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Ghana hopes to take a big step towards restructuring its $58bn-worth of debt this week, with its bilateral creditors meeting today to discuss whether to provide enough relief to unlock a $3bn IMF bailout. Ghana owes $5.5bn to foreign governments and their state banks. Ken Ofori-Atta, finance minister, said he …

Education Minister, Hon Yaw Osei Adutwum has called for the support of philanthropists for the construction of a Teacher Training College at Jachie in the Bosomtwe District of the Ashanti Region. Education is factored as one of the most essential tools in the development of every country. The minister in …

Commuters who ply the Atimatim-Maase road, one of the major link roads within the Afigya Kwabre South District, have called on the government to fix their roads. The commuters made this call during a visit by uniquenewsgh news reporter Kwame Baffoe Agyekum. Following recent heavy downpours, portions of the road …

The Oforikrom Municipal Assembly has issued a 3-month ultimatum to private developers to secure building permits before continuing with their construction projects. Failure to do so, according to the assembly, will leave it with no option to apply legal sanctions to defaulters. Addressing assembly members and heads of departments of …

The District Chief Executive of Afigya Kwabre South Hon. Christian Adu- Poku has lamented the rate at which ladies at Buoho a suburb of Afigya Kwabre South indulge in prostitution is so unbearable. According to him, the invasion of Nigerian sex workers in the community had a bad influence on …

Students of the Krobea Asante Technical Institute have been surcharged the cost of damages caused during a violent protest earlier this year. Management of the school says a bill of GHC430 has been imposed on continuing and final-year students for repairs of destroyed school property, as recommended by a five-member …

The Ashanti Regional Minister Simon Osei-Mensah has reacted to yesterday’s snub at the RCC when aggrieved caterers under the school feeding programme stormed there to present a petition Reimbursement to the caterers has been in arrears for months. The Regional Minister in a rather rare move snubbed the caterers which …

One officer of the Ghana Immigration Service (GIS) has been shot dead by unknown assailants in conflict-prone Bawku in the Upper East Region. Two other officers are fighting for their lives at the Bawku Presbyterian Hospital, where they were rushed after the incident. The three were attacked Monday night on their way to …

Family members and friends of 33-year-old Euginia Boaduwaa Adu protested and accused the CEO and a doctor of Orma Hospital in the Tafo Pankrono municipality of the Ashanti Region. The family has demanded justice for the death of their daughter who died at the Orma Hospital urging the government and …

A (40)yrs old Man, Mr Kofi Annan allegedly committed suicide at his residence in Esaman a suburb of the Komenda Edina Eguafo-Abrem District in the Central Region. According to his children, their father woke up at dawn and allegedly committed the act. According to residents, he was fit, and with …