Trainee nurses protest ‘Exorbitant’ tuition fees
PARENTS of students undergoing training at the Nursing and Midwifery Training College (NMTC) at Teshie, Accra, have called on the Ministry of Health (MoH) to set up a committee of enquiry to...
View ArticleStopping illegal fishing methods
PRESIDENT Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo last week emphatically stated that illegal methods employed in fishing in the country must cease. We believe the President was making reference to the use of...
View ArticleYEA will see a new life – Sammi Awuku
The new Board Chairman of the Youth Employment Agency (YEA), Mr. Sammi Awuku, has assured Ghanaians that under the tenure of the newly constituted Board, YEA will see a new life, new focus and new...
View ArticleAngry mob beat up policeman after seizing his riffle
Angry residents of Kwesimintsim, over the weekend, subjected Sergeant F. Okyere at the Abura Police station to severe beatings for what is yet to be known. The enraged residents numbering 10 pounced...
View ArticleVendor collapses after losing GHC6,000 to fraudster
It all happened Wednesday, September 13, 2017 in the afternoon when a petty trader by name Mena Ekua, 37, went to a vendor, Emmanuel Dadzie, who is in his 30s at Nkotompo, and asked him to transfer...
View ArticleMale Prostitute Escapes Lynching At Agbogbloshie
A 21-Year-Old man was nearly lynched by a mob at Agbogbogbloshie after a client realized that he was a male prostitute. A client hired the services of Osman Bashit aka Adiza, who dressed like a...
View ArticleSammy Awuku not qualified to chair YEA board – Kwabena Donkor
The Member of Parliament for Pru East Kwabena Donkor has said Sammy Awuku does not qualify to be appointed chair of the Youth Employment Agency (YEA) and will therefore petition President Nana Addo...
View ArticleWAFU 2017: Ghana face Nigeria today
A sensational strike from mercurial Accra Hearts of Oak midfielder, Winful Cobbina, handed Ghana a 1-0 win over Mali and aided them to book a semi-final spot in the ongoing 2017 WAFU tournament at the...
View ArticleThree More Heads To Roll Over $72 Million SSNIT Software Scandal
Three more officials of the Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) have been interdicted for their roles leading to the $72 million software scandal. They are the Manager of its data...
View ArticleGov’t Lauds Ghanaians Over Sierra Support
The Government of Ghana has expressed its profound gratitude to Ghanaians for supporting the people of Sierra Leone during the recent mudslide that claimed many lives in that country. Minister of...
View ArticleOver 30 escape death as fire guts VIP bus en route to Kumasi
A VIP bus en route to the Ashanti Regional capital Kumasi caught fire when it developed a mechanical fault in a town near Nkawkaw on Sunday, September 17, 2017. A passenger, Kwabena Nyarko who...
View ArticleFree SHS: First-years posted to uncompleted Community Day SHS
First-year students who were posted to the Drobonso Community Day Senior High School at Sekyere Afram Plains in the Ashanti Region had to be turned away because the school is not in operation. The...
View ArticleHurricane Maria to become major storm near Caribbean islands
Maria is expected to become a dangerous major hurricane as it nears the Leeward Islands in the Caribbean. The category one hurricane will rapidly strengthen over the next 48 hours and will hit the...
View ArticleGolovkin v Alvarez fight ends in draw
Gennady Golovkin’s world middleweight title fight with Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez ended in a controversial draw. After a closely fought bout in Las Vegas, one judge scored it 118-110 for Alvarez, another...
View ArticleSchools can collect PTA levies but — GES Council Chair
Collection of Parent and Teacher Association (PTA) levies will not be entirely illegal under the implementation of the free SHS policy, the Chairman of the Ghana Education Service (GES) Governing...
View ArticlePay attention to arts & culture — Akofa Edjeani
Veteran actress, Akofa Edjeani Asiedu, has called on the government to pay attention to arts and culture “because they are the nerve centre of the country’s economy.” The actress observed that Ghana’s...
View ArticleParents prevent school from reopening in STMA
Scores of parents and residents of Mpintsim, a suburb of Kojokrom in the Sekondi – Takoradi Metropolis of the Western Region, in the early hours of last week Friday besieged the AME Zion Primary...
View ArticleMy gov’t can sustain free SHS programme – Nana Addo
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has said government will surely find ways of sustaining the free Senior High School (SHS) policy even though it is expensive. The President said the benefits the...
View ArticleMinister decries state of nurseries in Sekondi-Takoradi
Deputy Western Regional Minister, Eugenia Gifty Kusi, has stressed that urgent steps need to be taken to renovate nursery schools in the Sekondi-Takoradi metropolis to encourage parents to send their...
View ArticleSanctions won’t stop us, warns N Korea
North Korea has warned that more sanctions and pressure will only make it accelerate its nuclear programme. In a strongly worded statement, the foreign ministry called a new round of restrictions...
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