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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 ...

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 ...