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Legal luminary and former Chief Executive of the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC), Mr Tsatsu Tsikata, has said he almost died in prison after his controversial incarceration 12 years ago. According to him, although his prison experience was painful, he reflects on it with gratitude to God for keeping him alive. “When I look back, I don’t think of it ...

On 18th June, 2020, there was an orientation session organized for students of the University of Ghana Medical School which was focused on briefing the students concerning the COVID-19 situation and how to adapt to the new normal. Students were required to do thorough handwashing and temperatures were checked before entry. In the course of the meeting, the Dean of ...

President has launched the Ghana Accountability and Learning Outcomes Project (GALOP), which will help drive standards and quality in some ten thousand low-performing basic schools across the country. Launching the Project on Thursday, 18th June, 2020, at Jubilee House, President Akufo-Addo indicated that, in spite of the numerous steps Government has taken, over the last three and half years, to ...

The Criminal Investigations Department of the Ghana Police Service has said it will soon initiate steps to look into recent allegations by politician Kennedy Agyapong against some pastors in Ghana. Responding to a series of questions posed by GhanaWeb in the wake of Mr Agyapong’s stated crusade against religious leaders he claims are duping many Ghanaians, Public Relations Officer for the CID ...

Aggrieved customers of the collapsed banks have served notice they will besiege the Jubilee House if government does not ensure the payment of their money in two weeks. The group in a statement Thursday said government has defaulted in the numerous assurances to get them the held up funds. “We want to use this medium to serve a two weeks ...

The Covid-19 will be eradicated from the country within three weeks if the public adheres to the laid down safety procedures, Epidemiologist Dr Emmanuel Kenu has indicated. Dr Kenu who is also a senior lecturer at the School of Public Health says that if there’s a controlled system where every single person in the country wears a face mask continuously ...

The state has amended the charge sheet in the case of Dr Kwabena Duffuor and eight others by adding three new charges in the unibank case. The former Central bank governor and the other persons were earlier hit with 68 charges but that was withdrawn today and replaced with new charges adding up to 71. The accused persons all pleaded ...

The Ayawaso West Municipal Assembly has refuted claims that it stopped NDC parliamentary aspirant John Dumelo from dredging gutters in the municipality. According to Mr. Dumelo, the Assembly communicated to him over the weekend to halt the move for failing to seek permission from the outfit before the commencement of the activity. “They told me to stop the work that ...

President Akufo-Addo has observed that whilst the government has made considerable gains in the basic education sub-sector, a lot more remains to be done to improve learning outcomes at that level. The President made these remarks when he launched the Ghana Accountability for Learning Outcomes Project (GALOP) at the Jubilee House in Accra earlier today. The $218m project jointly funded ...

The Ghana Health Service has announced new protocols for testing, treatment and discharge of Covid-19 cases in the country. According to the GHS, cases which have been tested and are asymptomatic would be discharged after 14 days as usual. But the difference would be that the 14-days quarantine period would be counted from when the samples of the suspected case ...