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Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has tasked the interview panel interviewing about 147,000 applicants who applied for placement under the Nation Builders Corps (NABCo) to execute their mandate professionally in order to select competent and committed applicants. He said 137, 000 applicants have so far been interviewed nationwide since the interview started about six weeks ago, noting that, the programme ...

The Supreme Court has dismissed an injunction application that sought to restrain the General Legal Council from organizing entrance exams scheduled for Friday, 27th July,2018. Citi News’ Caleb Kudah reports that the court presided over by Justice Anim Ansah ruled that the L.I passed by Parliament that allows for an entrance examination in March this year is the one in ...

Mobile Telecommunication Network (MTN) Ghana as part of its corporate social responsibility on Wednesday, July 25, 2018 presented a cheque of GHS 5,000 to support this year’s Akyem Tafo Ohum festival in the Abuakwa North Municipality of the Eastern Region. The donation also includes MTN souvenirs, recharge cards worth GHC 500.00 and a hamper worth GHC 1,000. Presenting the items ...

Second Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin, has accused the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) of implementing policies that have the potential of “messing up” Ghana’s education system. The flag bearer-hopeful of the main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), is of the view that the double-stream system announced by President Nana Akufo-Addo for senior high schools, is “not well-thought out”. ...

Daniel Asiedu, the self-confessed killer of the late Member of Parliament (MP) for Abuakwa North Constituency Joseph Boakye Dankwa-Adu, has challenged deputy General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party, Nana Obiri Boahen to come clean over the death of the lawmaker. At a very dramatic day in court Thursday, the accused person, who was not allowed to speak in court ...

Executive Director of the Cocoa Research Institute of Ghana (CRIG) casted doubts on himself at the ongoing trial of the former Chief Executive Officer of COCOBOD, Dr. Stephen Opuni, under cross examination on Monday at an Accra Fast Track High Court. The counter between Dr. Franklin Manu Amoah and Dr. Opuni’s lead lawyer, Samuel Cudjoe, drew several bouts of laughter ...

Integrated Social Development Centre (ISODEC) has raised concerns about what it believes is a hasty implementation process of the double-track system for Senior High Schools (SHSs). “The speed with which government is trying to introduce the two-track SHS system i.e. two months from now, without any meaningful broad stakeholder consultations in consonance with the principles of good governance is worrying,” ...

The Public Relations Officer of the Ministry of Education Ekow Vincent Assafuah has stated the government will not relent on its effort to “enlighten” the public more about the double intake system at the Senior High School level from September 2018. Reacting to former Education Minister Prof. Jane Naana Opoku Agyemang’s assertion that government should make documents covering the semester ...

The Member of Parliament (MP) for the Assin South Constituency, Rev. Ntim Fordjour, has rejected claims by fellow MP, for Tamale North Constituency, Alhaji Suhuyini Alhassan, that the newly adopted double-intake system for the Free SHS programme is the same as a shift system. Rev. Ntim Fordjour said the Dual-Intake system is not in any way the same as the ...

A 32- year- old Daniel Arkom has raped a goat at Anomabo ketewa near Nyankomasi Ahenkro in Ajumako district in the Central Region. He was caught in the act of having sexual inter-coarse with a born one female goat. Information gathered so far indicated that, he is an ex- convict whose name is on wanted list, because of his immoral ...