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The Progressive People’s Party (PPP), is considering taking legal action against President Nana Akufo-Addo following the eviction of traders and residents opposite his private Nima residence by National Security operatives. The PPP wants the President to disclose how much he paid to the evicted persons as compensation as well as declare his assets to the public. Speaking a day after ...

The Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cape Coast (UCC), Prof. Joseph Ghartey Ampiah has explained that the University cannot take responsibility for the closure of the John Evans Atta Mills Library in Cape Coast. According to him, even though the University of Cape Coast is supposed to be in charge of the library, there has not been a clear handing ...

Hundreds are expected to take part in a six-day walk starting Saturday to protest the government’s decision to mine in the Atewa Forest Reserve in the Eastern Region. Led by a group called Concerned Citizens of the Atewa Landscape, the protesters will start from Sagyimase to Kyebi passing through some key towns and arrive in Accra next week Thursday. The 95-kilometre ...

Managing Editor of the Insight Newspaper, Kwesi Pratt has strongly hit back at Senior Lecturer of the Department of Chemistry at KNUST, Dr. Richard Tia for “twisting” comments he made about the school noting that the lecturer omitted the essential elements in his statement “in a futile effort to be logical and/or consistent”. Kwesi Pratt who was reacting to the ...

Authorities at Ghana’s Premier University, University of Ghana have warned the Minister of State in charge of Tertiary Education, Professor Kwesi Yankah, to stay off the issue involving the Africa Integras contract that is under some controversy. The authorities are saying that the former Pro-Vice Chancellor of the university should not attempt to protect anybody’s interest in the deal that ...

The Minority in Parliament has accused the Akufo-Addo led administration of collapsing the Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETFund). According to the NDC MPs, government has starved GETFund of enough resources contrary to 2.5% of Tax revenue per the Act. “…The GETFund has a mandate and the mandate is established in Act 581 under section 2. [Thus] we need to resource ...

About 200 irate youth at Ejura in the Ashanti Region on Thursday, 15 March 2018, stormed the Ejura Sekyeredumase district police station and attacked police personnel on duty and demanded that a driver who knocked down and killed two students with his car be released to them for instant justice. The deceased were students of the Ejura Islamic Senior High ...

A Senior Lecturer at the Department of Chemistry at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Richard Tia, has responded to the supposed damning claims made by veteran journalist and Managing Editor of the Insight newspaper Kwesi Pratt against the university. Kwesi Pratt reportedly lambasted KNUST for not being able to produce a solar panel or provide any ...

Some criminals have demanded GHC5,000 as ransom from the father of a one-year-old baby, who got missing at Kyebi–New Town in the East Akim Municipal in the Eastern Region. Frederick Zikpli, father of the baby, disclosed that some people suspected to be kidnappers called him on phone and demanded GHC5,000 through mobile money in order to release the baby. “I ...

EIB Network and Cylo Media Limited have begun partnership talks to bring cutting edge technology in digital content production and distribution. The CEO of Cylo Media, Enzo Vailati, led his team from London, UK to Accra on Thursday, March 15, 2018 to familiarize with the operations of EIB Network, which owns seven radio stations, three TV networks and a newspaper. ...