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The Auditor General has surcharged some 62 organisations for receiving payments from the state with no available documentation covering them. The surcharge certificates totalling GHȻ8,886,791.9101742 cover the period between December 31, 2013 and December 31, 2015. The organisations, which are mostly private entities, also include some state institutions as well as staff of some government entities. According to a release ...

The Information Minister has pleaded with Ghanaians to bear with the government on the challenges that have come up since the implementation of the Free Senior High School (SHS) policy. Mustapha Hamid said the problems are largely due to over admission of first-year students across the country. Speaking with members of the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) at a town hall ...

The Chairperson of the Electoral Commission, Mrs Charlotte Osei and her two deputies, Sulley Amadu and Mrs Georgina Opoku-Amankwaa have been cited in the Supreme Court building that houses the offices of the Chief Justice, Madam Sophia Akuffo. Mrs Osei, accompanied by her lawyer, Thaddeus Sory, entered the building at about 12:52pm, with Alhaji Amadu Sulley closely in tow. They ...

The administrator at the Nsawam Government Hospital, Kofi Kolan, has explained that hysteria is the cause of the collapse of some students of St Martin’s Senior High School in Nsawam in the Eastern Region. Some 20 students of the school collapsed on Sunday night and Monday morning. The incident comes on the heels of the death of some students of ...

Over 20 students of the Koforidua Secondary Technical School in the Eastern region are under strict monitoring by health authorities after one person died there, Friday last week. Health authorities have confirmed the cause of death to be meningitis. The student was said to have died shortly after complaining of fever and body pains. He was rushed to the hospital ...

Former President John Dramani Mahama arrived at the Manhyia Palace in Kumasi on Saturday with a crowd of National Democratic Congress (NDC) members who are supposedly supportive of his ambition to become president again. The day was the ninth of the two-week period set aside by Asanteman for the final funeral rites of the late Asantehemaa, Nana Afia Kobi Serwaa ...

The Criminal Investigations Department [CID] of the Ghana Police Service in the Ashanti Region, has begun investigations into a suspected case of arson in a fire incident at the home of known National Democratic Congress (NDC) serial caller, Frank Kwaku Appiah, popularly known as Appiah Stadium. According to Appiah Stadium, some unknown assailants entered his house on Sunday, and started ...

The Kumasi Academy in the Ashanti region will today, December 11, 2017 undergo “massive” fumigation exercise as part of efforts to purge it of the H1N1 Virus which has claimed the lives of four students. The move comes after the Minister of Health Kwaku Agyemang-Manu announced Thursday December 7 that the mysterious deaths recorded at the school were caused by ...

Mr Jonathan Amoako-Baah, the Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Grid Company Limited, says the Company would soon dispatch its staff to sleep on the premises of the Electricity Company of Ghana to demand payment of debt. He said two major customers of the Ghana Grid Company Limited (GRIDCo), namely the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) and the Volta Aluminium ...

The Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ghana, Prof. Ebenezer Owusu Oduro, has said that the suspect in the murder case involving a former resident of Commonwealth Hall is not a student of the school whether past or present. He has since advised the general public not to associate the incident with current students of the school. Speaking an interview with ...