The Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT) is to sue the chief of Ejisu Besease, Nana Akwasi Acheampong, who reportedly flogged a teacher of the Ejisu Besease JHS in the Ashanti region for allegedly smoking Indian hemp or “wee”. The teacher, Francis Kattah, who teaches French, was taken to the chief’s palace at gun point [...]
Read the rest of this story »The National House of Chiefs has condemned the recent enstoolment of a claimant to the Ga stool describing it as illegal. According to the house, the enstoolment of a new Ga Mantse undermines a legal process currently before the judicial committee of the Greater Accra Regional House of Chiefs. The Regional House of Chiefs at [...]
Read the rest of this story »The Association of Magistrates and Judges of Ghana (AMJG) and the Judicial Service Staff Association of Ghana (JUSAG) have jointly condemned what they say are unwarranted attacks on the Chief Justice, Mrs Georgina Theodora Wood, and the judiciary in general. In a joint statement issued Wednesday, the two bodies said they “will strongly resist any [...]
Read the rest of this story »Wife of ex-Ghana Ambassador to Japan is accusing her husband of ‘shameless’ infidelity and threats on her life. Mrs Brempong-Yeboah told Joy News’ Beatrice Adu her husband Dr. Charles Brempong-Yeboah hounded her out of her matrimonial home amidst several threats on her life. She had early on reported the matter to the Domestic Violence and [...]
Read the rest of this story »Ghana often ends up the final resting place for used electronic devices. While some of the materials can be recycled, much is also sent there illegally, damaging the environment and the people who exploit it. The column of dark smoke that rises from the Ghanaian capital, Accra, can be seen from kilometers away and [...]
Read the rest of this story »GNA – Feverish preparations are on-going at the Sunyani Coronation Park, venue for the upcoming congress of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), slated for July 8 to 9 to elect the party’s flagbearer for the 2012 Presidential Election. The park is being put to a befitting shape for the event as a visit by the [...]
Read the rest of this story »(AP) — Sanford Health officials are talking with billionaire Bill Gates about building clinics in Ghana. Sanford CEO Kelby Krabbenhoft recently led a team of five officials to Seattle to meet with the Microsoft founder. A separate team of three officials went to Ghana. The Argus Leader reports that a plan by Gates and his [...]
Read the rest of this story »reuters.com Ghana’s debt stood at $13.4 billion in mid-May, up from around $8.1 billion when President John Atta Mills was elected in late 2008, the government said on Wednesday. The debt-to-GDP ratio stood at about 35 percent, “well within sustainable range,” deputy Information Minister Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa said in a statement. He said Ghana’s borrowing [...]
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