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The Education Ministry has admitted that it could have been more proactive at resolving the issues that characterized this year’s placement of students into Senior High Schools. The Computerized School Selection and Placement System, CSSPS, was plagued with challenges with some students unable to access the website. It led to thousands of students converging on the complaints centre at the ...

The family of one of the four Takoradi girls confirmed dead by the police following the outcome of DNA results has made a sudden u-turn about their earlier stance amidst heaping accusations on the police. Family of Ruth Love Quayson led by her mother on Monday night snubbed a telephone call from President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo when he called ...

Former Eastern Regional Minister and a staunch member of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Emmanuel Victor Smith has indicated that he can’t tell if former President John Dramani Mahama will consider him to be his running mate for the 2020 general elections. Ex-president Mahama was re-elected flagbearer of the NDC on February 23, 2019 after a keen contest in which ...

Founding President of IMANI Africa, Franklin Cudjoe has urged President Akufo-Addo to reject reasons given by his government for rejecting the Short Commission’s recommendation on Ningo Prampram MP, Sam George’s ‘abuser’. Government, in its White Paper, declined the commission’s proposal to prosecute the National Security operative who slapped the Member of Parliament during the Ayawaso West Wuogon by-election. In a ...

Member of Parliament for Assin Central, Kennedy Agyapong, has alleged that former MP for Abuakwa North, J.B. Danquah Adu was killed by some members close to former President Mahama because he had naked pictures of the then-president. According to him, the late J.B. Danquah Adu was dating a girl who also dated the former President. He claims J.B. Danquah Adu ...

Some close family members of the missing girls who are now deceased have heaped praises on the CID boss Maame Tiwaa Addo-Danquah for her support and professional relationship during the frantic search for the girls. According to some members of the Bentum and korankye families, the CID boss was in constant touch with them and did enough to assuage their ...

The government is challenging a recent claim by the Auditor-General in its 2018 report that the Ministry of Finance (MoF) paid US$1m to a private organisation, Kroll Associates, for no work done. The ministry acquired the services of Kroll Associates in 2017 to recover assets from identified wrongdoers, investigate allegations of wrongdoing, provide evidence for assets recoveries, build capacity for ...

Workers of the Ghana Airports Company have petitioned President Akufo-Addo over plans by the Aviation minister to privatise management of airports in the country. According to the workers, despite verbal assurances by the minister and government, there are still signs and overtures that suggest the privatization effort with the Turkish company TAV Airport Holding is still on the table. In ...

The main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has said President Nana Akufo-Addo, if he is serious about Ghana’s governance, must, without hesitation, dismiss his Minister of Education, Dr Mathew Prempeh (Napo) for alleging that former President John Mahama bussed agent provocateurs to the Independence Square to court disaffection for the government in the ongoing school placement exercise which saw hundreds ...

The seat of the Asantehene, otherwise known as Manhyia Palace has issued a strong word of caution to former President John Dramani Mahama to not forget the instrumental role the Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tut II played in his becoming a vice president and subsequently the President of the Republic, ABC News can report. According to Baffour Hyiaman Brentuo VI, a ...