Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, 2016 Vice-Presidential Candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), says the party sees the need to restore allowances to trainee teachers and nurses as non-negotiable, explaining that teacher education, in particular, is critical to developing the quality human resource Ghana needs to succeed in the competitive global community.
“We will restore the teacher and nursing training allowances...
Oil Marketing Company, Ghana Oil Limited has unveiled former WBC Super featherweight Champion, Barimah Azumah Nelson as its brand ambassador.
The former boxing champion will be the face of GOIL for the next one year in all its promotional activities and Corporate Social Responsibility Programmes. A plaque of Azumah Nelson as the new ambassador has been unveiled and a...
The University of Aberdeen in the United Kingdom will on Friday hold a special convocation to confer on President John Dramani Mahama an honorary degree of Doctor of Laws (LLD) (Honoris Causa).
The convocation, which will take place at the University’s Kings College, will form part of the President’s working visit to Scotland.
President Mahama who leaves Accra today, Wednesday, for...
Ghana’s former President, Flt Lt Jerry John Rawlings, has called for the strict application of the capital punishment law to stem the spate of callous killings in the country.
He said Ghana should not be witnessing the spate of killings with impunity, when the constitution exacts the severest punishment possible.
Flt Lt Rawlings invited Parliament to consider the need to amend...
The Importers and Exporters Association of Ghana is not happy with President Mahama and has been hard on him as it accuses him of misleading the public.
According to the Association, claim by the president that it was consulted with regards to the extension of 2% special import levy to 2017 in his interview with TV3 on Monday was inaccurate.
“The...
The manager of Ghanaian hiplife musician Deeba Acheampong, Pastor Elvis, has disclosed that his artiste never defiled his 8-year-old daughter of his fiancée in the United Kingdom, but rather inserted ginger into her anus.
Speaking on Onua 95.1 FM’s flagship program Anigye Mmre, Pastor Elvis revealed that when Deeba was sent to UK through the INTERPOL Ghana Office of Police...
The validation process being undertaken by the Fair Wages and Salaries Commission (FWSC) in collaboration with the Audit Service, the Ministry of Finance and the Controller and Accountant General’s Department for workers within the Ghana Education Service is now expected to end on April 15, one month later than the originally scheduled date.
Teachers as well as education workers had...
The flagbearer of the Peoples’ National Convention is laying claim to the presidency in the forthcoming general elections merely because he is called Mahama.
The opposition leader’s conviction is rooted in what he believes is a change in the status quo, from the synthetic belief that the presidency is a preserve for the Johns.
Giving a lighter side to a rather...
Approximately 75 percent of children in Accra Town, an island community close to Yeji in the Brong-Ahafo Region are not enrolled in school or getting proper education due the persistence of child labour.
Of the more than1,000 children of school going age in the island, only 250 of them are enrolled in school, Communications Manager of Challenging Heights, Ms Pomaa...
The China-Africa Development Fund (CADFund) is to provide about US$1.5billion long-term loan for the construction of two 350MW coal-fired plant to meet future power demand.
The coal power project to be undertaken by the Volta River Authority (VRA) and its Chinese partners, Shenzhen Energy Group Co. Ltd. of China (SEC), is to be sited at Aboano in the Ekumfi district...
Smarttys Management and Productions Limited has initiated legal action against media houses that alleged its involvement in the $92 million-rural electrification project executed by China Hunan Construction Engineering Group on behalf of the government of Ghana.
It has denied any involvement in the execution of the project, stressing that it only provided public relations services for the Chinese company.
In a...
Director of Passports, Alexander Grant Ntrakwa believes decentralizing the issue of passport would be a big security risk.
There have been calls for the decentralization of passport acquisition in Ghana to ease the congestion and underhand dealings at Passport Application Centers (PACS).
Acquisition of a passport has been time consuming and nightmarish; a situation where people sometimes spend days commuting to...
Director of Passports Alexander Grant Ntrakwa has called on Ghanaians to respect the privacy of its Ridge Head Office describing the place as a security zone.
Speaking on 3FM’s Sunrise, he expressed concern about how applicants have turned the security zone into a “market place” with long queues.
“The head office should be a security zone that nobody has to have...
The flagbearer of the New Patriotic Party, Nana Addo Dankwah Akufo-Addo has accepted the challenge of President John Mahama to debate him over what the president says are "contentious statements" made by the former.
President John Mahama in an interview on TV3's New Day show Monday said "I'm willing to debate Nana Addo any day, even if you call him...
The People's National Convention says it is set to start Ghana from a new footing grounded on programmes and projects that would lift the country from its numerous developmental challenges.
"We are proposing that with the new beginnings , we are going to start Ghana afresh again. It's loaded with programmes and projects in it," Presidential candidate for the party,...
