The Accra High Court has dismissed an application for stay of proceedings filed by the National Chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mr Samuel Ofosu Ampofo. Mr Ampofo is standing trial, together with Anthony Kweku Boahen, a Deputy Communication Officer of the NDC on charges of assault against a public officer and conspiracy to […]
The West African Examinations Council has released the provisional results of candidates who wrote the West African Senior School Certificate Examinations (WASSCE) in 2019. The highest number of students to pass a single core subject was recorded in the Social Studies exam with 257,828 (75.43%) candidates obtaining grades between A1-C6. The most failures were recorded […]
The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has withheld the entire results of some 48,555 candidates who sat for the 2019 West African Senior School Certificate Examinations (WASSCE) pending investigations into various cases of examination malpractices. The 48,555 represents 14.12% of the entire 346,094 candidates entered for the examinations. This was disclosed in a press release […]
Deputy Information Minister, Nana Ama Dokua, has described Leader and Founder of the Glorious Wave Ministries International, Rev. Emmanuel Badu Kobi as a “reckless” man of God. To the deputy minister, his (Badu Kobi’s) recent comments are in “bad taste and should not be countenanced in anyway”. Founder and leader of Glorious Wave Church International, […]
Fishermen at Ankaful in Saltpond were on Wednesday introduced to the use of the latest technological innovation in the fight against the activities of illegal trawlers. This was during the tutorial on the use of a mobile app, Collect, developed by Far Dwuma Nkɔdo, an NGO, with funding from the European Union as part of […]
The Konongo Police has intercepted a Sprinter bus loaded with 17 pieces of railway line metals, suspected to have been stolen at Ohene-Nkwanta near Odumase, in the Asante-Akim Central Municipality, which is one of the communities spanned by rail line from Accra to Kumasi. Occupants of the bus with registration number GR 145 -15, managed […]
The ruling New Patriotic will this morning hold a memorial mass service in honour of the late Chairman of its National Council of elders, CK Tedam. A statement issued by the party and signed by its General Secretary, John Boadu said the memorial service will be held at the Martyrs of Uganda Catholic Church in […]
A senior policeman was literally crying on live radio on Friday, July 26, 2019, over his locked up retirement benefits with troubled gold dealership firm, Menzgold. 62-year-old Chief Superintendent (retired) Sampson Addai Mensah revealed that he ploughed his retirement into the company based on the television and radio advertisements run by various media outlets coupled […]
The Governing Board, Management and some Ambassadors of the Youth Employment Agency (YEA) yesterday, Friday, July 26, 2019, stormed the Manhyia Palace in Kumasi. The occasion was a courtesy call on the occupant of the Golden Stool, the Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II. Led by the hardworking Chairman, Sammi Awuku, the delegation interacted with the […]
The Paramount Chief of Breman Essiam in the Ajumako-Enyan-Essiam, Odeifuor Afoakwa III, has expressed his appreciation to the President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, for the implementation of the Free Senior High School Policy. According to Odeifuor Asankwa III, the Free SHS policy is not a discriminatory policy, and has unified all Ghanaians […]
The Regional and District Flagship Project of the Youth Employment Agency has begun earnestly with the cultivation of a 500 acre maize farm at Wenchi Branam in the Bono East Region. This project is in partnership with all stakeholders of the Agency including the Wenchi Municipal Assembly, Municipal Agric Office, Branam Chiefs among others. The […]
At least 115 people are missing, feared drowned, after a boat carrying migrants sank off the coast of Libya, a navy official says. Gen Ayoub Kacem said 134 people were rescued and a body recovered. The boat was carrying some 250 people from a number of African and Arab countries when it sank 8km (five […]
