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A 17-year old junior high school student of Kasoa Opeikuma on Saturday drowned in a quarry pit near Liberia Camp, in the Central Region. He and his schoolmates had gone there to swim after weekend class. The body of the JHS 3 student was retrieved from the stagnant water around midday on Sunday.The Minister of Finance,...

A four-member delegation of the Committee of Constitutional, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs of Parliament will today begin discussions with the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA) on the anti-gay bill currently before Parliament. The delegation, led by the Chairman on the committee, Kwame Anyimadu-Antwi, left Accra yesterday for London for the talks. The Promotion of Proper Human...

At least 30 students of the Islamic Senior High School at Abrepo in the Ashanti Region have been rushed to the hospital after police allegedly opened tear gas on them while they were demonstrating over frequent road accidents in front of the school. The students of the school are said to have blocked the road...

Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta will later this week appear before Parliament to answer some 16 questions tabled for him by MPs. The Minister is expected to answer questions on the economy, payment of funds to the National Cathedral Project and government’s expenditure of COVID-19  funds, which has become dominant in public discussions in recent times....

Host of Metro TV’s Good Evening Ghana, Paul Adom-Otchere has stated that he will never criticise President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on-air because he has access to him. Reacting to comments sent into the show yesterday, Mr Adom-Otchere said he was not obliged to criticise the government because he works for a private television station....

Henceforth, students in tertiary institutions will not need a guarantor to access loans from the Students Loan Trust Fund (SLTF). With this policy, a student only needs an admission letter and the Ghana Card to access the loan. This followed the launch of the ‘No Guarantor Students Loan Policy’ by the Vice- President, Dr Mahamudu...

The Ghana Health Service has urged the public to go back to wearing face masks. Addressing the media on Wednesday, the Director-General, Ghana Health Service, Dr. Patrick Kumah Aboagye recommended the wearing of face masks in schools, churches and other enclosed areas as means to curtail the spread of the virus. This call comes after...

The Member of Parliament for Ningo-Prampram, Sam George has issued a 24 hour ultimatum to authorities to pull down a billboard on the Accra-Tema Motorway that supposedly promotes LGBTQI activities. “We are calling on the Inspector General of Police to immediately, within the next 24 hours to carry out the necessary security operations to ensure...

Former Senior United Nations Governance Advisor, Professor Baffour Agyeman-Duah says the Council of State should be entirely scrapped from the constitution of Ghana. According to him, their role in the state machinery is redundant and merely contributes to the duplicity seen in several Ghanaian governments over the years. He noted that their main mandate which...