Ghana’s major teacher unions, including the Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT),  the National Association of Graduate Teachers (NAGRAT), and the Coalition of Concerned Teachers (CCT) – GH, have given the government a one-week ultimatum to pay their salary arrears, else they will be forced to “use other channels.” In a letter dated October 17, 2017, addressed to the Finance […]

The Daily Guide newspaper has said it owes no apology to a group called Kumasi Youth Association for publishing a story that suggested their monarch Otumfuo Osei Tutu II was involved in a £350,000 money laundering scandal in the UK. Some members of the youth group on Wednesday, 18 October 2017 locked up the Kumasi office of the newspaper in […]

The Minority in Parliament has challenged the Majority to head to court if it believes the $510m AMERI Power deal signed in 2015 was fraudulent. The opposition lawmakers said they will support moves to review the contract if their political opponents are able to produce documents that point to fraud. Until proven otherwise, former Deputy Power Minister, John Jinapor said the Minority […]

General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Johnson Kwadwo Asiedu Nketia popularly known as ‘General Mosquito’, has made known his intentions of becoming the next president of Ghana. Citing his achievements as measure of proving his qualification for the position, the NDC General-Secretary mentioned how he rose through the ranks from the grassroots through to his current standing in […]

The Minister of State in charge of Tertiary Education, Prof. Kwesi Yankah, has revealed that the current system of mentoring and affiliation – wherein a private university college understudies a public university until the private university college becomes mature – will soon be abolished. “Indeed, sweeping reforms in tertiary education are underway and waiting to be announced,” he said at […]

A pro New Patriotic Party (NPP) youth group at Aboabo, a suburb of Tamale in the Northern Region, calling itself the Burma Camp Youth Wing, has vowed never to unlock the Northern Regional Secretariat of the Ghana School Feeding Programme, (GSFP). The group on Monday October 16, 2017, chased out the Regional Coordinator and staff, and locked up the offices […]

Investors in Ghana are being invited to bid for GHS 6 billion in bonds to refinance the Energy Sector Debts. A release issued by the fund managers, Fidelity Bank Ghana Limited, Standard Chartered Bank and Standard Chartered Bank Ghana Limited said the 7-year and 10-year benchmark-sized, nominal fixed-rate Ghana cedi-denominated bonds will be listed and traded on the Ghana Fixed Income Market […]

The outgoing Director General of the Criminal Investigations Department (CID), Commissioner of Police (COP), Mr Bright Oduro has broken his silence on the directive for him to proceed on leave prior to retirement on January 3, 2018, and says he has unfairly been pushed out of the Police Service. Mr Bright Oduro was appointed as CID boss in January 2017 […]

Bystanders rallied to keep a fire outbreak at the pharmacy unit of the Walewale District Hospital in the Northern Region under control. The fire service had been called to attend to the fire, and it took them about 30 minutes to get to the scene, but bystanders tried their best to keep the fire from spreading until fire service personnel arrived. The fire, […]

The Right to Information Coalition (RTI Coalition) Ghana has urged diplomats at the United Nations to make recommendations to Ghana to pass the RTI Bill. The call was made during a presentation made to the UN Permanent missions in Geneva on Tuesday October 10th, by the Human Rights NGO Forum, of which the Coalition is a member. “The NGO Forum […]