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Five suspected land guards have been shot dead by the Police while three others are on the run after they were contracted by unknown persons to assassinate the Gomoa Fetteh Chief, Nana Abor Atta, in the Gomoa East District of the Central region. The incident occurred Monday, December 20, around 1:00 am. Report gathered by EIB Network’s Central Regional Correspondent ...

Menzgold says it will begin payment of its aggrieved customers today Monday December 20,2021. The company has in the past failed to deliver on its own payment schedules. In a statement Sunday, the defunct gold collectible firm published a list of 181 customers who are to be part of its payment plan between today and June next year. The company ...

Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has said the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) has an enviable economic track record despite the ravaging effect of the Corona-virus (COVID-19) pandemic. Addressing a teeming members of the NPP at the party’s National Delegates Conference in Kumasi on Sunday, the Vice President reiterated that COVID-19 has affected the cost of living virtually everywhere in ...

Pollster Ben Ephson has warned that the New Patriotic Party (NPP) will be doomed if its proposal to elect a presidential candidate two years ahead of an election while in office is adopted. The Managing Editor of Daily Dispatch newspaper said “it will be worse off” for the NPP because it will create cracks within the party ahead of the ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has appealed to Ghana’s diplomat, Mohamed Ibn Chambas to assist the Authority of Heads of States of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to restore Guinea to constitutional rule. Mr Akufo-Addo who is also Chair of the ECOWAS admitted that the task to restore Guinea to democratic path is a sensitive one that ...

Over 3000 candidates who sat for this year’s West Africa Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) have had their results withheld by the examination body over alleged infractions. Also, 1,339 subject results and 174 entire results of some candidates have been cancelled, WAEC announced in a statement Wednesday. The statement further noted English Language and Mathematics recorded a decline in performance ...

The Ghana Police Service has secured an injunction against a plan by a group called Justice 4 Ghana to demonstrate and picket parliament today, Wednesday, 8 December 2021. The group will hit the streets of Accra to protest against the e-levy proposed in the 2022 budget. Its members also plan to picket parliament until their demands are met. The police ...

Parliament has adopted modifications to the 2022 budget statement and economic policy presented by Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta. The minister in a letter to parliament made some concessions such as GHC10 million provision for the Keta sea defence project, revision of Aker Energy, AGM Petroleum GNPC deal, withdrawal of the reviewed Agyapa deal from the budget among others. The minister ...

An Educationist has urged parents of public school pupils and students to think beyond the free education and invest in their kids education. According to Dr Samuel Kwesi Nkansah, a senior lecturer at the University of Cape Coast (UCC) English department, many parents had neglected all their responsibilities since the inception of the free education which he believes does not ...

President of the National Association of Graduate Teachers (NAGRAT), Mr  Angel Carbonu, has said they do not know the All Teachers Alliance, the group that is opposing the contract signed for One Teacher, One Laptop initiative. The All Teachers Alliance had said it had come to their attention that despite court action they instituted, teachers’ money had been deducted without recourse to ...