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A former Deputy General Secretary of the Teacher Trainee’s Association of Ghana (TTAG) has taken a sharp but opposite position of President Akufo-Addo’s claim that 67,000 teachers have been recruited since he came into office in 2017. The President, in his 2020 State of the Nation Address, said on the floor of Ghana’s Parliament that he has been able to ...

management of Experts Consult Ltd has urge Ghanaian parents to accept autistic children. The call follows concerns of some parents abandoning children with the condition and treating them as cursed Experts Consult Ltd made the appeal after donating items including books, detergents and boxes of bottled water to the Autism Awareness Care and Training Centre in Accra. The move was ...

US-based political commentator Kevin Taylor has been ordered to pay an amount of GH¢2.95m in damages to private legal practitioner Ace Ankomah over defamatory comments made on his social media program dubbed ‘With All Due Respect’. This comes after Ace ankomah sued the latter for accusing him of alleged involvement in a scheme by a Dubai-based minerals firm Horizon Diamonds ...

Customers of the collapsed Microfinance and Savings and Loans firms are to begin receiving monies through CBG today. According to a statment by the bank, customers whose investment go beyond the agreed threshold will have them converted into bonds. It comes after President Akufo-Addo gave the assurance during his last state of the nation address that the monies will be ...

It has come to light that some lecturers in various public universities across the country have been beneficiaries of Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETfund) scholarships. The lecturers were mainly sponsored to pursue doctorate of philosophy degrees in various fields across the globe costing thousands of dollars for several years. Notable among the beneficiaries is Professor John Gatsi of the University ...

Anti-graft campaigner, Vitus Azeem, says public officials who used their positions to obtain GETfund scholarships in the past should be made to pay back the sponsorship fees to the state. According to him, even though they could not be blamed for securing the scholarships, they should, out of good conscience, payback since were not needy students as stipulated by the ...

Sekou Nkrumah, one of the sons of Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah opines that although there have been justifications for the overthrown of his father, the legacies of the first president of Ghana are indelible. A post from Sekou two days to the commemoration of the 54th anniversary of the incident which some have argued brought the country to its feet ...

The Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETFund) has stated that the Minister for Education Mathew Opoku Prempeh, the Procurement Minister, Sarah Adwoa Safo and the Executive Secretary of the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NaCCA), Prince Hamidu Armah were not awarded scholarships under the current administration. The three notable government appointees have been captured as scholarship beneficiaries in an audit ...

Hajia Ramana Shareef, a Ghanaian lady who was captured by the audit of the Ghana Education Trust fund to have received a total of £22,000 for her United Kingdom education in 2013 did not actually receive a dime, MyNewsGH.com has confirmed. According to her, although she applied and got an award letter, the fees was never paid which made it ...

The BBC is seeking a rising star of African journalism for the BBC World News Komla Dumor Award, now in its sixth year. Journalists from across Africa are invited to apply for the award, which aims to uncover and promote fresh talent from the continent. The winner will spend three months at the BBC headquarters in London, gaining skills and ...