A group, known as the Unemployed Graduate Teachers’ Association has given the government a two-week ultimatum to recruit its members or have them embark on series of demonstrations. According to the group, all efforts to draw government’s attention to their situation and pursue it to post them to schools to teach have proven futile. The ...
A coalition of registered nurses and midwives have threatened to embark on what they describe as “mother of all picketing” if the government fails to grant them financial clearance to be employed. According to them, they have been unemployed for over a year despite completion of their academic studies and mandatory rotation. A release issued ...
Guinea’s Naby Keita is “100 per cent” staying at his current club RB Leipzig, despite interest from Liverpool, according to coach Ralph Hasenhuttl. The 22-year-old impressed in Leipzig’s second-placed finish in the Bundesliga last season. The German club have since reportedly rejected two bids from Liverpool for the midfielder over the summer. “The chances of ...
Kenyan police say they have shot dead an attacker who forced his way into the rural home of Kenya’s Deputy President William Ruto, ending a siege that lasted several hours. Mr Ruto and his family were not at the compound near the western city of Eldoret at the time. The man had entered the residence ...
The leadership of Ghana Actors Guild has paid a visit to ailing actor and comedian Asonaba Kwaku Darko aka Super OD at his residence at Agona Swedru in the Central Region of Ghana. The delegation comprising Actors Guild President Samuel Fiscian, Welfare Officer Kalsoume Sinare, Secretary Ziggy Netteyson, Mikki Osei Berko among others, presented a ...
The Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MoFA) has refuted claims GHc 20 million was spent procuring wrong chemicals to fight armyworms invading farms in the country. “The story, which is sourced to the NDC MP for Bongo, Hon. Edward Bawa, is not only misleading but also full of propaganda and a calculated attempt to indignify the image and reputation ...
A gunman has been shot dead by German police after opening fire at a nightclub in the city of Konstanz. One person was killed and three seriously injured in the attack at about 04:30 (02:30 GMT) on Sunday. The shooter targeted the Grey club in an industrial part of the city, on Max-Stromeyer-Strasse. Police have ...
The Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT) will be keeping a close on the government to ensure it fulfills its commitment to ensuring equity across the nation as far as the secondary education is concerned. The association has urged the government to ensure the fair distribution of teaching and learning materials under the policy to guarantee ...
The Premix Committee has given assurances that more premix fuel will be supplied to address the current shortage. The Chairman of the Committee, Nii Lante Bannerman told Citi News that it is working closely with the Tema Oil Refinery (TOR) to supply enough premix fuel to meet the high demands on the market. The sale ...
President Nana Akufo-Addo on Saturday said his government would pay special attention to the professional development of teachers as the nation marches heads towards development. He said teachers were the key change agents needed for the acceleration of the transformative change programmes of his government, thus his administration would ensure that the Ghanaian teachers become pivotal ...
Mr Kwaku Ofori Asiamah, the Minister of Transport, has inaugurated the Board of Directors for the Intercity State Transport Corporation Coaches Limited (ISTC) with a call on them to ensure its smooth running. The Board members include Mr Samuel Oppong, Chairman; Nana Akomea, the Managing Director as the Deputy Board Chairman. Other members of the ...
Some forest reserves in the Asutifi South District of the Brong Ahafo Region have been invaded by illegal chainsaw operators who are cutting the trees for lumber. The Desiri Forest Reserve at Siechem which shares boundaries with the Ashanti and Western regions is being destroyed by the illegal operators. The District Chief Executive, Robert Mensah ...
The Minister of Finance, Mr Ken Ofori-Atta, is to present the mid-year review of the Budget Statement and Economic Policy of the government for the 2017 financial year to Parliament on Monday, July 31, 2017. Presenting the business statement for the 10th week on Friday, the Majority Leader, Mr Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, said the Minister of ...
Sulley Haruna, 29, has been arrested by the police for driving a Toyota Corolla he snatched from its original owner. The car, which by the time of the arrest in Somanya, has been painted with taxi colours, still possessed its original license number. Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) Joseph Gyawu, the Adentan Police Divisional Police ...
Osagyefo Amoatia Ofori Panin, the Okyenhene, has called on graduates to be innovative and create realistic ideas to change the course of the country’s future. He said knowledge is pivotal in every dispensation and it is critical for graduates to apply the skills acquired to transform the country and make it great and strong. Osagyefuo ...
Universal Merchant Bank (UMB) has set out an ambitious target to become the biggest bank in Ghana by 2020. The bank says it intends to deepen its presence in the banking sector through the provision of competitive products and services to attract majority of the banking population. The CEO of UMB, Mr. John Awuah maintains ...
After days of treating themselves to lovely leisure in far away Mauritius and South Africa, patrons of the #BigJulyGetAway trip will later today, Sunday, return to Accra, Ghana’s capital city. The trip began last Sunday, July 23, 2017 with the participants spending five days on the Island of Mauritius touring and exploring the beautiful water ...
The outgoing Bishop for the Sunyani Diocese of the Methodist Church Ghana, Rt. Rev. Kofi Asare Bediako has appealed to the government to provide the needed resources for schools in rural and deprived communities to boost effective learning and teaching and also make the free Senior High School (SHS) policy successful. He observed that the ...
Since repatriating to Ghana, Silicon Valley tech entrepreneur, Paul Owusu partnered with tech entrepreneur Kojo Sarpong to form LOGIQUE, tech accelerator and parent company to tech products Stack, SmartLobby and Coast. The products provide a wide array of services ranging from loyalty and payments to SaaS (Software as a Service) for data collection. The company ...
Fairer pay for women must be backed up by stronger policies at work, according to Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg. But the firm’s chief operating officer, in an interview for BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs, said the first step is to “start paying women well”. She chose Beyonce’s empowering Run The World (Girls) as her first ...
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