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The Chief Executive Officer of the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment, Dr Prince Hamid Armah, has successfully filed his nomination to contest the Kwesimintsim Constituency primary of the New Patriotic Party. He filed barely 24 hours after picking forms at the Kwesimintsim Constituency office, Thursday. Dr Armah was in the company of some past and present Party Executives, Council of Elders, Polling Station Executives, Party Supporters as well as some friends and well- wishers when he submitted the forms. In the presence of the Constituency Chairman and other constituency executives Dr Armah promised to run a clean campaign devoid…

Mr Alex Amankwah in charge of Specific Learning Disorders at the Ghana Education Service has revealed that the West African Examination Council (WAEC) accepts oral responses from students unable to write due to disability. He said provisions have been made to accommodate students with special educational needs in examinations to enable them compete with their counterparts without disabilities. Mr Amankwah made this known at a Technical Committee Meeting to review Ghana’s Disability Law held in Accra. The Technical Committee set up by the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection is tasked to review the Persons with Disability Act and…

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo opened the gates of Jubilee House to a delegation of Ghana Rugby led by the newly elected President and Board Chairman, Mr Herbert Mensah. The honour was bestowed on Ghana Rugby by the President of Ghana due to the fact that Ghana Rugby has flown Ghana’s flag high by winning four continental trophies for Ghana since 2017. The trophies, that were presented to the President, included the trophies for winning the Rugby Africa West Africa Regional Challenge in Ghana in 2017 (men’s fifteens), winning the Rugby Africa Bronze Cup in Ghana in 2018 (men’s fifteens),…

A legal practitioner, Bobby Banson believes the scandal surrounding the missing of about 500 excavators from illegal miners has exposed the president’s nakedness. Speaking on TV3’s news analysis programme, The Key Points, on Saturday, he said it was “obvious” the president was “let down” by his appointees in the fight against illegal mining, known as galamsey. At least six persons have been arrested and being investigated by the police CID following a complaint lodged by the Minister of Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation Professor Kwabena Frimpong-Boateng. The minister who is the chairman of the anti-galamsey taskforce has also asked that…

US President Donald Trump has dismissed two senior officials who testified against him at his impeachment trial. The US envoy to the EU, Gordon Sondland, said he “was advised today that the president intends to recall me effective immediately”. Just hours earlier, Lt Col Alexander Vindman, a top expert on Ukraine, was escorted from the White House. Mr Trump is said to desire a staff shake-up after senators cleared him in the impeachment case on Wednesday. In its historic vote, the Senate decided not to remove America’s 45th president from office on charges arising from his dealings with Ukraine. Lt…

Dr. Yaw Adu-Ampomah, third prosecution witness in the trial of Dr. Stephen Opuni and Seidu Agongo, was stunned when it was revealed that he actually procured the services of a board member of COCOBOD to tell EOCO that he drank fertilizer. Unfortunately for him, the board member identified as Nana Obeng Akrofi failed to do his bidding when he appeared before the anti-graft agency, counsel for businessman Seidu Agongo, lawyer Nutifafa Nutsukpui who was holding brief for lead counsel, Benson Nutsukpui, told the High Court on Thursday. The court also heard that another person the witness directed to EOCO to…

Parliament on Friday declined a request to set up a committee to investigate a request by Rev John Ntim Fordjour, MP for Assin South, to probe the Airbus bribery scandal.    Airbus, an European aircraft manufacturer, is alleged to have paid bribes to some government officials of Ghana when it sold three military aircraft, in 2011 and 2015, and Rev Fordjour, in a statement to the House, said the scandal discredited the name of Ghana. However, there was an application thereafter, by Majority Leader Osei Kyei-Mensah to the Speaker to stay contributions, and rather allow the Office of the Special Prosecutor…

A serving soldier who had bouts of sex with his nine year old daughter until she attained the age of 15 has been sentenced to 20 years imprisonment in hard labour by an Accra Circuit Court. Sergeant Eric Asare-Mante is said to have taken advantage of the victim any time he shaved her pubic hair and threatened to truncate her education should she tell anyone about her ordeal. Although Asare-Mante pleaded not guilty, the court presided over by Mrs. Justice Rita Abrokwah-Doko, however found him guilty on the charges of defilement and incest. The court sentenced him to 20 years…

Director of Research and Policy at the Artisanal and Small Scale Mining Africa Network (ASMAN) Edward Akuoku has expressed skepticism about government’s strategy of fighting illegal mining, popularly referred to as “galamsey”. The government in the wake of incessant illegal mining activities implemented a framework to streamline and sanitize the sector. Among the strategies were the institution of the Inter-Ministerial Committee on Illegal Mining (IMCIM)and the introduction of Operation Vanguard, a combined military and police taskforce. The work of the IMCIM and Operation Vanguard has, however, come under scrutiny and criticism following recent scandals of missing excavators, which were seized…

Dancehall artiste Stonebwoy has revealed his former manager Blakk Cedi has not done anything for him since the latter was announced as his agent. He made this known during a press conference at the Golden Tulip Hotel in Accra Friday. According to the ‘Tuff Seed’ hit singer, he currently does not have a working relationship with his former manager. Stonebwoy, after weeks of speculations, revealed in September last year that his longtime friend and working partner was no longer his manager. It was within that period that he announced that Blakk Cedi had been made the agent instead. He explained…