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The caterers under the School Feeding Programme have rejected the proposed GH¢1.20 increment put forth by the Minister of Gender, Children, and Social Protection, Lariba Zuweira Abudu. According to the caterers, the increase is insufficient and unacceptable. Since the reopening of schools, the caterers have withdrawn their services and are demanding that the government raise the daily amount per child …

Wednesday, October 19, 2021- Operatives of the National Intelligence Bureau (NIB) picked up the morning show host of OnuaTV It was initially unclear why he had been picked up. It later became clear that it was his pronouncement that President Nana Akufo-Addo was complicit in illegal mining activities in Ghana. “President said we are fighting galamsey, we exhausted four hundred …

A Tamale District Court has granted bail to 21 suspects who were arrested in a renewed communal clash in Lukula, a community in the Daboya district of the Savannah Region. On Friday, June 2, police arrested 118 people in connection with a clash believed to stem from land disputes in Lukula. The suspects were taken to the Northern Regional Police …

The deputy ranking member for the Education Committee in Parliament, Dr. Clement Apaak has said Ghanaians must call out President Akufo-Addo’s government for neglecting basic education. His call comes on the back of a request by some head teachers at the basic school level to the Ghana Education Service (GES) for the supply of textbooks for basic schools. The Municipal …

A suspected thief believed to be in his late 40s was allegedly lynched by unknown assailants in Bibiani, the capital of the Bibiani Anhwiaso Bekwai Municipality of the Western North Region in the early hours of Sunday, June 4, 2023. According to an eyewitness, the lifeless body of the man was found between Whenampori and Nantwikumye off the Bibiani-Bekwai road. …

The New Patriotic Party has categorically denied any involvement in the alleged plot to illegally insert the name of an unqualified NPP candidate into the Assin North Voters Register. According to the NPP, it is yet to hold primaries in the Assin North Constituency to select its parliamentary candidate for the upcoming by-election. Therefore, it is unfounded for the NDC …

The Electoral Commission has refuted claims by the National Communications Officer of the NDC, Sammy Gyamfi, alleging collusion between the NPP and the EC to insert the name of an unqualified NPP parliamentary candidate into the Assin North voters’ register. The EC in a statement categorically denied these claims and asserted that it has not received any such request from …

Perez Chapel International has declared a one-week fast and prayers following the controversy between the church’s founder, Archbishop Charles Agyinasare, and the chiefs and people of Nogokpo in the Volta Region. The declaration was made on Sunday, June 4, 2023, by the Presiding Bishop of Perez Chapel International, Benjamin Ohene Aboagye. “On the 25th of last month, during our Supernatural …

District Minister in charge of the Ascension Congregation of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana in Koforidua, Rev Justice Kwame Asumeng has called on the opposition National Democratic Congress to aggressively fight poverty should the party return to power. He said poverty is the Goliath of Africa and Ghana destroying destinies, marriages, families and disintegrating the future of the youth therefore …

The World Bank has said the Power Purchasing Agreements signed by former President John Mahama, which the Akufo-Addo Government had no choice but to pay, has contributed significantly to the economic woes of the country. The former President’s administration signed take-or-pay agreements, committing Ghana to pay for billions of cedis for excess energy it does not need. For a government that had failed …