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A police officer has been injured at Agona Swedru in the Central region after he was hit by a stone thrown by angry protestors who were demonstrating over the poor roads in the town. The protestors clad in red armbands Monday morning blocked major roads linking the Swedru-Bawjiase, Swedru-Winneba and other surrounding towns demanding that the government fixes their roads. ...

The Judicial Service Staff Association of Ghana (JUSAG) has threatened to embark on an industrial strike action effective November 13, 2019. According to JUSAG, the intended strike action is to demand a review of their current salaries. They state that their current salary was implemented in the year 2017 and to be renewed bi-annually. A statement by JUSAG stated that ...

It has emerged that the top superior police officer, who was invited by the security agencies over the ongoing investigations into an alleged coup plot, is COP/Mr. Nathan Kofi Boakye. When DAILY GUIDE reached him yesterday, he said he was invited by the Bureau of National Investigations (BNI), but said “I did not keep long. I went there at about ...

A Deputy Ranking Member on Parliament’s Education Committee, Dr. Clement Apaak has called on the government to come out with a specific date as to when basic schools will receive learning materials for the new curriculum which started in September 2019. According to him, the “Nana Akufo-Addo led NPP Government owes Ghanaians an explanation as to why two months on, ...

The World Bank has thrown out an audit report sent it by the Akufo-Addo-led government and has ordered it to use the Ghana Audit Service (GAS) to conduct “an in-depth Review” of all procurement related expenditures from the period spanning the life of the administration from January 2017 to June 30, 2019. The rejected report, had come from a private ...

The Akufo-Addo administration acting through Cocobod is to inject a 600m USD stimulus package into the cocoa sector through a Cocoa Productivity Enhancement Program which will among other things step up Ghana’s production to 1.5m tones by 2027. The stimulus will target rehabilitation of plantations, improvement in storage and domestic processing, stimulation of local consumption as well as efforts to ...

Emmanuel Nvojo, who has been sacked as Communications Director of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in Jomoro Constituency of Western Region, got the shock of his life when he was chased out of the party’s executives meeting. Information indicates that he was not allowed to sit in a meeting organised by the General Secretary of the party, John Boadu to ...

A report by the Parliamentary Committee on Defence and Interior is recommending the decriminalization of the possession and use of marijuana (wee). “Ghana needs to take a cue from other progressive countries and consider alternatives to punishment or incarceration of people who use the drug and other alternatives to ending the criminalization of people who use drugs. Criminalization of drug ...

Information Minister Kojo Oppong Nkrumah says, the less than three years, Akufo-Addo government has held more cabinet meetings than the Mahama administration did in the entire fours that it was in office. According to him, the President holds his cabinet meetings to ensure that he is meticulously in know of all the major developments in the respective ministries. He said ...

The Ministry of Education says it has not appointed or mandated any person or persons as Free SHS Ambassadors to go round Senior High Schools in the country to campaign for the Government of President Nana Akufo-Addo. Responding to a video circulating on social media purporting to be of a person carrying himself as Free SHS Ambassador and addressing SHS ...