In September 2017, when the President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s government began the Free Senior High School (SHS) programm with only first-year students, some political analysts questioned the essence of ‘Free SHS’ as it only benefitted first-year students and not all SHS students. Prior to the 2016 election, when then-candidate Nana Akufo-Addo promised the Free […]
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Barbados requests 375 Ghanaian nurses- President accepts in principle
The President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has agreed in principle to send about 375 Ghanaian nurses to Barbados to work in government medical facilities in that country. The Prime Minister of Barbados, Ms Mia Amor Mottley, put in the request for the services of nurses from Ghana during bilateral talks with President Akufo-Addo in Bridgetown, […]
There are Nigerians in Ghana’s Police Service – Nigerian professor in University of Ghana reveals
A Nigerian Professor lecturing in English at the University of Ghana has made a shocking revelation about the Ghana police service and how Nigerians have infiltrated the service against the requirements stipulated in the 1992 constitution of Ghana. According to the lectuer who was addressing Nigerians at a forum in Ghana, Nigerians are well placed […]
Prostitute-bonking man who stabbed his wife several times arrested
A fugitive husband, who stabbed his wife multiple times in the head for refusing to allow him to use her money to pay a prostitute, has been arrested and in the grips of the Nima police command. Known only as Kofi, the father-of-two was arrested by the police upon a tipoff. Narrating her ordeal, the […]
Man’s bald head is too shiny for passport photo so immigration officers cover it with panels
Applying for or renewing your passport used to be a time-consuming process. Now, with the recent upgrades and procedures in place, one can get his or her new passport within 2 hours! Still, there are a few things that need to be considered. First, you need to be there early because the queue can get […]
Excessive heat kills several people in India
Severe heat has left dozens dead over a 24-hour period in India’s Bihar state, as the country enters the third week of searing temperatures, officials said on Sunday. The deaths occurred in three districts of the poor northern state, where temperatures have hovered around 45 degrees Celsius (113 Fahrenheit) in recent days, senior health official […]
E/R: 7 including VRA staff killed in gory accident on Odumase-Krobo highway
A bus carrying some staff of the Volta River Authority (VRA) has plunged off a road and overturned on the Odumasi-Krobo stretch in the Eastern region. At least seven persons have been killed and dozens have sustained various degrees of injuries in the accident that occurred in a valley on the Asitey Mountains, on the […]
EC begins limited voters’ registration today
The Electoral Commission today begun a Limited Voters’ Registration exercise nationwide, to register Ghanaians who have turned 18 since the last registration as well as those who, for one reason or another, have never registered to do so. It forms part of the Commission’s preparations towards the conduct of the 2019 district level election of […]
Kweku Baako exposes Suhuyini’s lies on Bawumia
The managing editor of the New Crusading Guide, Abdul-Malik Kweku Baako, has this morning, Saturday 15th June, 2019 on Newsfile, exposed Alhassan Suhuyini for lying against the Vice President of the Republic, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia. The Tamale North Member of Parliament, on the show, read a tweet supposedly coming from the Twitter account of the […]
Lecturer caught pants down trying to have sex with female student
A lecturer in the Accounting Department of the Ekiti State University, Ado-Ekiti, Dr O.O Aduwo, was yesterday disgraced after he was allegedly caught pants down while attempting to have sex with one of his female students simply identified as Nike who he had invited to his home. According to reports by the students of the Institution who reached out […]
Things Fall Apart named one of 12 novels considered the “Greatest Book Ever Written”
Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart has been named one of 12 novels considered “the Greatest Book Ever Written”. The book was named on the list compiled by Encyclopaedia Brittanica, and Achebe masterpiece is named amongst other great literary works. Here is our selection of 10 quotes from Things Fall Apart. One of Africa’s literary giants […]
Swift intervention by MTN averts duping of MoMo merchant in Tema-4K retrieved
A swift move made by Mobile Telecommunications giant, MTN Ghana has averted the duping of a Mobile Money merchant in Tema to the tune of Ghc 4,000.00 by members of a cybercrime syndicate. Information gathered by BestNewsGH.com has it that on Wednesday 12th June 2019 at about 1000hrs, a known elderly man (later discovered was […]