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The government is to set aside GH? 480 million in the 2018 Budget for the payment of allowances to teacher and nursing trainees after restoring the allowances for next year. The amount is to be paid to the thousands of nurses and teacher trainees in the various colleges in the country. The allowances, which were scrapped by the previous government ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo is optimistic Ghana will be a great place for private investors in all sectors of the economy to do business under his watch. Speaking at a ceremony to officially cut the sod for the commencement of the affordable housing project by Appolonia City and Ghana Home Loans, President Akufo-Addo said the surest way to deal ...

Maverick legal Controversial legal practitioner, Maurice Ampaw, has lashed out at the Founder of Action Chapel International, Archbishop Nicholas Duncan Williams for saying ‘To fight corruption, we have to jail everybody’. The charismatic leader in a sermon to his congregation Sunday said winning the fight against corruption is conditioned on a total change in Ghanaian attitudes. He further stated that ...

The Brong Ahafo Regional Youth Organizer for the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) Kwame Baffoe, has called for an investigation into corrupt practices by the Brong Ahafo Regional Minister Kwaku Asomah Kyeremeh, for awarding contracts to himself. According to Kwame Baffoe, popularly known as Abronye, the New Patriotic Party (NPP), who has declared fight against corrupt practices in the country, ...

The Mayor of Tema Metropolitan Assembly (TMA) Mr Felix Mensah-La has been found guilty for contempt by an Accra High Court for issuing a public notice for the demolition of structures at the Sakumono Ramsar site despite a court injunction. The TMA Mayor was cautioned and ordered by the Court to within 14 days issue another notice “retracting what you ...

Presidential aspirant of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) Mr. Stephen Atubiga has revealed candidly that Former president Jerry John Rawlings can never be the sole founder of the Party(NDC). There has been a raging argument within the ranks of the NDC over Rawlings’ status as Founder. It would be recalled that, a former Chairman of the party (NDC),Dr. Obed ...

The Minority in Parliament says the President has demonstrated double standards after he appeared to be cozying up with a businessman Joseph Siaw Agyepong whose companies have been linked to several corruption scandals. Expressing surprise, Deputy Minority Leader James Klutse Avedzi said the president must explain his percieved shift in his position after using Jospong-linked scandals to campaign about fighting ...

The Deputy Majority Chief Whip has admitted government has struggled to meet its revenue target in the first year of the Nana Akufo-Addo government but maintains the government has not reneged on its promises. On the contrary, Martin Nyindam said the government has delivered on its major campaign promises and cited the flagship free senior high school policy, as well ...

Two suspects are in the grips of the Northern Regional Police Command for the murder of the Head Pastor of the End Times Believers Fellowship in Tamale, Pastor Ebenezer Ocran. Kwame Dogyi, 28, and Obio Akwasi, 21, are both third-year Electrical Engineering students at the Tamale Technical University in the Northern Region. The two, according to the Northern Regional Police ...

The University of Ghana has cleared some four students that were initially denied the opportunity to partake in the university’s November 2017 congregation. The clearance came on Monday, November 13, two days after the students, who are the former executives of Commonwealth Hall, threatened legal action against the university if their names are not added to the graduation list. They ...