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Former President John Dramani Mahama has rubbished rumours that he is working to “scuttle the government’s free secondary education policy.” Speculations are rife that the immediate past president is scheming with officials of the Ghana Education Service and the Bureau of National Investigations “and some faceless South Africans to make it impossible” for the NPP’s popular Free Education policy to ...

Wife of Member of Parliament for Odododiodio Nii Lantey Vanderpuye has dismissed reports that personnel from the National Security and Bureau of National Investigations invaded their residence to seize vehicles allegedly belonging to the State. According to Naa Komley Vanderpuye, a group of men numbering about twenty demanded entry into their house at Aplaku to retrieve two saloon cars and ...

The Small Scale Miners Association in Kumasi says it will petition the Asantehene Otumfuo Osei Tutu II over government’s decision to stop galamsey. The Association said it wants the Asantehene to speak to government to reconsider its decision on clamping down on small-scale illegal mining. At a meeting in Kumasi Tuesday the Association said the government is unfairly magnifying the ...

Former deputy Minister for Employment Baba Jamal has dared the New Patriotic party (NPP) to publicly publish the names and place of postings of the 11,000 nurses who were said to have been given clearance by the Ministry of Health, disclosed earlier by the Vice President, Dr Mahamadu Bawumia. The Coalition of Unemployed Bonded Diploma Nurses on Monday stormed the ...

The Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) went ahead to draw cheques from an account belonging to former President John Mahama’s brother, Ibrahim, despite an earlier warning to the revenue-collecting state agency to hold on with the withdrawals until certain payments had been made into it by the government, private legal practitioner Abraham Amaliba has said. His revelations come amidst a two-week ...

A deputy Minister of Agriculture George Oduro went to the rescue of some irked, jobless and hungry nurses who have been picketing at the Ministry of Health in the last 24 hours. Mr. Oduro provided the hungry young protestors with boxes of water and food to save them from dehydration and starvation. The bonded nurses and midwives are on the ...

The Official Launch of the Commonwealth Hall coupled with a public lecture on Thursday 23rd April 2017 witnessed an outstanding piece by Prof. Bondzi Simpson the Rector of GIMPA. He took the stage to acknowledged the tremendous contribution Commonwealth Hall has made to the lives of many alumni of the Hall.   Speaking on the topic, “Commonwealth Hall: Reflection on ...

Deputy Health Minister Tina Mensah has revealed that moves are underway by government to revoke the bonding arrangement between trainee nurses and the government of Ghana. The comment by the Weija MP comes on the back of the protest being staged at the premises of the Health ministry by unposted midwives and psychiatric nurses. The nurses numbering over 900 slept ...

Pressure group, ‘The Alliance for Accountable Governance’, (AFAG), has petitioned the Royal Institute of International Affairs of the U.K against rewarding chairperson of the Electoral Commission Charlotte Osei with the 2017 Chatham House Prize. The EC boss was nominated in April by the award committee for her role in “ensuring a peaceful and transparent electoral process in Ghana in December ...

The request by the National Association of Graduate Teachers (NAGRAT) for an extension of the deadline on the SSNIT biometric registration will not be granted, the deputy Finance Minister, Kwaku Kwarteng has stated. NAGRAT has been on a collision course with government following an announcement that teachers who defaulted in getting their biometric data captured by SSNIT would forfeit their ...