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Former President Jerry John Rawlings has stated that the 31st December 1981 coup could have been avoided if the People’s National Party (PNP) government led by Dr Hilla Limann had drawn some lessons from the June 4 uprising. The 1981 coup brought the Provisional National Defence Council (PNDC) into power led by Mr Rawlings. According to him, Limann after his ...

A total of 517,332 candidates from 16,871 public and private basic schools nationwide will this morning begin the 2019 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE). Made up of 263, 616 males and 253,716 females, representing an increase of 7,508 over the 2018 figure of 509,824, they will converge at 1,880 examination centres. They will be supervised by a total of 21,726 ...

The National Association of Private Lotto Operators and Agents in Ghana led by Mr. Frank Adjei, a successful businessman resident in Kumasi has shown the commitment and preparedness to fully support the successful roll out of Otumfuo Lottery Game initiated by the National Lottery Authority (NLA) to raise funds to support Otumfuo’s Charity Foundation. The Association is the largest group ...

An arrest warrant has been issued for the arrest of Samuel Ofosu Ampofo, the National Chairman of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC). This follows his refusal to honour an invitation to report to the Director General of the Criminal Investigations Department (CID), Maame Yaa Tiwaa Addo-Danquah, to assist in investigations into the recent spate of kidnappings and arson in ...

The evil that men do surely goes after them, the incompetent and indolent of president Nana Addo is embarrassing and demoralizing, every Ghanaian should be worried about the global monumental disgrace of Ghana which keep excruciating on daily basis under the war lord president. I felt disowning Ghana as my country after watching a video of one young lady schooling ...

The Ministry of Communications is developing an Open Data Portal as part of its implementation of the eTransform Project and has organised a 4-day Data Upload Challenge and a Hackathon under the Ghana Open Data Initiative to make government data open and accessible to all for free. The event which was organised in collaboration with MobileWeb Ghana and was held ...

Just a year after its launch, Mobile Money Interoperability—a system that makes mobile money transactions among different networks possible—has hit GH¢95.88million in value for the first quarter of 2019, the Payment Systems Statistics report published by the Ghana Interbank Payment and Settlement Systems (GHIPSS) has revealed. The report, published by the Ghana Interbank Payment and Settlement Systems (GHIPSS), shows that ...

The Minority in Parliament has said Ghana is one of the countries with the “highest debt distress risk” following the country’s ballooning public debt stock. Ghana’s public debt stock currently stands at a total of GH¢ 200 billion in the first quarter of 2019 of the 27 months of the Akufo-Addo led administration. Addressing the media on Thursday, the Minority ...

The Communications Ministry is certain to clash with operators of Free-To-Air (FTA) television service in the country, following a policy that seeks to charge viewers of their channels. Executive Council Member of the Ghana Independent Broadcasters Association (GIBA), Prince Harri Crystal, says the Ministry and its regulating agency, the National Communications Authority (NCA) have no mandate in controlling television service ...

The Ghana Police Service has revealed that the “security agencies are working closely together” to rescue two female Canadians who were kidnapped at Ahodwo in the Ashanti Region. The two, aged 19 and 20, are volunteers with a Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) known as Youth Challenge International based in the region. They were picked up around the Kumasi Royal Gulf Club ...