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The three teacher unions who have been on strike for the past seven days in protest against the appointment of the Director-General of the Ghana Education Service, Dr Eric Nkansah, have called off the strike. This comes minutes after the National Labour Commission (NLC) secured a restraining order against the teacher Unions from continuing with their strike. Speaking to the media on behalf of the unions, the President of the National Association of Graduate Teachers – NAGRAT, Angel Kabonu directed all teachers to go back to the classroom from Monday, November 14, 2022, until further notice. “We are law-abiding citizens,…

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has called off the election of Youth and Women Organizer slots in the Ashanti Region. “We are meeting all the aspirants at the Regional Party Office. We are meeting to resolve all the issues… If you come late and a decision is taken you will have yourself to blame”, said Nurudeen Hamidan, the Chairman of the Election Committee. “The aspirants will call me and I will give them the time. Tomorrow somebody is coming from Accra to resolve this issue. And when we arrive at a decision kindly pass on the right information to your…

Oscar-winning filmmaker Paul Haggis has been ordered to pay at least $7.5m (£6.42m) in damages for suffering after being found liable for raping a woman. Jurors may also award plaintiff Haleigh Breest punitive damages in a hearing on Monday over the alleged 2013 assault. Hugging her lawyers after the civil trial in New York, Ms Breest said she was “very grateful” for the verdict. Mr Haggis, 69, denies the allegations and has pledged to “continue to, with my team, fight to clear my name”. Warning: Some readers may find details of the case given below distressing. As he left the…

The General Secretary of The Church of Pentecost (CoP), Apostle Alexander Nana Yaw Kumi-Larbi, has said that Jesus is the only liberator of all humankind because He alone possesses the power to set people free from captivity. The General Secretary made this assertion on Wednesday, November 9, 2022, at the Methodist School Park, Gonnor-Teshie, during the Super-Duper Prayer and Healing crusade of the Teshie Nungua Area. According to Apostle Kumi-Larbi, there is no other name, thing, preacher, king or believer who can redeem humanity from oppressive systems and ideas except Jesus, stressing that “His name, person, blood, and righteousness have…

The Conference of Heads of Assisted Secondary Schools (CHASS) has lashed out at the Government and the Ministry of Education on the GH¢126,000,000 released to the National Food Buffer Stock Company meant to cover non-perishable food items. The Education Ministry, in a statement dated October 28, 2022, said the money was released to Senior High and Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) Schools across the country for feeding students. But in a response to the Ministry’s release, CHASS said the funds did little to help with the food crisis currently faced by many second-cycle schools across the country. CHASS…

Mr. Emmanuel Addai, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Oyoko Trading Limited, has called for support for the Government’s structural programmes to strengthen local manufacturing capacity. “These efforts should help address the structural challenges of reliance on imports, leading to improved currency stability,” he noted. According to the CEO, the current economic woes Ghana was saddled with was largely due to the high importation of all manner of products into the country, describing it as a disincentive to the thriving of local industries. Mr. Addai, in an interview with the Ghana News Agency (GNA), Accra, said there was the need for…

The current economic hardship in the country has forced the price of dog meat, a delicacy in some parts of the Upper East Region, to increase, causing many patrons at Wiaga, in the Builsa North Municipality to complain. Patrons of the meat in the community, which is noted for many dog meat joints spread across vantage areas within it, expressed concern about the price hike which had affected the quantity of the delicacy they usually bought and denied those who could not afford. Some travellers from other parts of the Region also patronise the meat anytime they find themselves at…

The traders in Nkwanta South Municipality of the Oti region are embittered over the regular increases in transport fares, which is affecting their businesses. Speaking to the Ghana News Agency (GNA), the traders said frequent hikes in the fuel prices, culminating in high transport fares was directly affecting their businesses. They said the high transport fares affected their wares directly compelling them to also increase prices for final consumers. One of the traders, Madam Ataa Adwoa said last week, a bowl of maize, which sold at GHC10 now sells this week at GHC20, with the price of local rice now…

Some members of the Majority Caucus who on October 25 called for the immediate removal of Mr Ken Ofori-Atta, the finance minister, on Thursday disassociated themselves from the Minority Caucus’ position. At News Conference in Parliament House, Dr Nana Ayew Afriyie, Member Parliament (MP), Effiduase/Asokore said: “We are back to the original position that we took, and that original position is to say that the minister of finance would not be the one to read the budget and must not be the one to do the appropriation. “We are here this morning to say that this is going to be…

School children in the Awutu Senya East Municipality have appealed to government through the Ministry of Education to resolve the impasse between them and the Teacher Unions to allow academic work to continue in the various schools. A visit to some schools in the municipality, spotted some School children loitering during classes hours. This comes at the back of an industrial action taken by three teacher unions over the appointment of Dr Eric Nkansah as the Director General of the Ghana Education Service (GES). In an interview with some of the students, they stated that their teachers had refused to…