The Polytechnic Teachers Association of Ghana (POTAG), has finally called off its three-month-long strike over research and book allowance. POTAG begun their nationwide strike in May over government’s plan to scrap the book and research allowance and establish a national research fund. The Association subsequently withdrew their services after various efforts to have the decision ...
Ghana striker Abdul Majeed Waris has taken his turn with the ice-bucket challenge.
A 26-year-old aid worker who was kidnapped from Syria last year has been confirmed as the third hostage held captive by the Islamic State (aka ISIS). The terror-group has demanded a $6.6million ransom for the woman, as well as the release of imprisoned neuroscientist Aafia Siddiqui, ABC News reports. The hostage’s family has asked for ...
Communications Minister, Dr. Edward Omane Boamah says the government has been very tolerant with striking lecturers particularly polytechnic teachers, having paid their salaries all through the period that they have been on strike. Polytechnic Teachers have been on strike since mid-May in demand for the restoration of their book and research allowance, the same cause ...
The Ghana Oil & Gas Service Providers Association (GOGSPA) has dismissed reports that Ghanaians are among the least paid in the oil and gas sector in the world. A report compiled by oil and gas recruitment experts, Hays Oil and Gas, and industry researchers; Oil and Gas Job Search said Ghanaian workers in the sector ...
A number of disappointed applicants for the ongoing recruitment exercise by the Ghana Police Service (GPS) in the Ashanti Region have threatened to demonstrate against the GPS for what they call “unfair †criteria for the selection of recruits into the Police Training School. They also threatened to go to court with evidence of malpractices ...
Uganda will camp in Niger ahead of their opening 2015 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier against Ghana on September 5.
A long-term ceasefire has been agreed between Israel and Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip. The truce, ending seven weeks of fighting that has left more than 2,200 people dead, was brokered by Egypt and began at 19:00 local time (16:00 GMT). Hamas deputy political leader Moussa Abu Marzouk said the deal represented a “victory ...
Mining Services Giant, Metso Minerals Ghana has been dragged to court by a Former Country Managing Director and Financial Director of the company over the termination of their appointments. The two are also in court over the failure of the company to pay them their severance package. Their appointments were terminated over mismanagement of the ...
Nana Akomea Former Communications Director of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Akomea insists that despite the keen contest in the NPP’s upcoming flagbearership race, the party’s two-time presidential candidate (Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo) is the party’s only hope for the 2016 presidential election. According to him, notwithstanding the brouhaha surrounding Nana Addo’s third […]
Samia Nkrumah Ghana must be bold to reject any agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) that will impoverish the people in the country, the Convention People’s Party (CPP) has stated. In line with this, it has called on the country’s  team of economic negotiators at the ongoing talks with the IMF to be assertive […]
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