The Ghana Education Service (GES) has announced teachers in the country will now undergo aptitude test before they get promoted. According to a statement by the GES, the move is to ensure efficiency and effectiveness of the promotion process. Other categories of teachers will undergo interviews and the aptitude test …

John Dimah, the 2019 National Best maize farmer has lost 31 acres of his maize farmland to fire in Tumu in the Sissala East District of the Upper West Region. Speaking in an interview with the Ghana News Agency in Tumu, Mr Dimah said a total of 31 acres were …

The Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) has called on the public to dismiss reports that it is recruiting. According to the GRA, such reports making rounds on social media are untrue. “The Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) has sighted notices being circulated on social media platforms to the effect that the Customs …

It has emerged that the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) under the leadership of the current chair of the Electoral Commission Jean Mensah advised the then head of the electoral body Dr Kwadwo Afari Gyan against compiling new voters register during election years. The advice came on the back of …

A Criminal High Court on Friday adjourned the hearing of a bail application filed on behalf of Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) Dr Benjamin Agordzo to January 16. The adjournment was necessitated by the fact that Ms Hilda Craig, Senior State Attorney representing the Republic, informed the Court that the …

It appears the loathing between the Member of Parliament for Asawase Hon. Alhaji Mohammed Mubarak Muntaka and the firebrand MP for Assin Central Kennedy Agyapong is raging on, almost a year after the two nearly got into near fisticuffs on the premises of parliament. The scuffle followed a motion moved …

The prime suspect in the shooting to death of a restaurant operator on New Year’s Day, has been remanded into police custody by the Asoka District Court. Edwin Awuku, described as a chief driver of Bank of Ghana in Kumasi, who allegedly shot Comfort Owusu Afriyie at Cedar Crescent Hotel …

A Popular Warri Based Prophetess Success Onwaeze who is the General Overseer of Salvation Solution Centre of All Nations has died after failing to survived food poisoning. It was gathered that the Prophetess whose Ministry was booming in Warri Delta State was poisoned by the Pastors in her Ministry in …

Pensioners who fail to register biometrically will have their names deleted from the pension payroll by Saturday, 1 February 2020, the Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) has said. SSNIT introduced the biometric registration to enhance its operations and services. In a Facebook post on Friday, 10 January 2020, …

US President Donald Trump’s decision to assassinate Gen Qasem Soleimani, the head of Iran’s Quds Force, has set off a chain of consequences. One of the first was on the unfinished war against jihadists. Almost immediately the US-led coalition fighting the Islamic State group suspended operations in Iraq. The US …