President Akufo-Addo has retained Prof. Alex Dodoo as Director-General of the Ghana Standards Authority (GSA). The Chief of Staff, Akosua Frema Osei-Opare communicated the retention in a letter dated 9th September 2021, sighted by GhanaWeb. Prof Dodoo, a pharmaceutical scientist, was first appointed as Director-General of the GSE in 2017 and has since …

It has emerged that all Metropolitan Municipal and District Chief Executives and their Assemblies have been billed to contribute to the final funeral rites of the late father of the Regional Minister Kwabena Okyere Darko Mensah. In a letter which has since gone viral on social media, all MMDCEs and …

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has finalised the list of metropolitan, municipal and district chief executives (MMDCEs) to be nominated to serve in the next three-and-a-half years. The list is expected to be received by the Minister of Local Government, Decentralisation and Rural Development, Daniel Botwe, Thursday morning for onward …

The minority in parliament has raised red flags over a directive from the education minister to forty-six colleges of education to pay GHc6.8m for wifi service. In a leaked letter, the minister Dr Yaw Adutwum asked the Ghana Tertiary Education Commission to facilitate the payment to Busy Internet following a …

Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey, Ghana’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, says the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) tried on several occasions to stop Alpha Condé from changing Guinea’s constitution. President Condé of Guinea, deposed on 5 September, changed the country’s constitution to seek a third term in office. Botchwey was addressing …

Lawyer Yaw Acheampong Boafo, current national secretary of the Ghana Bar Association has been elected President of the Bar Association. He takes over the leadership of the Bar Association from Anthony Forson Jnr as he exits office after serving a full three-year term. Yaw Boafo beat Efua Gartey, by 605 …

The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has confirmed that two papers have been compromised in the ongoing West African Senior School Certificate Examinations (WASSCE). The Council says its investigations have uncovered that extracts of the 2021 Elective Mathematics and English Language tests, had been found in the public domain. WAEC …

  A Level 300 student of the University For Development Studies (UDS), Nyankpala campus, was found dead in his room on Tuesday, September 14.   According to his close friends, the deceased, whose name has been given as Muniru, was found lifeless in his room after the door was forced …

    The Founder and Leader of Glorious Word Power Ministries International, Reverend Isaac Owusu Bempah, has been granted bail of GH¢200,000 with two sureties.   This comes two days after a Circuit Court in Accra denied the popular pastor and three others the request for bail.   Few hours …