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KNUST: The whole brouhaha was a sheer ‘waste of time’ – Kweku Baako

Managing Editor of the New Crusading Guide Newspaper, Abdul Malik Kweku Baako has expressed utmost disgust at the turn of recent events involving brutalities and Chaos at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology. His concerns particularly, have to do with a recent communique issued by the Student Representative Council (SRC) of the university, which contained information to the ...

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USAID to develop new devt strategy to fit ‘Ghana Beyond Aid’ agenda

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) says it is working on establishing a new country development corporation strategy for Ghana. The move, said USAID has become necessary due to the government’s policy direction on Ghana beyond aid, planting for food and jobs among others. Addressing a gathering at the USAID Trade Africa Sharing and Learning programme in Accra, ...

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Group angry over compulsory national service for new teachers

The National Service Scheme says it has released about 14, 000 pin codes to get trainee teachers across the country to undertake a compulsory one-year national service before being employed by the government. This new directive from the government stipulates that newly trained teachers will undertake their service after writing the Teacher Licensure Examinations. But some trainee teachers are opposed ...

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We must crack down on fake news – Oppong Nkrumah

Information Minister designate, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah has said he will back the passage of a law that will crack down on the dissemination of fake news on the country’s cyberspace. “We are all being used as news spreading outlet and nobody is taking responsibility to [verify] if it’s true or false. I forwarded it, as received. And we have become ...

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‘You have taxed everything and companies are collapsing’ – Ken Agyapong to Akufo-Addo

Assin Central MP Kennedy Agyapong has asserted that high taxes which ‘don’t make sense’ are causing the collapse of many businesses and Ghanaians are losing their means of employment; MyNewsGH.com can report. According to Mr Agyapong, Ghanaian and expatriate businesses are all being affected as they cannot sustain their operations due to the high tax demands from the AKUFO-Addo government. ...

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Razak Kojo Opoku Helps Dr. Edward Omane Boamah and NDC Members to Understand Social Intervention Policies.

To help Dr. Edward Omane Boamah and Members of the NDC to understand and appreciate the contest and pretext of Social Intervention Policies, I would like to give a basic and practical definition to Social Intervention Policies. Social Intervention Policies defined practically as  policies which have nationwide effects after their implementation and are absolutely at no cost to the beneficiaries. ...

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New regions: Experts take on Togbe Afede over “wrong” arguments

Some governance experts have descended on the Paramount Chief of the Asogli Traditional Area, for his recent comments regarding the creation of new regions. Togbe Afede XIV stated that the authorities involved in the creation of the regions should not be bias in the interpretation of the law. The traditional leader who is also President of the National House of ...

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Felix Kwakye-Ofosu under fire for calling Bawumia ‘narrow-minded’

A former deputy communications minister under the erstwhile Mahama government, Felix Kwakye-Ofosu, has incurred the wrath of some Ghanaians on social media for what they call an insult to Vice-President Mahamudu Bawumia. Bawumia had earlier stated that despite its many boasts, the NDC did not introduce any social intervention programme in its eight-year rule. According to Bawumia, both the late ...

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Ghana Maritime Authority boss blows over GHC135,000 on food bought from his own hotel

Ghanaians on social media are exploding with anger over the brazen impunity and allegations of corruption that is bathing appointees of President Akufo-Addo one after the other as news has emerged that the Director-General of the Ghana Maritime Authority, Mr. Kwame Owusu blew GHC135,125 (the old Ghana cedis equivalent of GHC1,351,250,000) one night on food and GHC10,652 on another occasion ...

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