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The Industrial and Commercial Workers Union (ICU) has declared its support for the protesting staff of New Times Corporation with a demand that the Managing Director Carol Annang stay away from the corporation. Staff of the Corporation early today, Monday September 18, 2017, halted business activities there, protesting poor conditions of service and managerial incompetence. They locked up offices at ...

For the third most powerful person inside the Flagstaff house, the raw power of her position was lost in her expressions. The only thing powerful was the smell of her nicely scented office. Mrs Frema Osei Opare responded to questions with the humility and respect of a beauty pageant contestant. And when I asked that we roll back the years ...

The President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has assured that the Free Senior High School (SHS) policy had come to stay. “The Free SHS policy has come to stay and will be sustained”, he said. The President said this when he addressed a group of Ghanaians in New York during a dinner held for him and the First Lady, Mrs Rebecca ...

Former Ashanti Regional Vice Chairman of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Alhaji Muhammad Sani is accusing former president Jerry John Rawlings of being ‘a paid agent of the New Patriotic Party.’ According to Alhaji Sani who is aspiring to be the next Ashanti Regional Chairman of the NDC, the actions of former president show he is against the progress ...

Ghana will produce its first Gas from the newly arrived FPSO John Agyekum Kufuor located in the Sankofa fields in March 2018. This is because the subsea infrastructure has been put in place to ensure efficient delivery. Energy Minister Boakye Agyarko explains that government has also initiated steps to ensure the development of the entire jubilee fields. “The Jubilee field ...

The General Secretary of the PNC, Mr Bernard Mornah has said that the intention of president Akufo-Addo to designate 4th August as Founders Day is a deliberate attempt to dilute the contributions of Dr. Kwame Nkrumah towards the country’s independence. President Akufo-Addo has decided to propose a legislation to Parliament to designate 4th August as FOUNDERS DAY, and 21st September ...

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 ...