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Caterers under the School Feeding Programme have rejected a month deadline for the payment of their allowances. Scores of caterers on Monday, May 15 besieged the Ministry of Gender and Social Protection to demand payment of their arrears for over four months. The Secretariat has asked the caterers to resume work whilst it pays their allowances at the end of ...

A private legal practitioner Yaw Oppong has advocated for a change in the process of selecting Chief Justices that removes the ethnic and political undertones. The lecturer with the Central University College wants the post rotated among the Supreme Court judges over a five-year tenure as it pertains in US state of Georgia. A rotation system could deepen the independence ...

Only students who pass their examination will have the opportunity to enjoy the government’s Free SHS policy in September, the Education Minister has revealed. According to Mathew Opoku Prempeh, students who fail at the basic education level will not benefit from the policy as government readies to roll it out. The Free SHS policy was a major campaign promise of ...

Having been patting himself on the shoulder for ending the successive reign of the “Johns” in Ghanaian politics, President Akufo-Addo is priding himself as setting the stage for ‘Historians’ to also take over the mantle of leadership of the country. Obviously, mimicking former President John Dramani Mahama’s constants reference to his shrewdness in history, President Akufo-Addo recently stunned his book ...

Primary schoolchildren have used their desks to block a major road in Kenya’s capital Nairobi after their school was demolished. The Kenyatta Golf Course Academy was knocked down at the weekend following a land dispute. They were joined by their parents and teachers as they chanted: “We want our school, we need to study in school.” <script async src=”//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js”></script> <!– ...

Justice Kwasi Anin Yeboah, a justice of the Supreme Court, has decried the upsurge of telenovelas on television channels in the country. He stated that the dumping of telenovelas and the decline of standards on Ghana’s screens deserve urgent attention. According to the justice of the apex court, the voice-overs in the local languages increase the insidious appeal for such ...

Former President John Dramani Mahama’s intention of contesting for the presidency again on the ticket of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in 2020 is gathering momentum, even though it is shrouded in secrecy. The ex-president went to Kumasi, in the Ashanti Regional capital, in a private jet last Sunday where he is alleged to have held secret meetings with several ...

The Christian Council of Ghana and the Ghana Catholic Bishops conference have called on managers of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) to pay the Christian Health Association of Ghana (CHAG) monies owed it. According to Rev Dr Kwabena Opuni-Frimpong General Secretary of the Christian Council of Ghana, the NHIS owes CHAG in excess of GHS200million. He noted that several ...

Over 8000 members of the National Association of Graduate Teachers have been left unpaid following the decision by the finance ministry not pay workers who have not registered with SSNIT. According to the President of NAGRAT, Angel Karbonu, although the affected individuals are already registered with the Social Security and National Insurance Trust, their salaries were not paid. “Some of ...

Despite her claim of “standing on high moral grounds” and upholding the tenets of “Probity, Accountability and Social Justice”, founder of the National Democratic Party, Nana Konadu Agyemang Rawlings, is deeply enmeshed in corruption as those she persistently accuse, a research has revealed Records show that while Mrs Rawlings has accused officials of the NDC of corruption, the former first ...