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US-based Ghanaian Accounting Professor Stephen Kwaku Asare is calling on the government to institute a probe in what he calls a reign of terror at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST). Professor Kwaku Azar as he is affectionately called said there is the need for a lasting solution to the problem on the campus. Prof Azar’s comment ...

A dismissed police officer has been arrested for stealing at Sawla Zongo in the Northern Region, less than a year after he was dismissed from the service for similar crime. Suspect, Abu Magida was arrested on Thursday, October 18, at 4.4pm following a report by a trader accusing him of stealing hundred Cedis from her house. Following the arrest, the ...

President Akufo Addo has appointed Kingsley Kofi Karikari-Bondzie as the deputy Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Coastal Development Authority. His appointment comes shortly after the President announced the then deputy CEO of the Authority, Jerry Ahmed Shaib as the substantive CEO in pursuant to Section 3(1) of the Coastal Development Authority Act, 2017 (Act 961). Ahmed Shai became the ...

Seven Students of St Martins SHS in Nsawam in the Eastern Region are reportedly injured after a near-fatal accident. The accident happened at Zabon-Zongo in the Nsawam Adoagyiri municipal in the Eastern region. The School Bus with registration number GV 1251 Z is said to have crashed with a Borehole Drilling Machine Vehicle with a registration number GR 4681-16. The ...

The Vice President of the Republic, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, has reiterated the resolve of the New Patriotic Party government under the leadership of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to implement policies and programmes designed to alleviate the hardships faced by the ordinary Ghanaian. While acknowledging that the needs of all human beings are insatiable, Vice President Bawumia insists that the ...

High risk investigative journalist, Anas Aremeyaw Anas, has made a disclosure that although his mode of journalism poses a great danger to his life, he is content that his stories changes the life of others aside correcting the wrongs in society. According to him, investigative/undercover reportage has been in existence for long but he brought a plot twist to the ...

The worst power crisis in many years has befallen the Upper East region with extremely distraught residents clamouring for all the heads responsible for their grief to roll. For the past two weeks, the entire region has spent most of its nights in darkness and hardly has a day passed since the beginning of October without electricity behaving like a ...

The Trades Union Congress (TUC), the umbrella body for workers in Ghana has bemoaned the deteriorating working conditions of workers in the country under the Akufo-Addo government. According to the TUC, the high cost of living brought about as a result of some government policies and impositions of taxes are eroding the incomes of workers. The TUC has already in ...

The Trades Union Congress (TUC) has charged government to use the 2019 budget to reduce the rising unbearable cost of living. The union wants government to use the budget to support private sector to complement government initiatives to create more jobs, overhaul exemption system, eliminate distortions and inequities in pay across public sector institutions, address challenges of pension, health care, ...

Large quantities of poisoned tilapia have hit town after some unscrupulous persons carted the unwholesome fish for sale to unsuspecting consumers in spite of the surveillance mounted by officials to stop the act. Officials of the National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO) and National Security had earlier destroyed 18 kilograms of the harmful tilapia after several tons of the fish began ...