Author: SAMUEL

The Ghana Tertiary Education Commission (GTEC) has instructed the Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Chamber of Mines, Kenneth Ashigbey, to stop using the title “Dr.” after declaring his doctorate from the Swiss Management Centre (SMC) invalid. The directive follows a petition that prompted GTEC to examine the authenticity of Mr. Ashigbey’s Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) qualification. According to the Commission, its investigation revealed “significant inconsistencies” in the documents submitted for verification. GTEC said Mr. Ashigbey had provided both his certificate and transcript, but the two carried different institutional names. “While the certificate was issued by the Swiss Management…

A legal tussle has erupted over who qualifies as the rightful widow of the late highlife legend Daddy Lumba. His German-based wife, Akosua Serwaa, has petitioned the Kumasi High Court to bar two individuals, family head Kofi Owusu and Odo Broni, from performing his funeral rites. In documents filed before the court, Serwaa insists her 2004 marriage to the musician in Germany remains valid and monogamous under that jurisdiction. She argues that this status grants her sole legal and cultural recognition as Lumba’s surviving spouse. Her counsel, William Kusi, told the court that both the family head and Odo Broni…

The spirit of camaraderie, mentorship, and loyalty that defines the Osei Tutu Old Boys Association (OTOBA) was once again on full display as members of the 2001 Year Group paid a special visit to their alma mater to support the school’s National Science and Maths Quiz (NSMQ) Team. The visit, filled with warmth and nostalgia, was aimed at encouraging and boosting the morale of the brilliant young contestants as they prepare for the 2025 edition of the national competition. The team, which has been training rigorously over the past weeks, was visibly excited to receive the visiting Old Boys who…

The Ghana School of Law will today, October 10, 2025, admit 824 lawyers-in-waiting to the Bar. This moment marks the culmination of years of hard work, resilience, and dedication. In a post announcing the call, the Ghana School of Law said, “A new generation of lawyers is ready to serve with integrity and excellence.” The Call to the Bar will be held at the International Conference Centre at 9 am. Source:Lovinghananews.com

Akosua Serwaa, the wife of the late Ghanaian highlife icon Daddy Lumba, has filed a lawsuit against the head of the musician’s extended family, Kofi Owusu, and a woman identified as Priscilla Ofori, popularly called Odo Broni, seeking to halt preparations for Lumba’s burial and final funeral rites. The case, filed at the Kumasi High Court, also lists Transitions Funeral Home as a respondent. Through her counsel, William Kusi of Dominion Chambers, Serwaa is requesting an interlocutory injunction to restrain the defendants from collecting or burying her husband’s body. In the affidavit supporting the motion, Serwaa asserts she is the…

Chief Executive Officer(CEO) of the Ghana Association of Banks, John Awuah, has revealed that most medical doctors who borrow from banks to travel abroad to work refuse to repay the loans despite the general perception that medical doctors are persons of high integrity. John Awuah lamented that even though these medical doctors get gainfully employed abroad and could settle their loans, about 70% of them flatly refuse to honour their loan commitments. “… Do you know what doctors are doing to the banking system? Particularly those who are offshoring their services, like migrating to other jurisdictions to work? They have…

Acting Director-General of the Authority, Ruth Dela Seddoh The National Service Authority (NSA) says it has identified data mismatch as a major challenge being experienced by applicants. This is contained in a press release signed by the Director-General of the NSA, Ruth Dela Seddoh. “Following the announcement and opening of the National Service Portal on Wednesday, 8th October, 2025, the attention of Management has been drawn to a number of issues related to the ongoing online registration exercise for the 2025/26 batch. Key among the issues is the inability of some prospective national service personnel to register on the portal…

The Communications Officer of the National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO), Harrison Kojo Abbah, says the new leadership of the organisation has transformed NADMO into a proactive and preventive agency far beyond the era of merely distributing relief items such as rice and oil after disasters. Speaking on Onua FM’s Yen Nsempa morning show on October 9, Mr. Abbah said the Management of NADMO is working tirelessly to make Ghana a disaster-free zone through improved preparedness, prevention, and accountability. “The new crop of NADMO Executives and Management are doing everything possible so that Ghana will become a disaster-free zone. We might…

Allegations of corruption are once again casting a dark shadow over Ghana’s Computerized School Placement System (CSSPS). This time, it’s coming from within the labor front. The General Secretary of the Construction and Building Materials Workers Union (CBMWU), Richard Asamoah, is calling out what he describes as a “bribery syndicate” operating within the placement system. Speaking exclusively to 3news’ Labour Affairs Correspondent, Asamoah claimed that some officers are collecting between GHS 20,000 and GHS 35,000 from parents to illegally re-post students to their preferred schools. “Personally, I have evidence of some of these things. Some parents have confided in me…

A former Medical Director of the Greater Accra Regional Hospital Dr Thomas Anabah has revealed that stress, poor nutrition, tobacco and alcohol use, long working hours and environmental pollution are major risk factors that lead to non-communicable diseases such as hypertension, diabetes, cardiovascular diseases and mental disorders. Dr Anabah who is also the Member of Parliament(MP) for Garu, noted that non-communicable diseases (NCDs) – including hypertension, diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, cancers, and mental health disorders- were fast becoming a major health concern for the country, leading to about 43 percent of deaths in Ghana. “These silent killers -hypertension, cardiovascular diseases, diabetes,…