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Karaga, Ghana-  Ghana National Gas Company Limited has conducted a sod cutting ceremony for the construction of a girls’ dormitory at Pishigu Senior High School in the Karaga District of the Northern Region. The girls’ dormitory when completed will help alleviate the school’s accommodation challenges. Ghana Gas has also constructed a …

Lawra, Ghana – The Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) for Lawra in the Upper West Region, Jacob Dery has added his voice to the call on government and management of the Ghana School Feeding Programme to consider paying caterers on time to reduce the pressure and embarrassment they receive from suppliers. …

Damongo, Ghana – Member of Parliament for the Damongo Constituency in the Savannah Region, Samuel Abu Jinapor, has made a huge donation of assorted food items to some three senior high schools in the constituency. This follows recent outcry by many headmasters and headmistresses of various schools across Northern Ghana …

A defining moment in Ghana’s GMO journey beckons About five (5) months ago, Ghana’s National Biosafety Authority (NBA), an authority under the Ministry of Environment, Science, Technology, and Innovation, published a notice inviting public comments on whether it should approve the country’s first genetically modified crop, the Pod Borer Resistant …

Accra, Ghana – Delegates of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) from the Savannah Region displayed their rich cultural heritage which excited the crowd that witnessed the party’s just ended national delegates conference at the Accra Sports Stadium. In their quest to increase the national agenda of promoting tourism, all of …

My selection of urgent expenditure cuts and concrete actions required in the face of an IMF bailout and crippling labour agitations: 1) Suspend the unconstitutional public funding of the US$400million National Cathedral project which government has so far diverted over GHS200million without parliamentary approval; 2) Renegotiate with owners of demolished …

Kumasi, Ghana – Kamal Dauda is a young Ghanaian who resides in Asawasi Zongo, a predominantly Muslim community in the Ashanti Region of Ghana. He believes in the principles of love, peace and forgiveness as espoused by the teachings of Islam, a religion he professes. Thus, since public outcry against …

Prof Gyampo writes: Salaries and Conditions of Service of Teachers: A Historical Note 1. I have searched archived documents and held discussions with some surviving retired teachers, Members of Parliament and seasoned academics who experienced the regime of Kwame Nkrumah, such as Prof Ivan Addae Mensah, former politician and former …

Emmanuel Asakinaba Celebrates His Visually-Impaired Parents Who Have Been Married for 37 Years …………………………………………………………..………. Celebrating the 37th anniversary of a pace-setting marriage My parents are visually-impaired – blind in both eyes. They lost their sight as infants. My father lost his sight to measles. My Mum suffered the similar fate. …

I’M HURT! Dear Minister of Education, Dr. Yaw Osei Adutwum, my name is Don Francis, a basic school teacher at the Gomoa Afransi SDA School. I’ve been so hurt this week that keeping it to myself is working no more. Each day out of this week, some of my learners …