A Junior High School to provide access and quality education for girls, particularly those from deprived communities, has been inaugurated at Agona Swedru in the Agona West Municipality of the Central Region. Known as the Swedru Girls’ Model Junior High School, the school uses a participatory model that involves gender-sensitive …
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NPP second Vice Chair, Women’s Organizer clash over bungalow
There is a serious power struggle between the 2nd Vice Chairperson of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Felicia Tetteh and the Regional Women’s Organizer of the party, Hajia Rahana Aziz. This confusion between the two party executives in the region has to do with the rightful occupant of a supposed …
Read More »IGP okays WhatsApp communication among top officers
The Inspector General of Police (IGP), David Asante-Apeatu, has said it is “normal” for top police officers to resort to WhatsApp and SMS messages in communication. He disclosed that he is even on the same page with all regional commanders and they communicate frequently. The IGP was responding to questions …
Read More »Chereponi SHS students flee campus over attacks; pregnant women stranded
Information reaching D?GN Online indicates that some students of the Chereponi Senior High School in the Chereponi District of the North East region have fled campus over possible reprisal attacks between the Chokosis and Konkombas. D?GN Online gathered that some parents called their wards to move out of campus back …
Read More »NORTH GONJA: Chiefs and Elders of Wasipe reject forgiveness plea of Deputy Minister – designate for Savanna Region
The Chiefs and Elders of the Wasipe Traditional Area of Gonja in the Savanna Region have rejected the forgiveness plea of Samuel Yeyu Tika who is the Savanna Region Deputy Minister- designate. Mr Samuel Tika last Friday sent a powerful delegation of Imams and prominent Gonjas based in Tamale to …
Read More »Video: Wind of ‘civil uprising’ blowing over West Africa – Duncan-Williams warns politicians
Presiding Archbishop and General Overseer of the Action Chapel International Ministry, Nicholas Duncan-Williams, says the animosity in African politics and high levels of youth unemployment are setting the stage for chaos. He predicts an uprising akin to the Arab Spring after 2020 in West Africa if political leaders do not …
Read More »2019 AFCON Qualifiers: Ghana to host Kenya at Accra Sports Stadium
Ghana will host Kenya in the final Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers at the Accra Sports Stadium according to the Confederation of African Football (CAF). The four times African champions suffered 1:0 defeat to the Harambee Stars at the Karasani Stadium in September last year. However, Kwesi Appiah and his …
Read More »NDC’s Ofosu Ampofo granted GHC400,000 bail
National Chairman of the opposition National Democratic Congress, Samuel Ofosu Ampofo, has been granted bail after initial interrogation by the Police. Mr. Ampofo reported to the CID Headquarters on Monday to answer for leaked audio in which he was allegedly inciting violence. After being kept at the CID head office …
Read More »Adisadel College set to boil again as Board and GES collide
A Security Analyst with the Kofi Annan Peace Keeping and Training Centre, Dr. Kwesi Aning has bemoaned the helplessness of the Ghana Police Service in executing its core mandate. He argued that the mandate and independence of the Service has been so undermined such that it makes it difficult for …
Read More »Mahama reveals NDC’s beef with National Peace Council Chairman
Rev. Prof. Emmanuel Asante ought to have condemned the violence that characterized the Ayawaso West Wuogon by-elections before asking for an apology for the boot-for-boot comments mad by Former President John Dramani Mahama MyNewsGh.com reports. The former President who revealed party supporters and their executives were not happy over his …
Read More »No plans to privatise education – Adutwum
The Education Ministry has dismissed claims that plans are underway by the government to privatise education at the basic level in the country. Under the supposed Ghana Partnership Schools (GPS) Project, a total of 100 selected public schools in the Ashanti, Northern, Central and Greater Accra Regions would be handed …
Read More »‘They treated us as if we were not Ghanaians’ – Joshua Akamba narrates ordeal at CID Headquarters
The National Organizer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Joshua Akamba has expressed dissatisfaction at how the Ghana Police Service treated the leadership of the party when they escorted its chairman, Samuel Ofosu Ampofo to the premises. According to him, the police service made the leadership of the party and …
Read More »Eni, Government of Ghana launch Okuafo Pa project
The Minister of Planning, Prof. Gyan Baffour, in representation of the President of Ghana, Nana Akufo-Addo, the Krontihene of Dormaa Barimah Ansu Agyei, and Eni’s Executive Vice President for Sub-Saharan Africa Guido Brusco cut today in Kyeremasu, Dormaa East, Bono Region, the sod of a new training center for diversified …
Read More »Leaked audio: I’m a man of peace, says Ofosu Ampofo after police grant him bail
The chairman of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Samuel Ofosu Ampofo, has reiterated that he is a man of peace and he will under no circumstance undermine the peace and stability of the country. “The NDC chairman is a man of peace. I have been in politics for the …
Read More »Rawlings urges Burkinabe to work towards Sankara’s ideals
Former President Jerry John Rawlings has commended President Roch Marc Christian Kabore of Burkina Faso for supporting the quest to create a lasting memorial for late Burkinabe leader, Captain Thomas Sankara. The former President also called on the people of Burkina Faso not to allow the pain of the tragic …
Read More »Anas feels more threatened, persecuted under NPP – Mahama
Former president John Mahama has lashed out at President Nana Akufo-Addo for looking on unconcerned as New Patriotic Party (NPP) supporters attack investigative journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas. Anas recently released his exposé on how government officials in charge of mining are circumventing procedures to allow illegal mining. He has been …
Read More »Government can do little about ‘Ponzi Scheme’ locked up investments – Ken Ofori Atta
Finance Minister Ken Ofori Atta says government can only do little about investments locked up in financial institutions that promise unrealistic returns over a short period of time. According to him, any organisation that promise a fixed return at the end of the month should be taken a second look …
Read More »Ghana can’t win 2019 AFCON – Charles Taylor
Former Hearts of Oak and Asante Kotoko striker, Charles Taylor says he does not believe the current Black Stars team can win the African Cup of Nations this year. The Black Stars of Ghana have failed to win Africa’s most prestigious football competition for the last 37 years despite making …
Read More »Committee calls for port concession agreement review
The Ministerial Committee set up by the Economic Management Team to review the concession agreement between the government of Ghana (GoG) and the Meridian Port Services (MPS) has made a compelling case to the government not to implement the agreement in its current form. The committee in its report, a …
Read More »Akufo-Addo appoints Michael Ansah as CEO of GIADEC
The President, His Excellency Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo, has appointed Mr Michael Ansah, as Chief Executive Officer of the newly established Ghana Integrated Aluminium Development Corporation. The Government has outlined its intent to develop an Integrated Aluminium Industry which will be one of the major pillars to drive the …
Read More »Ghana Commodities Exchange: marketing opportunities to farmers
Ghana’s economy has been predominantly agrarian. Various cash crops have a place in Ghana’s economic history. Tetteh Quarshie, for example, brought cocoa from Fernando Po, having experienced the viability of the beans. Other food crops such as rice, maize, soybeans etc. have been on our production radar. Farming is mostly …
Read More »Popular pastor who ‘resurrected’ dead man confesses
Popular Pastor Alph Lukau of Alleluia Ministries who appeared in the viral video of him ‘resurrecting’ a man who was in a coffin has confessed the truth behind the incident. In the viral video, the popular pastor was seen speaking in tongues as he raised a dead man in the …
Read More »Islamic State says it killed 10 Nigerian soldiers – Amaq
Islamic State said on Saturday it killed 10 Nigerian soldiers in an attack on Thursday in the country’s northeastern Borno state, but a Nigerian Army spokesman said “no such incident was recorded.” In a statement issued through its news agency Amaq, Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attack on a …
Read More »US-Taliban negotiations in Qatar enter fifth day
Negotiations between the Taliban and the United States officials in Qatar entered the fifth day in an attempt to end the 17-year war in Afghanistan. The talks mark the highest level negotiations between the two sides since the US ramped up peace efforts last year. Cofounder of the Taliban, Mullah …
Read More »Ethiopians celebrate defeat of colonialists, call for unity
Bedecked in lion mane collars, warriors’ headdresses and military fatigues, thousands of Ethiopians descended on Addis Ababa’s main squares to celebrate the anniversary of the Battle of Adwa – one of Ethiopia’s finest hours in the battlefield. It was in the northern town of Adwa 123 years ago that poorly-armed …
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