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A Tarkwa Circuit Court has remanded a 36 year-old, ‘bookman’, Charles Owusu, in prison custody for possessing cocaine without lawful authority. He pleaded not guilty and would re-appear before the court on August 15. Police Prosecutor…

Nene Okpatapkla Sasraku IV, Chairman of the Ngmahem Festival Planning Committee, has launched this year’s Ngmayem and International Beads festivals of the people of Manya Krobo in the Eastern Region. Nene Sasraku explained that the Ngmayem…

The Deputy National General Secretary of the Ghana National Association of Teachers, Mr John Nyoagbe, has expressed dismay over undue delay in payment of newly trained teachers employed by the Ghana Education Service. He said a situation…

The Ministry of Education and the National Accreditation Board have approved the establishment of a College of Education in the Lawra District of the Upper West Region. Mr Samson Abu, Lawra District Chief Executive (DCE) who announced this…

Seven wreaths were on Saturday laid in memory of Dr Kwame Nkrumah at the Nkrumah Mausoleum, Dr W.E.B. Du Bois at the Du Bois Centre and George Padmore at the Padmore Research Library, all in Accra where their mortal remains are interred.…

UT Bank at the weekend in Accra organized fun games dubbed, “UT Olympic 2011” for its workers across the country aimed at fostering unity and friendliness. Mr Prince Kofi Amoabeng, Chief Executive Officer of UT Bank, said the fun games…

Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, the flag bearer of the New Patriotic Party, has sympathised with flood-hit communities in the Eastern Region. “Earlier this week, I sent a message of sympathy to the chiefs and people of Abomosu and…

The United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) is evacuating refugees, mostly Ivorians at Elubo in the Western Region, to a permanent refugee camp at Egyirikrom near Elmina in the Central Region. Mr Ernest Kpodo, Ghana Immigration…

Mr Daniel Appau Ohyeaman, Mampong Municipal Chief Executive, (MCE) has described as “woefully inadequate” their share of the District Assemblies Common Fund (DAF) and appealed for an increment. He said that the assembly’s receipts from the…

A 23 year-old nursing mother, Cynthia Akapo, has been granted a GH¢5,000 bail by a Tarkwa Circuit Court for inflicting cuts on the face of a hairdresser whom she accused of dating her husband. She pleaded guilty and would re-appear before…