Private Legal Practitioner Christian Lebrecht Malm-Hesse has revealed that divorce is expensive. He said people are trapped in bad marriages because they lack the money to go through the divorce proceedings. According to him, on the average, one needs a minimum of not less than Ten Thousand Cedi (GHC 10,000) to commence divorce proceedings in […]
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Four teacher unions have declared an indefinite nationwide strike – effective Monday, July 4 – over demands for the payment of the Cost of Living Allowance (COLA). The unions, comprising the Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT), the National Association of Graduate Teachers (NAGRAT), the Teachers and Educational Workers Union (TEWU) and the Coalition of […]
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The Ghana Private Road Transport Union (GPRTU) has announced an upward adjustment of transport fares effective May 7, 2022. This is in spite of an earlier announcement by the Union that it hopes to adjust transportation fares upwards by 30% effective Friday, May 13. In an interview on JoyNews’ The Pulse on Friday monitored by […]
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Chief Inspector Mac-Victor Anako has become the first Police officer to benefit from the recently introduced 6.1 Million Cedis Police Emergency Medical Intervention Fund when he was flown to Germany for medical attention. The PEMIF is an initiative of the Police Administration aimed at providing financial assistance for the medical care of Police officers who […]
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The National Conference of Principals of Colleges of Education – Ghana (PRINCOF) has directed that teacher trainees start to fund their own feeding from May 8. This directive is in response to the inability of Colleges of Education to make payments for food items supplied to them. According to PRINCOF, food suppliers who had continued […]
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A Tax and Management Adviser, Fred Kwashie Awuttey has outlined six legal modes that Ghanaians can avoid paying the controversial tax.
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A joint operation by personnel from the Police Intelligence and Operations Units in the Volta Region has led to the arrest of 12 female commercial sex workers operating within the Ho Municipality on Saturday March 19, 2022. Their arrest follows intelligence reports of the commercial sex activities within the Municipality being a precursor to many […]
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About 30% of palm oils found on the Ghanaian Market have failed the Food and Drugs Authority (FDA)’s nationwide Zero Sudan IV dye test, an increase from 7.3% in 2018. This came to the fore as part of the Authority’s routine market surveillance activities on food safety conducted last year. In October last year, the […]
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The lifeless bodies of a man and a woman have been found in Ho in the Volta Region. The bodies were found at two separate locations within the Ho Municipality within a week. The body of the man was found on Wednesday, 9 March 2022, on a basketball court near the Ho Technical University’s rear […]
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The Ghana Education Service has reminded all teachers and non-teaching staff of the service who are occupying a school or a government bungalow that they are by law required to pay 10% of their basic salaries as rent. In a letter dated 11th March 2022, the GES indicated that the directive is in line with […]
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