GENERAL NEWS

Communications Minister, Ursula Owusu-Ekuful has disclosed that government’s plan to provide free WiFi for all Senior High Schools (SHSs) will be rolled out next month. She explained that the initiative is part of government’s strategy to bridge the gap created in the world of Information Communication Technology (ICT). Speaking at …

Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETFund) is warning prospective scholarship applicants to follow due process. GETFund Administrator, Richard Ampofo Boadu, bemoaned how some applicants address the letter personally to him for favour. This conduct, he said, goes against most of the applicants who are qualified for the scholarships. Speaking in an …

Ghana’s former President, Flt Lt Jerry John Rawlings, has urged the new leadership in Mali to use the transition period to exhibit exceptional leadership for the country and usher her into a prosperous era. The former President made the call when a four-man delegation of the National Committee for the Salvation …

Ghana’s largest opposition party, the National Democratic Congress (NDC), has promised to step up infrastructural development at Suame Magazine, a renowned metal fabrication enclave, when given the mandate in the December general election. “One of the party’s key agenda is to introduce modern diagnostic equipment to modify the methods of repairing and …

The death toll in two separate crashes in Ghana has risen to 23 in the last 24 hours. Officials said that three more persons have now been confirmed dead after a truck crashed into two passenger buses on Tuesday — bringing the toll to 17. Twenty-one others who got injured …

A four-year-old girl has died in Daboya due to the spillage of the Bagre dam from Burkina Faso. The Bagre Dam spillage overflowed to Daboya in the North Gonja district of the Savannah region. The spillage has affected about nine communities in the Daboya-Mankarigu district with over 750 households displaced. …

The Western Regional Command of the Ghana Immigration Service (GIS) in a joint operation with the Ghana Armed Forces on Thursday, September 10 intercepted four commercial vehicles en route to Takoradi. The vehicles had on board illegal West African nationals who were consequently arrested. According to GIS, intelligence was gathered …

A video showing a man being beaten with a stick in front of a crowd after he was allegedly caught having s3x with a married woman has been shared online. According to Nigerian media, the man, who had been accused of adultery, was flogged in public to deter potential adulterers. …

Five passengers died on the spot after the cars they were travelling in were involved in a head-on collision at Gomoa Adam near Gomoa Anteadze on the Kasoa-Cape Coast highway in the Central Region. The accident involved two passenger cars, a Ford Transit with the Registration number GS 6031- 20 …

Minority Leader, Haruna Iddrisu, has said the growing rate of graduate youth unemployment in Ghana is a ticking time bomb waiting to explode if nothing is done immediately to address the situation. According to him,  at the moment a lot of the youth in the country are unable to afford …