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Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on Finance has accused telecommunications companies of working to make government unpopular because it is being efficient. Dr. Mark Assibey-Yeboah pointed to telcos’ decision to communicate directly to consumers on the effect of the Communication Service Tax (CST) increment. The CST which took effect from October 1, was announced by the Finance Minister in the mid-year fiscal policy review of the 2019 budget statement and economic policy in July. Read: Communication Service Tax goes up “Somebody is just trying to make the government unpopular, because the actual extent of the increase is just 50% from…

OccupyGhana is asking the Inspector General of Police, James Oppong-Boanuh, to apologise to law students who were brutalised on Monday for demonstrating to push for reforms in the country’s legal education. Police personnel detailed to provide security for the protest used used brute force to prevent the law students from presenting a petition summing up their grievances to President Nana Akufo-Addo at the Jubilee House, claiming the students did not have permission though contrary evidence was provided. Rubber bullets were fired and water sprayed on the protesters just few metres to the Jubilee House leading to injury of some of…

A woman said to be in her twenties has allegedly abandoned her child believed to be a year-old, at a Catholic Church in Takoradi in the Western Region. The boy who was abandoned at the Star of the Sea Catholic Cathedral at about 6:00 a.m. Monday, has since been handed over to the Department of Social Welfare by the church authorities. Eyewitnesses told Nhyiraba Paa Kwesi Simpson, host of Connect FM Omambapa morning show on Monday that they saw a woman loitering about on the church premises with the boy while the church was holding mass. According to them, they…

The former Managing Director of defunct Capital Bank Ghana Limited, William Ato Essien, has been dragged to an Accra High Court over several offences including stealing and money laundering. Together with three others, Mr Essien, who became the highest shareholder after leaving the Bank, was charged on Tuesday, October 8. Tetteh Nettey, Fitzgerald Odonkor and Kate Quartey-Papafio are the three others joined in the suit filed by the state. The offences for which the four have been charged date between 2015 and 2017, when management of the Bank was ceded to GCB Bank Limited. The four have been charged on…

The BBC has justified the title of its latest investigative documentary, ‘Sex for Grades’, which exposed four professors of the University of Ghana and University of Lagos in Nigeria, sexually harassing their students. “We stand by our journalism; we’ve done the research and we’re happy with what we’ve produced,” Mayeni Jones, Co-producer of the investigative film, told Alfred Ocansey on TV3 News360 Tuesday following criticisms of the title of the film. According to her, a number of their investigations around the continent have almost always produced “strong reaction from the public”. Criticisms On the back of widespread allegations of lecturers…

National President of the Technical Universities Workers Association of Ghana (TUWAG) Nana Kwapong Offei-Boohene has stated that his union gives its support and commitment to the strike action by the Technical Universities Teachers Association of Ghana (TUTAG). “The migration issue affects all of us at the technical universities. So, if they have taken the lead over it then definitely they have our support and commitment.” Nana Kwapong Offei-Boohene explained that negotiators on the side of government have not been transparent with the process of migration. “The NCTE led a delegation to come and do an assessment of staff to enable…

TV3 primetime news anchor and head of business desk Alfred Ocansey, has won the Overall Young Professionals Role Model Award. He received the award for the male category at 10th Young Professionals Transformational Leadership Conference in Accra at the weekend. More than 8,000 students from across six tertiary institutions across the country voted for Alfred for his passion in sharing his life lessons with the youth, dedication to impacting lives through his work as a journalist. Alfred Ocansey spends two days every month in different tertiary institutions, taking part in talk sessions and experiential teaching for students to understand the…

TV3 primetime news anchor and head of business desk Alfred Ocansey, has won the Overall Young Professionals Role Model Award. He received the award for the male category at 10th Young Professionals Transformational Leadership Conference in Accra at the weekend. More than 8,000 students from across six tertiary institutions across the country voted for Alfred for his passion in sharing his life lessons with the youth, dedication to impacting lives through his work as a journalist. Alfred Ocansey spends two days every month in different tertiary institutions, taking part in talk sessions and experiential teaching for students to understand the…

More than 100 residents of Ablekuma, a suburb of Afienya in the Ningo-Prampram district, have been rendered homeless as their buildings have been demolished to pave the way for ongoing railway project in the area. At least 30 of the about 60 buildings earmarked for demolition were pulled down Tuesday by the Works Department of the Ningo Prampram District Assembly and the Ghana Railway Development Authority. Eleven more structures were demolished Wednesday morning with authorities hoping to complete the exercise by close of day, our correspondent Josephine Frimpong reported. The affected residents, according to the Railway Development Authority, defied eviction…

A member of the Women Caucus in Parliament has threatened to kill any male teacher who makes sexual advances at her daughter in any educational institution in the country. The Member of Parliament for Bosome-Freho Constituency in the Ashanti Region, Joyce Adwoa Akoh Dei, said such acts “should not be tolerated in schools” because they have tendencies of ruining the victims’ lives. “I will kill anybody who messes [up] with my daughter like that,” the MP warned. The MP issued the threat in an interview with Onua FM’s Yen Sempa hosted by Nana Yaw Opare on Wednesday while sharing her thoughts on…