GENERAL NEWS

The Registrar of the Ghana Scholarship Secretariat, Kingsley Agyeman, has cautioned persons who forge documents to show scholarships from the Scholarship Secretariat to desist from the act or risk facing the laws. His statement comes in the wake of four Ghanaian students who were deported and banned for ten years …

Hundreds of Ghanaians with some of them perceived to be sympathizers of the opposition National Democratic Congress took to President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s Facebook page to rain imprintable insults on him for organizing a “funfair” before distributing the ambulances he bought. The president yesterday Tuesday, 28 January 2020 inaugurated …

A payroll audit by the Auditor General has uncovered that over 10,000 employees have either no justification or sufficient information to continue drawing salaries from the public purse. It has therefore asked the affected employees to make themselves available for enumeration from January 28 to February 11, 2020 at the …

The Upper East Regional Chairman of the Ghana Journalist Association (GJA), Mr Eric Amoh has come under pressure from a group calling itself Loyalists of Joseph Kofi Adda, the MP for Navrongo Central and Aviation Minister for describing him as childish and immature at a press Soirée organised by the …

The Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration Ministry has disclosed that no Ghanaian student in coronavirus-hit China has been infected with the disease. The Ministry says it has been in contact with the student population thereafter they requested to be evacuated from the country that is on strict lockdown to prevent …

A man suspected to be in his late 30s or early 40s, was on Tuesday morning found dead in a storm drain close to the Ashaiman Under-Bridge on the Tema – Accra side of the Motorway. The deceased (yet to be identified as at the time of filing this report), …

The Assin Central Member of Parliament (MP), Kennedy Ohene Agyapong, has said the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) is hatching diabolic plans to disorganise the activities of the Electoral Commission (EC) ahead of the 2020 general election. The NDC’s main objective, according to him, is to work in secret and …

President Nana Akufo-Addo has urged Ghanaians not to abuse the new 112 emergency services number. President Akufo-Addo made the call when he commissioned 307 ambulances procured by the government for distribution to all constituencies in the country on Tuesday. “I will appeal that this improvement in the provision of emergency …

Astute and affable fashion designer Rafarazzi will be in Canada for this year’s Ethink festival of Arts and culture which is meant for celebrating the Black History month. Rafarazzi is now taking the African continent by storm with his products like ghanaba, African wear, waist bag etc. Ghanaba has become …

The Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS) has conducted fire safety audits on 4,349 old and new facilities in all the regions of the country. In addition to the fire audits, which began in January, last year, 9,997 educational campaigns were held in the regions as part of the service’s effort …