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 …
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Leave LBCs alone – farmers fume at COCOBOD
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 …
Read More »GNAT, NAGRAT, CCT declare strike over delay in releasing their arrears
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 …
Read More »Teachers declare strike
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
Read More »Secure Free SHS students’ University accommodation before admission starts – Otumfuo forewarns
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 …
Read More »Why women fantasise about rough sex
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 …
Read More »Dozens of Accra High students admitted over suspected food poisoning
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 …
Read More »Be submissive if you want your shops opened – GUTA to Nigerian traders
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 …
Read More »Make me proud – Akufo-Addo to final year free SHS students
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 …
Read More »Big 6 not only deserving people to be on the cedi – BoG told
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 …
Read More »Thumps up for Government Economic Management
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 …
Read More »Challenges within Ghana cocoa sector go beyond pricing mechanism – IMF
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 …
Read More »Be careful of what you eat – College of Medicine president
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 …
Read More »No basis to condemn free SHS policy – Akufo-Addo
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 …
Read More »Buy Ghana rice for Christmas – Bawumia
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 …
Read More »Messi wins best FIFA Player of the Year for record sixth time
Argentine Lionel Messi beat Liverpool defender Virgil van Dijk and five-time winner Cristiano Ronaldo to win the best FIFA player of the year award for a record sixth time on Monday. Messi, who won the Spanish La Liga title with Barcelona last season, as well as the European golden boot …
Read More »We owe no teacher an allowance or salary arrears – NAPO
Minister of Education, Dr. Mathew Opoku Prempeh has stated that no teacher has any course to claim arrears in salaries and allowances under the Nana Akufo-Addo presidency. Speaking at the 70th Anniversary commemoration of the Prempeh College where he is an alumnus, Dr. Opoku Prempeh insisted, “between 2017 and now, …
Read More »Over 600 Nigerian shops at Circle locked up again by GUTA
Over 600 shops belonging to foreign traders particularly Nigerians at the Kwame Nkrumah Circle have been locked up by members of the Ghana Union of Traders Association (GUTA). This is not the first time GUTA members had embarked on such an exercise in their quest to rid the Ghanaian market …
Read More »Amend Criminal Code to help us fight money-doublers – BoG
The Bank of Ghana (BoG) has called on the state to amend the Criminal Code so the central bank can go after money-doublers because there is no law to take care of that now. Naa Welbeck Anuonyam, an official at the Financial Stability Department of the BoG, said the central …
Read More »Bank of Ghana adopts strict laws to fight money laundering
Ghana is taking the fight against money laundering seriously due to the effect of such practice on the economy and the country’s international image, Naa Welbeck Anuonyam, an Official at the Financial Stability Department of the Bank of Ghana, has said. Ms Anuontam told members of the Institute of Financial …
Read More »GRA issues new directive for LTO taxpayers and Adabraka Medium Taxpayers
The Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) has issued a press statement directing the public to other outfits where tax transactions is still operational. Despite the Kwame Nkrumah Circle office gutting fire, the tax company says their core operations will not be duly affected. According to the GRA press release all LTO …
Read More »UEW Kumasi to be renamed University of Skills and Entrepreneurial Development
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has announced that the Kumasi campus of the University of Education will become an autonomous institution under the name, University of Skills and Entrepreneurial Development. During a sod-cutting ceremony at the school for the construction of a Technical Examination Unit at the College of Technology …
Read More »ECG, NEDCo & VALCO debt to GRIDCo hit ¢814 million
The Ghana Grid Company Limited (GRIDCo) has for three years running recorded losses, with a net loss of 114.3 million cedis last year. According to GRIDCo, the Volta Aluminum Company Limited (VALCO) owes it 30-million dollars while ECG and NEDCo also owed about 607 million cedis and 177 million cedis …
Read More »Money launderers mostly use West Africa to get to Europe – BoG
Most money launderers around the world use West Africa (WA) as their entry point into Europe, Naa Welbeck Anuonyam, an Official at the Financial Stability Department of the Bank of Ghana, has said To that end, she said Ghana is taking the fight against money laundering seriously due to the …
Read More »Market women were consulted on new GH¢200 notes – BoG
A number of agencies and market women were consulted by officials of the Bank of Ghana (BoG) for their inputs into the decision that went into the introduction of the GH¢200 and GH¢100 notes, Mr Phillip Ottoo, Director of Research at the BoG, has revealed. Speaking at a training workshop …
Read More »No child will be denied SHS education by reason of poverty – Akufo-Addo
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has called on Ghanaians not to give the main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) mandate in the 2020 general elections to come and cancel the free SHS policy. Nana Akufo-Addo said the NDC wants to cancel the policy under the disguise of reviewing but reiterated …
Read More »VIDEO: Patients queue in ambulances at Korle-Bu due to ‘no bed’ syndrome
A record overcrowding at the Accident and Emergency Centre (A&E) of the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital in Accra Saturday forced authorities to keep patients requiring emergency healthcare in ambulances for hours. Patients who arrived in ambulances from across the country with different trauma cases could not get beds at the A&E …
Read More »Ghana Health Service prepares to fight CSM
The Public Health Unit of the Ghana Health Service (GHS) in the Upper East Region has engaged its counterparts from Togo and Burkina Faso in a cross-border meeting to share information on diseases of epidemic potential among the three countries. Dr Josephat Nyuzaghl, the Upper East Regional Deputy Director in …
Read More »I won’t pay ¢10,000 cost Supreme Court slapped on me – Akua Donkor
Leader of Ghana Freedom Party (GFP), Madam Akua Donkor says she will not pay the 10,000-cedi cost awarded against her by the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court in dismissing Akua Donkor’s suit against President Nana Akufo-Addo and vice president Dr Mahamudu Bawumia on November 27 asked the politician-cum-farmer to pay …
Read More »Phase 1 and 2 of VW car assembling plant commences in 2020
German Ambassador to Ghana, Christoph Retzlaff has confirmed that the German car manufacturer, Volkswagen (VW) will from early 2020 commence the first phase for the establishment of an assembling car plant in Ghana. According to him, the second phase of the assembling plant will also be established at new premises …
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