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The Board of Angel Group of Companies, led by the Group President, Dr. Kwaku Oteng at a Board meeting held on 28th November 2022 took a decision to suspend, Samuel Acheampong, Popularly known as Bfton from his position as the Chief Executive Officer of ABN for a month without salary.  The suspension as per the internal memo intercepted by #the1957news indicates that his suspension took effect as of  2nd December 2022.  After serving his suspension, he’ll now take a new role as the General Manager of ABN Radio, Kumasi effective from 2nd January 2023.  SWIPE IG Post to read the…

The Ghana Institute of Journalism (GIJ), West African premium communication university has been renamed UMAC (University of Media, Arts and Communication). Following a meeting held by the school’s ‘Interim Council’ on Wednesday, November 30, at their 6th Regular Meeting, Professor Kwamena Kwansah-Aidoo was elected to chair the position of the Vice-Chancellor of the new management that was created to be effective Monday, December 1. Professor Kwamena Kwansah-Aidoo, who is currently the Vice-Chancellor of UMac (University of Media, Arts, and Communication) was formerly a Rector of the Ghana Institute of Journalism. For about two decades, he has carried out leadership skills…

Black Stars midfielder, Mohammed Kudus have lamented on the Black Stars predicaments at the ongoing FIFA World Cup in Qatar, saying the team have learnt lessons after their group stage exit.at the ongoing world cup tournament and. The 22-year-old Ajax midfielder expressed his consent about the disappointment Ghanaians faced after the team lost against Uruguay on Friday December 2, 2022. Speaking after Ghana’s exit from the ongoing tournament, the midfielder encouraged the team to stick and work together for better results next time and also promised Ghanaians that the Black Stars will do better next time. Ghana just needed a…

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) is optimistic that its forthcoming National Executive Congress slated for December 17-18 will be incident free. The party is expected to elect its new national executives on December 17, 2022, at the Accra Sports Stadium. However, the party to choose its National Youth and Women Executives will be held on December 10, 2022, at Cape Coast, Central Region. In an interview with a Member of the NDC Elections Committee, Daniel Amartey, said everything is in place for the party’s internal elections to come on December 17, 2022. “We have already arranged for their accommodation, we…

Government has said that prospective students seeking admission to Colleges of Education from 2023 will write entrance Exams. This New directive was a result of poorly written answers that caught a glimpse in a lot of teachers’ examination scripts for obtaining a teacher’s license, thus these shot a serious concern amongst stakeholders in the educational sector to conduct the entrance for new applicants from 2023. In an interview with stakeholders at a conference on teacher training, the Chief Director at the Ministry of Education, Divine Ayidzoe indicated that the exam will be written based on two major core subjects: Mathematics…

A pregnant woman fainted this morning and has been rushed to Okomfo Anokye Teaching hospital after joining a very long queue to re-register her phone number which has been deactivated by the national communication authority near Adehyeman Market in Kumasi According to an eyewitness who are also affected by the exercise taken on by the national communication authority maintained that the lady came to join the queue as early as 3 am to enable her to get access to activate her momo number to redraw money sent to her by her husband to attend hospital in the morning but was…

Record winners of the world’s biggest competition, Brazil take on a very impressive South Korea side who are also rich in World Cup history in terms of Asian representation at the Mondial. South Korea, after picking up just a point from their first group game in Group H, faced a huge test in Portugal yet managed to edge over the 1966 third place finishers, Portugal in their final fixture and managed to book a place in the Knock out phase. For the Selecao, these are hard times as world cup legend Pele struggles with his health and Gabriel Jesus set…

The astute Communication officer for Walewale Constituency Mashood Issifu Mahama has indicated that the one-district, one-factory (1D1F) initiative under the NPP government has been a total failure over the years. He said, Most of the projects they claim they have done were utterly falsehood. He was reacting to the lies Nana Akomea peddled on Metro TV Good morning Ghana concerning the walewale watermelon factory which according to the former NPP director of Communications that the factory has been completed and employed 300 people. Setting the record straight the communication officer for walewale Constituency detailed that “On the 4th of November,2022.…

The Minority Leader Haruna Iddrisu has disclosed that the motion of censure they filed against Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta for his dismissal will not go through if the majority caucus refuses to cooperate. He stated that he is fully aware the Minority does not have the numbers to propel their motion through. Speaking on the floor of Parliament, he indicated that after calling for a secret ballot on the motion that “if they cooperate we will be successful, if they don’t cooperate our exercise will not succeed.” For his part, Deputy Majority Leader Alexander Afenyo-Markin said the motion of censure…

The striking nurses at the Manhyia District Hospital have returned to work following the intervention by the Ministry of Health. The Ghana Registered Nurses and Midwives Association went on strike on Friday, December 2 following the strange behavior of the Ashanti Region Boss of the National Service Scheme, Alex Opoku-Mensah, This unfortunate incident was despite the suspended Opoku-Mensah, tabled to face a committee set up to probe the allegations of assault against him. The committee was made up of the management of the Scheme following an emergency meeting on Wednesday, November 30. This development comes with the birth of allegations…