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Ghana is a nation where government workers of all shades (civil servants, public servants, politicians and even private business people) have discovered avenues of enriching themselves unashamedly to the extent that some have become dollar millionaires. Some have even become richer than the country itself, flaunting their wealth without fear of prosecution. If not, how does one explain the following? ...

The poor performance of students at the basic education level has become a major source of concern to many stakeholders in Northern Region who are calling for immediate solution to the phenomenon. At the first ever Regional Education Forum organized by the Northern Regional League of Youth Association in collaboration with Youth Empowerment for Live (YEfL) held in Tamale, the ...

A youth group in the opposition National Democratic Congress has said it will on May 29, 2017 resort to the Antoa deity to deal with all executives of the party who they claim pocketed monies and resources meant for the party’s 2016 electoral campaign. According to the convener of the group, Seth Okyere, some executives hoarded party resources and also ...

Togolese armed security forces last week made a rare attempt to enter Tatale- Sanguli, a district capital in the Northern Region of Ghana 3km from the border with its neighboring ally, when unidentified gunmen held residents hostage in what later turned out to be a robbery attack. A paramount chief of the area, and many residents revealed the incident to ...

The Senior Minister Yaw Osafo-Maafo has called on the German government to support Ghana to deepen programmes that inures to the comprehensive development of the private sector. He noted that looking at the challenges confronting the nation the only best alternative is to mobilize resources to increase the capacity of the private sector to assume the business leadership role in ...

Students of the Ghana Law School who boycotted their Criminal Procedure exams will have another chance to sit for the paper on Monday, June 5, 2017. Led by their leaders, the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA) and Makola students boycotted the Criminal Procedure paper some two weeks ago on May 18. They contended that even though they ...

A High Court judge in the Ashanti Region capital Kumasi has been burgled Monday dawn, raising security concerns. Justice Senyo Amedahe’s home in the suburb of Danyame is said to have been attacked partly because the police officer detailed to protect him was allegedly absent. Joy News’ Ashanti Region Correspondent Erastus Asare Donkor reports that laptops, an undisclosed amount of ...

Some natives of Gbani, a rural community in the Talensi District of the Upper East region, have spoken strongly of a possible violent clash as they allege that a Chinese company barred three weeks ago from mining in the area has resumed work, causing further havoc to the environment. The Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources on Tuesday May 2, ...

A former Deputy Minister of Education Samuel Okudzeto-Ablakwa has pleaded with Teacher Trainees in the country not to go ahead with their planned picket at the Ministry to demand unpaid feeding grants. Leadership of the Teacher-Trainees Association of Ghana (TTAG) has served notice to besiege the Education Ministry, after efforts to get the funds released went unheeded by government. An ...

First Lady Mrs Rebecca Akufo-Addo has called on all individuals and institutions to contribute whatever they can to help build a new mother and child unit for Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) in the Ashanti Region to help “save the lives of our mothers and children in the region and beyond.” The First Lady made this call at the Kumasi ...