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Members of the Coalition of Newly Recruited Graduate Teachers have threatened to withdraw their services by the end of December 2017. According to the graduate teachers, the action has become necessary because the Ministry of Education, the Ghana Education Service and the Controller and Accountants Generals’ Department has denied them their six months’ salary arrears for which they have legitimately ...

A memorial service for Kwadwo Asare-Baffuor Acheampong (KABA), who passed away on Saturday has come to a close. KABA was pronounced dead upon arrival at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital where he had been rushed after he suddenly fell sick early Saturday, November 18. He was 37 years old. A book of condolence has been opened at the Front Desk ...

Ace broadcaster Asare-Baffuor Acheampong (KABA), happens to be the only child of his parents according to his colleague, Captain Godsbrain Blessed Smart. The 37-year old died at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital last Saturday after short illness a situation many are still struggling to come to terms with. At a memorial service held for him at the forecourt of Joy ...

The New Patriotic Party in the Northern region has suspended four of its communicators including a senior member over the raging row regarding the Ghana School Feeding programme. Yussif Danjumah and three members of the party’s regional auxiliary communications group, The Young Patriots, have been sanctioned for having secret meetings with national authorities of the Programme who were in the ...

A leading member of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and Director of Research at the African Center for Economic Transformation (ACET), Dr Kwame Amoako Tuffuor has admitted that the free Senior High School (SHS) is fraught with numerous challenges and the earlier government addresses them better for it. He revealed on Kumasi-based Abusua Fm that he wept after seeing the ...

Dr Charles Wereko-Brobby, has described the government’s decision to announce electricity tariff as needless. The former CEO of the Volta River Authority, VRA is of the view that, the disclosure made by the Finance Minister that there will be an average reduction of up to 13 percent in electricity tariffs for residential and industrial consumers clearly undermines the work of ...

A Civil Society Group, SEND-Ghana, is questioning government’s commitment towards addressing infrastructure challenges in various second cycle schools across the country, considering the inadequate budgetary allocation to the sector. The Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, whilst presenting the 2018 budget statement to Parliament on Wednesday, said government has allotted GHc9.26 billion to the education sector. But SEND-Ghana in a statement said ...

The acting Managing Director of Ghana Post Company Limited has dismissed claims that the GhanaPostGPS system has been hacked. James Kwofie said the image of the so-called hack sent to an Accra-based radio station was a photo-shopped picture of someone who debugged his own phone and added the logo of the Ghana Post GPS. “The person sent the image when ...

National Democratic Congress (NDC) Member of Parliament for the North Tongu Constituency, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, has said the government cannot afford to rely on voluntary contributions to fund education, particularly free SHS, as projections for those funds may not materialize. The government announced that it would set up a fund to receive voluntary contributions from individuals to support the implementation ...

Former Minister of Trade and Industry, Ekow Spio-Garbrah, has questioned the capabilities of the current government’s appointees to run their various offices. Commenting on the 2018 budget presented to Parliament on Wednesday, the National Democratic Congress (NDC) flagbearer hopeful said although the Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, has access to more public funds than all his predecessors, he struggles to balance ...