Joseph Osei-Owusu, the First Deputy Speaker of Parliament, has challenged students of Juaben Senior High School (SHS), his alma mater, to work hard to win the National Science and Mathematics Quiz (NSMQ) and the Senior High Schools Debates Competitions, this academic year. As his personal contribution to meet that challenge, he pledged to support the budget they would require to ...

Pirates operating in the Gulf of Guinea and Somali have kidnapped at least five Ghanaians who were working in a ship on the Gulf of Guinea near Somali waters since 2010. One of the survivers of the Somali pirate kidnapping, Mr Jewel Ahiable, in an interview with Atiewin Mbilla-Lawson on World Today Extra on Starr FM said he and the ...

The National Executive Council of the Ghana National Council of Private Schools (GNACOPS) has called on all private schools in the country to hold on with the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) registration process until the promise made by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo that the government will absorb half of the registration fees, is fulfilled. The Council said President ...

Prime Minister of Barbados, Mia Amor Mottley, has registered her country’s deep appreciation of Ghana for agreeing to assist her country with nurses to deal with the shortfall of health caregivers in her Barbados. Madam Mia Amor Mottley, said this at the Jubilee House when she held bilateral talks with President Akufo-Addo as part of her official State visit to ...

The minister of Fisheries and Aquaculture Development, Mrs Elizabeth Afoley Quaye, has said the recent decline in annual yields of small pelagics from approximately 130,000 metric tonnes (MT) 10 years ago to about 30,000 MT has forced government to review the Fisheries Acts. She said the reasons for this drastic decline included over-fishing and unreported and unregulated fishing practices. Addressing ...

Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta has rushed to parliament to amend the 2020 budget statement barely 48 hours after his presentation. The move is to satisfy Chiefs and People of the Volta Region who had accused government of neglecting their roads by refusing to mention them among the list of roads to be fixed. The Volta Caucus in parliament on Thursday ...

The many narrations being put out by persons suspected of planning to overthrow the government have prompted questions about the veracity of the defence by both the suspects and their counsel. When news of the arrest of Dr. Frederick Yao Mac-Palm, the Proprietor of the Citadel Hospital at Alajo in Accra, and the subsequent stockpile of weapons and the production ...

The National House of Chiefs has called on Ghanaians to vote ‘No’ in the December 17 referendum seeking to allow the participation of political parties in local level elections. According to the chiefs, allowing political parties to participate in the local polls will further promote exclusiveness associated with political power in the country. In a statement signed by the President ...

Black Stars Coach, Kwesi Appiah, believes he deserves more chances to prove his worth with the Senior National team. Appiah came under intense criticism after Ghana’s abysmal performance at the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations in Egypt where Ghana exited at the Knock-out stage. Though his contract will expire in December, there has been a huge public outcry for him ...

Black Stars captain Andre Ayew is grateful for the massive support offered the team by Cape Coast fans following their 2-0 win over South Africa on Thursday night. The #BringBackTheLove campaign was fully embraced in the Central Regional capital with the stadium filled to the rafters as the Black Stars got their qualification campaign for the 2021 Africa cup of Nations (AFCON) off to ...