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The Ghana Education Service in the Northern region posted 10 teachers to Kochim, a village in the Kumbungu district, where there is no school building. The teachers have been in the community for two years now, always riding from their base in Tamale on motorbikes to sit idle behind a thatch structure put up by desperate parents as learning center ...

The Ghana Registered Nurses and Midwives Association (GRNMA) has warned it will embark on labour unrest if government does not review its decision to withdraw some incentives due its members. The Association is also kicking against a move by the Ghana Health Services to deduct one percent of the basic salary of members to establish a health insurance scheme. “Government ...

A former Deputy Minister of Communications, Felix Kwakye-Ofosu, has questioned the basis of government’s decision to use part of Ghana’s oil revenue to finance the free senior high school policy started last year. President Nana Akufo-Addo last Friday said it is most appropriate to use a part of the country’s oil revenue to fund the policy, which was rolled out ...

A former Board Chairman of the Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) Professor Joshua Alabi has distanced his board from the controversial $72m Operational Business Suite (OBS) contract awarded by the Trust. According to Prof. Alabi, his board took over after the contract had already been signed by the previous board. He added that he saw nothing wrong with ...

The chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Ashanti region has said former president John Mahama will be the easiest candidate to beat in Election 2020. Bernard Antwi Bosiako, popularly known as Chairman Wontumi, has served notice the ruling NPP will force the main opposition party to present Mahama as their flagbearer for the next general polls. “Whenever ...

The editor-in-chief of the informed Newspaper, Andy Kankam, is alleging that cabinet is currently discussing a bill that will decriminalize and legalize homosexuality. Speaking in an exclusive interview with Kwame Tutu on Rainbow Radio 87.5FM, Andy Kankam alleged further that, some cabinet ministers are forcing the president to accept the bill and present it before parliament. By the information he ...

The opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has began forming vigilante groups to match that of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) as the Lower West Akim constituency branch of the party has unveiled a vigilante group named ‘Asamankese NDC forces. The dreaded group according to sources holds magical powers that shield members from bullets and knife attacks. The group were ...

The former President of the Republic, John Dramani Mahama, has been accused by former Vice President of the Republic, Kwesi Bekoe Amissah-Arthur of rendering him ineffective. According to soft spoken Amissah-Arthur, as Vice President, his role was not defined and that someone else was virtually made the Veep in his stead. When asked to mention the name of the person ...

National Democratic Congress(NDC) Presidential Candidate hopeful, Prof. Joshua Alabi, has said Ghana is not yet ready to be governed by young people. Asked if he is not too old to govern the country, the former vice chancellor of the University of Professional studies (UPSA) now Opoku Ampomah University of Professional studies told Francis Abban on Morning Starr that the country ...

Former President Jerry John Rawlings has reiterated the need for the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), to embrace the core values and ideals through which the party was formed. The former leader and founder of the umbrella family, advised party members to be guided by these principles so they are not swayed by the monetization of Ghanaian politics. This he ...