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The University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG) is pleading with the governing council of the University of Education Winneba to reinstate some 23 staff, including Prof Mawutor Avoke, who were sacked as vice chancellor. According to UTAG, the reinstatement of these staff who were dismissed, suspended and demoted, will “contribute to bringing about normalcy” to the university which has since last week Friday been closed down following students protests that turned violent. Sections of the students have since last week Monday been protesting the dismissal of some senior lecturers recently dismissed by the governing council for various alleged offences which…

[L-R] Anas and Kennedy Agyapong[/caption]The New Patriotic Party (NPP) Member of Parliament for Assin Central, Kennedy Agyapong, has revealed that some big men within the party asked him to destroy renowned investigative journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas. The controversial politician confessed that after mounting a spirited defense for the party, some members with the NPP have now decided to embarrass and destroy his reputation. Mr. Agyapong in the wake of the Number 12 documentary, which exposed massive corruption at the Ghana Football Association leading to the resignation of GFA President Kwasi Nyantakyi, attacked Anas on several occasions calling him a fraud…

Government of Ghana in partnership with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has started an Investment Forum on Ghana’s Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs). The forum took off today, March 18, 2019 at the Accra International Conference Centre and it is part of activities marking the Africa Climate Week from March 18 to 24. The two-day forum which will discuss ways to crowd-in private sector investment for projects in Ghana that are financially viable, and that also deliver the climate solutions Ghana pledged in its Nationally Determined Contribution. According to Ghana Minister of Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation (MESTI), Prof. Kwabena…

Author: Bibi Bright[/caption] The role of the creative arts in national development has been emphasized over the years yet the level of commitment required in ensuring that this ceases to be a facade has not always matched the talk. One will wonder why this proclamation, which is a statement of fact and can be attested to by practitioners and patrons of the arts, at this moment in time. There is no way that commitment to a venture can produce cherished valuable results without the setting up of the requisite structures accompanied by appropriate regulations and in the right climate. In…

Healthcare delivery at the 90-year-old Takoradi Hospital in the Western Region is seriously being undermined by obsolete, rusty and nonfunctioning equipment as well as lack of essential logistics. Since 1929, the hospital has not seen any major refurbishment, a situation that is putting pressure on health professionals at the facility. Equipment at the theatre, according to the hospital authorities, are old and rusty. The movable surgical light has not been functioning for about five years now. Surgical beds are rusty to the extent surgeons and nurses are unable to adjust it during surgery. “Our main operating bed; it is difficult…

Government has reached final agreements with the India Export-Import (EXIM) Bank for the take-off of financing arrangements to improve agricultural mechanization services in farming communities across the country, and provide water for the inhabitants of Yendi and its surrounding towns and villages. This was made known after a meeting between officials of EXIM Bank of India, led by its President, Mr. David Raaquinha, and a Ghanaian delegation led by the Vice President of the Republic, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, on the sidelines of the ongoing 14th CII-EXIM Bank Conclave on India-Africa Partnership Project in New Delhi, India. Following a visit by…

A young man with cerebral palsy, who dreams of becoming a software developer, had his dream boosted on Monday as he took delivery of a brand new laptop donated to him by a benevolent man. Yorm Emilson made the appeal through his brother in a story filed by Portia Gabor which was aired on TV3’s Mission in January 2019. In the said story, Portia highlighted the plight of the 18-year-old who suffered cerebral palsy at the age of five. Without any formal education, Yorm has learned to communicate and write in English on his own using the internet. He writes,…

Some children said to have been displaced at Chereponi in the latest clashes between two ethnic groups were literally saved at the weekend by the District Police Commander who offered them water to quench their thirst. Chief Supt Suame Amankwatia was photographed giving bottled water to the group of children and their mothers who were said to be fleeing Chereponi due to the clash between the Konkombas and the Chorkosis. “The over six hundred (600) children with majority below four (4) years and of school going age were fleeing the district,” the commander noted. The children had walked about four…

Ghana is seeking a total amount of 22.6 billion dollars as its budget to implement her 31 national actions to mitigate and adapt to climate change from 2020 to 2030. The country, would therefore, use the platform of the Africa Climate Week, (ACW) being hosted in the Accra from Monday March 18 to Friday March 22, to seek more partnerships to enable her implement her Nationally Determined Contributions (GH-NDCs), Dr Emanuel Techie Obeng, a Principal Programme Officer, at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has said. The theme for the ACW is: “Climate Action in Africa: A Race We Can Win”,…

A Presidential Staffer, Charles Cromwell Nanabanyin Onuawonto Bissue who has been accused of working against the country’s efforts to end illegal mining has been interrogated by officials of the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Police Service. In a documentary produced by investigative journalist, Anas Aremeyaw Anas, Mr Bissue, who is also the Secretary to the Inter-Ministerial Committee on Illegal Mining (IMCIM), was seen on video taking money to allegedly facilitate for an unlicensed company seeking to circumvent laid-down processes to be given clearance for its mining operations. The undercover investigator, in his latest piece, captured on video some persons…