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The Police Service has explained they used water cannon and other forms of force on the demonstrating law students in order to disperse them after they started pelting officers with stones. In a statement, the police said the law students also prevented deputy attorney general Godfred Yeboah Dame from exiting his office during the Monday protest. The Police have come ...

Hundreds of nurse trainees from the Sunyani Nursing and Midwifery Training College have hailed President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo for restoring their trainee allowance, which was cancelled by the erstwhile Mahama-led NDC government. Wielding placards with inscriptions such as: “We don’t need JM back to cancel our allawa”, “We are happy for the allawa”, “Nana nie, allawa nie”, and “Our ...

Member of the Ghana Normalisation Committee Naa Odofoley Nortey has been lined up as the next general secretary of the Ghana Football Association, GHANAsoccernet.com can exclusively report. The legal practitioner will replace Isaac Addo in a substantive position post-normalisation, GHANAsoccernet.com understands. GHANAsoccernet.com understands the member of the Normalisation Committee is being courted for the role in the new administration after ...

Residents of Akyem Osiem and its environs in the Abuakwa North Municipality of the Eastern region have been gripped with fear following multiple robbery attacks in the area by eight-member armed robbery gang. The masked armed robbers – three of whom were wielding knives while two were in possession of AK47 riffles – robbed motorists on three different incidents in ...

The government has said the confusion sparked by police action at the law students’ protest was unacceptable. Speaking on the Citi Breakfast Show, the Information Minister, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah said, the confusion was “an embarrassing spectacle and it is unacceptable.” “Generally, it is totally unacceptable that an otherwise peaceful demonstration by people who want access to legal education will end ...

A young Ghanaian, with the hope of going into large-scale farming, is currently in tears seeking the whereabouts of a Deputy Communications Director of the New Patriotic Party, Kamal-Deen Abdulai, who he had accused of swindling him. Mr Kamal-Deen Abdulai, collected a fresh Toyota Camry SE, 2014 model from the innocent young man under the pretext of giving him a ...

The Bureau of the FIFA Council has extended the mandate of the GFA Normalisation Committee (NC) to enable the NC supervise the upcoming GFA Elections. The second mandate of the Normalisation Committee expired on September 30, 2019. However, in view of the upcoming GFA elections, FIFA has extended the Normalisation Committee’s mandate up to November 17, 2019, to enable it ...

President Akufo-Addo, has given a two-year contract extension to the 61-year old James Oppong-Boanuh, and made him the substantive Inspector-General of Police (IGP). The appointment last Friday, passed through the Council of State for a seal of approval and has since sparked lots of murmurings in the Police Service and likely to affect morale. The extension means, James Oppong-Boanuh, who ...

A student of Professor Yaw Gyampo says the under-fire lecturer is well behaved and very respected by his students. According to Enam, the lecturer who stands accused of sexual harassment in the BBC’s latest investigative piece – Sex for Grades- is very much liked by all those he teachers now. “He is well behaved, he is very disciplined and a ...

Professor Emmanuel Osei Acheampong, a Political Science Lecturer at Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA) has described President Nana Akufo-Addo as a liar. Last Sunday, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo categorically stated that his government has no intention introducing a policy in the country’s educational system that will be inimical to the development of basic and Senior High ...