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The Tumu Senior High Technical School in the Upper West region of Ghana has been closed down after students vandalized school property. The students have destroyed properties including teachers’ bungalows, lighting and water systems worth thousands of Ghana Cedis. They were protesting the arrest of their colleagues who were picked up for cheating in the WASSCE examination with mobile phones. ...

A lot of people have tried to apportion blame following the fracas that took place at the 20th edition of the Vodafone Ghana Music Awards. Shatta Wale, Stonebwoy, Charterhouse have all had their own share. Today’s review of the fracas mentioned the police officer who was also holding a gun; some critics claim he wanted to give a warning shot ...

Tullow Plc has announced the payment of US$67 million as dividend to its shareholders for the year 2018 — the first time in four years. The company also announced a new dividend policy which will allow it to pay a dividend of US$100 million annually to shareholders. Chief Executive of Tullow Group, Paul Mcdade said the decision to pay dividend ...

A former security guard at the State Enterprise Commission has been jailed two years by the Accra Circuit Court for threatening to kill the Executive Chairman of the Commission, Mr Stephen Asamoah Boateng. The convict, Arafat Issah, pleaded guilty to one count of threat of death and was accordingly sentenced on his own plea. Issah was said to have sent ...

The Eastern Regional Minister, Eric Kwakye Darfuor has incurred the wrath of aggrieved power consumers at Lower Manya Krobo following his comment that electricity cannot be consumed for free and that residents who cannot afford should go off the national grid. The residents including the Member of Parliament for Lower Manya Krobo, Ebenezer Okletey Terlabi have urged the Eastern Regional ...

United Nations Secretary-General, António Guterres, will lay a wreath at UN Headquarters on Friday, May 24, 2019 to honour all UN peacekeepers who have lost their lives since 1948. He will also preside over a ceremony at which the Dag Hammarskjöld Medal will be awarded posthumously to 119 military, police and civilian peacekeepers, who lost their lives in 2018 and ...

A Deputy Director of the Electoral Commission (EC) in charge of operations has denied former President John Mahama’s allegation of hacking in the last elections. Mr. Samuel Tettey, who was the Director of Elections during the 2016 elections, said the former President got it all wrong regarding the electronic transmission of results, which he said was not what was agreed ...

The Editor-In-Chief of the New Crusading Guide Newspaper, Abdul Malik Kweku Baako Junior suspects Special Prosecutor Martin Amidu, is pursuing a personal vendetta against the Member of Parliament (MP) for Bawku central constituency, Mahama Ayariga thereby dragging him before court on various charges. He wondered why of all the cases lined up by the Office of Special Prosecutor to ensure ...

The High Court judge presiding over the case in which the owners of uniBank are contesting the revocation of the bank’s license has ordered arbitration proceedings to commence on whether the decision to place the bank into receivership breached the law. The judge, Justice Jennifer Abena Dadzie, appointed an arbiter, former Supreme Court Judge, Prof. Date-Bah, to preside over the ...

A final Year Junior High School student is among seven persons who suffered gunshot wounds during a spontaneous protest Wednesday. The student, Ruth Makathar, 18, preparing to write the June 10, 2019 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) was shot in both legs with a stray bullet after she was caught up in the Police clashes with the agitating power consumers ...