Afraneh drops ‘Megyina Menanso’

STORY: FROM MICHAEL SARPONG MFUM, SUNYANI Elvis Afraneh is out with his maiden album entitled ‘Megyina Menanso,’ to wit ‘I am steadfast in the Lord’ which is enjoying air-play on a number of radio stations in the Sunyani municipality. The 11-track album was written and composed by Elvis Afraneh himself and recorded at the Vibes [...]

NKOSEC needs financial assistance

EDUCATION in our rural areas has witnessed challenges that have often been overlooked by government and the major stakeholders of the sector. OVER the past years, national service personnel, graduate teachers and other groups of people have refused to be posted to the rural areas to teach due to the poor nature of infrastructural development [...]

NPP chair defilement case

*Police receives medical report The Effiduase Police in Ashanti has received Medical report from the parents of the 13- year-old girl who was allegedly defiled by the former chairman of the Effiduase branch of the New Patriotic Party (NPP). Even though the police was sketchy in giving out details of the report, Today can confidently [...]

Students eat from disease-prone structure

STORY: FROM MICHAEL SARPONG MFUM, SEIKWA, B/A Information available indicates that the lives of students of Nkoraman Senior High School (NKOSEC) at Seikwa in the Tain District of the Brong Ahafo Region is in grave danger and there could be a possible outbreak of diseases due to the unhygienic conditions under which, their foods are [...]

Ms. Selassie Mensah (middle) with Edith-Casely Ndidi Fordjour (left) and Abraham Afum (right)

No mercy for the poor too… oh Ghana!

TIME WITH THE GOVERNOR The revelations by the Centre for Democratic Development (CDD) about the Capitation Grant which was launched in 2004 as part of efforts to promote education in the country call for a careful consideration of the whole issue of education. It is very shameful and lamentable that people tasked to protect national [...]

Ga East holds general meeting

STORY: ANTHONY KWESI COOMSON, ABOKOBI The Ga East Municipal Assembly has held its general meeting at Abokobi ostensibly to approve the supplementary budget for the 2010 fiscal year and consider the report of the executive committee. Addressing assembly members prior to the deliberations for the approval of the budget, the Municipal Chief Executive of the [...]

Jailed robbers begin 120-yrs sentence

STORY: FROM LUIS ARTHUR YEBOAH, KUMASI Relatives of three young men, who were jailed last week by a Kumasi Circuit Court 1 turned the court room into mourning ground as they wept uncontrollably for the convicts. Numbering about thirty, the relatives of the convicted robbers followed them sadly to the van as if they were [...]