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Graduate teachers across the country say they are not civil servants and will therefore not close from school at 4:30pm. According to the National Graduate Teachers Association (NAGRAT), its employer, the Ghana Education Service, has employed subtle ways to “unilaterally extend the instructional hours of teachers”. It stated in a communiqué issued by its National Council on February 15 that such attempts are without recourse to their collective agreement, hence they will not accept same. “Teachers are not Civil Servants and therefore cannot close from school at 4:30 pm,” it said. The Council observed teachers in Ghana are already over-stretched…

Despite there being two matches of the fifth round left to play excluding replays, the FA Cup quarter-final ties were drawn soon after Manchester United’s 2-0 victory at Huddersfield Town on Saturday. The standout tussle in a rather underwhelming slate of fixtures is Leicester City hosting Chelsea. The Foxes haven’t beaten the Blues since the 2-1 Premier League triumph that ended Jose Mourinho’s second tenure at the club in December 2015. The pair last met in the FA Cup in March 2012, when Fernando Torres bagged a brace in a straight-forward 5-2 win for the capital club. Elsewhere, there was…

The National Association of Graduate Teachers (NAGRAT) has warned it will from March 30 not tolerate further excuses by the government in the payment of arrears in salaries and allowances of its members across the country. The teachers say government owes teachers to the tune of over 50 million cedis in vehicle maintenance allowances, transfer grants, transport and travel allowances. In addition, they claim there are also salary arrears of teachers recruited by the Ghana Education Service but have for months not been paid for work done. National Council of NAGRAT in a communiqué  issued February 15 said, it is…

Veteran Ghanaian high life musician, Awuram Badu, who died last year at the age of 76, was Saturday given a state burial in Kumasi. Scores of showbiz personalities, both musicians and actors, joined the family of late musician as she was laid to rest at her hometown, Banko, after a burial service at the Centre for National Culture in Kumasi.Born Rose Amoanu Gyamfuah, Awurama Badu died on October 26, 2017 at the Effiduase Government Hospital in the Ashanti Region after battling a long ailment. READ: ‘Medofo Adaada me’ hitmaker Awurama Badu passes on She left behind four children. Government’s delegation…

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has warned headmasters and headmistress senior high schools in the country against charging unapproved fees, and other charges already exempted under the Free SHS policy. According to President Akufo-Addo, he knows there are a handful of reactionary elements in the country who are determined to undermine the Free SHS policy. He recounted how Government, together with the Ghana Education Service and the Council and the Conference of Heads of Assisted Secondary Schools, agreed to absorb all senior high school fees under the Free SHS policy. “No headmaster or headmistress, therefore, is to charge any unapproved…

Hundreds of irrigation farmers in the Bawku West District of the Upper East region say thay have lost millions of cedis to poor harvest occasioned by no availability of water to feed their crops. The farmers, who cultivate crops and vegetables at the Goo Dam site in Teshie area of the district, say the harmattan has caused the dam to dry up. As a result, they have been struggling to get water to irrigate their vegetable farms in the area, a situation that has forced most farmers to begin harvesting their crops, which are not matured. According to the farmers…

A member of the Public Accounts Committee of Parliament, Samuel Nartey George, has asked for a critical look at the rampant transfers of civil servants within public institutions in the country. His call followed the continuous excuse by spending officers in public institutions that financial infractions reported against their outfits in the 2015/2016 auditor General’s report were committed by their predecessors. Spending officers together with their heads of department in northern Ghana have since February 12, 2018 been appearing before the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) to answer questions on public funds that have been misappropriated as per the Auditor General’s…

President of the National House of Chiefs has commended President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo for appointing former Attorney General, Martin Amidu, to head the country’s Office of the Special Prosecutor (SP). Togbe Afede XIV said he was particularly happy about the level of accountability under the leadership of President Akufo-Addo so far. Togbe Afede who is also the Agbogbomfia of Asogli State lauded the efforts of the President at the first general meeting of the National House of Chiefs on Thursday 15 February 2018 in Kumasi. He also applauded Appointments Committee of Parliament for endorsing the president’s nominee for the…

Traders at the Assakae Market in the Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolis of the Western have threatened to vacate the market if the collection of double market toll by the traditional leaders is not stopped. They have thus issued a seven-day ultimatum to the Assembly to resolve issues surrounding the collection of dual tolls at the market or face their wrath. The traders on Thursday, February 15 besieged the premises of the Assakae Traditional Council to demand why they were being forced to pay two different market tolls to two divisional chiefs. A chieftaincy dispute in the area, which has two people calling…

The Ghana Audit Service will submit to the Office of the Special Prosecutor (SP) infractions it identifies in its reports for prosecution. Mr Daniel Yaw Domelevo, the Auditor General (AG) said under section three of the SP Act, it is required that the office should be able to investigate alleged corruption and corruption related offences, which were submitted to Parliament and the AG. Others are, the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ), Economic and Organized Crime Office (EOCO); adding that, “is the interface between our office and the SP. “Therefore, now in the course of our audit if…