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Controversy breaks out at Bolgatanga Technical University again

You would recall that the Bolgatanga Technical University (BTU) was in the news in the middle of July, this year, regarding a coordinated move to appoint a senior accountant...

Mozambique Electoral Bloodshed: AEI offers recommendations as opposition leader claims assassination attempt

Ghana-based African Electoral Institute (AEI) is calling for calm in Mozambique and has offered...

AEI commends America for commitment to democratic principles ahead of Tuesday’s elections

The African Electoral Institute (AEI) has commended the United States of America (USA) for...

Good news for NDC as latest Global InfoAnalytics polls show NPP heading into opposition

The latest polls conducted by Global InfoAnalytics, a nonpartisan company that provides data-driven research...

House of Chiefs Conflict: Court awards cost against Tongraan, Sandem-Nab

A high court in Bolgatanga has struck out the name of the registrar of...

SONA 2024: Bawku is a magnet for next-door extremists— President Akufo-Addo

Ghana’s President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has depicted Bawku, a border town currently entangled in a bloody conflict in the Upper East region, as...

Lawyer dragged before GLC for allegedly breaking rule of profession

A lawyer engaged by a Chinese-owned mining company operating in Ghana has been dragged before the General Legal Council (GLC) for reportedly going against...

Ghana’s NCA shuts down 4 radio stations for reportedly fuelling conflict fire

The National Communications Authority (NCA) says it has shut down four radio stations in Ghana on grounds of national security. The NCA in a press...

Small-scale miners’ chairman suspended to avert looming collapse

The Ghana National Association of Small-Scale Miners (GNASSM) has suspended the Chairman of the Bolgatanga Mining District, Robert Boazor Tampoare, and asked its National...

Tax on Electricity: Akufo-Addo’s 2016 campaign promise blows up in NPP’s face in 2024

One of the major promises Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo made in 2016 to Ghanaian voters as he ran for president was to reduce what...

Chiefs, residents descend on government at forest rally for playing musical chairs with Bolgatanga Airport Project

A gathering of people is not usually seen inside the Anateem forest. But the habitually calm jungle, found in the west of Bolgatanga, the...

Shaanxi mineworker drops dead: The second sudden death recorded in five weeks

Prices of petrol and diesel were expected to drop slightly in Ghana in December 2023 as a result of a fall in prices of...

The Ghanaian “Evil” Children on Death Row: Tales of Tragedies, Trials and Triumphs

During the afternoon hours of Tuesday, 11 January 2011, a car arrived at an unusual speed in front of a waiting crowd on the...

CKT-UTAS Appointment Scandal: State attorney uses foul language on media

The office of the Attorney-General and Ministry of Justice in the Upper East Region is heading to the Appeals Court in Kumasi, seeking an...

CKT-UTAS Judgment Appeal: Governing Council exposes ‘false claim’ made by sacked vice-chancellor

Prof. Eric Magnus Wilmot did not go back to his office after Justice Charles Adjei Wilson delivered his damning verdict on Monday, 27 November...

The Humans who have no Human Rights: Inside the horror-filled world of mentally ill persons excluded from cure

There is an unmarked grave at Zorkor, a rural community that lies to the west of Bongo, a district in Ghana’s Upper East Region. Inside...

History imminent as NMTC-Zuarungu begins processes to award degrees in nursing, midwifery

Authorities of the Nursing and Midwifery Training College (NMTC) at Zuarungu, a community in the Bolgatanga East District of Ghana’s Upper East Region, say...

Some nursing, midwifery exam candidates using ‘menstrual pads’ to cheat— Dr. Yakong

As a rule, students at health training institutions in Ghana are body-searched by invigilators for unauthorised materials before they enter examination venues. But some candidates...

The best Christmas gift is to bail patients who can’t pay hospital bills ─ Ayariga tells rich people

The founder and leader of Ghana’s All People’s Congress (APC), Hassan Ayariga, has told rich people the best gift they can offer as they...

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