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It was a family affair at the launch of the 110th anniversary of St. Francis Xavier Teachers Training College in Accra on Thursday March 22 when current and old students of repute met, fraternised and shared fond memories. The year-long planned anniversary will be climaxed with a grand durbar on November 23, 2019. The celebration is under the theme: ‘A Century and a Decade of Catholic Teacher Education; Achievements, Prospects and Challenges’. At the launch of the anniversary at NAGRAT hall at Adabraka, the principal Mr Raphael Kwashie christened the anniversary with a slogan “Franco @ 110; We shall Celebrate”…

For those who have followed the events at the University of Education, Winneba (UEW) over the past two years, the happenings of March 14 would come as no surprise. The saying ‘Coming events cast their shadows’ was everything true in the case of the University. Inasmuch as one couldn’t have planned and executed step by step all the incidents and the eventual breakdown of peace as was witnessed on Thursday, March 14, one cannot help but on careful interrogation say there have been powerful hands at play and still at play in what was and will be the state of…

There was a kenkey party at the inner court of the Ministry of Finance on Friday to celebrate what has been tagged Ghana’s “hat-trick”. On a banner sighted by 3news.com, the party is said to have been held to mark the successful Eurobond, the completion of the IMF-ECF programme and the appreciation of the Cedi. The Minister of Finance, Ken Ofori-Atta, was spotted in the photos eating what looked like local staple Waakye in traditional leaves that usually go with it. But most of the staff were seen eating kenkey. Source: 3news.com|Ghana

It was a family affair at the launch of the 110th anniversary of St. Francis Xavier Teachers Training College in Accra on Thursday March 22 when current and old students of repute met, fraternised and shared fond memories. The year-long planned anniversary will be climaxed with a grand durbar on November 23, 2019. The celebration is under the theme: ‘A Century and a Decade of Catholic Teacher Education; Achievements, Prospects and Challenges’. At the launch of the anniversary at NAGRAT hall at Adabraka, the principal Mr Raphael Kwashie christened the anniversary with a slogan “Franco @ 110; We shall Celebrate”…

Dr. Gideon Boako[/caption] The Ato Forson led Caucus Group (hereinafter referred to as AFLC Group), during its press conference on Wednesday, 20th March, 2019 asked 5 questions for the Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia to answer. Reading the questions, one wonders if Ato-Forson and his cohorts are deemed to sit some undergraduate final year macroeconomics exams (ECON 404) and they need answers to some possible questions they have dreamt about. I am not going to speak broadly to the entire contents of the presser but rather deal specifically with the ‘so called’ five questions they posed to the erudite economist,…

At least eight persons are feared dead and scores injured at Ekumfi-Dunkwa near Mankessim on the Accra-Cape Coast highway in a head-on collision said to have been caused by a failed reckless overtaking Friday morning. Images and videos from the scene show bodies lying on the road in blood as parts of the vehicles, particularly the Metro Mass Transit bus involved scattered at the scene. The driver side of the bus was ripped off to the mid-section. Some survivors had their limbs broken and were groaning in pain. Three vehicles – a Yutong bus with registration number GN 4368-15, a…

The Ghana Police Service has set the record straight on a uniformed man who is seen in a video, that has gone viral, kicking a young man. “The person seen kicking the victim in the said video is not a Police Officer,” a statement issued by ASP Simon Tenku on behalf of the Director General of Police Public Affairs said on Friday. According to the police, the uniformed man is a civilian working with the Swedru Municipal Assembly as a metropolitan guard. In the video, the man that is yet to be identified was seen expertly slapping his victim with…

The trotro driver and his mate arrested for allegedly assaulting a police officer have been found in the custody of the Bureau of National Investigations (BNI) in Accra, two days after they could not be traced by lawyers. The Police CID is said to have explained in a meeting with Amnesty International Ghana and Human Rights Advocacy Centre Friday that the two were taken to BNI custody to avoid a possible assault on them in police cells. HRAC which is seeking to offer legal representation for the two accused persons claimed Thursday the police appeared unaware of the whereabouts of…

The Producer Price Inflation (PPI) for February 2019 was 5.4 per cent, representing a 2.0 percentage increment from 3.4 percent recorded in January 2019. Mr David Kombat, the Acting Deputy Government Statistician, at a press briefing in Accra, attributed the rise to an increase in the price of gold and the depreciation of the cedi. He said the Mining and Quarrying sub-sector recorded the highest year-on-year PPI rate of 13.4 per cent, followed by the manufacturing sub-sector with 5.0 per cent. The utility sub-sector recorded the lowest year-on-year producer inflation of 0.2 per cent. With respect to the monthly changes,…

The Producer Price Inflation (PPI) for February 2019 was 5.4 per cent, representing a 2.0 percentage increment from 3.4 percent recorded in January 2019. Mr David Kombat, the Acting Deputy Government Statistician, at a press briefing in Accra, attributed the rise to an increase in the price of gold and the depreciation of the cedi. He said the Mining and Quarrying sub-sector recorded the highest year-on-year PPI rate of 13.4 per cent, followed by the manufacturing sub-sector with 5.0 per cent. The utility sub-sector recorded the lowest year-on-year producer inflation of 0.2 per cent. With respect to the monthly changes,…