The National Executive Committee of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) will today, Wednesday, December 15, 2021, meet to finalise proposals for a possible amendment to the party’s constitution.
The party has so far received 38 proposals for consideration.
Key among the 38 is a proposal to elect a presidential candidate two clear years before a major election.
Currently, the party elects...
Government plans to pilot a six-year secondary education system beginning in 2023.
“In 2023 when we open those schools, you are going to see how we are going to see six years quality secondary education,” the Education Minister, Dr. Yaw Osei Adutwum, said to the press on Tuesday.
This system will be piloted at 15 sites and is envisioned to...
Successful applicants in the ongoing police recruitment exercise will today, Wednesday, December 15, 2021, go through medical examinations and interviews as part of the process.
According to the service, qualified applicants have been officially invited to partake in the process at selected venues across the country.
According to a statement signed by the Director-General of Police Public Affairs Department ACP Kwesi...
The Ashanti Regional Minister, Simon Osei-Mensah has directed persons aspiring for several leadership positions in the New Patriotic Party and have erected billboards within the greater Kumasi area to remove them by midnight on Wednesday, December 15, 2021.
According to him, he will be forced to remove such advertisements should the owners fail to heed his directive.
The Minister’s order follows...
A Virginia State University student has been charged with the shooting death of a fellow student at the university.
On Dec. 5, shortly before 8 p.m., Chesterfield police were called to University Apartments at Ettrick. At the scene, officers found VSU student Daniel N. Wharton, 19, of Alexandria, with gunshot wounds. He was taken to the hospital, where he later...
Nine persons who were arrested in connection with a shooting incident that marred an enskinment of a sub-chief at Kuyore in the Tatale Sanguli District of the Northern Region, have been remanded into prison custody by the Tamale District Court.
One person lost his life, while five others sustained injuries after some persons protesting the enskinment fired a gun into...
Ghana is the 8th biggest economy in Africa, according to the World Bank’s latest report dubbed “African countries with the highest Gross Domestic Product over time”.
The report captured the total monetary or market value of all goods and services produced within an economy in 2020.
The country’s growth performance is a vast improvement compared to the year 2005 in which...
The Economic Fighters League (EFL) has announced its decision to quit the FixTheCountry Movement.
According to the group, the FixTheCountry Movement which began as a “brilliant, viral social media hashtag which simply captured exactly the demands of the Ghanaian youth disenchanted with the political governance system” has been encroached upon by persons with parochial interests.
“Sadly, the FixTheCountry conveners’ platform no...
President Akufo-Addo has issued the strongest warning yet to Ministers of State who are hoping to contest in the New Patriotic Party (NPP) presidential primaries.
According to Accra-based, Asaase Radio, the President at a cabinet meeting on Friday told his appointees to “focus on the job” they have been tasked with “or quit now to pursue” their presidential dreams.
The warning...
Two persons who robbed an Uber driver of his techno mobile phone and cash of GHC600 after pulling out a pistol and cutlass on him, have been sentenced to 25 years imprisonment each by an Adentan Circuit Court.
The two robbers wept uncontrollably after sentence.
The robbers are said to have also compelled the complainant, Emmanuel Kwame Krakani, at gun point...
