Dr Mathew Opoku Prempeh, Minister of Education will be briefing Parliament on the recent deaths at the Kumasi Academy (KUMACA). Member of Parliament for Akasti North and Ranking Member on the Committee on Education, Peter Nortsu, said parliament can only step in after the sector minister has briefed the House on the issue. Two first-year students of Kumasi Academy in ...

Former Attorney General Martin Amidu has said “moles” planted in high positions by the Mahama administration, within the ministries ahead of the 2016 elections, are sabotaging efforts by the Akufo-Addo administration to fight corruption, especially regarding the GHS51.2 million judgement debt paid to businessman Alfred Agbesi Woyome by the Mills/Mahama administration. In an article about “the missing link” in the ...

Hungarian Foreign Affairs and Trade Minister Péter Szijjártó has said Ghana does not need aid or handouts from European countries, but rather a skilled workforce. He said once there is a skilled workforce who can make their know-how available to the Ghanaian economy it will ensure rapid development. Addressing attendees at a ceremony held at the premises of a newly ...

A Former Deputy Ashanti Regional Minister under the erstwhile National Democratic Congress (NDC) government, Mr. Joseph Yamin says every Ghanaian would go to heaven should God judge its citizens by their hospitable nature. Mr. Yamin made his assertion on Accra based, Accra Fm on Monday while commenting on slave issues in Libya that has trapped many Ghanaian citizens in the ...

Unfair Trade Practices such as the dumping of cheap and poor quality imported goods in Ghana which hurt the businesses of expats in Ghana will soon be a thing of the past, President Akufo-Addo has assured. Addressing the Ghanaian Expatriate business community at the first ever Expatriate Business Awards ceremony held at the Movenpick Hotel in Accra, Mr. Akufo-Addo said ...

Ashanti Regional Minister, Simon Osei Mensah has said, the cause of the death of students at Kumasi Academic is Ebola related. It is not known how the Minister arrived at the conclusion when health professionals are still conducting series of investigations into the shocking deaths at the institution that celebrated its 60th Anniversary at the weekend. “This is not malaria ...

South Africa’s corruption watchdog has found officials misused millions of dollars during Nelson Mandela’s funeral four years ago. According to the report, 300m rand ($22m; £16m) was redirected from a development fund to help with costs. It had been earmarked for things like “sanitation, the replacement of mud schools and the refurbishment of hospitals,” the report stated. Instead, the authorities ...

The government has served notice that Oil Marketing Companies found guilty in the illegal diversion of premix fuel will be banned. “We wish to note that preliminary checks have revealed that the perpetrators are made up of some Oil Marketing Companies (OMCs}, Landing Beach Committees and Transporters. The perpetrators, after loading the premix fuel from Tema Oil Refinery, do not ...

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) Member of Parliament (MP) for Bia East, Richard Acheampong, has revealed that an embassy in Ghana, is busily lobbying for the legalization of homosexuality. According to the MP, the said embassy on several occasions, held homosexual consultative meetings at it premises. Although, the MP, refused to disclose the name of the embassy, The Herald’s findings ...

Tamale Central Member of Parliament (MP), Inusah Fuseini says the Senior Minister was politically incorrect when he criticized the president in public for praising the Jospong Group of companies last month. He said Yaw Osafo Maafo shirked his obligation as an appointee to defend the action of president Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo when he had the opportunity. “The chicken has ...