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A former Upper East Regional Minister and senior lecturer at the University of Education, Winneba (UEW) has advised outspoken lawmaker for Assin Central to stop peddling falsehood about institutions he has little or no knowledge about. According to him, facts about current furore of the UEW bandied around by the New Patriotic Party (NPP) firebrand are nothing but untruths advising ...

Some senior high school students who were earmarked for a three-year scholarship under a policy introduced by the previous government are now paying fees. Education Minister, Dr Matthew Opoku Prempeh told the media Tuesday the John Mahama administration was not committed to the programme. He said funds were not released in the second year of the Progressively Free SHS policy ...

The Akyem Maase Methodist Junior High School in the East Akyem Municipality of the Eastern region has been shut down indefinitely following a machete attack on one of the teachers on Tuesday. The teacher, Patrick Brako, was attacked in the staff common room by his assailant identified as Kwasi John who inflicted the cutlass wound on the forehead of the ...

Education Minister, Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh says not a single dime was paid for 100,000 students enrolled under President John Dramami Mahama’s progressively free Senior High School policy for the 2015/2016 academic year. Although he did not mention the quantum of money involved during that academic year, he said such was the situation President Nana Addo Dankwwa Akufo-Addo inherited. Dr. ...

The President of the National House of Chiefs Togbe Afede has urged President Akufo-Addo to be firm in order to effect his desired changes in the country. He is also counseling the President to be bold enough to reject excuses that do not advance his change agenda. “We are happy about your agriculture, industry, and infrastructure driven economic growth agenda. ...

The Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) has started revaluating all properties in the capital city as part of efforts to mobilise enough resources for the development of the city. The exercise, which would be conducted by the Land Valuation Division of the Lands Commission will enable the Assembly revise its property rates and take inventory of all properties in the city. ...

The President will not sack Ghana’s High Commissioner to South Africa, George Ayisi-Boateng, despite calls by a section of the public for him to do so. Mr Ayisi-Boateng earned the wrath of some Ghanaians when declared at an event for the youth of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) that he will put their interests above other Ghanaians in the ...

Teachers of colleges of education have insisted they will not return to the classrooms until government pays them their nine-month salary arrears and show commitment to resolve all outstanding issues. They have disregarded a call from a member of the Ghana Labour Commission to resume work, stating the call was unofficial and would rather prefer the Commission compels government to ...

New Patriotic Party MP for Assin Central Constituency, Kennedy Agyapong has requested that the suspended District Chief Executive (DCE) for Upper Denkyira West in the Central Region be reinstated. “I am appealing to the President to reinstate the DCE for Denkyira-Obuasi because whatever he said was true”, he disclosed on Adom TV. It would be recalled that District Chief Executive ...

Barbara Mahama, wife of Major Maxwell Mahama who was gruesomely murdered by residents of Denkyira Obuasi in the Central Region has revealed she’s yet to forgive her husband’s murderers. When asked by Nana Aba Anamoah in an interview on GH One TV if she’d forgiven those who killed her husband, she responded “forgiven?…I haven’t thought about it.” “… anger is ...