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President Nana Akufo-Addo has wished candidates participating in this year’s Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) success. “The very best of luck to the 468,053 beginning today. Free SHS awaits you in September 2017. Seize this opportunity with both hands and open the door to your own and Ghana’s bright future,” Mr Akufo-Addo tweeted. #BECE2017 pic.twitter.com/x7xaxAnToE — Nana Akufo-Addo (@NAkufoAddo) June ...

Mother of the murdered military officer was inconsolable at the one-week observation held by the family of the late captain in Accra. It was a day of sorrow for the mother of the deceased who returned from US after the death of her son. She wept uncontrollably as former Chief of Defence Staff, Air Marshal Michael Samson-Oje consoled her. The ...

Some persons suspected to be personnel of the Ghana Armed Forces have reportedly attacked residents of Tontokrom in the Amansie West district of the Ashanti region. The purported soldiers according to eyewitnesses reportedly stormed the community around 10pm Sunday evening heavily armed and started attacking residents. Scores of residents are reported to have sustained life threatening injuries. A resident and ...

Former President Jerry John Rawlings has said in Wa that the death of Captain Maxwell Mahama has sent shocking waves throughout the country. He expressed the hope that his death would serve as a wakeup call for all Ghanaians, the government and the law courts to act responsibly towards the task ahead of them. Former President Rawlings made the statement ...

Women and children wailed uncontrollably in Diaso where a military commander was lynched a week ago as the chiefs went before the gods to pacify them. Captain Maxwell Mahama was killed in cold blood by the locals of Diaso in the Upper West Denkyira district of the Central region after a snail seller raised a false alarm that he was ...

Two (2) candidates Monday morning turned up pregnant to take part in the ongoing Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) in the Western region. The two students are among over Seven thousand candidates writing the BECE in the Sekondi-Takoradi. This was revealed by Western regional director of education Enyonam Amefugah during her visit to four examination centers. Three (3) were also ...

THE PRESIDENT, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has charged newly-appointed ambassadors and high commissioners work closely with the various ministries and agencies to promote Ghana’s commercial interest and to drive private sector investments into the country. According to the President, government has made it a policy to seek more private sector equity financing for its infrastructure projects “rather than the historic ...

A Supreme Court Judge, Justice Jones Dotse, has blamed the problems of Ghana on the alarming rate at which most Ghanaians bend the laws of the country. According to him, while some people bend the rules for their personal gains, others are pressurised to vary the rules when it concerns certain people. In his view, Ghana has some of the ...

Justice Jones Dotse, a Justice of the Supreme Court, has said victims of the “June 3 Disaster” who left behind families and those who survived but are currently facing challenges must be adequately rehabilitated. He said this during the launch of the OneGhana Movement adding that the Movement was in the right direction and called on the public to support ...

The issue about the health status of Former President Jerry John Rawlings which became a topical discussion in the run up to the 2016 general elections with executives of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) explaining why he had been excluded from the campaigns has resurfaced. It would be recalled that the General Secretary of the party, Mr Johnson Asiedu Nketia ...