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The youth wing of the New Patriotic Party in the Saboba District of the Northern Region has declared it will not accept any other candidate as the Saboba District Chief Executive than Jawol Abraham. According to the group, the three times failed candidate at the party’s primary has exhibited a sense of unity by refusing to go independent even at a time his supporters felt he could win the parliamentary seat as an independent candidate having lost narrowly to the current member of Parliament, Charles Bintim in the 2015primary. Three names including the Constituency Chairman Bingrim George, Constituency Secretary Bilengang…

File photo[/caption] Residents of New Edubiase in the Adansi South District of the Ashanti Region have hit the streets to demonstrate against the queenmother’s failure to get them a chief for the past three years. According to them, the absence of a chief has stalled development in the area. TV3’s Benjamin Aidoo reported that clad in red, both the old and the young took part in the demonstration. There has been tension in the community over the inability of the kingmakers to select a chief after the demise of Nana Asiamah Guahyia II. The late chief ruled for over 40…

A gang of five alleged to have been attacking forest guards at Nkawie in the Atwima Nwabiagya district have been arrested. After a five-month hunt, the suspects were arrested at Nyinahin where the gang leader resides. They are Kofi Owusu alias Juve; Kwabena Obeng also known as TT; Yaw Ofori; Kojo Yeboah aka Nyinahin Tiger; and Yaw Boamah. Locally made pistol, cutlasses, knives and other deadly weapons were retrieved from them. TV3’s Benjamin Aidoo reports that the five have over the years allegedly gained notoriety for attacking forest guards in the Tano-Offin forest reserve in the Atwima Nwabiagya and Atwima Mponua…

Over the years I have travelled the world in search of a happy and fulfilling life, and again and again it eludes me. Today, I sit back to meditate, and I realised that I changed nothing to get to my goal. My thoughts, habits, attitudes and actions have only reinforced one thing; my years are destined to look like the previous ones. So I ask myself, what can I do differently? What can I do to live a happy and fulfilling life? What is my truth and my happiness? Perhaps, you face the same situation. This is not the end…

Over the years I have travelled the world in search of a happy and fulfilling life, and again and again it eludes me. Today, I sit back to meditate, and I realised that I changed nothing to get to my goal. My thoughts, habits, attitudes and actions have only reinforced one thing; my years are destined to look like the previous ones. So I ask myself, what can I do differently? What can I do to live a happy and fulfilling life? What is my truth and my happiness? Perhaps, you face the same situation. This is not the end…

The Industrial and Commercial Workers Union (ICU) wants the Akufo-Addo government to revitalize existing factories before rolling out the one-district, one -factory policy. General Secretary of the Union, Solomon Kotei, said there are existing factories in the country which are struggling to find their feed, which he is of the view should be given some financial injection to be competitive to meet growing demands. “If there are existing factories which have not actually found their feet, and they are struggling to survive, are we going to have reinjection of some investments into these businesses or whiles they are there struggling …

Minister of Education, Dr Mathew Opoku Prempeh, says he will resign if anyone produces evidence that he threatened to dismiss any head of public school that records 90 per cent of failure in the West Africa Senior School Certificate Examination. Dr Opoku Prempeh was reported to have warned basic and second cycle school heads they will be dismissed should their students record 90 per cent failure in their final examination; a comment that has been condemned. “Any school head who superintends over a failure of over 90% cannot be allowed to continue operation without accounting to the Ghana Education Service…

The minority members in parliament have asked President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to come clean on whether his government intends to use proceeds from the reserved oil revenue to finance its much touted free senior high school programme. According to the MPs, there is “total confusion” on the issue considering the conflicting statements made by two of his ministers – Senior Minister Yaw Osafo-Maafo and Finance Minister Ken Ofori Attah- regarding the same issue. Mr Osafo-Maafo this week revealed that the government intends to review the Heritage Fund component of the Act to finance the audacious free education programme of…

A civil society group in the oil sector has welcomed government’s decision not to use the Heritage Fund to finance its proposed free Senior High School programme. An endowment reserve, the Fund, which is 9 per cent of petroleum revenues, was established by the PRMA to support the development of Ghana’s future generations when the country’s petroleum reserves are depleted. But the Senior Minister, Yaw Osafo Maafo this week revealed that the government intends to review the Heritage Fund component of the Act (893) to finance the audacious free education programme of the Akufo-Addo government. Many Ghanaians have questioned the…