The African Union has abandoned its plan to send 5,000 peacekeepers to stop ongoing violence in Burundi.It rather plans to encourage political dialogue between Burundi’s opposing sides. Burundi’s President Pierre Nkurunziza had fiercely opposed the AU plan’s to send peacekeepers. AU Peace and Security Council chief Smail Chergui said: “We want dialogue with the government, […]
A recent research conducted across the country in various schools particularly at the lower primary levels indicates that about 51 per cent of the pupils cannot read in both English language and the other local dialects. The Ashanti Regional Director of Education, Mary Owusu Achiaw made known at a durbar at Sanso in the Obuasi
The National Inspectorate Board formed by the Ministry of Education (MoE) Ghana to visit schools unannounced to check lazy and absentee teachers and also identify challenges for redress have been alarmed at the number of bedbug infestations in some schools in the Greater Accra and Western Region. In December last year, The Chronicle reported that
The 2016 presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, is urging Ghanaians not to give up hope in the face of the high levels of economic hardships and poverty currently prevailing in the country under the leadership of President John Mahama. Rather, Nana Akufo-Addo is assuring Ghanaians that the NPP has
The latest meeting aimed at uniting the two factions in the age-long ethnic conflict in Dagbon ended inconclusively at the Manhyia Palace on Saturday, January 30. This was due to the absence of the Abudu gate, who sent a messenger to the Asantehene-led committee. The message from the Abudu representative, Alahji Adam, was not made
Ivor Kobina Greenstreet was elected presidential candidate of the Convention Peoples’ Party (CPP) after the party’s national delegates’ congress on Saturday, January 30, 2016 at the International Trade Fair Centre. Mr Greenstreet won the CPP presidential race with 1,288 votes, representing 64.2% of valid votes cast, beating closest contender Samia Yaba Nkrumah – the daughter
Commuters will start paying 15% more for fares starting Monday February 1. Acting General Secretary of the Ghana Road Transport Coordinating Council (GRTCC), Andrews Kwesi Kwakye, announced the revised fares on Sunday, January 31 at the PROTOA head office in Accra. According to stakeholders in the industry, the new fares are as a result of
A 22-year-old, Baabue Adebaweni and a 4-year-old boy, Salam Atimbila sustained various degrees of injuries from the fire outbreaks at “Check Point,” a Santasi suburb in Kumasi last weekend. Narrating his plight, Baabue who is also called Akwesi within the vicinity, said he woke up from his sleep around 11 pm on Friday evening when
The Italian Prime Minister Mr. Matteo Renzi is expected to land in Ghana today, Monday February 01 for a two-day working visit. He will be holding bilateral talks with Ghana’s president John Mahama at the Flagstaff House as soon as he arrives after which a state dinner will be hosted in honour of him. On
Fire on Friday night ravaged about 210 structures at the Santasi Timber Check Point, a slum area near the Santasi roundabout within the Kumasi Metropolis rendering over 700 occupants homeless. The cause of the fire is not immediately known, but residents suspect it could be as a result of a burning candle which triggered the
