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Roman Catholic Basic School in Atimpoku, the district capital of Asuogyaman in the Eastern Region has been closed down for a week over shit bombing by unscrupulous individuals. Teachers in the school say they will resume academic work only after raft measures are instituted by the community to permanently address the chronic act. Teachers have complained many times to the ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has assured the Government and people of Burkina Faso of the commitment of the regional body towards winning the fight against terrorism and violent extremism. Commiserating with President Roch Marc Christian Kabore on Wednesday, 9th June 2021, in Ouagadougou, following the killing of some one hundred and sixty (160) people on Sunday by unknown militants, ...

The Ghana Police Service has warned the public not to participate in any call for demonstration by convenors of the #FixTheCountry movement. The Police in a statement said the planned protest is not in compliance with provisions of the Public Order Act adding that the substantive is still pending at the High Court. The statement by the Police comes after ...

The Greater Accra Regional Police Command has noted that the Supreme Court’s ruling on the #Fixthecountry protest does not mean conveners can proceed with the demonstration. The Supreme Court on Tuesday quashed the High Court’s order that placed an injunction on the protest. The Supreme court in its ruling said the indefinite order that stopped the applicants from demonstrating is ...

President Akufo-Addo, in his capacity as Chairperson of the Authority of Heads of State and Government of ECOWAS, has left Accra for Burkina Faso to hold discussions with President Kabore on the terrorist threat confronting that country and the Region. This trip comes on the heels of the killing of 160 people in a village raid in Burkina Faso by ...

A popular Norwegian website has alleged that Ghanaian government officials have signed an agreement to purchase Sputnik vaccines manufactured and produced in Russia for 19 dollars per dose instead of 10 dollars. In a detailed report by the website, www.vg.no, the Minister of Health Kwaku Agyemang Manu is reported to have signed the contract with an Emirati official who was ...

The Africa Education Watch has asked Education Minister Yaw Adutwum to stop the use of teachers for the upcoming census. According to the outfit, using teachers will adversely affect academic work. The education think-tank said the use of the teachers for the census will result in the loss of some twenty-one days of teachers’ time on tasks, apart from their ...

A nursing mother accused of beating her three-year-old stepdaughter to death has been arrested following a complaint by her neighbours. The suspect, Esther Nyanteh, who is nursing an eight-month-old baby, has been released on police enquiry bail after she had spent a night at the Oshuiman Police Post, near Pokuase. The deceased’s father, Bismark Sarpong, alias ‘Killer’, was also later ...

Springfield Exploration and Production Limited says its attention has been drawn to various print and electronic media publications on the topic of the unitisation of the Afina and Sankofa fields, with statements attributed to Eni Ghana Exploration and Production Limited as well as to ACEP, PIAC and IES. It said the publications contained some inaccuracies and innuendos, which have made ...

State Transport Corporation CEO, Nana Akomea says the overcrowding at the late Sir John’s funeral should be a learning curve for the nation. According to him, it is regrettable that the crowd couldn’t be controlled and made to follow the COVID-19 safety protocols. Sir John, known in real life as Kwadwo Owusu Afriyie, passed away in July 2020 after contracting ...