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The Minority in Parliament is considering taking steps to impeach the Speaker of the house, Prof Mike Oquaye, Class News’ parliamentary correspondent Ekow Annan has reported. The Minority claims Prof Oquaye is biased against them. Ranking Member of the Communications Committee of the house, ABA Fuseini, told Ekow Annan that: “For want of a better term, the Speaker has exhibited ...

A meeting organized by governing council of the University of Education ended in chaos. The President of the University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG) Dr. Harry Agbanu told Gifty Andoh on The Pulse on Wednesday, explained that the Council chairman’s attitude brought the meeting to an inconclusive end. He said that the chairman, a former Pro Vice Chancellor of the ...

Ghana’s electricity sub-sector will soon have an oversight body regulating its activities, as envisaged in a Legislative Instrument passed by Parliament in 2008. Officials of the Energy Ministry say the Electricity Market Oversight Panel (EMOP) would among others, seek to monitor the general performance of electricity transmission, ensure smooth and efficient operation of the wholesale electricity market, monitor pre-dispatch schedules ...

Government of Ghana is fully funding the free Senior High School programme, Minister of Education Dr Matthew Opoku Prempeh has said. This means the Akufo-Addo government will fund the cost of public Senior High Schools for all those who qualify for entry from the 2017/2018 academic year onwards. Dr Prempeh said this at the Meet The Press series in Accra ...

The Executive Director of the Institute of Fiscal Studies (IFS) Prof Newman Kusi has said the country’s ability to fund projects that will boost the economy depends on the non-oil sector. Addressing a press conference on Thursday, July 27, 2017 Prof Kusi said: “Even though the coming on stream of these new oil fields are jacking up the growth of ...

The MP for Tamale North constituency, Alhaji Alhassan Suhuyini, has described as “depressing, devastating and heartbreaking” a flood disaster that hit large parts of the Northern region two days ago after heavy rains and stormy weather. The disaster occurred Tuesday morning after the five-hour downpour drenched many parts of the regional capital, Tamale, killing three persons including two children and ...

Kojo Fordjour, one of the 14 persons on police wanted list over the murder of Major Maxwell Adams at Denkyira-Obuase in the Central Region, has vowed to give a blow-by-blow account of circumstances leading to the death of the soldier. The accused, a driver, yesterday told the Accra Central District Court that he would tell the court everything he knows ...

Education minister Mathew Opoku Prempeh has berated the attitude of Ghanaians stating that Ghanaians are difficult people to govern. According to the minister, although Ghanaian contractors are always pushing for more contracts, they do not want to be punished if they breach the terms of their contracts. “Ghanaians are very difficult to govern. If you touch that contractor now, you ...

Founder and leader of the International Central Gospel Church, Pastor Mensah Otabil has caused a stir on social media after a picture of some amounts believed to be offerings in relation to this year’s edition of his church’s global summit fondly called “Greater Works” went viral. The amount was requested from one of the pastors who was speaking at the ...

The home of a member of the Phillip Addison Committee, has been raided by government agents, as the New Patriotic Party (NPP) desperately digs for evidence to nail appointees of the Mahama administration to prove their corruption claims against the previous administration. Francis W. K. Dzata, arguably one of Ghana’s best brains in Emergency Power Construction, and who had served ...