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Dr. Matthew Opoku-Prempeh, the Minister of Education, says government has secured 100 million dollars from the China Exim Bank to upgrade infrastructure, equipment and other training materials for technical universities and institutes in the country. He said most technical universities and training institutes would undergo transformation within the first quarter of 2019, and that the Ministry would work relentlessly towards ...

The Governing Council of the University of Education, Winneba (UEW) says, the “dismissed” Professor Mawutor Avoke cannot return to the university as its Vice-Chancellor as he is claiming. According to the university, the move by Prof Avoke by writing through his lawyer, requesting that the university prepares his office for his return as Vice-Chancellor today, Monday, November 26, 2018, was ...

President Nana Akufo-Addo has said despite the criticisms hurled at his government for purposing to build a National Cathedral, he will still go ahead and make sure the edifice is built to the glory of God. “…Through Christ who strengthens us, the National Cathedral will be built to the glory and honour of God. Amen!” Recently Archbishop Nicholas Duncan-Williams said ...

Government has described as false claims that the President was planning to increase the number of staff at the Presidency from 998 to 1614. The government’s denial followed claims by the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Member of Parliament for North Tongu Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa that it intended to increase the number of presidential staffers over 1,600 as contained in the ...

The Education Ministry has challenged claims by some head teachers that new teachers being posted to schools to handle the gold track under the Free senior High school policy are not fit for purpose. Some headmasters have told Starr News the new teachers are not experienced and competent enough for the courses they have been posted to teach in their ...

TV3’s Bridget Otoo has added her voice to the current issue facing gold trading firm Menzgold. According to the newscaster, the embattled firm owned by Nana Appiah Mensah has been a scam from day one. She made this known when she shared a screenshot of YEN.com.gh’s report which indicate that the BNI will be investigating the activities of Menzgold. Bridget ...

A female customer of GN Bank has assaulted a police officer on guard duty at the bank’s Mampong branch in the Ashanti Region. The lady, ClassFMonline.com gathered, has been frequenting the bank for her savings but to no avail. On her last visit, the customer lost her cool when she was asked to go and come back another day, she ...

The Eastern regional branch of the NDC has dismissed reports that former President John Mahama traveled to the Afram Plains by helicopter. It comes after the Kwahu Tafo Chief, Nana Kwasi Minta, commended President Akufo-Addo over the weekend for traveling to the area by road and not by air as it was by other presidents. In a statement, the NDC ...

President  Akufo-Addo has stated emphatically that the controversial National Cathedral will be “built to the Glory of God”. The President addressing Catholic faithful at a ceremony to climax the 125th anniversary of the Catholic Archdiocese of Accra at the Black Star Square, in a joyful mood and quoting from Philippians 4:13 (KJV), which states “I can do all things through ...

Some Heads of Senior High Schools in the Eastern Region are rejecting newly trained graduate teachers posted to their schools to teach students under the Gold Track system of the Free Senior High School Policy. According to some of the Headmasters, teachers posted to teach certain-subjects do not have knowledge in the subjects they were posted to teach. The headmaster ...