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The people of Behenase in the Bekwai Municipality have dared the Member of Parliament (MP) for Bekwai, Lawyer Joseph Osei Owusu, the Municipal Chief Executive, Mr. Kyei Baffuor, Bekwai constituency party executives and the New Patriotic Party (NPP) machinery not to step in the community to campaign for votes towards the 2020 elections. They claim the party has ignored them ...

Special Prosecutor, Martin Amidu, has called on Ghanaian leaders to end the practice of freeing elites who spend short term in jail after being convicted for corrupt practices while individuals jailed for misdemeanours rot in prisons for years. Mr Amidu wants a regime where there will be tougher punishments for officials found to have engaged in corruption to make the ...

The Government has clarified that the approved curriculum framework for basic schools does not include Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE). Addressing the media in Accra on Tuesday, the Education Minister, Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh, noted that “no teacher was trained on Comprehensive Sexuality Education.” “The curriculum framework from KG to P6 that has been approved by Cabinet from the National Council ...

Utility consumers will from today see an upward adjustment in their tariffs, the Public Utilities Regulatory Commission (PURC). Both water and electricity have been affected in the latest adjustment. A statement announcing the changed said: “Following a review of Electricity and Water Tariffs for the fourth Quarter 2019 which is from October – December 2019, the PURC wishes to announce ...

Six more soldiers have appeared before a Kaneshie District Court in Accra for their alleged involvement in plans to attack the Presidency and destabilise the country. The six ? including a female soldier ? are alleged to be members of a non-governmental organisation, Take Action Ghana (TAG), formed by Dr. Frederick Yao Mac-Palm, proprietor of Citadel Hospital at Alajo, Accra. ...

The National Chief Imam Sheikh Dr. Osmanu Nuhu Sharubutu has described the controversial Comprehensive Sexuality Education curriculum. According to him, Islamic teachings do not tolerate the exposure of children below age 10 to sex education. “We would like to state unequivocally that the Islamic Community does not accept any form of educating minors and pupils on sexuality. In our estimation, ...

Vice President of IMANI Africa, Kofi Bentil, has expressed outrage over plans by the Ghana Education Service( GES) to introduce Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE) to pupils as young as five in our schools stating it is the most damaging thing to kids He has chastised the Minister of Education for pushing it through without broad consultations. “Dr Matthew Opoku Prempeh, ...

An aide to the Vice President, Manaf Ibrahim, has been relieved from his position at the Presidency following his court row with the New Patriotic Party over his parliamentary bid. Manaf has sued the party over what he says is unfair treatment being meted out to him by the party in the Asawase parliamentary contest. A statement from the office ...

Management of the Northern Development Authority (NDA) have exposed a stinky tricycles deal that the then Savannah Accelerated Development Authority (SADA) with a private company named UNIK Savannah. The deal was termed SADA-UNIK Savannah Tricycles Agreement. According to NDA, it was worth an amount of $9,500,000. The contract was for the provision of 5,000 tricycles under the tricycle project. According ...

The President of the African Development Bank (AfDB), Dr Akinwumi A. Adesina, has asked men who marry underage girls to “marry your own age mates and leave our girls alone”. In Africa 125 million girls marry before they are 18 and one in five girls marry before the age of 18. Another one in three women and girls face gender-based ...