The Minister of Education, Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum, will on Monday, March 22 appear before Parliament following an urgent question filed last week by North Tongu Member of Parliament (MP) Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa. The question is related to the content of controversial textbooks said to denigrate some ethnic groups – particularly Ewes – in Ghana. …

Tension is brewing in Akropong-Akuapem in the Eastern Region over stolen traditional black stool by unidentified armed men. The stool which belongs to the Oyoko royal family was stolen by knife and gun-wielding men at night. The incident has been reported to the Akropong police but no arrest has been …

Four men were electrocuted Sunday at Anwomaso Bebre near Ejisu in the Ashanti Region, forcing authorities to cut the power supply in the area. The victims –include a carpenter, a father and his son and one other –were said to have raised a scaffolding pole to begin work on a …

Johnson Anane, an Assistant Lecturer at the Sunyani Technical University, has filed a lawsuit at the Supreme Court asking for a declaration that God is the creator of mankind and not through evolution as advanced by scientists. The lecturer is also raising issues on the position of science that sees …

The Forestry Commission Task Force has arrested ten persons for farming in the Afrensu Brouhuma Forest Reserve in Offinso in the Ashanti Region. The intruders have also built homes in what is supposed to be a virgin forest. Routine patrol by forest guards uncovered the illegal activity of the farmers. …

Daniel Alubadek, a geography tutor of the Wenchi Methodist Senior High School, who took some of his students on an excursion to the Kintampo waterfalls, and suffered a disaster, is still bedridden, four years after the unfortunate event. According to medical reports sighted by GhanaWeb, Alubadek needs $91,571 to undergo …

The Owabi Water Supply System is a three million gallon per day (3mgd) conventional treatment plant with a daily average production of 2.4mgd. The treatment plant is the main source of water supply to the north-western part of the Kumasi metropolis. Areas like Kwadaso, Asuoyeboah, Abuakwa, Nkwawie, Akropong, Koforidua and …

Ken Ofori-Atta, the Finance Minister-nominee, has returned home seeking further medical attention in the United States of America for what was reportedly some complications following his recovery from COVID-19. Ofori-Atta had reportedly tested positive in December last year and the situation grew worse early this year. A report by Asaase …

The ruling Akufo-Addo-led administration has been heavily criticized after it introduced new taxes in its 2021 budget statement. Some critics who are in shock after the introduction of these new taxes started sharing past audio and text of some comments made by then running mate and now Vice President Dr Mahamudu …

The former Member of Parliament for Upper West Akim Constituency in the Eastern Region, Derick Ohene Assifu Bekoe, was involved in a motor accident in the late hour of Sunday. The accident occurred at Sukunu Bethlehem, near Asuokow on the Asamankesse-Nsawam highway, in a head-on collision. The MP is currently receiving …