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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 ...

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] ...

The opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) is set to hit the streets over the controversial Ghana-US military agreement. The demonstration, according to Deputy General Secretary of the party, Koku Anyidoho, is to protect the sovereignty of Ghana. The ratification of the controversial Defense Corporation Agreement between Ghana and the United States of America (USA) has generated a lot of anger ...

The Ghana National Union of Technical Students (GNUTS), is threatening to boycott lectures and embark on nationwide demonstrations by Tuesday [March 27, 2018], if the government does not respond favorably to the concerns lecturers have raised about the Technical Universities (Amendment) Bill 2017. The Bill, which is currently before Parliament, according to the students, seeks to cede the management of ...

The President of the University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG) Dr. Harry Agbanu has downplayed concerns over the salary delays at the University of Ghana (Legon). The University of Ghana has in a memo to staff noted it will be unable to pay the salary of workers in March after it borrowed to pay for January and February. “Processing and ...

The Rebecca Foundation has made separate donations of medical supplies to the Ridge Hospital and the La General Hospital in Accra. The donations were made in collaboration with the B.R.A.I.N Project, Global Outreach Consortium, Future of Africa Foundation and GCB Bank. The donations valued at about USD 3,734,061.50 were presented to these two health facilities on Friday, March 23, 2018 ...