Teachers across the country’s public schools are this morning beginning a strike to demand payment of their salary arrears. Three unions, the Ghana National Association of Teachers(GNAT), the National Association of Graduate Teachers(NAGRAT) and the Coalition of Concerned Teachers(CCT) had earlier given Education officials a December 5, 2019 deadline to …

Menzgold has said it will announce a payment schedule and formula for its customers on December 18. It comes after the company asked customers whose funds have been locked up to visits centres across the country to validate their documents. The latest notification is silent on when payment, which is …

Accessing Menstrual Management Products in rural parts of Ghana is still a challenge forcing many teenage girls to sometimes exchange sex for Sanitary pads. The high prevalence of poverty in rural parts of Ghana continues to worsen the plight of young girls who in desperate attempts to have menstrual hygiene …

An obstetrician-gynaecologist Dr Gabriel Akilo has advised that since late pregnancies cause fibroids, women should endeavour to get married earlier so as to conceive early, noting that getting pregnant earlier or in one’s 20s helps to avoid fibroids. He explained that fibroids are common in women who are between 35 …

The Kokofu D/A Junior High School near Goaso in the Ahafo region has been closed down temporarily following an assault on the headteacher a week ago. A group of young men and women stormed the school premises and assaulted the headteacher for canning a pupil of the school. According to …

Mankessim, a commercial town in the Central Region, is noted for foodstuff, fish and meat. But for some time now, people from all walks of life have been trooping to the town not to shop for these items but to seek healing for various eye challenges, including blindness. This follows …

The Ghana Education Service (GES) says it has detected anomalies in the payment of the legacy arrears of teachers which will lead to the payment of GH¢11.3 million in excess. Consequently, it says there was the need to do further auditing before the funds were paid. The amount relates to …

The Ministry of Education has described the strike declared by the three teacher unions as baseless. The unions; namely the Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT), the National Association of Graduate Teachers (NAGRAT) and the Coalition of Concerned Teachers (CCT), declared the nationwide strike to take effect from Monday, December …

Perhaps you started out as friends. You were seeing someone else; he was seeing someone else. You were in the same circles — the same boxing class, the same local wine bar, maybe the same workplace. You never entertained him as a lover — you were not available; he was …

The Ghana Education Service (GES) is shocked at the decision by three teacher unions to embark on a strike on Monday over supposed delays in the payment of their arrears. According to GES, the industrial action declared by the teachers is illegal and ‘grossly an abuse of principle of good …

Chief Executive Officer(CEO) of the Ghana Integrated Aluminium Development Corporation (GIADEC), Michael Ansah, has said that the corporation will have a 30 per cent minimum stake in business entities selected to mine Ghana’s bauxite. “The Act through which GIADEC was created stipulates that, the corporation must own 30 per cent …

The Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) says it will from February 2020 cease payment of monthly benefits to all pensioners who fail to biometrically register with the scheme. All names pensioners on SSNIT who have not done the biometric registration the scheme will automatically have their names deleted …

The Ghana Education Service is shocked by the decision of three Teacher Unions to embark on a strike over the non-payment of salary arrears. The three Unions – Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT), National Association of Graduate Teachers (NAGRAT) and the Coalition of Concerned Teachers Ghana (CCT-GH) – declared the …

Black Stars B coach Maxwell Konadu is on the brink of returning to former club Asante Kotoko. The 47-year-old is in advanced talks and is expected to sign a three-year with the Kumasi-based club before the start of the Ghana Premier League on December 28. Both parties are satisfied with the …

Messi-less lightning strikes Chiengi team, ECL mourns FIVE players, two of them brothers, from a local amateur football club with a famous name in Chiengi, Luapula, have been killed by lightning. The local community was plunged into mourning on Sunday when lightning struck a field the players were cultivating as …

Mobile network operator MTN has been sanctioned by the National Communications Authority (NCA) over the recent challenges with its data bundles to customers. Despite MTN compensating affected customers, NCA handed the telecommunications firm with an initial fine of GH¢10,000 for failure to submit a report on the challenges within 24 …

Some Cocoa farmers have warned Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) to stay away from Licensing Buying Companies across the country following a directive by COCOBOD to LBCs to desist from providing some incentives to farmers. Days ago, COCOBOD announced it has noted with concern that some LBCs are engaged in unethical …

Three Teacher Unions — the Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT), the National Association of Graduate Teachers (NAGRAT) and the Coalition of Concerned Teachers (CCT) have declared a strike. The nationwide industrial action is expected to take effect from Monday, December 9, 2019. According to them, checks have revealed that …

Ghana’s major teacher unions – GNAT, NAGRAT and CCT-G – have declared a nationwide strike, beginning Monday, December 9. This was made known to journalists at a joint press conference held on Thursday, December 5. More to follow. . . Source: 3news.com

The Asantehene Otumfuo Osei Tutu II has reiterated the need for the government to provide more residential facilities at various public tertiary institutions in the country to help reduce the challenges students face with respect to accommodation. “As stakeholders, there is the urgent need for all of us including government …

If you’re into rough sex, you’re definitely not alone. When I surveyed more than 4,000 Americans about their sexual fantasies for my book Tell Me What You Want, rough sex turned out to be one of the two most common things people had fantasized about. Most people—regardless of gender and …

Some 150 students of the Accra High School have been rushed to the Adabraka Polyclinic after eating meals served them at school. Information available to 3news.com indicates the students complained of stomach upset after taking the meals and were subsequently rushed to the hospital Monday dawn. They are all suspected …

The Ghana Union of Traders Association (GUTA) has asked their Nigerian counterparts at the Nkrumah Circle to be submissive if they want their closed shops opened. “At the end of the day, we may open the shops for them. If we go there this morning and they show remorse we …

President Akufo-Addo has charged final year students and first beneficiaries of his flagship Free Senior High School programme to make him proud by passing decisively, their upcoming final exams scheduled for May and June 2020. Addressing the Management and the students body of the St. Mary’s Senior High School in …

Mr. Apatsea Isaac Kwasi, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Center for Leadership and Democratic Governance (CLDG) has appealed to the Bank of Ghana (BoG) to reconsider other people who served to bring Ghana to where it is today and honour them by using their images on the currency of Ghana …

More than half (51 per cent) of some respondents interviewed in a recent Afrobarometer survey held in the country have expressed optimism in the ability of the incumbent New Patriotic Party (NPP) administration to improve the living conditions of citizens. According to the respondents, they believe that things will be …

The IMF is advising Ghana to consider other essentials and not just the pricing mechanism in building a strong cocoa sector. The IMF Resident Representative to Ghana, Dr. Albert Touna, made this statement at the launch of IMANI’s report within the cocoa sector. According to Touna, although price is a …

The president of the Accra College of Medicine is advising the public how to survive into the new year. Professor Afua Hersey spoke said people should be health cautions stressing they “should be careful of what they are eating”. She spoke to JoyNews at the 9th Annual Psychiatry Debate, themed …

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo says infrastructure and other logistical challenges are not enough basis to condemn the free senior high school (SHS) policy. He said the government was assiduously tackling the challenges, and encouraged teachers and students to give off their best to ensure that the policy succeeded. President …

Ghanaians have been urged to buy locally grown rice this Christmas, on other festive occasions and for everyday consumption in order to give greater impetus to the agriculture sector. Apart from saving Ghana millions of foreign exchange, increased patronage of locally grown rice would bolster production efforts, lead to increased …