The embattled Rector of the Wa Polytechnic, Prof Emmanuel Marfo-Owusu, has been explaining how he managed to escape a mob attack on campus on Monday afternoon. According to him, but for God’s intervention, “these people would have lynched me today,” he said. Some angry lecturers at the Wa Polytechnic chased Prof Emmanuel Marfo-Owusu out of campus with clubs and stones […]

The Defence Minister Dominic Nitiwul has ordered Canadian Mining Company C&G Aleska to as a matter of urgency stay away from the Wassa Juabo forest in the Western Region It will be recalled that Abusua FM News over the weekend reported that the Canadian Mining Company is operating in the reserve Forest despite Tarkwa High Court injunction order stopping it […]

Despite calls from the Importers and Exporters Association of Ghana for authorities to refund VAT charges paid on demurrages and rent of cargo at the ports, government is yet to fulfil the demand. The association, is therefore tasking government to come clear and brief them on terms to refund the duties they paid by Monday. “I think the ministry is […]

In line with the government’s plans to make the service conditions of trained teachers much better, the Deputy Minister of Education, Mrs. Barbara Asher Ayisi has announced that government is taking steps to convert Public Colleges of Education into University Colleges of to enable them to offer a four-year Bachelor of Education Programmes from the current three-year diploma courses. She […]

Newmont Ghana is denying accusations by families of six people who perished at its Ahafo Mine at Kenyasi that it had knowledge of structural defects at the facility. The mining giant has urged the aggrieved families to wait for investigations into the fatal incident to conclude. Newmont Ghana’s Communication and External Relations Manager, Agbeko Kwame Azumah, said: “It is not […]

Former President John Mahama has mocked what he says is the “super-incompetence” of the Akufo-Addo government saying they need an ‘Obinim sticker’ to perform. The ‘Obinim sticker’ challenge is the latest craze on social media with many Ghanaians joking around it. The sticker stories mock the supernatural claims of controversial miracle preacher Daniel Obinim. The challenge makes fun of the […]

Principal Research Analyst at the Institute of Energy Security (IES), Richmond Rockson has attributed the depreciation of the cedi and the upward price of the crude oil on the international market to the recent increase in fuel price. The prices of petroleum products at the pumps have gone up by about 2 percent for the first pricing window this month […]

Lisa Pont has heard plenty of scepticism about video game addiction and whether it’s truly a medical condition that should be classified as a disease, as the World Health Organisation plans to officially do in a couple of months. “Some people think it trivializes other diseases. People think, ‘Oh my God, how can you get addicted to gaming? Just put […]

The College of Humanities under the University of Ghana has set an ambitious target for itself to become a research-intensive institution by 2021. This, according to the College, will be done through a seven-step strategic plan which includes inter-disciplinary scholarship, institutional process, and financial performance among others. a Provost at the College of Humanities, Samuel Adjei Mensah, said the college […]

Member of Parliament for North Tongu Constituency, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa has accused President Akufo-Addo of deceiving the Ghanaian populace by covering up the facts of the US military pact and relaying what he deems fit for the consumption of Ghanaians in his address to the nation Thursday evening. President Akufo-Addo in a televised address to the nation on Thursday evening […]