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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 ...

The Minister of State in charge of Tertiary Education, Prof. Kwesi Yankah, has said he wrote the title song for government’s education policy – Free SHS. He, however, adds that the song was composed by Varrick Armah who put together the popular gospel tune Oye. The second stanza of the free SHS song reads “The time has come for children ...

The Ghana Education Service has finally released the list of heads of Senior High Schools who have been sanctioned for charging unapproved fees contrary to directives from the service. All 11 were slapped with sanctions by the Ghana Education Service (GES) Council after they were found to have charged unapproved fees in the wake of the implementation of the free ...

The Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital in the Ashanti region has suspended new emergency admissions following an acute shortage of doctors at the facility. The decision was taken after an emergency meeting to review the impact of the shortage of Doctors on the hospital. A statement by the Medical Director of the hospital, Dr. Yaw Ampong Adu-Arko, stated that the facility ...

Ghana’s Energy Minister, Boakye Agyarko, and the CEO of the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation, Dr K K Sarpong, have saved Ghana over $1 billion in a new LNG transaction that will allow for the addition of up to 1,000MW to Ghana’s power supply. The new GNPC LNG deal, involving the world’s largest gas producer, Gazprom, is being hailed within the ...