President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has said the Minority Chief Whip and Member of Parliament(MP) for the Asawase Constituency, Mohammed Mubarak Muntaka has lost his substance to continue serving as a legislator and so must be replaced, MyNewsGh.com reports. The president was addressing a gathering of Zongo chiefs and a section of …
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NPP denies training thugs to ‘disrupt 2020 polls’
The governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) has denied claims by the presidential candidate of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) that the party is training thugs to disrupt the 2020 polls. In a statement issued Sunday and copied to Joy News, NPP’s Director of Communications, Yaw Buabeng Asamoah, said no …
Read More »[AUDIO] 2020 polls: Even Lordina Mahama Does Not Have Hope In His Husband – SA NPP Communications Officer
Former first Lady, Lordina Mahama does not have hope that her husband former president John Dramani Mahama and the National Democratic Congress (NDC) party will win the upcoming 2020 general elections, New Patriotic Party (NPP) Communications Officer in South Africa, Ernest Asare Gyan has indicated. He said, even the former …
Read More »Police and MP Security Guards Clash
An angry standoff on Friday night between police and security guards of parliamentarians led to the calling of an emergency session at parliament. A spokesperson for the Afghan Ministry of Interior said the situation began when police demanded to search vehicles with black-tinted windows. The security guards resisted the …
Read More »I’ll review Free-SHS within 90 days in office – Mahama
Former President Mahama has insisted that he will review the government’s flagship free-shs policy within his first 90-days in office if elected in the 2020 general elections. He noted that he will engage relevant stakeholders to ensure that the policy is bettered. According to him, the current government did not …
Read More »Free SHS: Over 1,500 kitchen staff to be employed – NAPO
Over 1,500 kitchen staff are expected to be employed into the country’s educational setup in the coming days to support current ones who have been overly burdened by the double-track system, according to Minister of Education Mr Matthew Opoku Prempeh. Last year 8,700 teachers were employed to support the teaching …
Read More »University of Ghana responds to ‘falsehoods’ by CEO of Africa Integras
The University of Ghana has described comments by the CEO of Africa Integras in relation to the cancellation of a project with the university as misrepresentations and falsehoods. Andrea Pizziconi suggested in a Twitter post that Vice-Chancellor of the university, Prof. Ebenezer Oduro-Owusu treated her in a misogynistic manner during …
Read More »Pass WASSCE to shame Free SHS critics – Nana Addo charges students
President Akufo-Addo wants beneficiaries of the Free Senior High School (SHS) policy to shame critics of the programme by obtaining good grades when they sit for the West Africa Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) next year. He says the only way beneficiaries can prove the efficiency of the policy is …
Read More »NPP MP allegedly slaps female DCE
New Patriotic Party [NPP] Member of Parliament [MP] for Effiduase-Asokore constituency, Dr Nana Ayew Afriyie is alleged to have assaulted his District Chief Executive, Mary Boatemaa Marfo in what appears to be a misunderstanding between the two. According to eyewitness report, the incident happened ahead of President Akufo-Addo’s visit to …
Read More »GES releases teacher postings
The Ghana Education Service (GES) has released the postings for teachers who have returned from their study leave. Those teachers who were on leave with pay are supposed to log-on to http://gespromotions.gov.gh, to access their various postings. A release, signed by Mrs Adwoa Van-Vicker the Director for Human Resource and …
Read More »Listen: NPP reacts to Mahama on thugs training claims
The governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) has advised former President John Mahama to report to the rightful authorities if he believes they are planning to wreak havoc and plunge the country into chaos during the 2020 elections. General Secretary of the party, John Boadu who responded to the former President’s …
Read More »Effiduase-Asokore MP denies Slapping DCE
The incumbent Member of Parliament (MP) for Effiduase Asokore in the Ashanti region,Dr.Ayew Frimpong has refuted the claim that he has slapped the District Chief Executive(DCE) for the area ,Hon.Mary Boatemaa during the last day of President Akufo-Addo’s three days tour to the region. In a post to react to …
Read More »Video of UG student slapping ‘boyfriend’ for ‘cheating’ goes viral
A video has gone viral of a man being physically assaulted for “cheating”. The 22 seconds video shows the man being repeatedly slapped with flipflops. The young man believed to be a student makes no retaliation He is seated in the chair with his head slumped into his hands while at least three other …
Read More »Gov’t training thugs to disrupt 2020 polls – Mahama alleges
Former President John Mahama has alleged that the current administration is planning to wreak havoc and plunge the country into chaos during the 2020 elections. He said he knows of a letter by the Upper West Security Council requesting that some members of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) be …
Read More »[VIDEO]: Kwame Nkrumah was Liberian, Nyaniba not his mother – Attoh Quarshie claims
Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah, the first President of Ghana is not Ghanaian but a Liberian born to a Liberian father known as Kofi Nwia, and Nyaniba, the woman we have been reading in the history books as his mother rather adopted Kwame Nkrumah when he first came to Ghana, A …
Read More »Free SHS will increase women participation in Assembly polls – Minister
The Eastern Regional Minister Eric Kwakye Darfuor has asserted the Free Senior High School Policy will increase women participation in future District Level elections. Available statistics indicate since 1994 the participation of women in local governance has been less than 10% at the national level in spite of women constituting …
Read More »We can’t play politics with everything – Nana Addo warns
President Nana Akufo-Addo has called for an end to the politicisation of development initiatives. The President expressed worry over recent comments seeking to downplay the efficiency of drones in the delivery of medical supplies to hard to reach areas in Ghana. The President highlighted the benefits of the technology to …
Read More »Mampong: Akufo-Addo opens 2nd medical drone delivery base
President Nana Akufo-Addo on Thursday, 10 October 2019 officially launched Ghana’s newest medical drone delivery base at Mampong during a tour of the Ashanti Region. This is the second of four medical drone delivery bases earmarked for construction to help expand access to critical and life-saving medicines for patients across …
Read More »Hermaphrodite narrates her ordeal – The trauma of living with two sex organs
When people started seeing it and asked, why is your clitoris so big? It is then I realized mine was different,” these are the words of a 32-year-old hermaphrodite. Depression, mockery and embarrassment are just a fragment of the trauma Pokuaa (not real name) went through growing up, having been …
Read More »University of Ghana lecturers sacked over ‘sex-for-grades’ – Dean of Students
The Dean of Student Affairs of the University of Ghana, Professor Godfred Alufar Bokpin, has said the institution frowns on ‘sex-for-grades’, a reason it has in the last three years dismissed lecturers who have been found guilty in that regard. Prof. Bokpin in an interview with GhanaWeb on the heels …
Read More »Committee probing ‘sex for grades’ to start work next week – Audrey Gadzekpo
An Associate Professor and the Dean of the School of Information and Communications Studies at the University of Ghana, Professor Audrey Gadzekpo has said that the committee set up to probe the sexual misconduct allegations leveled against some lecturers of the university will start its work early next week. She …
Read More »‘Hold my breast’ – Lecturer recounts seduction attempt by student at AUCC
The art of seduction has been a widely used technique or weapon by many to achieve desirable results when the quest seems unsurmountable. It is especially adopted when the subject of interest has a reputation to uphold at all costs. Throughout history, many male leaders have fallen prey and had …
Read More »Parliament to commence sitting on October 22
Parliament will commence sitting on Tuesday 22nd October 2019 for the third meeting of the third session of the seventh Parliament after a long recess. A release issued by the Speaker of the House, Prof. Aaron Mike Ocquaye read: “In pursuance of standing order 37 of the Parliament of Ghana, …
Read More »GNAT urges GES to provide logistics for new curriculum implementation
The Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT) has urged the Ghana Education Service (GES) to make sure teachers get appropriate logistics to facilitate implementation of the new standard-based curriculum introduced into public basic schools. It said teachers across the 260 districts nationwide had been trained on the curriculum introduced this …
Read More »Frequent SEX prevent HEART ATTACKS according to Science
We already know that having sex not only feels spectacular, but it’s ridiculously good for your health, too. It boosts your immune system, protects from certain cancers, relieves stress, improves your mood, and helps you sleep better. And now, thanks to a new study, we also know that it protects …
Read More »Suspend education bills immediately – Teacher unions tell Parliament
Some teacher unions are demanding that Parliament suspends three educational bills which the Ministry of Education (MoE) has laid before the House. The Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT), National Association of Graduate Teachers (NAGR AT), Teachers and Educational Workers Union (TEWU) and Coalition of Concerned Teachers Ghana (CCT-GH) say …
Read More »11 Fumbisi SHS girls collapse after ‘strange’ events; school closed down
Fumbisi Senior High School in the Builsa South District of Upper East Region has been closed down following a series of strange incidents on the school’s campus. At least 11 female students were rushed to the hospital on Monday after falling down and becoming unconscious. The school’s management has sent …
Read More »University of Ghana interdicts Ransford Gyampo, Paul Butakor
Professor Ransford Gyampo and Professor Paul Kwame Butakor have been interdicted by the University of Ghana following the BBC’s “Sex for Grades” documentary. A press statement copied to Ghanaweb states that two lecturers will be invited by the Anti-Sexual Harassment Committee for investigations. “Given that commitment, the Business and Executive …
Read More »Akufo-Addo’s letter to CJ on legal education reforms
With law students’ sustained push for reforms in legal education, the President in May, wrote a letter to the Chief Justice, Sophia Akuffo, requesting action on their concerns. Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo had met with the Students Representative Council of the Ghana School of Law on May 6, 2019, after …
Read More »Why Akufo-Addo confirmed Oppong-Buanuh as IGP
President Nana Akufo-Addo has explained that he decided to confirm the appointment of James Oppong-Buanuh as the Inspector-General of Police (IGP) because of how creditable he has performed in an acting capacity. Addressing a durbar in his honour by the chiefs and people of the Dormaa Traditional Area during his …
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