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Professor Anthony Kwame Appiah, a Ghanaian academician at the New York University, has been elected president of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Professor Kwame Appiah announced in a Twitter post that he received the voting of members of the Academy to become the president. He will hold the …

The Government of Ghana have presented a cheque of GH¢500,000 to to compensate the families of two victims who were shot dead by military officers at Ejura in the Ashanti Region. Each family received a cheque for GH¢250,000 on Saturday February 5,2022. The two, Mutalar Mohammed and Abdul Nasiru Usif …

The Ghana Police Service has condemned the use of unrelated pictures of the Mayor of Sekondi-Takoradi Abdul-Mumin Issah in the media reportage of his ongoing court case. A warning to the media has hence been issued after the attention of the Police was drawn to the library photograph circulating in the …

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo joined other African Heads of State and Governments in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa on Saturday for the 35th Ordinary Session of the Assembly of the African Union. The two-day meeting of the Heads of State is on the theme, “Building resilience in nutrition on …

The University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG) has declined the invitation from the National Labour Commission (NLC) for a meeting on Monday, February 7 to settle the current impasse that has seen the teachers on strike for weeks. The Labour Division of the Accra Circuit Court, presided over by Justice Frank Rockson Aboadwe, on …

The Chief and people of Aidoosuazo in the northern part of Ellembelle District in the Western Region, have appealed to government and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) to construct new classroom blocks to replace their existing dilapidated Junior High School structure for effective teaching and learning. Aidoosuazo D/A Junior High School was …

Health Minister Joe Phaahla says he believes that as the country moves closer to winter, there will be an expectation of a fifth wave of Covid-19 infections. Phaahla briefed the media on Friday on government’s efforts to fight Covid-19 as well as the national vaccine rollout programme. The minister focused most of the …

Dr. Richard Fiadomor, President of the Chamber of Local Government (ChaLog), has indicated that the powers of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo as enshrined in the Constitution gives him the power to sack the Mayor of Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolitan Assembly and not to suspend him. Speaking on JoyNews’ ‘The Pulse’ programme on …

The Ghana Football Association has ended its pursuit of Otto Addo as an interim Black Stars coach ahead of Ghana’s clash against the Super Eagles. GFA boss Kurt Okraku and other officials met Otto Addo in Germany for the vacant post but that has changed. According to reports Chris Hughton …

A Magistrate Court at Effiduase in the Ashanti Region has convicted two persons in connection with the dangerous transportation of a timber log in the Ejisu town. The owner of the Histon Wood Processing Company, a Chinese National only known as Sunny, and the driver of the skidder which transported …