Professor Kwesi Yankah, the Minister of State in charge of Tertiary Education and former Pro-Vice Chancellor of the University of Ghana, has said the needless competition from mentoring institutions is the reason some private universities are struggling to stand on their feet and become autonomous. Prof Yankah said the challenges facing private universities were many and included needless competition which ...

Host of ‘Maakye’ on Hot 93.9FM, Boamah Darko has mounted colossal pressure on the Inspector General Of Police (IGP), James Oppong-Boanuh to arrest Founder and leader of Anointing Palace Chapel (APC), Rev. Obofour. The controversial Man of God took social media into frenzy after forcing a man in the church to smoke weed during a church service. In a video ...

The newly elected President of the Ghana Football Association (GFA) Kurt Okraku has heaped praises on his predecessor Kwesi Nyantakyi describing him as his favorite President of the FA so far. He told Bola Ray on Starr Chat on Starr FM that his assessment of Mr. Nyantakyi is based on the fact that he managed to take Ghana to three ...

The Koforidua Circuit Court ‘B’ has remanded a 32-year-old unemployed for disguising himself as a United Kingdom-based Ghanaian doctor to defraud three persons to the tune of Ghc70,750 under the false pretence of securing them travelling documents. The accused, Daniel Okyere, 32, also forced two of his victims to marry to facilitate their trip to the UK. The victims now ...

Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta has affirmed that Ghana as a country needs money and every citizen of this country can attest to it. The Minister who was speaking on Citi TV’s ‘Point of View’ Wednesday evening indicated that the Akufo-Addo led administration met a budget deficit of 9.3% from the erstwhile Mahama government. He said, “You can’t get away from ...

The decomposing body of a girl has been retrieved from a cocoa farm at Tweapease, a farming community in the Kwaebibirem district of the Eastern region. The body of the deceased is suspected to be that of a two-year-old girl, Patient Ashitey reported missing by parents on October 22, 2019. According to the parents, the girl did not return home ...

“The learned trial Judge erred when she held that the words spoken by the 1st Defendant (Ernest Owusu Bempah) in the heat of passion on a political discourse between the 1st Defendant and the NDC Panelist was actionable in a defamation suit.” The above is one of the arguments lawyers for director of Communications for the Ghana Gas Company Limited, ...

The violent demonstration that hit the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) campus in October last year, leading to the destruction of properties worth several millions of cedis, is now history, but the fallout has now become a herculean task the security agencies and the university authorities have to deal with. A planned students’ customary procession, which had ...

President Akufo-Addo has reiterated his government’s commitment to maintaining financial stability and discipline in the management of the Ghanaian economy even in the upcoming election year. Speaking at the Tank Palace Hotel on the theme, “Sustaining Financial and Economic Stability: the Key Priorities” at the 2019 edition of the Ghana Economic Forum, President Akufo Addo, indicated that his commitment to ...

A total of 582 Communities in five regions are expected to benefit from a $ 103 million electrification agreement between the Government of Ghana through the Energy Ministry and the China International Water and Electric Corporation. Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, Information Minister, revealed this to journalists on Wednesday, October 30, 2019, in Accra. He said Cabinet has given approval for the ...