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Some 91 aggrieved basic school head teachers of the Ghana Education Service (GES) in the Greater Accra Region, have dragged the Service to court for unjustifiably transferring and demoting them into the classroom. The teachers, are being punished for charging pupils fees for printing of examination papers. The head teachers, stationed at Ga West and North Municipalities, through their lawyers, ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has directed the Ghana Scholarships Secretariat (GSS) to issue a full scholarship to a brilliant senior high school graduate — Abednego Sackey who could not afford a university education. His sad story went viral on social media after it emerged that he got good grades but could not go to university due to poverty. Abednego ...

Founder of the Action Chapel International Archbishop Duncan-Williams has kicked against talks of passing new laws to regulate churches. “You cannot regulate faith…the church is a spiritual movement” he told Joy FM’s Super Morning Show Friday. Some Members of Parliament in May called for new regulations to curb increasing human rights abuses, exploitation, fraud and deception in churches and “unacceptable ...

The redevelopment of the Obetsebi-Lamptey Circle in Accra into an interchange to ease traffic congestion on that corridor has started. The first phase consists of a two-tier interchange with storm drains and culverts beneath the Graphic Road. It will also link the Kaneshie Market to the central business district of Accra and through a loop to the Kwame Nkrumah Interchange ...

The outspoken and immediate past NPP-California, USA Deputy Secretary Solomon Owusu resigned from the party yesterday, October 2nd, 2019. The former diaspora party executive sent his resignation letter via email to the party’s General Secretary, Mr. John Boadu and copied the Chairman, Mr. Freddie Blay, the Director for International Affairs, Mr Emmanuel Attafuah-Danso and the Obuasi West Constituency Chairman, Mr. ...

Energy expert  Kwame Jantuah has appealed to President Akufo-Addo to publicly comment on the controversial comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) programme. He says the position of the President will put the minds of Ghanaians at arrest over the sensitive issue which is causing rancor among populace. “I want to hear my President talk about it. We want to know his position. ...

The Ghana Traders Union Association (GUTA) has criticised ECOWAS for failing to step in to get Nigeria to open its borders with neighbouring West African countries, which were recently closed. Nigeria is said to have closed the borders in a move by the government to stop about 45 products from being smuggled into the country from other ECOWAS member states. ...

Former national organiser of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) Kofi Adams says the controversial comprehensive sexuality education programme is dangerous and must be withdrawn. According to him, Ghanaians must resist the attempt to politicise opinions over the matter. “CSE is dangerous, it’s something we should not entertain,” Mr. Adams who is also the NDC’s 2020 candidate for the Buem ...

A fraudster from London who went on luxury holidays abroad after harvesting details from thousands of bank customers has been sentenced to two years and nine months in prison. Emanuel Poku, 24, from Enfield, London, pleaded guilty to conspiring to defraud the UK telecommunications industry and UK banking industry, possession of an article used in fraud and possession of a ...

The Ghana Pentecostal and Charismatic Council (GPCC) has called on the Education Ministry to completely withdraw the controversial comprehensive sexuality education and never to introduce it in the future. The introduction of the Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE) has been met with massive public uproar against the sex education initiation with some Ghanaians calling on the education ministry to withdraw it. ...