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Two unemployed friends who attacked and robbed a trader and her granddaughter of a mobile phone, handbag and eighty Ghana cedis have been slapped with a 15-year jail term by a Juabeng Circuit Court over the weekend. Kwabena Agyeibi, 31 and Isaac Gyamfi -22 of Mampongteng Korea pleaded guilty to three charges after police retrieved mobile phones, handbag and mask ...

The National Association of Graduate Teachers (NAGRAT) has indicated plans to demand from the education management body, a review of class size to address the issue of overcrowding following the implementation of the government’s free Senior High School policy. According to Vice President of NAGRAT, Angel Gabriel Karbonu the current situation where some classrooms have over 50 students is unproductive. ...

The Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT) has welcomed the decision by the Government of Ghana to pay the registration fees for candidates for the 2018 Basic Education Certificates Examination (BECE). The General Secretary of GNAT, David Ofori Acheampong, said over the years, the inability of some parents to foot the registration bills of their wards has denied qualified students ...

The leadership of the All People’s Congress (APC) has dissolved all elected positions from the constituency, regional and national levels in the party. “All executive members are now acting leaders with the exception of the General Secretary and the Leader/Founder of the party. At a Press Conference in Accra, Mr Hassan Ayariga, Leader/Founder of the party, said the APC has ...

The Fountain Gate School at Alajo, a suburb of Accra, has been gutted by fire. The incident happened in the early hours of Monday, 13 November. An eyewitness told Accra100.5FM that the fire started in a nearby house and spread to other buildings around the area including the Fountain Gate School building. The pupils, he said, had been evacuated from ...

President Nana Akufo-Addo has revealed that electricity tariffs will soon be reviewed downwards, details of which will be announced in the 2018 budget presentation on Wednesday, November 15. The President made the revelation at the at the 6th Association of Ghana Industries (AGI) and Quality Awards dinner on Saturday. “I’m glad that businesses are no longer burdened by the erratic ...

The Ministry of Health has warned agitating nurses at the Ankaful Psychiatric Hospital to desist from their ‘lawless acts’ over their demands for the Medical Director of the Hospital to be removed. They’ve petitioned the Health Minister to sack Dr Eugene Dordoye for mismanaging the health facility. The angry nurses claim they’ve been prevented from demonstrating at the hospital to ...

The Ghana Medical Association (GMA) has given the government a six-month ultimatum to address challenges with conditions of service of its members. The Association has accused the government of failing to abide by the ruling of the National Labor Commission (NLC) which urged the government to pay the market premium as a percentage of their basic salary. They are therefore ...

Minority Leader and Member of Parliament (MP) for Tamale South Constituency, Haruna Iddrisu has urged the rank and file of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) to put the painful 2016 defeat of the party behind them and focus on 2020. Addressing the Tertiary Educational Institutions Network (TEIN), a student’s wing of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) at the Bagabaga College ...

The Minority in Parliament will today, November 13, hold a roundtable discussion on the 2018 budget and the economic outlook of the country. The Minority spokesperson on finance, Cassiel Ato Forson says the program is aimed at offering alternative solutions to the country’s economic challenges. It comes ahead of the 2018 budget which will be presented in Parliament by the ...