GENERAL NEWS

N’Adom Darko-Asare, a pupil of the DPS International School, Tema, has emerged winner of the 2022 Spelling Bee National competition. This was after she correctly spelled the word, “B-A-T-H-Y-P-E-L-A-G-I-C” in the championship round to become the champion. BATHYPELAGIC, a Greek word, relating to a deep – (also known as midnight …

Professor Anthony Kwame Appiah, a Ghanaian academician at the New York University, has been elected president of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Professor Kwame Appiah announced in a Twitter post that he received the voting of members of the Academy to become the president. He will hold the …

Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) comprises all procedures involving partial or total removal of the external female genitalia or other injury to the female genital organs for non-medical reasons. It has no health benefits and harms girls and women in many ways. It involves removing and damaging healthy and normal female …

The Ghana Education Service (GES) has said it has retrieved its vehicles which were sieved over judgment debt. The official Vehicles of the Eastern Regional Director Education and the Regional Accountant of Ghana Education Service as well as that of the Birim South District Director of Education were seized to …

Kennedy Agyapong, the Member of Parliament for Assin Central, has charged the Minister of Education to pay particular attention to the admission process of medical school students in the country. Kennedy Agyapong asserts that the process is fraught with nepotism and tribalism which prevent some deserving students from gaining admission. He said on …

Another fire outbreak has been recorded in the Ashanti Region bringing the number of fire incidents in that region within this week to three. The latest incident happened at a shop where baby products are sold at Adum, the Central Business District of Kumasi. The fire which started at about …

The suspended Metropolitan Chief Executive for Sekondi-Takoradi, Abdul-Mumin Issah says he will cooperate with the Police in the prosecution of his case of alleged assault on a Police Officer and reckless driving and is confident that he will be exonerated. In a statement reacting to his suspension from office owing …

The Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo led government is hell-bent on passing the Electronic Transaction Levy, E-levy, which is to impose a 1.75% tax on all electronic transactions. Since the announcement of the introduction of the E-levy during the 2022 budget presentation by Ken Ofori-Atta, the finance minister, on November 17, 2021, …

The Government of Ghana have presented a cheque of GH¢500,000 to to compensate the families of two victims who were shot dead by military officers at Ejura in the Ashanti Region. Each family received a cheque for GH¢250,000 on Saturday February 5,2022. The two, Mutalar Mohammed and Abdul Nasiru Usif …

The Narcotics Control Commission has placed its lenses on the newly launched but now closed McDan Aviation’ Private Jet Terminal as a highly possible entry and exit point for an illicit drug, MyNewsGh.com has been told. We are told McDan has already paid more than US$300,000 as ground rent for …