Technical universities are required to have education departments under the government’s five-year strategic plan for Technical and Vocational Education Training (TVET) reform programme. Executive Director of the Council for Technical and Vocational Education Training (COTVET), Dr Fred Kyei Asamoah, who announced this, said the establishment of the additional education departments in technical universities would enable them to train teachers and […]

Drivers who ply the Madina Ritz Junction road constantly have been left with the extra task of maneuvering their way through the traffic at the intersection for well over two months since the traffic lights broke down. According to some residents and drivers Ghanaweb spoke to, although Police officers come to the site during the morning rush hour to direct […]

Ghana is estimated to have lost about US$64 million through the fall armyworm infestation. The pests, detected in the country some 15 months ago, have since attacked more than 20,000 hectares of farms, nationwide. Research scientists attached to the Biotechnology Research Programme (BRP) of the Crop Research Institute (CRI), have prescribed a solution – to end the havoc the armyworms […]

Protesting lecturers at the Koforidua Technical University (KTU) have threatened to strike by next week if Chairman of the University’s Council does not see to the promotion of lecturers who are due for upgrade. The lecturers were joined by their students to stage a protest on Thursday 12 April 2018 to push for a myriad of issues affecting the university […]

It has emerged that before the controversial joint military cooperation agreement between Ghana and the United States of America (US) became public knowledge, President of US, Donald J. Trump had called President Akufo-Addo to set the deal in motion. The revelation made by the ranking member on Parliament’s foreign affairs committee Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa has it that, the genesis of […]

An Accra High Court hearing the case involving the alleged murderers of Major Maxwell Mahama could not empanel a jury for the trial to commence because of the rejection of eight potential jurors presented by the court. The Judicial Service presented 14 potential jurors out of which seven would have to be selected to form the jury but the accused […]

Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum, Deputy Minister for Education, in charge of General Education, has said that the Ministry would ensure that all lands belonging to schools have regularised land titles and registered to avoid encroachment. “Those without fence will also be protected with walls so that they will not be taken away from the institutions by squatters.” Dr Adutwum gave […]

The acting Executive Director of the Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, Peter Abum-Sarkodie, has been relieved of his post. In a letter signed by the Secretary to the President, Nana Bediatuo Asante, Mr. Abum-Sarkodie was asked to hand over to the Deputy Director of the Agency in charge of Field Operations, John Pwamang. The statement added that the decision had been […]

Digicut Production and Advertising Limited is poised to become an international company as it expands its branches across African countries. General Manager of Digicut, Richmond Lankwei Lamptey says his outfit will reverse the trend where people travel outside Ghana to train in modern advertising techniques and skills. According to him, Digicut has been registered as an advertising agency in Liberia. […]

The Ghana Journalists Association, GJA, is challenging the government to take serious action against Ghanaians who have been deported from Australia after they posed as journalists to cover the ongoing Commonwealth Games. According to the GJA, the country’s image has been dented by the action of the impostors, thus requiring punitive punishment action from the country’s security agencies. Speaking to […]