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The National Association of Graduate Teachers (NAGRAT) has kicked against the decision for teachers to write special examination before being granted the license to teach. According to Vice President, Angel Kabonu, the move is an imposition on teachers who have gone through professional training. The National Teachers Council (NTC) of the Ministry of Education announced that teachers will now have ...

Staff of collapsed banks – UT and Capital Banks – are to undergo a skills assessment test by new owners GCB bank as it prepares to lay off workers of the two banks. The operations of the two struggling indigenous banks were taken over by GCB bank Monday following the approval of the Bank of Ghana. Addressing the press Tuesday, ...

Executive Chairman of the Jospong Group of Companies, Joseph Siaw Agyepong, has warded off suggestions that greed drives his business interests. Joseph Siaw Agyepong owns over 40 companies including the country’s largest waste management company, Zoomlion Ghana Limited; SUBAH Infosolutions; the Road Safety Management Services Limited, which has been awarded the mandatory vehicle towing contract. The controversial business mogul in ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on Tuesday, August 15, 2017, cut the sod for the construction of a new cement grinding factory, at the Tema Freezones enclave. Congratulating the Board, Management and Staff of CBI Ghana, and their partner, Lafarge-Holcim, for taking the decision to invest in Ghana, President Akufo-Addo noted that laying the foundation stone for the cement grinding ...

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The Minority in Parliament is demanding a bi-partisan probe into the circumstances surrounding the collapse of two indigenous banks in Ghana. Cassiel Ato Forson who is the Minority spokesperson on Finance suspects something ontoward may have happened and demanded investigations into it. Addressing a press conference, Tuesday, Mr Forson said the managers of the two banks- UT and Capital- must ...

Operation Vanguard has given the assurance that no blood will be spilled again in their operations. The National Commander of the task force, Colonel William Agyapong told Starr News, the President issued a firm warning to the task force during its inauguration to ensure that no single drop of blood is spilled during their operation. “Lives are very precious, and ...

The Central Bank has hinted at the possibility of job losses at two collapsed banks, UT and Capital Banks as GCB Bank rolls out its restructuring process, after acquiring them. The revelation by the financial regulator feeds into the fear of the over 900 staff of the two banks that they will be laid off following the transaction. Head of ...

Former President Jerry John Rawlings has called on the citizenry not to lose the chance to rectify what is wrong in the fabric of the Ghanaian society. “Our country Ghana has great and patriotic citizens, but the country is fast falling under the control and ownership of three groups of people, the second and third of which were spawned by ...

Deputy General Secretary for the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) Koku Anyidoho has pooh-poohed Ghana’s former High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, Victor Smith for asking party executives to summon former President Rawlings. Ghana’s former High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, Victor Smith has said the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) must be even in trying to maintain discipline in ...