Suame lawmaker and minister for Parliamentary Affairs Osei Kyei-Mensa Bonsu has urged the parties in the impasse over the new governing council of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) to shift from their entrenched positions. Government and labour unions at the school have been at loggerheads over the composition of the council, a development that has put ...

Government is wrapping up work on a Rural Development policy for Ghana. Minister for Information Kojo Oppong Nkrumah said that the new policy will provide a proper framework for addressing prevailing issues in Ghana’s rural development and appropriate institutions will effectively respond to the challenges The Minister disclosed this at a Press Briefing in Accra on Wednesday. Oppong Nkrumah said ...

Prince Charles has spoken about the ongoing dispute over whose Jollof rice is best, only to side step the issue of revealing his own preference. Speaking in Nigeria at the end of his West Africa tour, he said:”Having also visited The Gambia and Ghana over the past week, our visit to Nigeria may perhaps provide an invaluable opportunity to compare ...

Mr Samuel Koku Sitsofe Anyidoho, a general secretary hopeful of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), envisions superintending over a united party that will ensure discipline in order to win back the support of the party’s founder, ex-president Rawlings, and others who felt insulted by some actions of the current NDC executive administration. That, he believes, was the surest bet to ...

Minority Chief Whip and Asawase lawmaker Muntaka Mubarak has said majority of his colleagues are not committed to their core business of making laws for the country. According to him, most members of the House have resorted to engaging in other businesses so they can continue to meet the financial demands of their constituents. He said the action of the ...

Government’s ban on small scale mining seems to be having serious effects especially on mining communities. One of the hardest hit areas is the Tarkwa-Nsuaem constituency. The Divisional Chief of Tarkwa Nsuaem Nana Kwamina Adade II, Divisional Chief of Nsuaem did not minced words when the Roads and Highways Minister, Kwasi Amoako- Atta paid a courtesy call on him as ...

The appointment of Ghana’s former Electoral Commission Chairperson, Charlotte Osei, as deputy head of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has exposed the Akufo-Addo led-government. This according to General Secretary of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Johnson Asiedu Nketia. Mr Nketia said Charlotte Osei was one of the most competent persons he has ever met despite her ...

The Ministry of Education has said all trainee teachers will still have to do their one-year mandatory national service in spite of a demonstration against the decision by some newly-trained teachers. On Wednesday, 7 November members of the Teacher Trainees Association of Ghana (TTAG) embarked on a demonstration against the Ministry of Education and the Ghana Education Service over their ...

Head Coach Thomas Dennerby has released a list of 21 players who will fly Nigeria’s flag at the 11th Women Africa Cup of Nations finals in Ghana.The championship starts next week, with Cup holders Nigeria heading Group B of the competition, to contend with South Africa, Zambia and Kenya.The eight –time champions, presently at the world –renowned Sol Beni, Abidjan ...

Assin Central Member of Parliament (MP), Ken Agyapong, has asked the Asantehene Otumfuo Osei Tutu II who’s the Chancellor of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) to stop pampering and shielding the embattled Vice Chancellor of the University, Prof. Obiri Danso. He strongly criticised what he described as Otumfuo’s pampering of the Vice Chancellor; a situation he ...