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The acting Vice Chancellor of the University of Education, Winneba (UEW) Reverend Professor Anthony Afful Broni has rubbished reports that the University is in a state of chaos following the dismissal of five of its principal staff. The governing council of the University earlier this week fired the Vice Chancellor of the institution, Professor Mawutor Avoke, the Finance Officer, Dr ...

Thirty-five companies have successfully gone through documentation processes to establish viable factories under the “One District, One Factory’ (1D1F) policy in the Central Region. The factories are expected to engage in commercial processing and production of salt, bricks and tiles, plywood tiles, starch, oil palm, bamboo, tomatoes paste and cassava processing into industrial ethanol among others. Mr Charles Nkrumah, an ...

Former United Nations Secretary-General, Kofi Annan is reported dead. He is said to have died in Switzerland, Saturday morning after a short illness. Biography Kofi Atta Annan was born in Kumasi on April 8, 1938. Since 1960 Ghana has been a republic within the British Commonwealth, a group of nations dependent on Great Britain. Named for an African empire along ...

The acting Vice Chancellor of the University of Education, Winneba (UEW) Reverend Professor Anthony Afful Broni has rubbished reports that the University is in a state of chaos following the dismissal of five of its principal staff. The governing council of the University earlier this week fired the Vice Chancellor of the institution, Professor Mawutor Avoke, the Finance Officer, Dr ...

The former CEO of defunct UT Bank Prince Kofi Amoabeng has denied taking $5 million loan without recourse to the bank’s board. According to him, the amount was raised from selling his personal property at Roman Ridge in Accra and does not belong to the defunct bank contrary to media reports. “It is instructive to note that the Boulders report, ...

Students of Katanga Hall of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), have warned authorities of the school to rescind the decision to convert all-male halls into mixed halls. The irate students who are protesting the development on campus said should the authorities fail to address their concerns immediately, they will face their wrath. Authorities of KNUST have ...

Last October, President Akufo-Addo gave directive for the country to change its gas distribution. Since then, the National Petroleum Authority’s (NPA) Chief Executive, Alhassan Tampuli, has ordered for the implementation of a new liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) cylinder recirculation model. At various events in the Nima, Mamobi and Kotobabi areas Thursday, Tampuli advised community residents that the new measure will save ...

The Second Deputy Speaker of Parliament Alban Bagbin is accusing some NDC Members of Parliament of engaging in propaganda politics. Mr Bagbin who is also an NDC flagbearer aspirant said the recent list of MPs purporting to support the candidature of ex-president John Mahama was dubious. The Second Deputy Speaker of Parliament made the comment in an interview during his ...

A pastor is in the grips of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) District Police Headquarters for abandoning the body of an adopted house help at Ayigya Zongo, a suburb of Kumasi. The head pastor of Spirit of Truth Ministry, Bishop Kingsley Harrison is reported to have brought the remains of Doreen Ativor, 26, on Wednesday and ...

It has emerged that Capital Bank collapsed because the bank’s major shareholder and promoter, William Ato Essien, flouted all banking and risk management rules by treating depositors’ funds and public funds as his personal cash. According to a report by Bank of Ghana (BoG) investigative team, Ato Essien, who allegedly floated two universal banks but all have gone under due ...