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Officials at the Islamic Education Unit in the Ashanti Region are calling on parents not to allow their wards to stay home after the official Eid al-Fitr holiday. The concerns come in the wake of previous experiences in Islamic schools where most pupils and students stay away from school in the days after Islamic festivities. Officials are worried the trend ...

The Cape Coast Metropolitan Assembly, together with the Central Regional Coordinating Council, has donated food items on behalf of the President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, to the Muslim community in Cape Coast. The donation is in support of this year’s Eid al-Fitr, which comes off on Sunday 25 June. The donation was made to the Central, Kotokuraba, and Abura Ahmadiyya ...

The United States (US) gave the Ghana government an amount of US$300,000 to cater for the two ex-Guantanamo Bay inmates being housed in the country for two years, Mahmud Umar Muhammad Bin Atef and Khalid Muhammad Salih Al-Dhuby, George Loh, a former Vice Chairperson on parliament’s Constitutional, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Committee, has revealed. The former MP for North Dayi, ...

Kumasi High School has secured a semi-final spot at the ongoing National Science and Maths Quiz after dismissing Wesley Girls High School, a female powerhouse. At the end of the five rounds of competition, Kumasi High School collected 43pts to keep ‘Wey Gey Hey’ 12 points away from victory. T. I. AMASS, Fomena, placed second but will find solace in the fact that ...

Kofi Adams, National Organiser of the National Democratic Congress has jumped to the defence of former President John Dramani Mahama, rubbishing claims suggesting the latter caused the NDC’s defeat in last year’s general election. Doubled as the 2016 national campaign organiser of the party, Mr. Adams insisted that irrespective of what others think, the former president is NDC’s best bet ...

Nana Agyei Baffour-Awuah, lawyer for the plaintiffs in the Gitmo Two case, has indicated that the Supreme Court ruling has entrenched Ghana’s democracy. According to him, the controversy over what agreements should go to parliament and those that should not, with respect to the executive arm of government, has been settled by the apex court’s ruling. The Supreme Court of ...

Controversial man of God and founder of the International God’s Way Church, Bishop Daniel Obinim, says God has revealed to him that six times the number of persons including prominent figures who died last year (2016) will die this year. “Ghana is not stable at all. Don’t believe anyone who comes to tell you that Ghana is at peace. Last ...

The NPP government’s ‘One District One Factory’ initiative has received a major boost following the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding for a funding facility worth up to $2 billion between a number of Ghanaian banks and the private sector led by the Association of Ghana Industries (AGI), and the Chinese government’s private sector development corporation. Under the agreement, the ...

Just one tragedy involving a mortuary man and a young man in the Upper East region has led to multiple catastrophes, turning the regional capital upside down with soldiers deployed to restore order at the Bolgatanga Police Station. Daniel Azaah Alhassan, a chief mortuary attendant at the Upper East Regional Hospital, reportedly crashed a private car into one James Ataburo ...

Former Foreign Affairs Minister, Hon. Hanna Serwaa Tetteh has denied knowledge of any discussion on the 21st November 2016 with the US Embassy that sought to withdraw the courtesies extended to former Presidents and top government officials in the country. “I have spoken to her and she has denied any discussion with the Embassy when she was in office”, ranking ...