GENERAL NEWS

Strike looms over SSNIT’s refusal to comply with NLC ruling on past credit

Public sector workers under the umbrella of Forum for Public Sector Associations and Unions (FORUM) are threatening labour unrest over what they describe as the Social Security and National Insurance Trust’s (SSNIT) deliberate refusal to comply with a National Labour Commission (NLC) ruling on the payment of past credit. The …

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Chaos as police clash with #FixTheCountry protesters at Accra High court

• The police clashed with some sympathizers of the #FixTheCountry protest when they went to the Accra High court • The police say it was a misunderstanding as they were not preventing them from entering the court • The court was hearing the case brought to it by conveners of …

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Ghana Library Authority Declared ‘Library of the Year’ by London Book Fair International Excellence Awards

  The Ghana Library Authority, the institution mandated by law to establish, equip, maintain and manage public libraries in Ghana, has emerged as the ‘Library of the Year’ by the London Book Fair (LBF) International Excellence Awards 2021. It competed against the Kenya National Library Services (Kenya) and Public Library …

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1 dead, 6 others injured in Tema Motorway accident

  One person has been confirmed dead in the early Friday morning accident which occurred at the Ashaiman Underpass section of the Accra-Tema motorway. Six other persons sustained various degrees of injuries in the accident involving two commercial mini buses and a petroleum product haulage truck. According to the Motorway …

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Opuni Trial: First accused wants Trial Judge to abandon trial

Counsel for Dr Stephen Opuni, former Chief Executive of COCOBOD and two others have filed two separate applications at the High Court and the Court of Appeal respectively. The application filed at the High Court was a motion on notice for the trial Judge, Justice Clemence Jackson Honyenuga, to abandon …

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Kadjebi tops Open Defecation Free League in Oti, Volta Regions

Kadjebi District tops the Open Defecation Free (ODF) league table with 104 communities under the programme, constituting 77.6 per cent out of the 26 Districts in the both Volta and Oti Regions. Nkwanta North placed second in the Oti Region for ODF with 77 per cent with Jasikan District coming …

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Rastafarian Council reacts to Bishop’s comparison of prostitution, galamsey to Rastafarianism

President of the Rastafari Council, Ghana, Ahuma Bosco Ocansey, has expressed disappointment in the former Methodist Bishop of Obuasi Diocese, Bishop Stephen Bosomtwe Ayensu, after the latter stated that prostitutes and galamseyers should be allowed to work if we want to admit Rastafarians in our schools. According to the President, …

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