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Contrary to claims Jesus Christ is not the son of God, the Leader and founder of Glorious Word Power Ministry International (GWPMI), Reverend Owusu Bempah has stated that he was misquoted by the media. According to him, he only sought to give the antecedent of how the name Jesus Christ came about. The prophet maintained that, he was only educating ...

Vice-President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia did nothing wrong with his response to former President John Mahama in connection with the latter’s description of the national digital addressing system as “419” – to wit, fraudulent, Minister of Information Mustapha Hamid has said. Dr Bawumia described Mr Mahama as “ignorant” and “clueless” about the GhanaPostGPS application developed by local IT firm Vokacom as ...

The hierarchy of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), is yet to receive any official petition demanding the reinstatement of its suspended General Secretary, Kwabena Agyapong. This is regardless of a number of groups making appeals in the media for the NPP hierarchy to forgive him. The NPP suspended its 2nd Vice Chairman, Sammy Crabbe, alongside Mr. Agyapong in 2015, after ...

Challenges of over-congestion in classrooms and dormitories, inadequate desks and a lack of teaching and learning materials, and others that have greeted the Free SHS policy can be tackled by decentralising the Secretariat tasked to manage the policy. According to Dr Eric Oduro-Osae, a lawyer, an Economist a local government expert, a decentrailised Free SHS Secretariat will fast track the ...

President Akufo-Addo will today Tuesday, November 7 launch the Accelerated Oil and Gas Capacity Programme in Accra. The project is in fulfilment of the Government’s campaign promise of aggressively investing in education and skills to manage the oil and gas sector. A statement issued by the Energy Ministry said this program has four thematic areas namely; technical, vocational, apprenticeship development ...

Armed robbers on Friday, 3 November attacked the toll booth at the Tema – Accra stretch of the motorway and made away with GHS45,000 being tolls collected for three days. Accra100.5 FM’s Tema regional correspondent, Danso Abbeam, reported on Ghana Yensom on Monday, 6 November that: “The Police officers guarding the toll booth were not present when the robbery attack ...

A former deputy minister of communication, Felix Kwakye Ofosu has asked the Akufo-Addo government to begin prosecuting corrupt officials by starting with one of his own – the current Managing Director of the Bulk Oil Storage and Transportation (BOST) Alfred Obeng, before extending same to former officials of the Mahama administration. According to him, Mr Obeng has been accused of ...

The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Authority (DVLA) will today launch a new driver’s licence and a new vehicle registration smart cards. The new licence, also a smart card, contains a chip loaded with the owner’s bio-data and the driver’s personal information. The introduction of the two has been met with opposition from some driver unions and groups the authority suspects ...

Allowances paid to Chiefs and queen mothers have been increased by 100% by the Akufo-Addo-Bawumia government. Making the announcement on Monday, 6 November 2017, during a meeting with the National House of Chiefs in Kumasi, the Ashanti regional capital, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo said the increment is in line with a 2016 manifesto pledge. “The allowances for Paramount Chiefs ...

Vice-President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia’s response to former President John Mahama in connection with the $2.5 million national digital addressing system which the latter described as “419”, was excessive. In his response, Dr Bawumia described Mr Mahama as “clueless” and “ignorant”, adding that the former president would have done himself a great favour if he had read more about the project ...