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A spokesperson for the Ministry of Education, Mr. Kwasi Kwarteng, has stated that leakages of the West Africa Senior Secondary Certificate Examination (WASSCE) papers did not influence the current results of the 2022 WASSCE. This comes after the President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, described the results of the 2022 batch …

The Association of Passengers in Ghana (APG) is demanding an immediate reduction in transport fares to reflect prices at the pumps. Madam Afia Kwarteng Asamani, the Convenor of the APG made this demand in a statement dated December 5, 2022, and released in Accra. “We are hereby calling on the …

The Minister of Food and Agriculture (MoFA), Dr. Owusu Afriyie Akoto, is currently touring northern Ghana. The visit, which is the last leg of the minister’s regional working tour embarked upon early this year, will take him to Upper West, Upper East, North East, Savannah and Northern regions. It follows …

Some market women in the Ashaiman municipality of the Greater Accra Region are seething with anger over the levels of filth in the Ashaiman market area. According to the market women, the filth has piled up in the area over the past four months. They lamented that municipal authorities are …

Ghana is about signing a nurse-for-cash agreement with the government of the United Kingdom. Each nurse Ghana sends to the UK, once the deal is done, is likely to fetch the West African country £1,000, Health Minister Kweku Agyeman-Manu announced on the floor of parliament on Monday, 5 December 2022 …

Reduction or possible elimination of mercury (Hg) from artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) is one of the main goals of the Minamata Convention on Mercury, which Ghana is a signatory. Mercury pollution in Ghana is said to be reaching alarming level in water and food chain increasing risk of …

Indonesia’s parliament has approved a new criminal code that will make sex outside of marriage punishable by up to a year in prison. It is part of a raft of changes that critics say erode people’s rights. The new criminal code will not come into effect for another three years …

The Trades Union Congress(TUC) has assured that it will take steps to safeguard workers’ pensions amid the implementation of government’s Domestic Debt Exchange (DDX) Programme. In a statement issued on Monday, the TUC expressed disquiet about the failure of government to engage Labour ahead of the launch given that substantial …

Minister for Communications and Digitalisation Ursula Owusu-Ekuful has disclosed alternative arrangements will soon be made for Ghanaians without Ghana card to register their SIM cards. Government through the NCA has ordered mobile network operators to deactivate SIM cards of subscribers who have gone through the first phase of the registration …

The mortal remains of the late Cardinal Richard Kuuia Baawobr, the former head of the Catholic Church in Africa will be flown into Ghana on December 8, 2022 from the Vatican. MyNewsGh.com has confirmed that he body will be flown to the Wa Diocese after a requiem service at the …