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The National Democratic Congress (NDC) is considering filing a suit to stop the electoral commission from creating a new voters register for the 2020 elections, a member of the NDC’s legal team Abraham Amaliba has revealed. The Electoral Commission has served notice a new voters’ register will be compiled ahead of the 2020 presidential and parliamentary elections. The Electoral Management ...

Standard Chartered Bank Ghana has denied reports it is laying off over 600 staff by June 2019 as it prepares to close down two branches. Describing the report as “false and a misrepresentation of the facts,” StanChart in a statement said staff at the affected branches will be redeployed. “The Bank is in the process of closing two of its ...

Former president John Mahama is visiting three main markets and lorry parks today to interact with drivers and traders ahead of the Easter festivities. The National Democratic Congress (NDC) flagbearer according to a statement, is to “wish them well for the Easter festivities” which fall Friday, April 19, 2019. Areas the former president is expected to visit are Accra Tudu ...

Families of the kidnapped Takoradi girls have intensified pressure on the Ghana Police Service to rescue them, following claims by the CID that it knows their whereabouts. The family have expressed outrage over failure by the Police to rescue the girls two weeks after the CID revealed that it knows where they are. According to the families, the lack of ...

The Ghana Education Service has said the new curriculum being introduced by the service will extend basic education from the primary level to the Senior High School level. He said the changes are holistic and will affect every aspect of the education process of the country. “The reforms we are interested in is the whole school reform where we consider ...

The Ghana Education Service has strongly defended its decision to introduce a new school uniform for Junior High School (JHS) students despite grave public disapproval. Speaking on Morning Starr with Francis Abban, Director General of GES, Professor Kwasi Opoku Amankwa said the change is aimed at psyching the students of what is ahead of them. “In our schools, the first ...

Police in the Eastern Region are on a manhunt for robbers who attacked a four-bedroom apartment at Asuboi a suburb in Suhum Municipality on Saturday. The apartment housed six Chinese nationals working on one of the government’s one district one factory project in the area. The armed robbers made away with seven mobile phones, 15,000 Yen, GHc 37,000.00 and one ...

Parliamentary Select Committee on Local Government and Rural Development was impressed when they visited Zoomlion’s newly commissioned Integrated Recycling and Compost Plant (iReCop) at the Accra Waste Recovery Park (AWARP) in Accra. The plant which is installed to recover over 90% of all kinds of waste and create over 5000 jobs in the waste management value chain was commissioned last ...

The bodies of four persons including two military officers, husband, and wife, who drowned Sunday night have been retrieved from the gutters along the Tema motorway. The couple, Staff Sergeant Arthur Jabez and Warrant Officer Sarah Kuadzi were on a military pickup which was involved in an accident at Ashiaman during the rains on Sunday night. In all, the National ...

The study of the French Language as a subject in basic schools will remain optional in Ghana, the Chairman of the Ghana Education Service (GES) Council, Mr Michael Nsowah, has said. Despite the introduction of a new curriculum for basic schools, the French Language was not included as a mandatory course even though the government has said several times that ...