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Nicholas Cobbinah, the final year Sekondi College student who insulted President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has a reputation for being notorious and violent, Professor Opoku-Amankwa, the Director-General of the Ghana Education Service has revealed. Professor Opoku-Amankwa said on Peace FM that the attack on the president was the third time the student had breached school rules. He revealed that in ...

The Keta Circuit Court presided over by Justice Kwame Polly has convicted a 25-year old man into a 9-year jail term for defiling a 6-year old girl at Adzimakorpe in the Ketu South Municipality of the Volta region. The convict known as Kwabla Adzimah is a sand winner who lives in Adzimakorpe, while the victim, a primary one pupil lives ...

The New Patriotic Party (NPP), Member of Parliament for Dormaa West Constituency, has been connected to a violent incident in the Constituency, which has led to the burning of a pickup vehicle meant for COVID-19 operations, a motorbike and the death of one of his supporters, Kofi Labet. Heavily-armed supporters of Ali Maiga Halidu, are reported to have engaged in ...

One of Ghana’s leading financial technology company, expressPay, is on the cusp of expanding its line of innovative services with international remittances set to start soon. The service will begin with remittance transactions from the UK to Ghana and expand to other European countries. The introduction of international remittances will entrench expressPay as the leading financial technology company with a ...

Former President John Mahama says the Presidential directive to the Auditor General to proceed on leave sets a dangerous precedent for the country. According to the NDC flagbearer, President Akufo-Addo’s treatment of the auditor general is a reflection of the general politicisation of key state institutions under the NPP administration. “If the president can ask the Auditor General to go ...

A Senior Lecturer at the University of Cape Coast (UCC), Jonathan Asante Otchere, is calling for an urgent probe into the activities of the current Commissioners of the Electoral Commission, Ghana (EC). Speaking on ‘Decision 2020’, a political show on 3FM on Sunday, the Senior Lecturer said there is no significant difference between the numbers the EC says it has ...

Ghana needs GHc3.5 trillion in order to provide adequate nutrition to 850,000 pregnant women and over 4,000 infants in the country. The nutritional value should include multiple micro nutrient and calcium supplementation, exclusive breastfeeding of infants and improving complementary feeding interventions. It is expected that adequate nutrition would reduce maternal death by 82% and 16% stunted growth in children under five years ...

The Ghana Education Service must think of reintroducing corporal punishment to instill discipline in most schools across the country, President of the Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT) Phillipa Larson has stated. Speaking on Morning Starr, Madam Larson said the behaviour of some candidates in the ongoing West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) is a clear indication that the ...

The days when Asante Kotoko struggled to make impact in the CAF Champions League are set to be over with the arrival of Nana Yaw Amponsah. The newly-outdoored Chief Executive Officer has told the club’s fans that they can now dream of seeing the club compete with other big clubs on the continents. Speaking at his unveiling in Kumasi on ...

The final year student of Sekondi College in the Western Region who was seen in a viral video insulting President Nana Akufo-Addo after he failed to perform in a paper in the ongoing West African Secondary School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) has apologised to the President. The boy and his father have been seen in a photo at the school’s premises ...