Some officials from the Awutu Senya East Municipal Assembly (ASEMA) under the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA), Kasoa, on Wednesday 30th September, 2020 embarked on a shop – locking operation at Kasoa and it environs. The officials started their operation in the early hours of Wednesday where they put padlocks bearing …
Read More »Over 4,000 Gov’t Workers To Lose Their Salaries In Oct. 2020
More than 4,000 government workers in the country risk losing their salaries for the month of October 2020. The affected staff totaling 4,714 are employees who are on the wrong management units. A letter from the Controller and Accountant General’s Department(CAGD) to Heads of MDAs and MMDAs says the affected staff …
Read More »The First Man to Be Cured of HIV Finally Dies of Cancer
The first person to be cured of HIV, Timothy Ray Brown – known as the ‘Berlin Patient’– has died after a battle with cancer, the International Aids Society (IAS) announced Wednesday. The 54-year-old made medical history and became a symbol of hope for the tens of millions of people living …
Read More »Sad Incident As Lady Gets Heartbroken 24hours To Her Birthday
A very sad but funny incident is said to have happened as a young man breaks up with his girlfriend just some hours to her birthday just for asking what he would get her. From the look of things, the man had already wanted to break up with the young …
Read More »BET Hip Hop Awards 2020: The Complete List of Nominations
The 2020 BET Hip Hop Awards are ready to honor the best in music, activism and culture! Following the 2020 BET Awards, which paved the way as one of the first awards shows to take place amid the coronavirus pandemic and ongoing Black Lives Matter protests back in June, next month’s Hip Hop Awards …
Read More »French Open 2020: Serena Williams withdraws from competition on day four
Three-time champion Serena Williams has withdrawn from the French Open because of an Achilles injury. The 39-year-old had been scheduled to play her second-round match against Bulgaria’s Tsvetana Pironkova on Wednesday. The American has won 23 Grand Slam singles titles and was aiming to equal Margaret Court’s all-time record of …
Read More »COVID-19 kills 301; active cases now 530
Over 300 people have died from COVID-19 in Ghana. Two more patients recently succumbed, bringing Ghana’s death toll to 301, according to the latest figures from the Ghana Health Service (GHS). The number of active COVID-19 cases in Ghana has also risen from 477 to 530, as of Wednesday, 30 …
Read More »Angry teachers picket GES over legacy arrears
The Coalition of Aggrieved Teachers with arrears dating as far back 2012 on Wednesday, 30 September 2020 besieged the Ghana Education Service Head Office to petition the Director-General of Education on their legacy arrears which they say is long overdue. According to the aggrieved teachers, it has been rumoured …
Read More »Restore our GHS1,200 stipend or no vote – Afforestation youth to gov’t
Beneficiaries of the Youth in Afforestation programme have threatened that they will not vote in the 7 December 2020 polls if the government does not increase their allowance, which, according to them, was slashed from GHS1,200 to GHS700. The beneficiaries of the programme are also calling for other issues confronting …
Read More »Sekondi peace walk turns bloody; Bartel’s son stabbed
A peace walk put together by the Assembly Member for Nkotompoh electoral area in the Sekondi Constituency in the Western Region has turned bloody as two residents believe to be NPP members were stabbed One of the victims and the Coordinator for NPP’s New Media in Sekondi Godfred Kwamena Bartels …
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