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Workers at state media organization Ghanaian Times are demonstrating over what they say is managerial incompetence. According to them, their acting managing director Carol Annang is managing the company into the wrong direction. “We are suffering at the New Times corporation. Our conditions of service are bad. The managing director has not fulfilled her promises, everything has come to a ...

The District Chief Executive (DCE) of Dadieso in Western Region, Samuel Baah, has caused the arrest of a mathematics teacher at Dadieso Senior High School for charging unapproved fees. Last week eleven Senior High School heads were sanctioned over a similar incident. The accused, Akpor Adjei, is also reported to have been selling mathematical sets, sandals and other learning materials ...

Private legal practitioner, Yaw Oppong has faulted the Ghana Education Service after it sacked two headteachers of Senior High Schools for charging unapproved fees. The law lecturer with the Central University argued the decision by the GES Council to sack two school heads and the interdiction of nine others, may have breached GES Act 506. Just 48 hours into the ...

Telecom giant, MTN has extended its felicitations and support to the chiefs and people of Asogli traditional state, in the Ho municipality as they climax their annual Yam festival this weekend. Some Managers of the telecom were at the Asogli state palace at Ho Bankoe on Friday in to show respect to the Agbogbomefia, Togbe Afede XIV, who sat in ...

The Member Parliament for Prestea Huni-Valley Constituency(PHC), who doubles as the Deputy Minister for Lands and Natural Resources, Lawyer Mrs. Barbara Oteng-Gyasi has clarified that she never said small scale miners at Aboso should go and plant cassava. Speaking at Prestea Workers Club conference in Prestea on September 11, 2017, to over six hundred people, mostly small scale miners and ...

Authorities of Pope John Senior High School (POJOSS) has banned the use of chop boxes by first-year students. According to the institution, chop box breeds bedbug infestation which fights against the learning process of the student. The authorities also added, for boarding student to be accepted in the school, parent must ensure to stick to the rules in order not ...

The President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has described the Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) sales agreement reached between the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) and GAZPROM as “positive” and “one that is going to play a very important role in the economic life of Ghana.” According to him, the decision taken by GAZPROM, the world’s largest natural gas ...

The Minister of Information Mustapha Hamid has disclosed that automobile company Mercedes has recommended that Ghana will be better of converting the substandard ambulances it imported under the NDC into 30-seater mini buses. “…By the letter the Germans wrote us….it doesn’t look like we can get them to become real functioning ambulances,” he added. He was speaking on Joy News ...

Founder of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Jerry John Rawlings, believes his party must redeem its image in the eyes of Ghanaians if it is to stand a chance in 2020 elections. Coming off its comprehensive defeat in the 2016 elections, Mr. Rawlings said a cleanup and the “restoration of our integrity” is paramount. “We don’t like to hear it, ...

Education Minister, Matthew Opoku Prempeh, has justified the decision of the Ministry to sack some heads of Senior High Schools and interdict others. Their actions, according to the Minister, was necessitated by the decision of these heads of Second Cycle institutions to impose some fees on first-year students and in some cases, turn students away without consulting the Ministry. A ...