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About 8000 teachers recruited by the government to facilitate the implementation of the controversial double track system under the Free SHS policy, have not been paid their salaries five months after their employment. The Ghana Education Service, which is in charge of processing of the newly recruited teachers for their biometric data to be captured and staff identity cards issued ...

Four people died in a gory accident at Tarkwa in the Western Region on Monday, when a passenger mini-bus ran into a pickup truck. The pick-up truck was said to have crossed the mini-bus on the Tarkwa-Bogoso highway. The victims included a student of Fiaseman Senior High School, an elderly woman. Two people survived the accident and are receiving medical ...

The King of Dagbon Ya-Naa Abukari Mahama II, has called for an emergency meeting to discuss the ongoing conflict between konkombas and Anufors (Chokosis) in Chereponi. The Yaa-Naa is extensively worried about the deadly communal strife in that part of his traditional territory and has decided to intervene. Secretary of the Yaa- Naa and a spokesperson at the Gbewaa Palace, ...

The General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress, Johnson Asiedu Nketia, has been slapped with a cost of GHc600 in the GH₵15 million cedi defamation case by the Board Chairman of the Audit Service, Professor Edward Dua-Agyeman. The defamatory suit is in connection with Mr Asiedu Nketiah’s comments he made on radio which Prof Dua-Agyeman said was intended to damage ...

Fifty-nine foreign nationals from neighbouring African countries have been arrested by a team of police and Immigration officers at Adum Banso in the Mpohor district in the Western Region. Briefing Empire News in Takoradi, Head of Operations at the Western Regional Office of Ghana Immigration Service, Assistant Commissioner Immigration (ACI) Beatrice Okpoti said the Mpohor District Security Council (DISEC) conducted ...

An Accra High Court has dismissed an application seeking to put on hold the trial of former Chief Executive Officer of Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD), Dr. Stephen Opuni. The application filed by Benson Nutsukpui, counsel for Seidu Agongo, who has been charged along with the former COCOBOD boss for causing financial loss to the state, was praying the court to ...

Some 164 staff of the defunct UT and Capital banks staff who were absolved by the GCB bank have been sacked from the company over their secondary school results. Even though some of the affected personnel have proceeded to acquire masters degrees, they are being sacked over their WASSCE and SSSCE results, a former staff of the defunct banks has ...

An unemployed Ghanaian nurse has developed a business directory app – MAGNIFY – aimed at bridging the gap between businesses and potential clients. Twenty-seven-year-old Joseph Arkoh Koranteng is optimistic the app will provide businesses the mileage to interface and connect with potential clients to deliver goods and services while giving users the chance to generate a residual income. MAGNIFY App ...

Member of Parliament (MP) for Bolgatanga Central, Isaac Adongo, has called on the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) as a matter of urgency to act professionally to secure depositors funds at Databank and seize the opportunity to do a thorough regulatory compliance review and assurance of the financial institution. According to him, the Chief Executive Officer, Kojo Addae-Mensah has been ...

The founder of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Jerry John Rawlings, has paid tribute to former party chairman, Dr. Kwabena Adjei, describing him as a very strong and passionate man who lived his conviction. The former President said he had a great deal of respect for Dr. Adjei because he stood for his beliefs and was not a materialist. Describing ...