shot in the leg by trigger-happy hoodlums in his friend’s house in the afternoon. They fled the scene after the shooting. […]
Osagyefuo Amotia Ofori Panin II The Okyenhene, Osagyefuo Amotia Ofori Panin II, has lamented over the fallen standards of education in the country. According to him, it was very appalling to learn that about 72 per cent of students who wrote this year’s West African Senior High School Certificate Examination failed. He therefore stressed the need for […]
Germany have won the FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup for a record-equalling third time after a hard-fought 1-0 win over Nigeria at Montreal’s Olympic Stadium. Lena Petermann scored the title-winning goal eight minutes into extra time to settle a match that, like the semi-final against France, had seen the Germans outplayed for long stretches. For […]
Prof Jane Naana Opoku Agyemang, Minister of Education The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) said out of 242, 162 candidates who sat for the 2014 May/June West African senior school Certificate Examination (WAssCE), 68, 062 (28.11 per cent) qualified for tertiary admissions. These candidates obtained grade A1 to C6 in at least six subjects including English Language and mathematics (Core). A statement issued by Agnes […]
Assembly line at a pineapple factory Prof. Kwame Boasiako Omane-Antwi, Vice Rector and Dean of the Pentecost University College Graduate School ((PUCGS), has urged government to provide cheap means of financing for Small and Medium-scale Enterprises (SMEs). According to him, the interest that SMEs pay to banks and other financial institutions were detrimental to the growth of the businesses. Prof. Omane-Antwi, who was speaking recently at […]
Isaac Eshun – CEO Great City Real Estate Limited, an organization that deals in the sale of land and construction of buildings, is offering workers and institutions the opportunity to buy lands at affordable prices in the Greater Accra, Central and Eastern regions of Ghana. The company, which is known for selling litigation-free lands, also offers discounts to organizations that would like to acquire […]
Malam Shamunaus Staz Jibril has tipped Nana Akufo-Addo to win landslide victory in the forthcoming internal elections of the New Patriotic Party (NPP). The Islamic cleric, who hails from Bawku, is credited with an assortment of predictions coming true both on the local and international scenes, feat which he attributes to spiritual calculations. Regarding the regional distribution of the votes, he said “in the Ashanti Region, Nana Akufo-Addo polled 87% and Alan Kyerematan 8%
Kofi Atiemo-Gyan Chairmen of some external branches of new Patriotic Party (nPP) are unhappy with the current leadership of the party in view of recent happenings in the nPP. They have expressed disappointment in the way and manner in which the party is being run by incumbent General Secretary, Kwabena Agyepong and National Chairman, Paul Afoko. Chief among them is Chairman of […]
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