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Bureau of Ghana Languages endorses Ahanta language orthography for use in schools
Posted on with No CommentThe Bureau of Ghana Languages has officially certified the teaching and learning of the Ahanta language in basic and secondary school after schools on Ahanta land, especially in the Ahanta West municipality. This giant achievement means the language can be … Read more →
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Ghana’s inflation second highest in Africa
Posted on | CommentReports that Ghana has the highest inflation rate in Africa have been debunked by the Governor of the Bank of Ghana (BoG), who declared that the country was behind Zambia. Addressing a press briefing in Accra recently, Dr. Abdul Nahir … Read more →
Africa loses $854 billion in illicit financial flows – Report
Posted on | CommentAfrica lost an estimated amount of 854 billion dollars in illicit financial flows from 1970 to 2008, a report by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development has revealed. The report said the amount was nearly equivalent to all … Read more →
Dumsor collapsing Churches…Pastors frustrated
Posted on | CommentGhanaian pastors have added their voices to the worsening continuous electricity crisis in the country, saying it is burdening them with additional administrative cost to run the churches. “There are many churches at the verge of collapse and the revenue … Read more →
Trainee nurses reject gov’t’s GHc 150 allowance
Posted on | CommentThe Ghana Nurses and Midwives Trainees Association has rejected government’s offer to pay them GHc 150 monthly as allowances. According to them, the amount is woefully inadequate per the memorandum of understanding they signed with the Ministry of Health in … Read more →
Gov’t restores ‘scrapped’ nursing trainee allowances
Posted on | CommentA technical committee set up by the President to review allowances for nursing trainees has recommended payment of an abated allowance with a possibility to migrate them unto the Students Loan Scheme. This was contained in a statement signed by … Read more →
Gov’t releases GHc400m for Schools feeding arrears
Posted on | CommentThe government has released about GH400 million to clear outstanding arrears owed suppliers and caterers under the School Feeding Programme. The amount covered the 2014-2015 and 2015-2016 academic year. The Public Relations Officer of the programme, Siiba Alfa who disclosed … Read more →
Gov’t owes 500 SHSs Gh¢150,000 each
Posted on | CommentPresident of Conference of Heads of Assisted Secondary Schools (CHASS), Mrs Cecilia Kwakye Coffie has bemoaned the huge debts which have engulfed the activities of Secondary Schools in Ghana due to the current administration’s failure to fulfil its financial obligation. … Read more →
Melania Trump Speech: Writer apologizes after accusations of plagiarism
Posted on | CommentWith Donald Trump’s campaign reeling from charges of plagiarism, a speechwriter for his company took the blame and offered to resign over nearly identical passages from Melania Trump’s Republican convention speech and Michelle Obama’s remarks eight years ago. The speechwriter, … Read more →
Asantehene blasts Bank of Ghana
Posted on | CommentOtumfuo Osei Tutu ll, the Asantehene, has registered his displeasure over the issuance of excess licenses to micro-finance institutions by the Bank of Ghana (BoG) at the expense of the growth of such micro and small scale enterprises. He said, … Read more →
Woman kills boyfriend’s daughter (PHOTO)
Posted on | CommentThe East Legon Police have arrested a 20-year-old woman for allegedly beating the three-year-old daughter of her boyfriend to death at Aboadae Street, Mempeasem, near East Legon in Accra. The suspect, who has been identified by the police as Judith … Read more →
Trader beats wife to death (PHOTO)
Posted on | CommentThe Dansoman police are currently having a 38-year-old man in their custody for allegedly beating his wife to death at Dansoman, a suburb of Accra. The 48-year-old woman, who was a trader at the Dansoman market – Beatrice Ama Osaah … Read more →
3 years of Woyome cash – €25m yet to be retrieved
Posted on | CommentThree years after a Supreme Court judgement, government is still unable to retrieve more than €25m it illegally paid to National Democratic Congress (NDC) financier Alfred Woyome. A disappointed New Patriotic Party (NPP) Member of Parliament (MP) for Abuakwa South constituency … Read more →
Big drop in foreign currency deposits
Posted on | CommentMore Ghanaians and businesses could be keeping their foreign currencies particularly US dollars outside the banking sector, the latest Macroeconomic and Financial Data of the Bank of Ghana (BoG) suggests. According to the data, foreign currency deposits recorded a negative … Read more →
DISTURBING PHOTO: Suspected thief lynched at Inchaban
Posted on | CommentLifeless body of a man believed to be in his thirties have been found at Inchaban in the Shama District of the Western Region. The body was seen lying naked at a spot near a refuse dump off the Dwomo … Read more →
PHOTOS: 4 arrested for using IGP’s credentials to dupe Police Officers
Posted on | CommentFour persons who created a parody Facebook account with the credentials of the Inspector General of Police John Kudalor, and used it to dupe two police officers have been arrested by the Police in Accra. The four – Haruna Danlad … Read more →
450MW power barge coming
Posted on | CommentState-owned electricity distributor, Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) and Karpower Ghana Limited have reached advanced stages of negotiations to increase Karpower’s generation capacity to 675 megawatts (MW) before the end of this year as part of steps to resolve the … Read more →
I still stand by social media ban – IGP
Posted on | CommentThe Inspector General of Police, John Kudalor has reiterated his earlier call for a complete social media ban during the November 7 general elections.The Police administration had earlier hinted in June this year that it was considering shutting down all … Read more →
Takoradi: 4 Students declared wanted for ‘shit bombing’ Alma mater (DISTURBING PHOTO)
Posted on | CommentFour immediate past pupils of Anglican Junior High School at Kojokrom in the Sekondi/Takoradi Metropolis have been declared wanted after being suspected of vandalising properties of their Alma Mater. The suspects, Emmanuel Essuman, Amos Afful, Isaac Ennin and John Nkrumah … Read more →
Police hospital to embark on mass burial
Posted on | CommentThe Police Hospital in Accra has announced plans to embark on a mass burial exercise to help decongest the hospital morgue. A statement signed and issued in Accra by DCOP Dr Samuel Amo-Mensah, Medical Director of the hospital said: “As … Read more →
VIDEO: Melania Trump accused of plagiarising Michelle Obama in convention speech
Posted on | CommentDonald Trump’s wife, Melania, has taken centre stage on the first day of the Republican National Convention but faced accusations a portion of her speech plagiarised Michelle Obama. Commentators noticed similarities with Mrs Obama’s 2008 convention speech. Mrs Trump’s speech … Read more →
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