The Concerned Registered Nurse Assistant Clinical (RNAC) and Registered Nurse Assistant Preventive (RNAP) 2019 group, has threatened to picket the premises of the Ministry of Health (MoH) if it fails to release the postings of its members. The group is giving the ministry a week’s ultimatum to release the data …

A 15-year-old physically challenged boy named Kofi has been dumped on the street in Mankessim in the Central Region after the Saltpond Government hospital staff allegedly threw him out. Information gathered indicates that a private car dumped the boy with his wheelchair at the Mankessim lorry station and drove away …

Ernest Boakye, a 30-year-old fuel station manager of the Kwahu-Tafo branch of Infin Ghana Limited has been jailed for 120 months in hard labour by the Mpraeso Circuit Court for stealing GH¢398,545 belonging to his employer. He pleaded not guilty to stealing, was slapped with the sentence after the court, …

Two Nigerians and a Ghanaian have been arrested by the Bengaluru police for allegedly creating fake websites mimicking that of various city hospitals and luring prospective kidney donors for transplants with fake advertisements offering up to Rs 4 crore (about N217 million). Indian Express reports that the suspects who are …

The mother of a two-year-old girl who allegedly connived with a 72-year-old traditional Priestess to bury her two-year old baby girl at Abura Gyabankrom, is in the grips of the Central Regional Police Command. Mary Essuman 36 and Esi Janet, the Priestess, are assisting the police on its investigations. Deputy …

Two persons, a man and a woman, have been picked up by the Northern Regional Police Command to assist in their investigations over fulani killings in Zakoli in the Northern Region. Northern Regional Crime Officer, Supt. Bernard Baba Ananga, who confirmed the arrest in an interview with the media said …

The Ghana Health Service has warned refuse collectors against using treated mosquito nets distributed to fight malaria to cover refuse being carted on tricycles. It is common in many communities in Ghana’s capital city, Accra to see riders of tricycles used as refuse carting vehicles using treated mosquito nets to …

A 22-year-old man, Mr Kofi Tawia, has allegedly been stabbed to death at Bodomasi in the Sekyere Kumawu District of the Ashanti Region. The incident occurred Sunday, 24 April 2022. The Kumawu District Police Commander, DSP Opoku Agyeman Prempeh, told Class News’ Elisha Adarkwah that a misunderstanding ensued between the …

The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) on Monday directed the prosecution of the Wenchi Senior High School in the Bono Region for breaching the Public Procurement Act. The school was indicted in the 2018 Auditor-General’s Report for non-competitive procurement of goods and services. Accordingly, Mr. Twumasi Ampofo, the Headmaster, and Mr. …

The presidential advisor on HIV/Aids, Dr. Mokowa Blay Adu-Gyamfi, has indicated that the country will soon have to deal with an HIV/AIDS epidemic if care is not taken. According to her, an HIV/AIDS epidemic might be eminent because even though the number of cases of the disease keeps rising and …

The Akyem Swedru Circuit Court in the Eastern region presided by His Honour William Appiah Twumasi on Monday April 25,2022 granted bail to the Akyem Oda constituency chairman of the ruling New Patriotic Party and two others for allegedly stealing the steel meant for the construction of a steel bridge …

Some Senior High School students in the Upper East Region have expressed worry over the kind of food usually served them. They said more often “Gari Jollof” and “Donkey Saliva” are predominately on their menu. Gari Jollof as they called it is a mixture of gari, palm nut oil, salt …

The Kuntenase District Court on Monday April 25, 2022 remanded a 25 year old tailor’s apprentice, Emmanuel Boateng  into police custody  for  allegedly killing  his friend over GHs 100 debt  at Esreso in the Bosomtwe District of the Ashanti Region. The suspect, Emmanuel Boateng whose plea was not taken is to be with the Police …

The University Relations Officer (URO) at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Dr. Norris Bekoe, has revealed that some students who drive on campus are unable to take their cars home during vacation because they cannot explain to their parents how they got the money to buy the cars. …

A 56-year-old Fisherman has committed suicide at Saltpond-Ankaful in the Mfantseman Municipality of the Central Region. The incident happened on the evening of Sunday, April, 24,2022. The deceased, Uncle Boboola had locked himself in his room and upon several calls, he failed to respond so the door was broken only …

The Ofaakor Circuit Court has sentenced a driver to a fine of GH¢960 for driving on the shoulders of the road and carelessly crossing a magistrate and disrespecting her. Theophilus Nii Armah Okai narrowly escaped a month’s jail term, after the Presiding Judge, Mr Ebenezer Osei Darko, reluctantly reversed his …

The strike by members of the Civil and Local Government Staff Association, Ghana (CLOGSAG), in demand for the payment of their neutrality allowances continues this week. CLOGSAG laid down their tools on Thursday April 21, 2022, following the inability of government to pay the allowance as agreed upon in January …

A five-year-old boy has been buried alive by a fetish Priestess at Abura Gyabankrom in the Abura Asebu Kwamankese District of the Central Region. An eyewitness who’s a farmer while on his farm is said to have heard the crying of a child. He quickly rushed towards the direction of …

A 33-year-old taxi driver identified as Wonder Afetorgbor has found himself on the wrong side of the law for sexually assaulting a 17-year-old boy, a motor rider. The culprit, who drives around Adutor near Dabala in the South Tongu Municipality of the Volta Region, has been jailed for indecently assaulting …

A level 200 student of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) has been murdered at Sewua in the Ashanti Region. Nana Gyamfi is said to have been murdered by his friend Emmanuel Boateng after he demanded monies owed him. Emmanuel who is a very good friend of …

Joshua Opey, General Secretary of the National Union of Ghana Students (NUGS), has called on the University Relations Officer of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Dr. Daniel Norris Bekoe, to withdraw his comments about students deferred by the institution. According to Joshua Opey, the comments of …

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) Savannah Regional Secretary, Salisu Be-Awurbe has escaped an armed robbery attack along the Damongo-Sawla- Fulfulso stretch of road enroute Tamale. The incident which occurred about 3km to Fulfulso-Damongo Junction near Janikura had one of the armed robbers gunned down with the help of a team …

The General Secretary for the Society of Obstetricians and Gynecologists of Ghana (SOGOG) has urged the general public to refrain from the use of aphrodisiacs. Dr. Promise Sefogah said that contrary to misconceptions, aphrodisiacs do not help in any way to stimulate sex and they have a lot of high …

The Chairman of the Conference of Principals of Colleges of Education (PRINCOF), Dr. Emmanuel Nyamekye has confirmed that some colleges have begun receiving their cheques for their feeding grants as announced by the government. Government through the Education Ministry on Wednesday, April 20, announced that some GH¢ 67 million have …

The management of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) has disclosed that it has reinstated over 3,550 of the 6,000 students whose programmes were deferred due to their inability to pay 70 percent of their fees. According to the authorities, the students who have been reinstated made …

Sylvia Etornam Gbormita, a teacher at the Border Basic School at Aflao in the Ketu South Municipality of the Volta Region, has died in what many has described as a freak road accident. Etornam, as she was popularly called, died on Friday, April 8, 2022, in an accident that left …

The Management of Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) has once again extended the deadline for payment of fees for deferred students by a month. According to the Institution, the decision follows a meeting with the Minister for Education, Yaw Adutwum and other stakeholders held today April 22, …

The Education Minister Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum has said Grade A Senior High Schools including Presbyterian Boys Secondary School (PRESEC Legon) and Wesley Girls’ Senior High School in Cape Coast must be willing to accept students with aggregate 20 or 25 and make them first class students. He said the …

The Ghana Institute of Journalism (GIJ) on Thursday, April 21, 2022, organized the 15th congregation for its graduating students. The graduands protested the institution’s management’s poor planning of the ceremony when the rain forced them to vacate the durbar. The fresh students who were also scheduled for lectures got disappointed …

President Akufo-Addo has appointed the former MP for Ledzorkuku, Dr Bernard Okoe Boye as the Acting Chief Executive Officer (CEO) for the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA). “I am pleased to inform you that the President has appointed you to act as the Chief Executive of the National Health Insurance …