‘New GIS recruitment fake’
GHANA Immigration Service (GIS) has stated categorically that it has not received clearance from government to undertake any recruitment exercise of fresh personnel for the year 2017. The Immigration...
View ArticleResource management for Christians
First of all let us understand what is resource? Resource is more than money. It means employment and job choices, spending, saving and investing money, career, professional and educational goals,...
View ArticleGES must intervene in this matter
THE much-touted Free Senior High School (SHS) policy by the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) took off last Monday. It was not a smooth take-off as many of us would have expected. There were some...
View Article‘I’ll deliver U-17 trophy’
Head Coach of Ghana’s Black Starlets, Paa Kwesi Fabin, believes his charges are good enough to win the upcoming World Cup in India despite their polarising performance at the African Youth...
View ArticleParents charged GH¢700 for hostel accommodation in Cape Coast
Authorities of Cape Coast University Practice Senior High School (UPSS) in the Central Region are charging parents of first-year SHS students between GH¢700 and GH¢500 before providing them hostel...
View ArticleFalse Start to free SHS; Funding gap of GH¢80M
Following the official launch of the Free Senior High School (SHS) policy by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo in Accra yesterday amidst all the euphoria, a statement by GN Research, the research...
View ArticleChief chases Out Land-guards
CHIEF of Kokrobite in the Greater Accra Region, Nii Ofei III, has declared war on land guards who have been terrorising residents and destroying properties in the area. Nii Ofei also vowed to make...
View ArticlePresident Akufo-Addo Visits President Buhari
The President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, on Tuesday, 12th September, 2017, paid a brief visit to the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, His Excellency Muhammadou Buhari....
View ArticleAllow girls to stay in school – Mahama
Former President of Ghana, John Dramani Mahama, says girls must be made to stay in school as long as they have the ability to. “Girls must not only be made to go to school but must also stay in school...
View ArticleSchool heads in Volta Region sabotaging free SHS – Minister alleges
Volta Region Minister, Archibald Yao Letsa, is alleging that some school heads in the region are sabotaging the free Senior High School (SHS) policy. According to him, some headmasters and...
View ArticlePort revenue shoots from GHC130m to GHC230m
Revenue collection at the ports in the first week of September has shot up to GHC230 million compared to the GHC130 million which was raised same time last year, Vice President, Mahamudu Bawumia, has...
View ArticleCOCOBOD announces closure of 2017 light crop season
Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) has announced that the purchases of the 2017 light cocoa crop season will end by close of business on Thursday, September 14, 2017. The statement, signed yesterday in Accra...
View ArticleDon’t deny students admission for non-payment of PTA levy – Gov’t warns...
The government has issued an unsmiling cautionary advise to heads of Senior High Schools (SHS) against denying admission to students whose parents fail to pay Parent Teacher Association (PTA) dues....
View ArticleKNUST students invent sanitation app
Two students from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) have challenged Government and other policy makers to use science and technology to address Ghana’s sanitation...
View ArticleTogo president requests cancellation of Israel-Africa summit amid unrest
Togolese president, Faure Gnassingbe, has requested the cancellation of an Israeli-Africa summit scheduled for next month in the West African country, the Associated Press reports. The country has...
View Article‘Nana is not against small-scale mining’
Member Parliament for Prestea Huni-Valley constituency in the Western Region, Mrs. Barbara Oteng-Gyasi, has stated that the government of Nana Addo Dankwa Akuffo-Addo is never “going to collapse...
View ArticleTogo unrest: Opposition’s best chance is to be part of reform process – Dr...
International Relations expert, Dr Vladmir Antwi-Danso, says repeated protests by opposition parties in Togo against the decades-old Gnassingbe dynasty may not achieve optimal results. The Director of...
View ArticleFree SHS an extended scholarship for 1st years –Minority
Minority in Parliament says the current state of the Free Senior High School (SHS) programme which was launched yesterday by the government was an extended scholarship for first year students,...
View Article20% free SHS fees paid in advance—Minister
Member of Parliament (MP) for Manhyia South constituency in the Ashanti Region, who also doubles as the Minister of Education, Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh, has disclosed that in making sure the Free SHS...
View ArticlePolice arrest 10 galamseyers
A planned protest by members of Small Scale Miners Association in the Ashanti Region yesterday was forcefully cancelled by the Ashanti Regional Police Command. About 10 of the miners who attempted to...
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