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The Presidency has planned to increase the number of presidential staffers from 998 to 1,614. This is according to information contained in the 2019 budget. The plan, according to the minority is unacceptable. The President in accordance with section 11 of the Office of the President Act presented the list of 998 staffers to parliament in April 2018, but debating ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo has made a passionate appeal to the Abudu and Andani families of Dagbon to embrace the progress report of the Committee of Eminent Chiefs chaired by the Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II that has set out a road map for the restoration of peace in the Dagbon traditional area. Addressing the Eminent Chiefs and ...

Menzgold Ghana Limited is calling on aggrieved customers of the company to back down on their planned nationwide demonstration. The company said although the customers have the right to stage such a protest, it believes that the action is unnecessary as it is honouring its promise of paying monies to the customers. The Head of Communications of the gold dealership ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has said he has no preferential candidate as far as who becomes the next Dagbon Overlord (Ya Na) is concerned. His only interest, he said, is to see the area flourish and prosper in peace, as the choice of who becomes the next Ya Na is the sole preserve of the chiefs and people of ...

The Catholic Bishops Conference has urged President Akufo-Addo to demonstrate in practical terms his commitment to fighting corruption in Ghana. According to the catholic bishops, corruption is still problem militating against the development of the nation despite the efforts at fighting it. “We recognize Government’s efforts in the political realm to address the sin of bribery and corruption in Ghana. ...

Fear has gripped Students of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) as they are contemplating on not going to lectures today Wednesday, November 21, 2018 after an anonymous person posted on Jodel (a social media application) on how he intends to carry out a cyanide attack and shootout in the various lecture halls to placate an awful ...

The International President of Global Peace Mission, Dr Samuel Ato Duncan, has urged all stakeholders to support the Free Senior High School (SHS) policy being implemented by the government. He said to ensure the realisation of the right to education for all children and to create an avenue by which economically and socially marginalised adults and children could lift themselves ...

After three weeks of boycotting the classroom, teachers at the Colleges of Education have refused to call off their strike despite threats by the government to withhold their November salaries. Speaking to Citi News, the National Secretary of CETAG, Nathan Ohene Gyang, said they would only back down when the government is ready to listen to them. “If they think ...

The Minister of Education, Dr Mathew Opoku Prempeh has announced that from now, only PhD holders will be allowed to lecture in a university. “Now if you do not hold a PhD, you will not be able to teach in a university,” the Education Minister said. But most of the lecturers in our colleges of education do not hold PhD. ...

Government has indicated that the country will soon begin exporting teachers to neighboring countries. According to the government, this is part its agenda to create employment for many of the country’s youth with the requisite qualification for teaching. Education Minister, Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh, explained that Ghana stands to benefit from Francophone countries who are willing to exchange French tutors ...