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Government has given a strong indication that the restoration of the abolished trainee teachers’ allowances will soon follow after restoring that of nurses. The disclosure comes during the launch of the restoration of the nurses’ trainee allowances by the government Tuesday. The erstwhile administration of ex-president John Mahama in 2014 scrapped the age-old teacher trainee allowance, replacing it with student ...

The autopsy report of the late Major Maxwell Mahama is still unavailable to police investigators, four months after his death. The army officer was promoted posthumously to the rank of Major, after he was slain on May 29, 2017, by some youth of Denkyira Obuasi in the Central Region, on suspicion that he was an armed robber. The incident reportedly ...

The 13 members of the pro-government vigilante group, Delta Force have had charged against them dropped by the Police based on the advice of the Attorney General. The 13 were earlier charged with conspiracy to commit crime, assault on public officer and causing unlawful damage. The 13 were arrested and charged after they stormed and chased out the Ashanti regional ...

The Eastern Regional Chairman of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) Mr. Bismark Taiwan Boateng has endorsed former President John Dramani Mahama to lead the party again in 2020 general elections as their flag bearer despite the abysmal performance at the 2016 polls. According to him, the visions and policies that the former president laid down during his tenure as ...

New Patriotic Party (NPP) Member of Parliament for Assin Central, Kennedy Agyapong says the Net 2 cameraman who died during last Saturday’s gas explosion at atomic junction was destined to die. He believes it was the late Mohammed Ashley Yakubu’s destiny to die because they were cautioned to tread cautiously. According to him, when news of the explosion trickled in, ...

The restored monthly allowances of nurse-trainees will cost the government Gh¢232 million this academic year, according to President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo. Restoring the allowance was an integral campaign message of Akufo-Addo going into the 2016 polls after the Mahama administration cancelled it in 2014. Speaking during the launch of the restored allowance Tuesday, President Akufo-Addo said about 58, 000 ...

Two school-children, aged between two and five, on Saturday afternoon met their untimely deaths when they were electrocuted by a metal television pole at Agona Duakwa Zongo in the Central Region. They were Bright Kwesi Nyanful, a Nursery Two kid and Kelvin Boakye, in Kindergarten Two, of Agona Duakwa Islamic Primary School. The kids were playing together at the back ...

Energy Minister, Boakye Agyarko, has disclosed that government has given the National Petroleum Authority (NPA) the clearance to hire 200 auditors to make sure that safety standards are complied with at all gas stations across the country. Speaking after the inauguration of the governing board of the Ghana Gas on Monday, Mr. Agyarko stated that incidents of gas explosions are ...

The operation of the Boankra Inland Port project meant to boost transit trade – serve importers in the Northern sector of Ghana and landlocked countries of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger – will not to start anytime soon. The fate of the port, the building of which began in year 2008, has now been tied to the reconstruction of the ...

The Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS) has dismissed claims that Saturday’s gas explosion at the Atomic junction on the Madina road in Accra was triggered by a Khebab seller. The Public Relations Officer of the GNFS, Billy Anaglatey in an interview on Starr Midday News said preliminary investigations have revealed that the khebab seller was yet to even set up ...