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NAGRAT says NaCCA knew of LGBTQ content before public outcry
Posted on with No CommentThe President of the National Association of Graduate Teachers (NAGRAT) says the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NaCCA) knew about the controversial content in a Senior High School teacher manual long before public outrage forced its withdrawal. Jacob Anaba … Read more →
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REVEALED: ‘Kayayei’ charging their phones cause of Tip Toe lane fire
Posted on | CommentACCRA – More than 100 head porters were rendered homeless last Saturday when fire gutted a two-storey building at Tip Toe Lane, near the Kwame Nkrumah Circle in Accra. The blaze started when the head porters, popularly known as ‘Kayayei’, allegedly … Read more →
Action Chapel sets GH¢50,000 fund for victims of fire and flood disaster
Posted on | CommentThe Action Chapel International (ACI) and two other partners have set up a disaster relief fund to support the hospitals and the victims of the fire and flood disaster at the Kwame Nkrumah Circle last Wednesday. Known as Compassion for … Read more →
How I survived GOIL fuel station fire – Victim narrates ordeal
Posted on | CommentBut for his ability to swim to safety, a 32-year-old mechanic would have been counted among the more than 100 people who perished in the Goil fuel station explosion at the Kwame Nkrumah Circle in Accra last Wednesday. Yaw Agboka … Read more →
Gov’t will help victims with best care. – Prez. Mahama
Posted on | CommentPresident John Dramani Mahama has given an assurance that the government will make sure that injured victims from the Accra fire disaster in the wake of the devastating floods last Wednesday get the best of medical care to enable them … Read more →
Money swine: Local Gov’t Minister shares cash on Sanitation Day
Posted on | CommentThe seventh edition of the National Sanitation Day (NSD) exercise recorded high attendance in the Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolis in the Western Region, which hosted the Local Government and Rural Development Minister, Alhaji Collins Dauda, and his entourage. The minister, who was impressed … Read more →
Ghana begins 3-day mourning today: All flags to fly at half-mast
Posted on | CommentThe three-day national mourning declared by government in remembrance of the victims who lost their lives in the floods and fire disaster in Accra begins today, Monday, 8th June, 2015. Dr Edward Omane Boamah, Minister of Communication, speaking in an … Read more →
Rawlings demands bulldozer
Posted on | CommentFormer President Jerry Rawlings yesterday reminisced about the days when he joined officers and men of the Ghana Armed Forces to save lives and property in times of disaster. This was when he visited parts of the capital, Accra, the … Read more →
Prez. Mahama declares 3 days of mourning
Posted on | CommentPresident John Dramani Mahama has declared three days of mourning for the victims of Wednesday’s floods and the GOIL fuel station fire that killed over hundred people. He said government has also released an amount of GH¢60 million to support … Read more →
Justice Apau shares sad life story: I dropped out of School because of 0.02 pesewas
Posted on | CommentJustice Yaw Apau, a Court of Appeal Judge and nominee for the Supreme Court has revealed that he dropped out of school because of twenty Cedis (now 0.02 pesewas) school fees he owed in 1967 when he was at Prempeh … Read more →
PHOTO: Woman kills husband over banku
Posted on | CommentA 33-year-old woman has been nabbed by the police for allegedly killing her husband during a misunderstanding over banku and smoked fish. Beauty Sabey allegedly stabbed Francis Anagli, 26, with a kitchen knife during a scuffle on June 2, 2015 … Read more →
2 women shot at Alavanyo
Posted on | CommentTwo women have been shot in Alavanyo by assailants a source has disclosed. It is not clear yet if the shooting incident is linked to a protracted land dispute between the Alavanyo and Nkonya people in the Volta region. The two injured women … Read more →
DISTURBING PHOTOS & VIDEO: Gas explosion kills 100 at Circle, Accra
Posted on | CommentMore than a hundred Ghanaians have died in an explosion at a fuel station near the Kwame Nkrumah Circle in Accra. A large number of the victims were seeking refuge at the fuel station when the explosion occurred. The 37-Military … Read more →
Acid attack: 3rd suspect charged with murder (PHOTO)
Posted on | CommentThe third suspect in the Adams Mahama murder trial has also been charged with murder, Starr News’ Wilberforce Asare has reported from court.Essa Musa, according to the prosecution, was the one who went to purchase the acid which was used in the … Read more →
Farmer confesses: “Afoko & Agyepong hired me to kill NPP MP”
Posted on | CommentIn a hurried attempt to bring shame upon an aspiring parliamentary candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), a ‘hired killer’ made a shocking disclosure to a presiding judge at the Goaso Magistrate Court that Messrs Paul Afoko and Kwabena … Read more →
Hannah Tetteh replies J.J. Rawlings
Posted on | CommentForeign Affairs Minister Hanna Tetteh is purported to be denying assertions by President John Rawlings that she is disrespectful and arrogant. The following is her purported response and reply to the ex-President Rawlings reads; “I heard the Joy FM story. … Read more →
PHOTO: Man electrocuted at Legon
Posted on | CommentA 28-year-old advertising agent was electrocuted at Legon while mounting a billboard under a high tension near the Legon Shopping Mall. The deceased was identified as Isaac Kwesi Darko. According to sources, he was subcontracted to mount the billboard belonging … Read more →
Doctors begin indefinite strike
Posted on | CommentJunior doctors at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital in the Greater Accra Region, Komfo Anokye Hospital in the Ashanti Region as well as the Cape Coast Hospital in the Central Region have laid down their tools. They are demanding the … Read more →
Lion eats alive American tourist in SA
Posted on | CommentAn American woman has been mauled to death by a lion that leaped through an open car window at a game park in South Africa, an official has said. A man who was driving the car was reportedly injured when … Read more →
Chief shot dead
Posted on | CommentIn what appears to be the latest killing related to the age long Nkonya Alavanyo conflict, a 68-year old sub chief of Nkonya Ahenkro, Nanai Obi Adiee has reportedly been shot dead on his farm. He was attacked on Monday … Read more →
FULL LIST: Legon ranked 10th best university in Africa
Posted on | CommentGhana’s premier university, the University of Ghana (UG) has been ranked the 10th best university in Africa. This was revealed in the new university ranking compiled by Thompson Reuters, which listed the top 10 tertiary institutions on the African continent. … Read more →
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