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Ghana’s Minister for Works and Housing, Hon. Francis Asenso-Boakye has assured world leaders that the country is committed to upgrading existing slums, while preventing the emergence of new ones in the country. He made this known while addressing participants at a high-level meeting to launch the “Global Action Plan Framework …

The Vice-President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, has urged the elderly in society to help nurture and train the next generation towards the development of the country.“It is our collective responsibility to nurture and train the next generation to be in a position to inherit things that we will leave behind, since …

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has given an assurance that the government remains focused to steer the economy out of the current challenges.He explained that while the government was not oblivious of the challenges being faced by the private sector and Ghanaians in general, it was working hard to stem …

The Eastern Regional Commander of the Ghana Immigration Service (GIS), Deputy Commissioner of Immigration, DCOI Faisal Disu, has asked personnel of the service to be alert and vigilant in tracking down foreigners who illegally enter the country to engage in all sorts of criminal activities.Some of such activities, he indicated …

All SIM Cards that have been linked to Ghana Card (ie completed Stage 1 registration), but have not completed their Stage 2 registration will be blocked from the end of October, says the Minister of Communication, Ursula Owusu-Ekuful. She says this is not an extension of the deadline but a …

This year’s Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) for both school and private candidates will, for the first time, be written simultaneously across the country from today, October 17, 2022.In all, 553,408 candidates will write the examination, which will end on Friday, October 21, 2022, with 533,408 being school candidates and …

Four tertiary labour unions will today October 17, 2022, begin a nationwide industrial action to press home their demand for better conditions of service. The unions are the University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG), the Tertiary Education Workers Union (TEWU), the Senior Staff Association of Universities of Ghana (SSA-UoG), and …

The Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT) has asked students set to write their 2022 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) not to indulge in examination malpractices. In a press statement, GNAT indicated that this will save students from unforeseen embarrassment, trauma and anxiety. “We are hopeful you will justify the …

In June 1989, the government of Ghana, under the Provisional National Defence Council administration of late former president Jerry John Rawlings, banned the activities of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and Jehovah Witnesses. The two groups and their missionaries were subsequently given one-week ultimatum to leave …

The recent activities of self-acclaimed Ghanaian evangelist, Patricia Asiedu, alias Nana Agradaa, has brought to the fore discussions about perceived charlatans who parade themselves as anointed servants of God but who end up fleecing people of their resources. The country has since time immemorial dealt with some of these perceived …