Thirty-four students of the University of Cape Coast (UCC) were on Saturday, 29 February 2020 arrested on the campus of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST). The suspects were rounded up at the university, during the climax of a hall week celebration by students of the Unity …

The Ghana Health Service has detected a strain of Poliovirus (Polimylitis ) in Koforidua, the Eastern Regional Capital. The polio virus was found recently in the polluted Nsukwao river which flows through both New Juaben North and South Municipality. The virus was detected through routine surveillance by a team of …

Member of Parliament for Jaman North and Deputy Bono regional minister, Hon. Siaka Stevens, has incurred the wrath of many in the constituency, particularly widows who have vowed to lead a campaign to unseat him in the upcoming elections. The aggrieved residents, who are eager to vote out Mr Stevens, …

A cursory look at the discouraging educational support received in Bonsaho among other socio-economic deprivations provides a textbook demonstration of cases in similar areas across the country left unattended. The school is found in the Twifo Atti-Morkwa District in the Central Region. On a visit to the town after a frustrating journey through …

Parliament has approved the three-in-one contract agreement between Ghana (Ministry of Energy) and Powerchina International Group Limited amounting to over 895 Million Dollars for the multipurpose Dam Project at Pwalugu. The Agreements are as follow: EPC/Tumkey Contract Agreement between the Government of the Republic of Ghana (represented by the Ministry …

Snakes and other reptiles have invaded Agona Kwanyako Health Centre following deep cracks, developed in the structure giving open access to the reptiles. The cracks could also be found in the roofing, which leaked, when it rained and an imminent collapse of the facility, which had become a death trap …

The Management of Experts Consult Ltd has urge Ghanaian parents to accept autistic children. The call follows concerns of some parents abandoning children with the condition and treating them as cursed Experts Consult Ltd made the appeal after donating items including books, detergents and boxes of bottled water to the …

St.Fidelis Senior High Technical School in the Afram Plains South District of the Eastern region is facing serious infrastructural and logistical Challenges which is affecting the delivery of quality education to students. The infrastructural Challenges has compelled school authorities to convert a kitchen to dormitory, merged classes, whilst students study …

An Accra High court has ordered the Bank of Ghana to go back to arbitration with shareholders of unibank over the revocation of the bank’s license in 2018. The court has also directed the parties involved in the case to choose their own arbitrator in the matter. The court ruling …

The World Health Organization has said the world should do more to prepare for a possible coronavirus pandemic. The WHO said it was too early to call the outbreak a pandemic but countries should be “in a phase of preparedness”. A pandemic is when an infectious disease spreads easily from …

The Ghana Medical Association (GMA) has threatened to embark on a strike if the government fails to implement the signed conditions of service. In a memo signed by the President of GMA, Dr Frank Ankobea and General Secretary Dr Justice Yankson, the association noted that the government had failed to …

Religious leaders have been implored to use their influence to educate and empower women with breast cancer cases to utilize all sources of support available to them, both medical and religious, by directing members to seek medical treatment in hospitals first. By so doing the church will save countless lives …

Ghana is ranked 117th out of 133 countries on the 2020 Financial Secrecy Index (FSI), garnering a score of 52 and accounting for 0.01 percent of global market in offshore financial services. The FSI ranks each country based on the intensity of its legal and financial systems with a secrecy …

Yefriman Senior high school which has been renamed after the chief of Yefriman due to his tremendous contribution towards development of the school, now known as Osei Bonsu Senior High  School.   This week witnessed colorful atmosphere of students campaigning all over the school. What makes  this unique among all …

The Central Regional Police Command says it is collaborating with the management of the University of Cape Coast to identify and arrest students who were involved in a violent clash on campus that led to the destruction of properties. “The Central Regional Police is collaborating with the Police to identify …

Minister for Parliamentary Affairs and Majority leader, Hon. Osei Kyei Mensah Bonsu has disclosed they are reliably informed that the walk out of the minority in parliament prior to the President’s SoNA was instigated by the leadership of the NDC led by its Chairman, Mr. Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo. According to him, …

The National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NaCCA) has debunked assertions that the duration for Junior High School education has been extended to four years, whereas Senior High School education has been reduced to two years. In an interview, the Executive Secretary of NaCCA Dr. Prince Armah explained that the …

All basic schools in the Sunyani Municipality would be closed from Thursday February 27, to Friday February 28, the Ghana Education Service (GES) has directed. This implies that pupils and students in both public and private basic schools in the Municipality will not go to school. According to the GES, …

For the second time in five weeks, the Wa Islamic Senior High School’s (SHS) girls dormitory has been gutted by fire. The female students had their test and exercise books, mattresses, food and beds destroyed by the fire. The dormitory burnt by the fire was a temporary dormitory given to the …

First-year students at Ashesi University have built their first-ever drones. The engineering class of the class of 2023, built delivery drones from scratch. In freshman year, engineering students take a course called Introduction to Engineering; where they are introduced to the various aspects of the engineering programme offered at the …

  Customers of investment companies owned by the founder of the Zoe Outreach Embassy Church have once again assaulted the pastor as he drove to court at Tarkwa on Thursday. Kelvin Elson Godson Kobiri was to appear before the Tarkwa District court to respond to a suit against him for …

Overly dry and hot winds in West Africa are damaging prospects for cocoa output for the second year in Ghana, the world’s second-largest producer, sources told Reuters News Agency. Cocoa futures on Intercontinental Exchange are near their highest in three years, driven in part by the adverse weather, which has …

The Economic and Organized Crime Organization (EOCO) has frozen assets of Mr. Nii Kotei Dzanie, a Member of the Council of State and Director of defunct Ideal Finance. Citi News gathers that among the reasons for the freeze of the assets is to find a way of retrieving funds from …

Over 800 students of the Takoradi Technical University (TTU) have been deferred for failing to register with the school during the 2019/2020 academic year. During a press conference on Monday, the University’s Registrar, Moses Maclean Abnory, noted that students were given ample time to register from September 2019 to January …

The incumbent Member of Parliament for the good people of Atiwa East Constituency and Deputy Minister for Finance Hon Abena Osei-Asare submitted her Nomination forms to the Chairman of the Constituency elections Committee at the party’s Office in Anyinam. According to the humble, accessible and development oriented legislator her tremendous …

The Automobile Dealers Union-Ghana (ADUG) has stated its intention to engage in an unprecedented demonstration if parliament goes ahead with its plan to ban the importation of second hand cars. The Majority Leader of Parliament, Osei Kyei-Mensah Bonsu, recently made known that Government was working towards a bill that will …

Automobile Dealers Union Ghana are demanding an immediate justification of a statement made by the Majority leader Osei Kyei Mensah Bonsu that government intends to ban the importation of overaged second hand vehicles. The group who say the statement may not be the official position of government want the legislator …

Pupils and teachers of the Salebuga Junior High School in the Upper East Region have to walk 1 or 2 kilometres to have access to potable water and use the toilet on a daily basis. Speaking on the Executive Breakfast Show on Class91.3FM on Tuesday, 18 February 2020, a teacher …

The Head of the Virology Department of Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, Professor William Kwabena Ampofo, says seven out of the 21 cases tested for coronavirus showed symptoms as outlined by the Ghana Health Service despite all proving negative. He, therefore, called for vigilance and heightened effort as the …

Two(2) students of Nyankumasi Ahenkro Senior High School (SHS) have died out of Meningitis out of seven reported cases in the Assin South District of the Central Region, MyNewsGh.com has confirmed. Health authorities disclosed that cases of Meningitis were reported in three communities within Assin South involving a farmer, some traders and …