Professor Emeritus, Stephen Adei says teachers must be ready to forgo 50% of their salaries if they want to continue staying at home. The outbreak of Covid-19 in Ghana has resulted in the closure of schools to curb the spread of the disease and teachers have been at home since March. Speaking …
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Burundi voting ends in calm despite fraud allegation
Voting in Burundi’s presidential election passed calmly on Wednesday despite simmering political violence, the coronavirus pandemic and the opposition accusing the authorities of fraud. In what could be the first competitive presidential election in Burundi since a civil war erupted in 1993, the ruling CNDD-FDD party’s candidate, retired general Evariste …
Read More »Mining records 38% Producer Price Inflation
The Mining and Quarrying sub-sector recorded the highest year-on-year producer price inflation rate of 38.0 percent, the Ghana Statistical Service (GSS), has said. This, according to the GSS, is followed by the utility sub-sector with 12.1 percent. The Manufacturing sub-sector recorded the lowest year-on-year producer inflation rate of 0.5 percent. …
Read More »‘Asamoah Gyan, Abedi Pele best I’ve seen play’ – GFA president Kurt Okraku
The President of the Ghana Football Association Kurt E.S. Okraku has named Asamoah Gyan and Abedi Pele as the two most distinguished players he saw play in the national team colors. Asamoah Gyan is Ghana’s all time top scorer with 51 goals having represented the Black Stars since 2003. He …
Read More »Benevolence and politics landed Apraku in abject poverty – Journalist reveals
Broadcast journalist, Kofi Adomah Nwanwani has given a chilling account of how Emmanuel Kwaku Apraku, popularly known as Apraku My Daughter, lost all his wealth and became extremely poor. Apraku My Daughter was found dead in his room in Kasoa yesterday after he went missing for three days with a …
Read More »Suspended NPP Parliamentary Aspirant sacked as Deputy NADMO Coordinator
Suspended New Patriotic Party (NPP)Parliamentary Aspirant for Nalerigu-Gambaga Constituency in the North East Region Mr. Peter Wuni Baaga has been dismissed as the Deputy Director-General of the National Disaster Management Organization (NADMO), MyNewsGh.com has confirmed. A letter from the Chief of Staff Akosua Frema Osei Opare sighted by MyNewsGh.com did not give any …
Read More »Jealous husband in police grips for killing wife
A 60-year old man is in the grips of the Sawla police for allegedly killing his wife, Bora Bonbiatey, 57, at Gando a suburb of Tuna in the Sawla-Tuna-Kalba district of the newly created Savannah Region. PAD FM sources say Yikatey Somatey, the suspect who had accused his wife of …
Read More »Migrants and those without ID face hunger in South Africa
South Africa has marshalled huge resources towards preventing its poor from starving because of COVID-19, but undocumented citizens and stranded migrants face hunger as they slip through the net, aid workers say. Some 11,000 families waited for charity food parcels on Wednesday in a queue stretching for several kilometres outside …
Read More »JUST IN: Rapper E.L involved in a car accident [WATCH VIDEO]
Rapper E.L real name Elorm Adablah was involved in a car accident that caused damage to several cars. The sad ordeal happened around Okponglo Junction in Accra a few minutes ago. The Rapper’s car was one of the many cars involved in a multiple collision. EL is well without any …
Read More »Kenyan landlady ‘removes roof over rent arrears’
A Kenyan woman who failed to pay her rent last month has had the front door and part of her home’s roof removed by her landlady, local broadcaster Citizen TV reports. Ruth Shiundu, a widow, said she could not raise 11,000 Kenyan shillings ($102; £84) because her business of selling …
Read More »Kevin Taylor blasts Peace Coulcil members; Calls them ‘hungry bootlickers’
US-based journalist Kevin Taylor has tagged the members of the National Peace Council as hungry bootlickers who depend on President Akufo-Addo for their daily bread. His comment comes after the General Secretary of the National Peace Council George Amoh affirmed the independence of the Electoral Commission (EC) and appealed to all stakeholders to allow …
Read More »Two friends in bloody fight over land
A fight between two friends over a disputed land at Elobonkata in the Ahanta West Municipality of the Western Region turned bloody last Sunday. Solomon Arku and Kwaku Prosper, both in their late 30s, are currently in critical condition and on admission at the Effia-Nkwanta Regional Hospital in Sekondi and …
Read More »Asiedu Nketia’s SON SACKED from Job
The General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Johnson Asiedu Nketia has alleged that his son was sacked from a private company where he worked after the New Patriotic Party (NPP) won the 2016 elections. “My son is out of work” for more than three years, he said in …
Read More »Check out which GFA Exco members voted to fire Kwasi Appiah
Kurt Okraku, the president of the Ghana Football Association (GFA), has justified why Coach Kwesi Appiah was shown the exit. Appiah, 60, and a former captain for the national exited as Ghana head coach on December 31 following the expiration of his contract. Reports emerged that Mr Okraku had personal scores to …
Read More »Why I walked out of ‘Joe Mettle’ interview – Patience Nyarko
Gospel singer, Patience Nyarko has given reason for walking out of an interview when ‘rival’ Joe Mettle’s name came up. The interview, which has since garnered some mixed reactions saw Patience spring out of Joy News’ Becky’s face when she was asked to sing Joe Mettle’s song, Bo Noo Ni. The …
Read More »2 spiritualists arrested for allegedly ‘hijacking’ rainfall in Ketu North
Two young spiritualists in Penyi, a town in the Ketu North Municipality of the Volta Region were rescued by the Police yesterday, Wednesday, May 20,2020 after angry residents launched an attack on them. The two spiritualists were accused of preventing rain from falling by performing short rituals in either their …
Read More »Four Fake Soldiers Arrested
Four civilians posing as soldiers have been arrested at various locations in the country. Two of them were arrested at Katamanso, in the Kpone-Katamanso Municipality on Tuesday, May 5, 2020. According to the Ghana Armed Forces (GAF), its personnel was on patrol in the areas where the arrests took place. It says the …
Read More »Ashaiman baby-thief jailed 8 years
The Ashaiman Circuit Court presided over by Mrs. Agnes Opoku Barnieh has sentenced Elizabeth Rockson to eight years imprisonment for stealing two children at Tsinagbe in Ashaiman. The 29-year-old woman was on May 15, 2020, arrested following a manhunt by the Ashaiman Police that led to the rescue of the …
Read More »Man ‘slaughtered’ in a fight over girlfriend at Fumbisi
A young man in his 30s from the Baasa community in the Builsa South District of the Upper East Region has lost his life after his throat was slit Wednesday night. He was allegedly killed in a fight that broke out between youth of the Wiesi and Baasa communities at …
Read More »We never said we were reopening schools – Oppong Nkrumah
Government says that reports circulating that it will soon reopen schools across the country are untrue. Government says it is instead engaged in consultation on when and how to reopen schools. Speaking at the Information Ministry’s press briefing Thursday, Minister for Information, Kojo Opong Nkrumah said “with the greatest of respects it is not …
Read More »Ghana has not received Madagascar’s Covid-19 ‘cure’ – Oppong-Nkrumah
Information Minister Kojo Oppong Nkrumah has debunked claims that Ghana has received samples of Madagascar’s COVID Organics, a herbal medicine alleged to be a cure for Covid-19. Rather, he explained that they have reached out to Madagascar’s government on their supposed cure and the drug will be tested for its efficacy. …
Read More »VIDEO: Nigerian Lady Fights Boyfriend For Duping Her
A video making the rounds on the internet shows a Nigerian lady seriously engaging her boyfriend in a fight in Makurdi, Benue state over N300,000. According to reports, the lady lent him N300,000 only for her to find out that he spent the money on other girls. The irate lady …
Read More »Ndc’s Joshua Akamba Charge Ghanaians To Vote Out Akuffo Addo
The National Organizer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Hon. Joshua Hamidu Akamba hosted former appointees and Ambassadors of the Provisional National Defense Council (PNDC) and National Democratic Congress (NDC) yesterday. According to a statement issued in Accra yesterday, the meeting was called by the NDC stalwart to acknowledge the toil …
Read More »5 reasons why women avoid serious relationships
Here are some reasons why women may be reluctant when the time comes to get into a relationship or get more serious with an existing one. The end goal of many relationships is often marriage, settling down, or cohabitation, depending on what suits both partners best. No matter how the …
Read More »I advised Apraku My daughter but he didn’t pay heed – Ex-wife speaks
The ex-wife of the once popular man of God, Pastor Emmanuel Apraku, also known as Apraku My Daughter has disclosed that her late husband failed to pay heed to her counsel. Speaking in an interview with Kofi TV, monitored by GhanaWeb, after his death, she said though they got separated …
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