About six thousand students of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) have been forced by the University to defer their courses. This was after KNUST issued a release notifying students who owe more than 70 per cent of school fees by April 7 would be deferred automatically. But the warning did not […]
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on Tuesday commiserated with Bishop Dag Heward-Mills, the Founder and General Overseer of the Lighthouse Church International on the death of his son. Dr. David Heward-Mills, a Research Physician at Shriners Hospitals for Children in Galveston died in the United States at the age 31 after a short illness. Visiting the […]
The Supreme Court has, in a majority 5-2 decision, ruled that Assin North MP, James Gyakye Quayson, can no longer perform Parliamentary duties. This is until the determination of the substantive case filed against him at the Supreme Court. A Cape Coast High Court in July, 2021 nullified the election of Mr Quayson after it […]
The Ghana Police Service has arrested a Lebanese, Osman Brustani for threatening a shop owner’s life over parking space at Osu. The Police announced this in a Facebook post on Wednesday. According to the post, the suspect is currently in Police custody and will be taken through the due process of the law. The Lebanese […]
The Ministry of Communications and Digitalisation has kick-started an initiative to train 5000 girls from five regions in Information Communication and Technology (ICT). The regions are Bono, Bono East, Ahafo, Savannah and Northern Region. The first batch of 1000 girls from various districts in the Bono East Region have already started the training in basic […]
The Ghana Bar Association (GBA) has reacted to the Chief Justices’ circular to trial judges on observing the age-old traditions of the bar in calling cases of senior lawyers first before that of junior ones. To the GBA, the rationale for that tradition is to present junior lawyers the unique and special opportunity, particularly those relatively […]
The National Insurance Commission (NIC) in collaboration with the Motor Traffic and Transport Department (MTTD) of the Nkawkaw Divisional Police have impounded 103 vehicles without insurance. This was during a three-day exercise from Tuesday to Thursday as part of their usual quarterly exercise to clamp down on vehicles without insurance. The Police team was led […]
The Chairman of the Appiatse Reconstruction Implementation Team, Benito Owusu-Bio, has assured the people of Appiatse that prompt action was being taken to move them to a temporary resettlement site by May 1, 2022. He said the move was to prevent further hardship on the people, especially as the rains descend. Mr. Owusu-Bio, who is […]
The government has restricted the export from the country of maize and soya beans, two important commodities in the poultry sub-sector. It is part of measures to ensure food security and increase local poultry and livestock production. Subsequently, the Plant Protection and Regulatory Services Directorate (PPRSD) has stopped issuing phytosanitary certificates for the export of […]
The Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources (MLNR) has refuted allegations by the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Member of Parliament (MP) for Tamale North, Alhassan Suhuyini, that the ministry had spent GH¢10m on conferences relating to the fight against illegal mining popularly known as galamsey. A statement issued by the Public Relations Unit of the […]
Ramatu Aliu Mahama (Neè Egala), the wife of the late former Vice President Aliu Mahama, has passed on at age 70. Affectionately known as Hajia Ramatu, she died Thursday afternoon, her son, Farouk Mahama, who is also the Member of Parliament for Yendi has confirmed. , Farouk Mahama announced. “The family has lost a great pillar. […]
A new study conducted by Prof. Kwasi Appeaning Addo, the Director, Institute for Environment and Sanitation Studies of the University of Ghana, reveals that Ghana will lose its major state monuments including the Christiansborg Castle (otherwise called the Osu Castle), former seat of government; the Kwame Nkrumah Mausoleum; and the Independence Square to coastal erosion […]
