Despite promises by the Mahama administration to champion what he called a progressively free Senior High School initiative, no student received a scholarship for the 2016/2017 academic year, according to the Minister for Education, Matthew Opoku Prempeh. The Minister said the government at the time did not fulfill its promise to award scholarships to some 100,000 students in boarding schools who […]

The Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO) is probing former Executive Director of Ghana Standards Authority (GSA), Dr George Crentsil, and other officials cited in an alleged 1.2 million dollar kickback scandal. A Joy News exposé earlier this year shed light on possible underhand dealings between a construction firm and Dr Crentsil, a deal that was aided by some officials of […]

Deputy General Secretary of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) says the Akufo-Addo administration should learn to accept criticism in good fate instead of responding with invectives. Invectives, he noted, were used in the Vice-President’s reply to former President and NDC leader John Mahama who has branded a government’s GhanaPostGPS as a ‘419’ app. Dr. Bawumia said John Mahama is clueless about the […]

ESLA Plc – lead managers for Ghana’s energy bond failed to meet the target for the first tranche of the bond after a second attempt. The managers of the bond  were seeking to raise 6 billion cedis under two separate bonds. But accrued a total of 4.69 billion cedis after it closed the auction last Friday. The 7-year bond received […]

The President will not sack Ghana’s High Commissioner to South Africa, George Ayisi-Boateng, despite calls by a section of the public for him to do so. Mr Ayisi-Boateng earned the wrath of some Ghanaians when declared at an event for the youth of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) that he will put their interests above other Ghanaians in the […]

The University of Ghana was always envisioned to manage the University of Ghana Medical Centre, a Deputy Health Minister under the Mills administration, Rojo Mettle-Nunoo has said. Speaking on Eyewitness News, amid the apparent impasse between the Ministry of Health and the University of Ghana, the former Deputy Minister indicated that, a number of requests were made with regards to the management of the facility. But […]

The Ministry of the Interior upon the advice of the Northern Regional Security Council, (RCC) and by Executive Instrument, has renewed the curfew in Bunkprugu Township from 20:00 hours to 06:00 hours effective Tuesday, November 7, 2017. A statement signed by the Interior Minister, Ambrose Dery is urging the chiefs, opinion leaders, the youth and the people to exercise restraint […]

Government has set up a highly powered Task-Force to investigate and deal with weird circumstances leading to political hooliganism by some aggrieved members of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) especially in the northern region. The Task-Force is led by a Deputy Minister for Energy, Dr. Mohammed Amin Adam Anta, and some of its members include the Chief Executive Officer […]

The Assistant Headmaster in charge of academics at Kings College Kumasi, Mr. Emmanuel Odum has called on the government and Minister of Education to restore the four-year Senior High School system to promote effective teaching and learning in schools. According Mr. Odum, the current three-year system being run in the various Senior High Schools in the country is inadequate to […]

The acting managing director of Ghana Post, Mr James Kwofie, has asked Ghanaians and the media to focus on the benefits that will accrue to the government, the business community and Ghanaians at large, with the introduction of the new digital property addressing system in Ghana. He insists the focus on the security of the new system in the last […]