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The newly appointed Chief Executive Officer of the National Youth Authority (NYA), Sylvester Tetteh, says the management of the youth body is committed to ensuring the rapid development of the youth of Ghana. He gave this assurance when he addressed the media at the office complex of the Authority to launch the celebration of the National Youth Week which commences ...

President Nana Akufo-Addo has emphasized that the future of Ghana is very dependent on her ability to get its youth who are currently in school to secure Mastery in Science and Technology. The President made the observation when he addressed winners of the 2019 edition of the National Science and Maths Quiz (NSMQ) from St. Augustine’s College, Cape Coast, at ...

A seven-member Supreme Court panel has refused a stay of execution application from businessman Alfred Agbesi Woyome on the auctioning of his properties by the state to offset his debts. Mr.  Woyome through his lawyer Luda Addey Lawal moved the motion with an assurance to pay GHc10 million if the motion was granted. He informed the court that he will ...

President of IMANI-Africa, Franklin Cudjoe wants a greater degree of openness and transparency in the budget and procurement processes for the purchase of all technologies that would be marshaled to fight cybercrime in the country. The Communications Minister has revealed the government needs about $100 million this year to implement cybersecurity strategies to fight cybercrime in the country. In her ...

The leadership of the National Association of Law Students has presented a petition to President Akufo-Addo, at the Jubilee House through the Deputy Chief of Staff, Abu Jinapar, requesting that he gives urgent consideration to their concerns. The Association failed to present their petition on the 7th of October 2019 after the Ghana Police Service used water canon and tear ...

All four accused persons in the case of the Republic versus William Ato Essien and three others have pleaded not guilty to all 26 counts of Charges leveled against them by the State. The four accused persons appeared before the Commercial High Court presided over by Justice Eric Kyei Baffour. Charges A careful analysis of the charge sheet of the ...

The Police Administration has directed senior police officers to begin the supervision of Highway patrols, traffic checks and snap operations on the roads. This is to crack down on the Police unprofessional conduct on traffic duties. “A special task force has been instituted to conduct periodic checks on the roads by interviewing drivers, passengers and other road users to collect ...

Hundreds of aggrieved customers of the Gold Coast Security Fund Management (GCFM) are set for a mammoth street protest today to push the management of the company to pay back their locked-up funds. This is one of the several agitations held against the company by customers who have been fighting to retrieve monies due them. The Deputy Public Relations Officer ...

Ashanti regional executives of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) have described President Akufo-Addo’s 3-day tour to the Ashanti region as a waste of tax payers’ money. According to the party, the president’s tour is an admission of failure to give the region its share of the ‘national cake’. The party is therefore urging residents of the region to demand ...

The Eastern Regional Secretariat of the opposition National Democratic Congress, (NDC) has accused the ruling government of abandoning over two-hundred (200) infrastructural projects initiated by former President John Dramani Mahama in the region. Addressing the media Sunday, the Regional Communication Officer, Darlas Ampomah Williams stated that “there are about 200 projects that were left at various advanced stages of completion ...