POLITICS

The Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT) says it is ready to partake in the special examination before being granted the license to teach. The National Teachers Council (NTC) of the Ministry of Education announced that teachers will now have to pass a special examination before being granted the license to teach. The move, according to the NTC, is to ...

A group calling itself Integrity Against Corruption (I.A.C) which professes association to the National Democratic Congress has condemned recent attacks on former President Jerry Rawlings. Many party people have taken Rawlings to the cleaners and questioned his motives for constantly charging the party and officials of corruption, a move often met with denials by party officials. About a fortnight ago ...

The Ghana Education Service (GES) has served notice henceforth all teacher trainee graduates will take a licensing exams. “Before we recognize you as a professional teacher, you will need to be licensed,” Rev. Jonathan Betteh, the GES Public Relations Officer told Morning Starr host Francis Abban Tuesday. According to him, the move is part of the sector’s professional development and ...

A group calling itself, Integrity Against Corruption (IAC) within opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the Volta region has strongly chastised some members of the party for taking a swipe at the party’s founder J.J Rawlings. The former president last week incurred the wrath of a former deputy chief of staff under the erstwhile Mills/Mahama led NDC government, Dr. Valerie ...

The Association of Small Scale Miners is accusing MMDCE’s of politicising a program meant to school miners on modern mining methods. The group says its members who qualify for the program are being side-lined while politicians and party loyalists take their places. The multilateral mining integration project seeks to train at least 1000 small scale miners to use environmentally friendly ...

Executive Chairman of the Jospong Group of Companies, Joseph Siaw Agyepong, has warded off suggestions that greed drives his business interests. Joseph Siaw Agyepong owns over 40 companies including the country’s largest waste management company, Zoomlion Ghana Limited; SUBAH Infosolutions; the Road Safety Management Services Limited, which has been awarded the mandatory vehicle towing contract. The controversial business mogul in ...

Details are emerging that the Chairperson of the Electoral Commission (EC), Charlotte Osei, demanded ¢1 million to renovate a bungalow before she could occupy it as her official residence. Sources say the building, located behind the El Wak Stadium, closer to the Cantonments Post Office and the Lands Commission in Accra, does not appear to be dilapidated but the current ...

A former Deputy Energy Minister under the erstwhile John Mahama administration, John Jinapor has questioned the credibility of Akufo-Addo’s analysis on the effect of Dunsor on the economy during the NDC government regime. Jinapor describes as inaccurate, the calculation as referenced by the President on the power outages under the Mahama administration. President Akufo-Addo at the National Policy Summit Monday ...

The modus operandi of solving challenges in the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) is conflict among others, according to one time Vice presidential candidate of the party, Martin Amidu “Any person casually acquainted with the theories of conflict studies and research knows that”, he stated. “When individuals or groups in conflict do not have credible facts to defend their side ...

Businessman Alhaji Asoma Banda has laughed off rumours about his death indicating that it is very typical of some Ghanaians to “kill” people before their time. There were reports in sections of the media on Monday August 14, 2017 that the former Member of Council of State is dead but his nephew Abu Banda, who spoke exclusively to mynewsgh.com, discounted ...