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Former Director General of the Ghana Education Service (GES), Mr. Michael Nsowa Agyei has attacked freedom of speech of teachers asking them to shut up on the introduction of the new licensing examination for teachers. “If anybody says the minister is not following proper communication channels that person is just being untruthful”, the current chairman of the Education Council took ...

Ghana’s First Lady Mrs. Rebecca Akufo-Addo has called on African scientists attending the Emerging Infectious Diseases and Biosecurity Conference in Accra to deal with the challenge of emerging infectious diseases on the continent. She said she believes the continent has “enough brilliant minds to deal with our own challenges” through innovative solutions. She further noted that the 2013 Ebola outbreak ...

Members of the Abudu and Andani Royal families have clashed at Alabar, a suburb in Kumasi in the Ashanti region. Ultimate FM’s Isaac Bediako Justice reports that the two rival groups clashed Thursday morning over the management of a lorry station at Alabar. The swift intervention of the Police, however, prevented the clashes from turning bloody. According to Bediako, the ...

Social media handles have been awash with a story curled from an interview with Kofi Amoabeng, Founder of UT Bank over claims he does not see the need to pay tithe and therefore will not honour that part of a religious obligation. According to the Bible, tithing is the act of giving one tenth of annual produce or earnings, formerly ...

An elaborate plan to make Ghana a major force in the export of petroleum products in the West African sub-region and beyond should make significant strides by the end of this year, Deputy Energy Minister in charge of Petroleum, Mohammed Amin Adam, has revealed. Dr. Adam says a Petroleum Hub taskforce has already been established to develop a master plan ...

The Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO) has launched investigations into the breakdown of MRI and CT scan machines at five major government hospitals in the country. The Magnetic Resonance Imagining (MRI) and Computed Temography (CT) scan machines at the five major government hospitals have all broken down since their installation in 2013, bringing discomfort to patients and medical practitioners ...

Attend all the schools you can, and obtain all the grades you can, but without an influential father, who is politically connected to place you in the topmost echelon of a state institution, you will end up jobless, poor, wretched and useless. This is the story of Senior Minister, Yaw Osafo Maafo, who has strategically pushed and placed his two ...

Former President John Dramani Mahama is not leader of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC). Deputy General Secretary, Koku Anyidoho explained that, a flagbearer ceases to be leader when the party loses an elections. National Executive Council of the NDC amended the party’s constitution and made Mr. Mahama then flagbearer leader. The General Secretary of the NDC in declaring former ...

The leadership of the Ghana National Association of Graduate Teachers (NAGRAT) has accused the Education Minister, Hon Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh of running the Education Ministry in the media warning him against the continuation of such a practice. “The minister on several occasions chooses to communicate every information he wants to get in the media”, NAGRAT president, Christian Addia-Poku alleged. ...

Heads appear to be rolling following the collapse of two financial institutions – UT Bank and Capital bank – on Monday as a result of their insolvency. Information reaching DAILY GUIDE indicates that Stephen Antwi-Asimeng, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the defunct UT Bank and Gillian Slater, Chief Operating Officer (COO), have been asked to go home with immediate effect. ...