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It is turning out that the kidnapping of the President and the overthrow of his government was the game plan of the Alajo coup doctor and his accomplices. The capture of the President was to be preceded by an explosion of needles from shrapnel-loaded Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) at a venue where the Commander-in-Chief, Vice President, Chief of the Defence ...

Lawyers for the Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta and Keli Gadzekpo, a board member of the Bank of Ghana have debunked claims that the two had initiated conversations to acquire Capital Bank in 2016. The lawyers in a statement said the claim by the bank’s founder, William Ato Essien was “malicious”, and “plainly false”. William Ato Essien in an interview on ...

The Ghana Education Service (GES) will, from next term, introduce sex education into the curriculum of basic schools to equip pupils to know and experience their sexuality. At age six, Primary One pupils will be introduced to values and societal norms and how to interact with the different sexes and groups. As the pupils graduate to the upper primary, they ...

The Concerned Teachers Association of Ghana says teachers in the country are not aware of the controversial Comprehensive Sexuality Education curriculum which is starting next academic year. According to them, claims by the Ghana Education Service that teachers have been briefed about the curriculum are untrue. Ghana and the United Nations Education, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) launched the CSE ...

Former President Jerry John Rawlings has bemoaned the fact that some NPP appointees are still in office when corrupt allegations have been levelled against them. In a keynote address delivered at a conference of cadres and activists of the revolution in Kumasi on Saturday, the former President while counselling the National Democratic Congress (NDC) to tread carefully in some of ...

Ghanaian startup, Dext Technology Limited, is to supply 500 schools in the United Kingdom educational resource packs including its widely acclaimed Science Set that will be used to help build students creative capacity and introduce problem-solving as well as innovation. According to a release by the company, the project is a collaboration between the Ghanaian start-up and the Royal Academy ...

The opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has rubbished reports making rounds that its national chairman, Samuel Ofosu Ampofo, led a meeting in the UK to cast a slur on the Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, and other personalities. “We wish to state that firstly there was no such meeting. Secondly at no point was any traditional leader a subject of ...

A defeated parliamentary aspirant for the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Ajumako-Enyan-Esiam Constituency of the Central Region, Elisha Debrah Odoom has broken his silence over the controversial and vehicles and why he took them back. According to him, the vehicles were supposed to be managed by a secretariat and the revenue shared on 40:60 ratio between the dealership and ...

An Appeal Court Judge, Justice Dennis Adjei, has decried the use of the word “bastard” to describe a child who was born out of wedlock as discriminatory and in violation of the Children’s Act, 1998. According to him, every child is protected by the law and for that matter cannot be described as an illegitimate child. He told The Mirror ...

Special Prosecutor (SP), Martin Alamisi Burnes Kaiser Amidu, has accused the Speaker of Parliament, Prof. Aaron Mike Ocquaye, of interfering in his work of prosecuting corrupt parliamentarians who have abused their office. He explained that when he sent a member of parliament to court, the Speaker invited him (Martin Amidu) to his office, and tried to persuade him as to ...