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This year, Ghana’s premier tertiary institution, University of Ghana, recorded a huge drop in the number of international students who enrolled in the institution to pursue various academic programmes. This was indicated at a matriculation ceremony held on Saturday to officially welcome newly admitted students into the academic community. According to figures from university authorities, a total of 96 international ...

The announcement by the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Bank of Ghana (BoG) that the public debt stock as at the end of November 2020 has risen to GH¢286.9 billion is once again the subject of public debate about prudent management of the public debt stock. The figure represents 74.4% of Ghana’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP). The sustainability of ...

A driver of a saloon car died after his car crashed head-on with an articulated truck on the Teacher Mante New Town Community stretch of the Accra-Kumasi Highway. The victim driving Chevrolet Prizm with registration number GR 2698-16 was heading towards Kumasi junction but on reaching Teacher Mante, he reportedly overtook some vehicles ahead of him and crashed head-on with ...

Sources close to the Osu Palace have expressed displeasure at swift media reports that Nii Okwei Kinka Dowuona VI, President of the Osu Traditional Council has died without recourse to the palace. “Where on earth in our traditional setting does a stranger bypass a child’s parents and announces its death?” an elder at the Osu King Dowuona’s palace asked, in ...

Absa Bank Ghana has begun its 2021 ReadyToWork sessions with a renewed mandate of reaffirming its commitment to education and skills development in Ghana. Over 35,000 students and youth were supported to upskill with the ReadyToWork programme last year 2020, equipping them with soft skills for improving their employment or self-employment prospects, via face to face and online media nationwide. ...

The third witness of the petitioner in the ongoing election petition at the Supreme Court is expected to be cross-examined by lawyers for President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo and the Electoral Commission. Robert Joseph Mettle-Nunoo, the third witness for John Dramani Mahama on Friday had five out of his 32 points in his witness statement struck out. After oral arguments and some objections raised by ...

The National Security Minister-designate Albert Kan-Dapaah has noted that state security who have been deployed to unapproved routes at Elubo are aiding the illegal immigrants to and from the country. According to a letter to the Interior Ministry sighted by MyNewsGh.com Military, Immigration and Customs officers stationed at the various unapproved routes are extorting CFA 1,000 and 10,000 from illegal immigrants. Also, ...

Police in the Ketu South Municipality have begun investigations into threats by some youth of Blekusu on the lives of Chiefs regarding the operations of Seven Seas Salt company Limited. The company is a salt mining factory operating along the Keta lagoon around areas like Adina, Amutinu, Agavedzi, Blekusu and some other communities within the Some and Klikor Traditional Areas. ...

The Deputy Director of Public Health in the Central Region for the Ghana Health Service, Dr. Godfred Kwabena Sarpong has disclosed that some schools in the region have had cases of the Covid-19 since reopening. According to him, at the tertiary level, about 30 cases have been recorded while the senior high schools have recorded 6 case active cases and ...

The Chief (Mantse) of Klagon, a suburb of Ashaiman in the Greater Accra Region has been arraigned together with six others for the murder of one Ibrahim Mohammed Abass at the Kaneshie District Court. Nii Bortey Klan I, also known as Samuel Nii Bortey Kofi is a traditional ruler while Hamidu Fuseini (A2), aka Sankara, Tahiru Mamudu (A3) aka Tsikata, ...