NEWS

There have been a series of labour agitations in Accra Thursday morning with workers demanding better pay and working conditions. Workers undertaking the Tema Port Expansion project have been demonstrating over how their appeals for an improvement in their conditions of service have been ignored. This is the second time in months they are demonstrating and stalling work in the ...

The Executive Director of  the Institute for Education Studies (IFEST) formerly VIAM Africa has said government’s ‘pass-BECE-and-qualify-for-free-SHS’ mantra could be counter-productive. Dr Prince Armah says while the government remains committed to helping vulnerable groups and making Senior High School education accessible to all, it will be shooting itself in the foot if it goes ahead with the pass/fail grade description ...

The police in the Central Region have arrested five  suspected armed robbers classified as “notorious” in the Cape Coast South Constituency. The men were caught following an operation undertaken by a team of officers in the Region. They include, Ekow Bentil, 18, Agbovie Mensah, 22, Emmanuel Amoah 21, Ekow Ewusie, 21, and Mustapha Mohammed, 53. At a news conference in the ...

Students of the Ghana School of Law Thursday morning boycotted a paper they were supposed to write in protest against a mix-up in the questions. The students were supposed to write their second paper for the first semester Thursday morning but, led by their Students’ Representative Council (SRC), they boycotted the paper. According to the students, even though they were ...

ACP Okyere Darko, the prosecutor at the centre of the release of the eight members of the Delta force – a vigilante group – has hit back at the Information Ministry for claiming that the Attorney General was unaware of the circumstances leading to their discharge. A Kumasi Circuit Court Wednesday struck out the case against the eight who allegedly ...

An Accra high court has adjourned the hearing of a bail application by Asia Huang, a Chinese lady arrested for illegal mining, popularly known as galamsey. Jerry Akwetey lawyer for Huang and four other Chinese national, prayed the court to grant his clients bail pending a May 23 hearing of the substantive matter. But the Chief State Attorney Mercy Arthur vehemently ...

British High Commissioner to Ghana Jon Benjamin has said jollof from Ghana is “superior” to Nigerian jollof. Last year when Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg visited Nigeria, he described Nigerian jollof as delicious but was cautioned by his close Nigerian friends not to compare Nigerian jollof to that of other countries. The caution stems from the fact that there has been ...

Mrs. Matilda Amissah-Arthur, wife of the former Vice President Paa Kwesi Amissah-Arthur, has encouraged children to learn hard and pass their exams well in order to become future leaders. Mrs. Amissah-Arthur gave the advice on Wednesday during a visit to Multikids Inclusive Academy at East Legon in Accra. Descriding herself as a friend to children and a mother for all, ...

The Public Utility Workers Union (PUWU), has lashed out at the U.S. embassy for supporting Energy Minister, Boakye Agyarko’s claims that the Embassy has not paid its electricity bills for more than two years. The Energy Minister, Boakye Agyarko had earlier revealed that American Embassy’s 160 facilities in Ghana had not been billed for two years, adding that the Embassy ...

With poverty appearing to be as permanent as her tribal marks, it would be okay for the 20-year old to roll over and remain a yearly statistic for Ghana Statistical Service’s poverty survey. But with two hands and a granite skull, Memunatu Bakuri is pulling together her own great escape from penury by pounding fufu and carrying load until 2018. ...