The famous fiber optics inventor and nanotechnology expert, Dr. Thomas Mensah was the guest speaker at his alma mater on Speech Day March 12, 2018, in Cape Coast. In front of a large audience including over 1000 Adisadel students, parents, Adisadel Old Boys, his class of 1968 and the organizing class of 1993, Dr. Mensah, said Adisadel and Ghanaians have ...

The Ministry of Education has directed heads of Senior High Schools across the country not to include Parents Teachers Association (PTA) dues on school bills starting September this year. The move according to the Education Minister, Mathew Opoku Prempeh (NAPO) is to ensure poor students are not deprived education due to the inability of their parents to pay PTA dues. ...

The government has served notice that it is taking the Military Cooperation Agreement it entered into with the United States in 2015 to Parliament for ratification. This comes after the Defence Minister Dominic Nitiwul disclosed that Ghana did not have a copy of the 2015 military agreement. The 2015 agreement was signed by former Foreign Affairs Minister Hanna Tetteh. Reacting ...

“I am not guilty, my Lord.” These were the words of Dr Stephen Kwabena Opuni, the immediate past Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD), when he appeared before the Accra High Court yesterday to answer charges of causing financial loss of GH¢271.3 million to the state. Also pleading ‘not guilty’ was the businessman, Seidu Agongo, who has ...

According to the Centers for Disease Control, influenza viruses continue to wreak misery in 41 states. Got your flu shot? Good, do it again next year. However, keep in mind that other viruses cause respiratory illness: parainfluenza viruses, adenoviruses, coronaviruses, rhinoviruses….not to mention bacteria such as Streptococcus. Despite the fact that your world teams with infectious microorganisms, most of the ...

REAL MADRID star Cristiano Ronaldo is reportedly keen for Liverpool ace Mohamed Salah to join him at the Bernabeu this summer. Real are expected to overhaul their squad at the end of a disappointing season that has left the Champions League as their only chance of winning a trophy. And Gareth Bale is expected to be among the high-profile casualties ...

Ugandan entertainer Eddy Kenzo has scooped a second international award in one week, following his win at the 2018 Kid’s Choice Awards organized by Nickelodeon. Eddy Kenzo was announced winner of the ‘Favourite African Star’ category beating off stiff competition from South Africans, the rapper Cassper Nyovest and athlete Caster Semenya, Nigerian entertainers Davido and child comedian Emmanuella (Nigeria), and ...

Former Chief of Staff Julius Debrah and former attorney general Marietta Brew Appiah Oppong have been sighted at the Criminal High court three which is hearing the case involving Stephen Opuni. The former NDC officials are in the court to solidarise with their fellow party member who was head of the Ghana COCOBOD. Other officials seen at the court room ...

Former Finance Minister, Seth Terkper is urging government to put in place proper measures to finance the Free Senior High School (SHS) project. According to him, the high cost of the project is already throwing government’s budget out of gear. “For me I’m looking at the figures…Out of GHc240 million that was going into the ABFA [Annual Budget Funding Amount] ...

Nigeria’s government is in talks with Islamist militant group Boko Haram about a possible ceasefire with the ultimate aim of securing a permanent cessation of hostilities, the country’s information minister said on Sunday. It is the first time in years the government has said it is talking to Boko Haram about a ceasefire in an insurgency that has killed tens ...