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Ghanaians on social media have made their choice on which woman they would want to lead Ghana as president. There have been calls from certain quarters who believe it’s about time Ghana had her first female president. YEN.com.gh therefore put out a poll on Tuesday, May 14, 2019 asking Ghanaians to choose between Ursula Owusu Ekuful and Zanetor Rawlings. While ...

Chiefs of Danfa and Amrahia in the Greater Accra Region have expressed worry over the government’s failure to compensate them for compulsorily acquiring their lands for public works. A press statement issued by Nii Djane Tsulu Afutu Brempong IV said despite the provisions made in the 1992 Constitution for prompt compensation for such compulsory acquisition of the lands by the ...

Women and child development NGO, Fali Foundation International has charged President Akufo-Addo to sack the recently promoted COP Maame Tiwa Addo-Danquah over what they described as her “glaring incompetence and ineptitude”. The NGO in a statement copied Awake News and signed its Founder, Ms. Fafali Nyonator has expressed disappointment in the CID Boss over her recent comments that her earlier ...

The Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, Kwasi Kyeremeh, has assured that government will do what it can to protect and promote small-scale gold and salt mining industries. He said the small-scale gold and salt mining industries are good prospects to the development of the country and government would give them the keen attention they deserved. The Minister gave the ...

First Lady Mrs Rebecca Naa Okaikor Akufo-Addo on Wednesday commissioned a new Paediatric and Intensive Care Unit (PICU) at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital. Named the Rebecca Akufo-Addo PICU, the facility which consists of a 21-bed Neonatal Intensive Care Unit and a 20-bed Paediatric Intensive Care Unit was constructed under the patronage of The Rebecca Foundation, and is the first ...

Chairman of the Public Interest and Accountability Committee (PIAC) Dr Steve Manteaw has called for an immediate end to the phenomenon where the president appoints head and board members of state-owned companies. The call comes after the auditor general indicted the board of the Ghana Cylinder Manufacturing Company (GCMC) for astronomically and illegally increasing the monthly fees and sitting allowances ...

A reporter with radio XYZ, Wisdom Hededzome is in critical condition after he was allegedly assaulted by some city guards operating within the La Nkwantanang-Madina Municipality. The journalist was allegedly manhandled by about 10 of the guards who were on duty around Zongo junction at Madina on Tuesday. He was assaulted by the taskforce undertaking a decongestion exercise at Zongo ...

PThe Honda Place Ghana has launched its latest brand new sleek crossover, the Hi-rider Revolutionary vehicle (HR-V) in Accra. The car completes Honda Motor Company’s range of the Sports Utility Vehicle (SUV) on the automobile market. The five-seater HRV which is available in the Lx and Ex grades has standard features like a 16-Valve SOHC i- VTEC, with a maximum ...

Global aid to education in 2017 has slightly fallen. In 2017, aid to education totaled US$ 13.2 billion, down 2% or US$288 million compared to 2016. The figures, released by the Global Education Monitoring Report, published by UNESCO, show the levels of aid to education continue to stagnate, growing by only 1% per year on average since 2009. Much of ...

A DEPUTY Minister for Education in charge of Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET), Gifty Twum Ampofo, has declared that government will not relent on its efforts to provide free skill, technical and vocational training to its teeming youth for it is the surest way of guaranteeing them jobs. Mrs Ampofo noted that the Council for Technical Vocational Education and ...