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Only lecturers who have postgraduate certificates in teaching will be eligible to teach in tertiary institutions. This policy by the government will be realized after a newly drafted Tertiary Education Policy (TEP) is adopted and passed by Parliament. The draft policy, which was approved by Cabinet on May 9, 2019, will also require existing lecturers in public tertiary institutions to ...

Minister of State in charge of National Security, Bryan Acheampong, has stated that the three Takoradi kidnapped girls are alive. In an interview monitored by ABC News Ghana, the Minister indicated that the location of the girls is known and that the security agencies are working assiduously to return them to their families. “I think that in terms of where ...

A Nigerian Professor at the University of Ghana by name Augustine Nwabara is inciting the Nigerian media and community in Ghana to take up strategies that would destroy the image of Ghana to the world. In a video gone viral on social media, the Prof in a meet up with some Nigerians in the country implored the Nigerian media to ...

Travelling to Kwahu Afram Plains in the Eastern Region is stressful and full of anxiety. Apart from the long-distance motorists need to cover, missing the only ferry working on the 3km stretch Afram River is doom for passengers. Passengers could be stranded for four hours. “The pontoon works in the morning to 10:30 am and resumes from 2:00 pm to ...

The Minister for Communications, Mrs Ursula Owusu-Ekuful on Tuesday, June 11, 2019, addressed the 18th session of the World Meteorological Congress of the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) in Geneva, Switzerland. She in her statement underlined the important role of climatology and hydrology to socioeconomic development and survival of humankind and appreciated the efforts of the World Meteorological Organisation in assisting ...

An Accra High Court has struck out three charges levelled against the Member of Parliament for Bawku Central, Mahama Ayariga. Another charge against a businessman who allegedly assisted the MP to evade taxes was also struck out. The charges struck out are fraudulent evasion of customs duties and taxes, dealing in foreign exchange without license and transfer of foreign exchange ...

Kwame Asante, husband of murdered Josephine Asante, former top manager at the Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority (GPHA) says he is afraid of his life following the yet to unravel mystery behind the killing of his wife. According to him, he feels the killers might launch their attack on him also since the assassinators of his wife are yet to ...

Contrary to speculations and propaganda especially among the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) members, government did not negotiate ransom with the abductors of the two Canadian ladies. When speaking on Saturday’s newsfile programme, the editor-in-chief of the New Crusading Guide newspaper, Abdul Malik Kwaku Baako, dismissed the speculation. He explained that a representation of an insurance firm was in the ...

Ghana’s former Ambassador to the United Kingdom (UK), Mr Victor Smith, has said the tape recording that captured the alleged voice of his party’s National Chairman, Mr Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo, inciting communicators of the main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) against the Chairperson of the Electoral Commission, Mrs Jean Mensa; and the Chairman of the National Peace Council, Prof Emmanuel Asante, ...

Renowned journalist and host of Peace FM morning show ‘Kokrokoo’ has pounced on the two main political parties for focusing on something which many political pundits have described as ‘needless’. The opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) and the New Patriotic Party (NPP) are in a tussle over who Seidu Mba; one of the suspected kidnappers of the two Canadian girls, ...