The government of Ghana spent US$4.5 million on the senior national football team, the Black Stars, at the just-ended Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) tournament in Egypt, Youth and Sports Minister Isaac Asiamah has told parliament.The Black Stars, who were tipped as pre-tournament favourites, exited at the round of 16 …
Read More »Govt to reintroduce national high school certificates
Government has revealed it will reintroduce the issuance of national certificates aside the WASSCE, as part of the rolling out of new curriculum for basic schools. According to the Education Minister, Mathew Opoku Prempeh, the certificates will be a prerequisite for gaining employment in the country. Speaking at a stakeholder …
Read More »Jammeh ordered us to kill 44 Ghanaians – Gambian soldiers confess
Two Gambian soldiers working for a hit squad controlled by former President Yahya Jammeh on Monday admitted to participating in the 2005 execution of 56 West African migrants, including 44 Ghanaians on the orders of Jammeh. Lieutenant Malick Jatta and Corporal Omar A. Jallow revealed to Gambia’s Truth, Reconciliation and …
Read More »Free SHS: 1.3 million students expected in school this year – Napo
The Student population in Senior High Schools will be around 1.2 million after this year’s admissions, Education Minister Mathew Opoku Prempeh has disclosed. Speaking at the Meet The Press encounter in Accra on Wednesday, he said the figure would be some 400,000 increase from the current population of about 800,000. …
Read More »Armed robbers attack Deputy Education Minister; 5 injured
Five persons have sustained various degrees of gunshot wounds after Deputy Minister of Education, Hon. Dr. Osei Adutum and others were attacked on Sarikyikura on the Tamale Buipe highway. Police in a statement sighted by MyNewsGh.com disclosed that the injured persons are currently at the Tamale Teaching Hospital responding to treatment while …
Read More »QR Code system coming this year – Bawumia
Ghana will join the likes of Singapore and China in rolling out a universal Quick Response (QR) Code system for payments that will enable even small and petty traders to have easy means of getting paid, Vice-President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has said.Dr Bawumia disclosed this when he delivered a lecture …
Read More »Kejetia Market: Cheapest stall GHS7.8K; most expensive GHS41K
The Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA) has urged the general public to disregard what it describes as the “falsehood” being propagated by some communicators of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) to the effect that stalls at the newly-constructed Kejetia Market are being allocated to only loyalists and supporters of the governing …
Read More »7yrs On: Mills stood for highest leadership ideals – Mahama
Former President John Mahama has described his former boss, the late Prof John Evans Atta Mills, as a man who stood for the highest ideals of leadership and the greatest aspirations of Ghana’s democracy.Mr Mahama, who was Vice-President to Prof Mills, wrote this on his Facebook page to commemorate the …
Read More »1st batch of Hajj pilgrims takes off today
The first batch of Ghanaian Muslim pilgrims embarking on the 2019 Hajj in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, is expected to take off from the Tamale Airport today, Wednesday, 24 June 2019.The Chairman of the Ghana Hajj Board, Sheikh I.C. Quaye, together with the Minister for the Interior, Mr Ambrose …
Read More »Retaliation in Upper Dixcove!
Retaliations in Upper Dixcove in the Ahanta West district of the Western region, have left several residents injured over a chieftaincy dispute. It was the chief of Lower Dixcove and several subjects who were attacked Monday dawn leading to the kidnapping of the chief, Nana Kwesi Agyeman IX. Three days …
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