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Ghana has dropped two places in the latest FIFA men’s world rankings released on September 14, 2017. The four time African champions who were previously ranked 50 on the table as at 2016 have dropped two spots below and now ranked 52 on the FIFA men’s world ranking list. The Black Stars, as it stands now currently occupy the eighth spot on the African continent per the Confederation of African Football rankings, which is ultimately influenced by FIFA’s official ranking list. On the African continent, the Pharaohs of Egypt are ranked first and 30th in the world, followed by their…

Contestants of this year’s Ghana’s Most Beautiful television pageant on Wednesday moved out of their reality house to the popular Bush Kanteen restaurant at Legon in Accra in what was termed a ‘Domestic Day Out’ Each of the 10 contestants representing the regions of Ghana was given a domestic task at the restaurant to execute. Edem who represents the Volta Region and Talata from Upper East had to play shop attendants and served customers who showed up at the groceries section of the restaurants to shop.Ashanti Region’s Yaa and Ayeley from Greater Accra were in charge of the restaurant’s bar…

Minimum capital requirement for private pension fund trustees in the country is to be adjusted upwards, the National Pension Regulatory Authority has revealed. The Authority says it has started negotiations with the various fund trustees to raise the minimum capital requirement from the current one million cedis but did not give details regarding the percentage of increment. Corporate Affairs manager of the Authority, Emmanuel Awuku Dagbanu, explained the move has been necessitated by the fact that “the pension fund is multiplying and there is the need for insurance for all those who are managing the scheme”. He expressed the hope…

Two heads of Senior High Schools (SHS) in the country have been sacked for breaching the guidelines on the implementation of the Free SHS education policy rolled out by government Tuesday. The two, Blasu Wisdom, headmaster of Pentecost SHS in Koforidua and Rev. S.P Elewokor, assistant headmaster of Duffor SHS, are “to be posted outside the school to teach in a classroom”. They were found guilty of various infractions including extortion. Headmaster of Duffor Senior High, Mr  S.C.K Agbakey is to be “reprimanded for poor supervision” Seven others, including headmasters, have also been interdicted by the Ghana Education Service (GES)…

The Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) in Kumasi has been hit by acute shortage of medical doctors, forcing the hospital authorities to prioritise only emergency cases. New emergency cases have however been suspended. Authorities say they are currently concentrating on inpatient care for the over 250 patients on admission. A total of 150 junior doctors have since the beginning of September this year left the hospital after a year of housemanship but are yet to be replaced. The situation, according to KATH authorities, is having a toll on the few senior medical staff at the tertiary health facility in the…

It took just a question to momentarily switch the mood at a solemn gathering, meant to launch a peace campaign in Dagbon, to a rather a tearful one. Could the Northern Regional Director of the National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE), Mr Razak Saani be blamed for posing a soul piercing question: if the peaceful cohesion that has eluded the Dagbon Kingdom can be restored? Known for his powerful and unprecedented speeches, the motivational speaker and women’s advocate,  Mr Razak Saani after beckoning for cease fire among the two feuding brothers, the Andani and Abudu of the Dagbon  royal gates, with…

Ghanaian film producers and movie actors on Thursday hit the streets of Kumasi to demand early passage of the Broadcasting Bill as well as the provision of a legislative instrument for the Film Act to protect the local movie industry. At a demonstration dubbed: “Y’ammamere eyera, Yegye Y’adee” which in Akan means ‘We are Losing Our Culture; We Are Taking Back What is Ours,” the industry players agitated over the influx of telenovelas on Ghanaian screens. Clad in all red, they complained dubbing foreign programmes into Twi and other local languages is an affront to the Ghanaian movies and poses…

The Acting Chief Executive Director of the Ghana Standards Authority, Prof. Alex Dodoo has revealed that a lot of locally manufactured alcoholic beverages  are produced without standardization. The Ghana Standards Authority (GSA) is mandated to set standards as well as certify products and put their seal on them. Regrettably, quite a number of these beverages on the market, especially locally brewed gin – Akpeteshi – are not submitted to their outfit for certification,  Prof. Dodoo claimed. He believes the Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) are not helping matters, claiming the FDA is not demanding GSA’s standardization certificate from manufacturers before…

Former Education Minister Professor Jane Naana Opoku Agyeman has called on government to make available the policy document covering the recently launched Free Senior High School. According to the former education minister, the document will not help in informing the public on the operations and implementation of the free SHS program, but will clearly show the conception, the plan, and the strategy which will go in a long way to make it easy for an evaluation of the program. “What is making some of us to jump onto the fray is the lack or unavailability of policy document which will…