The governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) would have risked destabilising key sections of its party structure if it had considered some proposals for amendments to its Constitution, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has said. The President was addressing the party’s delegates gathered in Kumasi at its Extraordinary National Delegates Conference, to consider various proposed amendments to the party’s Constitution. A number of […]

The Winneba High Court on Thursday, December 14, 2017, has ruled on the landmark case brought before it by a private businessman and former assemblyman of Donkoryiam electoral area of Winneba, Supi Kofi Kwayera against the University of Education, Winneba (UEW), Minister of Education as first and second respondents respectively. The Court presided over by His Lordship Justice George Atto […]

The President of IMANI Africa, Franklin Cudjoe, believes the police overacted in arresting the Chairman of the People’s National Convention (PNC), Bernard Mornah, and some 18 other persons for converging to embark on a peace march in Accra. According to him, the action of the police is likely to attract negative media attention to the country. The 19 persons including […]

Ghana will today [Friday] take delivery of the anti-viral agents Tamiflu from the World Health Organization, as part of measures to combat the threat posed by the 2009 H1N1 strain of influenza, also known as swine flu. Vaccines for the swine flu are also expected in the country on Saturday. This is according to a Ghana Education Service (GES) statement issued […]

The Ghana Mineworkers Union has petitioned parliament over attempts by Goldfields Ghana to lay off about 1,500 workers and re-employ them on a contract basis. According to the Union, the move by the company amounted to unfair labour practice. The General Secretary of the Union, Prince William Ankrah who presented the petition, indicated that the basis for the company’s actions is unfounded […]

The Auditor General in collaboration with the finance ministry has uncovered a whopping 53 million cedis corruption scandal at the Electoral Commission. This was revealed after the two bodies conducted an in depth financial auditing within Ghana’s electoral body. According to reports the commission, under the guise of indebtedness to STL Company, requested the finance ministry to disburse an amount […]

The Assistant Central Regional Secretary of the Ghana National Association of Teacher (GNAT), Mr. Nicholas Taylor has rubbished claims that about 301 teachers from the area are alleged to have impregnated teenage students. According to him, he has personally kicked against the findings conducted by Ghana Health Service (GHS) in collaboration with the Department of Gender and Challenged them to […]

The Chief Justice, Sophia Akuffo on Tuesday schooled a Member of Parliament over the use of titles such as “Honourable” on writs. According to the Chief Justice, names were to appear first before any designation. “If we want to learn from the people who originated these titles then do not do this…they mention their names before they mention any other […]

It has emerged that several factors including poor writing are the cause of delay in the payment of monthly allowances of some national service personnel in the country. “Sometimes you look at the handwriting, you even find it difficult to pronounce the name”, Public Relations Officer (PRO) of the National Service Scheme (NSS), Ambrose Enstiwah Jnr revealed. “We always tell […]

uthorities of the Kumasi Academy Senior High School are decongesting overcrowded dormitories as the school weaves its way out of the outbreak of H1N1 Viral Influenza which has killed four students and infected over a fifty others. The decision it is gathered comes on the back of a meeting held between the authorities of the school, the Ashanti Regional minister […]