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The Minister of National Security, Mr Albert Kan Dapaah, on Thursday, delivered a special message from the President of Ghana, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to Mali’s Interim President, Colonel Assimï Goita, in Bamako. Mr Kan-Dapaah led a delegation from Accra, which held extensive discussions behind closed doors with Col. Goita …

The West Africa Examinations Council (WAEC) has cancelled the subject results of 416 School candidates who took part in the 2022 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE).This follows the completion of WAEC’s investigations carried out into some cases of examination malpractice detected during the conduct of the examinations.The results were cancelled …

A Madina District Court has sentenced Peter Michael Ifaenyi aka Peter Yaw Asare, a Nigerian Computer Engineer, to 450 days imprisonment for attempting to obtain a Ghanaian Passport twice. Ifaenyi, 26, who was charged with attempting to obtain Ghanaian passports by false declaration, pleaded guilty. The Court, therefore, sentenced him …

A majority of Ghanaians say the government has performed well in managing the response to the COVID-19 pandemic, but a similar proportion believe that some or a lot of funds intended for the pandemic response have been lost to corruption, the latest Afrobarometer survey shows.In the April 2022 survey, a …

The Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) has stated that prudent cutting of public spending can save the public purse about GH¢45 billion, enough to create fiscal space for the economy.That, the governance and policy think tank said, would convince Ghanaians that all, including the government, were engaged in burden-sharing. The …

Ghana is committed to safeguarding the human rights and freedoms of all persons and, thus, prohibits all forms of violence against all persons, the Attorney-General (A-G) and Minister of Justice, Godfred Yeboah Dame, has said.According to him, the state did not allow or support indignity and harm to persons, including …

The Forestry Commission (FC) has burnt some mining equipment seized from illegal miners operating within forest reserves in the Ashanti Region. The equipment include 12 excavators, 12 heavy duty pumping machines and make-shift wooden housing structures. The mining equipment were seized at the Bunusu portion of the Oda River Forest …

The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has released provisional results for the 2022 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) for both school and private candidates. The subject results of 416 school candidates and three private candidates have been cancelled for the offence of either bringing foreign materials into the examination hall …

Nine Palestinians, including an elderly woman, have been killed in an Israeli military raid in the occupied West bank, Palestinian officials say. The Palestinian health minister warned that the situation was “critical” in Jenin, with many other people injured and ambulances unable to reach them.The children’s ward of a local …

The second lady Samira Bawumia, has commissioned the SEHP Learning and Literacy Centre at Kanda Cluster of Schools to boost teaching and learning outcomes. The Centre has a 60-seater capacity, five computers and some books, undertaken by the Samira Empowerment and Humanitarian Projects (SEHP), a not-for-profit organisation. Speaking at the …