Former Second Lady Matilda Amissah-Arthur has admonished students to be truthful, honest and persevere in their fields of endeavour. According to her, after school there were a lot of challenges to be faced and after school those virtues would enable them to be unique. ”From here you go into the world and it is different … The post Be truthful, honest

Headmaster of Saint John’s Grammar Senior High School, Dr Edmond Kojo Fianu, is worried about an abandoned two-storey girl’s dormitory project meant to address accommodation deficit in the school. He lamented that, the project which started 10 years ago by the Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETFund) remained uncompleted after several petitions from the school to … The post Headmaster

The 2019 Education College Fair (Edufair) organised by the United States Embassy in Ghana has ended in Accra. The day’s event gathered 48 colleges and universities in the USA with more than 20 selected senior high schools participating from Ghana. The schools included Drew University, Boise State University, Calvin College, Carnegie Mellon University Africa, Aburi … The post 2019 Edufair ends appeared

The National Association of Local Authorities of Ghana (NALAG) has mounted a campaign to support and assist women to participate in local level elections. The move is to get many women as possible at the local government level as the number of women keeps on reducing and currently from 13 per cent to 4.5 per … The post NALAG supports women to contest local level elections

The Office of the Special Prosecutor, has put a total of eight officials before the courts for alleged corruption-related offences, six of whom are public servants. However, it wonders why the six public servants, though facing the courts, are still allowed to hold their offices when the law requires that

Justice Emile Short, the former Commissioner on Human Rights and Administrative Justice, has thrown a challenge to the Special Prosecutor to explain to the citizenry the factors accounting for his inability to successfully deal with high level corruption cases as expected. The president appointed

Ninety investigators from seven security agencies have undergone capacity building to equip them with skills and knowledge in crime investigations. The eight weeks training course brought participants

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), Universal Health Coverage (UHC) includes equity in access to health services. Thus everyone who needs health services should get them and notonly those who can pay for them. Whilst  It also insists  that  quality of health services should be good enough to improve the health of those receiving … The post Upper

“The most important message should be that we should challenge and fight this pandemic relentlessly. We should be as fearless as Chantika Nkhoma who said ‘I have no fear. I live with a killer already.’ Infected or affected, we all have a responsibility to play our part in eradicating

The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) on Thursday marked this year’s World Contraception Day’ with a float through some principal streets of Accra to highlight and intensify family planning activities throughout the country. The float was to also promote awareness of contraceptive methods to enable the youth to make informed choices about their sexual and … The post UNFPA observes

 The Director General of the Ghana Maritime Authority (GMA), Mr Thomas Kofi Alonsi has called for the development of policies and strategies to promote the empowerment of women in the country’s maritime industry. This he said would help break down the gender

Houthi rebels in Yemen say they have captured a large number of Saudi troops after a major attack near the border between the two countries. A Houthi spokesman told the BBC that three Saudi brigades had surrendered near the Saudi town of Najran. He said thousands of soldiers

A judge in Brazil has issued a restraining order against a former attorney general after he admitted carrying a gun inside the Supreme Court to kill one of the justices. Rodrigo Janot served as chief public prosecutor for four years until 2017. He led the prosecutions for corruption of ex-presidents Michel

Zimbabwe’s former President Robert Mugabe has been laid to rest in the rural village where he was born, three weeks after his death at the age of 95. He was buried in the courtyard of his home in Kutama, about 90km (55 miles) west of the capital Harare. Mugabe died in a Singapore

The Upper East Regional Director of the Ghana Tourism Authority (GTA), Mr Henry Yeledour, has given the assurance that some tourist sites in the region will soon receive major redevelopment to attract more tourists to boost the sector. Mr Yeledour gave the assurance on a sideline interview with Ghanaian Times during the 2019 World Tourism … The post ?UER marks World Tourism Day appeared

The Central Regional Minister, Kwamena Duncan has joined calls for the total demolition of the Budumburam refugee camp due to the disturbing reports of alleged robbery and drug peddling in the area. His call follows similar concerns by the Member of Parliament (MP) for Gomoa East constituency, Kojo Asemanyi, and the Chief of Gomoa Budumburam, Nana … The post Disbandment,

A police escort shot and killed a suspected armed robber on the Kintampo-Buipe highway in the early hours of last Friday The deceased was among six masked men who attacked and robbed passengers on board an O.A bus which was traveling from Accra to Paga in the Upper East Region. Police Constable Abraham Akyerekwah of … The post ?Police escort guns down suspected

TWO persons were confirmed dead last Saturday when part of a classroom block they were working on collapsed at Ayawaso West municipality in the Greater Accra Region. The bodies of the deceased had been deposited at the Accra Police Mortuary, while eight others who suffered injuries were treated and

The Central Regional Minister, Kwamena Duncan has called for the total disbandment and demolition of the old Budumburam Refugee Camp because of its incessant use as hideout for criminals in the country. The camp, originally used to accommodate Liberian refugees during