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Former President John Mahama has urged Christians to be particular about their spirituality since salvation depends on individual efforts. According to him, no Christian will be saved on judgment day through the efforts of their pastor. “Nobody will save your soul for you. Salvation is based on the pureness of your own heart. Not the pureness of your pastor’s heart,” ...

A lecturer at the University of Ghana is demanding disciplinary action against a police officer who allegedly slapped him during a misunderstanding Sunday night at the Kotoka International Airport in Accra. Dr. Kobby Mensah, who is a marketing lecturer, claims the officer, Wilson Oku, in an apparent show of power, slapped him during a misunderstanding between him and some police ...

President Nana Akufo-Addo has said his government will definitely find a way to make the Free Senior High School programme sustainable. “This programme is a very important one and we will find ways to sustain it,” the President said when he spoke at a dinner on Sunday in New York. The Minority and the opposition National Democratic Congress have expressed ...

The Convention People’s Party (CPP) has refuted suggestions by the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) that the country has more than one founder, insisting that Dr. Kwame Nkrumah is the only founder of Ghana. This was in response to moves by President Nana Akufo-Addo, who has proposed legislation to Parliament to designate 4th August as Founders Day, and 21st September ...

A member of the University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG), Dr Isaac Brako, has said most of the members of the association have defied an order from the executives that they should lay down their tools. According to Dr Brako, the members have ignored the directive to strike because the national executives did not use the right channel in communicating ...

The Opposition National Democratic Congress, (NDC) will on Thursday shake the streets of the capital city, Accra with the second face of its Unity walk. The latest unity walk comes on the back of the success of a similar walk organized by the party in Tamale in the Northern region of Ghana. The second edition forms part of the party’s ...

Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia was the Achilles’ heel of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the lead-up to the 2016 elections, Dr Tony Aidoo, Ghana’s former Ambassador to the Netherlands, has said. He said even though Dr Bawumia had flaws in his analysis of the economy ahead of the polls, the NDC, then in government, failed to put up ...

Angry parents of some graduates of the Presbyterian Experimental Junior High School in Tamale, who sat for last year’s Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE), are threatening to sue the West African Examination Council (WAEC) for withholding their results. They today (Monday) picketed at the Tamale Metropolitan Directorate of the Ghana Education Service (GES) and petitioned the Director there. They further ...

The MP for Ofoase-Ayirebi, Kojo Oppong-Nkrumah, has awarded scholarship to 200 students in his constituency. The scholarship will supplement government’s newly launched Free Senior High School Education programme being enjoyed by the current first year students in public second cycle institutions. The Education and Skills Development Programme committee in the constituency received over a 1000 applications, but 200 students from ...

Managing Editor of the Insight newspaper, Kwesi Pratt Jnr has commended President Akufo Addo for giving a ‘very matured’ speech at the launch of the free SHS policy. President Akufo-Addo during the launch of the free SHS programme at the West African Secondary School (WASS) at Adenta in Accra on Tuesday urged politicians to take politicking out of the free ...