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The leadership of the University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG) has not been served with any application for contempt, lead Lawyer Kwesi Keli-Delataa has said. The National Labour Commission last Friday filed an application for contempt against the leadership of UTAG for disregarding a court order to return to the classroom. UTAG has since August 2 embarked on strike action ...

The governments of Ghana and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have completed processes for the visa waiver agreement for diplomatic and service passport holders. The agreement which is now operational saw the country’s Minister of Sanitation and Water Resources, Cecelia Dapaah, entering UAE on August 16, 2021, without any visa requirements. This was revealed by the Minister for Foreign Affairs ...

A committee set up by the Chief of Staff to investigate allegations of inflated contracts at the Ghana Airport Company discovered discrepancies between figures quoted by companies vying for the contracts and the amounts submitted to the Public Procurement Authority (PPA) for approval. According to findings of the report sighted by Starr News, while the Service Level Agreement (SLA) between ...

A Human Rights advocate Selasi Tsegah has called for swift investigations into a viral video of a priest kissing three students during church service at the St. Monica’s College of Education in the Ashanti region. She has also urged parents to empower their children to resist the abuse of their rights. “It’s a clear abuse of his position of influence ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has said the Agenda 111 Hospitals Project will provide 20,000 jobs for professional health workers when completed. He said 88 sites have been identified for the project and works on them begin today, Tuesday, 17 August 2021 concurrently. The president said the 250 domestic contractors who are to undertake the project, have 18 months to ...

A student of St. Monica’s College of Education in the Ashanti region has revealed that the viral video of a priest kissing three students during church service at the school was a show of appreciation by the priest. According to the student, Father Obeng Larbi of the Anglican Church decided to kiss the final-year students for their years of service ...

The Anglican Church has condemned the kissing of three students by a Priest of the Church at St. Monica’s College of Education in the Ashanti region. The video which has gone viral on social media shows the priest on stage inviting the three students for a mouth-to-mouth kiss one after the other. The preacher is seen directing the students to ...

The Adaklu Senior High school in the Adaklu District of the Volta region is expected to benefit from an 8-unit classroom block facility from the Member of Parliament for the area, Kwame Governs Agbodza. The project which is being self-funded by the MP with support from some friends is estimated to cost an amount of GHS1.5 million and expected to ...

Former President John Mahama today begins a tour of the sixteen administrative regions of Ghana to thank Ghanaians who voted for him in the 2020 polls. Mr. Mahama who will be accompanied by National Executive Members of the NDC will start the tour from the Upper East Regional capital, Bolgatanga, continue to Walewale in the North East Region and thence ...

The Anglican Church, Ghana, has started investigations into an incident in which one of its priests was captured on video kissing three female students of St. Monica’s College of Education during a mass on Sunday, 15 August 2021. “The attention of the hierarchy of the Anglican Church, Ghana, under the leadership of Most Reverend Dr Cyril Kobina-Smith, has been drawn ...