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Mr James Avedzi, Member of Parliament (MP) for Ketu-North, has appealed to parents who can afford their wards education to stop scrambling for the MP’s Common Fund scholarships. He said the fund is solely for brilliant students whose…

The International Labour Organisation (ILO) has presented a cheque of $20,000 each to four child labour intervention implementing agencies with a call on them to be transparent and accountable in the discharge of their duties. They are…

The government would purchase a new sever by the end of March to help process the salaries of employees of the Ghana Education Service (GES). It will also handle data input of teachers, crosscheck the data for errors and verify the…

Mr Cecil Adadevoh, Senior State Attorney on Tuesday pleaded with the Commercial Court Division of the High Court for time to study and respond to the defence filed by Mr Alfred Agbesi Woyome, a businessman in a suit by the State. He said…

A Ghanaian drug baron who connived with three foreigners to import more than two tones (2,000 kilogrammes) of cocaine from Columbia for re-export to The Gambia in 2010 has been arrested. The street value of the cocaine is estimated at…

A Kumasi Circuit Court has sentenced a driver to 51 years imprisonment in hard labour for snatching a taxi with a knife. Bismark Dwomoh alias “Yaw Baah” pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy and robbery. His accomplices Maxwell Yeboah,…

The Ghana AIDS Commission (GAC) will organise  HIV and AIDS fair as part of activities to commemorate its tenth anniversary celebration in Accra, this month. A statement issued in Accra on Monday by Director General of GAC, Dr Angela El…

Dr Brock Friesen, Co-Chief Executive Officer of Starbow Airlines, said Ghana's aviation industry is blessed to have only about five to ten days of bad weather (Harmattan) every year compared with other countries. He said countries like…

Mr Kwesi Ahwoi, Minister of Agriculture, on Monday expressed confidence that Ghana’s non-traditional exports would increase if gains made in establishing quality post-harvest infrastructure, under the Millennium Challenge Account (MCA)…

Mr Manoj Nair, Emirates Regional Manager for West Africa, has said the airline has introduced an Airbus A340-500 to its Accra –Dubai route to underline the airline’s commitment to Ghana. He said the aircraft update which was effective…