The lawyer at the centre of the alleged $5 million bribe involving the Chief Justice, Kwasi Afrifa, says he did not peddle falsehood against the Chief Justice. He insists he was not reckless but rather simply stated what he had been told by his client. Mr Afrifa is in the High Court seeking to set […]
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Norsaac, a civil society organisation, has been commended for partnering with the Ghana Education Service (GES) to train some teachers in the Northern and North East Regions to effectively deliver Reproductive Health Education (RHE) to students. Mr Abdulai Abdul Salam, School Health Education Programme Coordinator at the Zabzugu District Education Directorate, and Mr Mohammed Yazidu, […]
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Some 90 Small and Medium Scale Enterprises (SMEs) will benefit from a Sustaining Competitive and Responsible Enterprises (SCORE) training programme to boost the growth and productivity of SMEs to create jobs. The programme, an initiative of Invest for jobs, a special initiative on training and job creation, to improve the business ecosystem in some selected […]
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Mr Prince Owusu Nyarko, Regional Senior Manager for MTN Ghana South West, has launched the maiden edition of the MoMo technology fair under the theme, “Promoting Brighter Lives Through Technology and Digital Enablement”. The three-day fair, which is currently underway at Tarkwa in the Western Region brought together businesses in Tarkwa and its environs through […]
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Ghana’s Covid-19 deaths have gone beyond the 1,000 mark as the country battles a third wave of the outbreak of the disease. By the official case count released by the Disease Surveillance Department of the Ghana Health Service (GHS) on Friday, August 27, a total of 1,001 fatalities have been recorded since the disease hit […]
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A 27-year-old man, Agya Asuo, has been arrested with a human skull by the Police at Assin-Praso in the Assin North District of the Central Region. Chief Superintendent Isaac Tetteh, Assin-Praso District Commander who confirmed the arrest to the Ghana News Agency, said the suspect was a well known mentally deranged person. According to him, […]
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The Ghana Education Service (GES) has deferred the implementation of the Common Core Programme (CCP), the new curriculum developed for the junior high school. The new curriculum would rather be implemented next academic year, after enough sensitisation, the GES stated, and therefore requested teachers to continue to use the old curriculum to teach. Training The […]
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The Ghana Education Service (GES), says the pre-tertiary teacher unions have no basis to embark on industrial action. The unions, the Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT), the National Association of Graduate Teachers (NAGRAT), and the Coalition of Concerned Teachers (CCT) are unhappy over what they claim are inadequate teaching and learning resources, contact and […]
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Nigeria’s state oil company has made a profit for the first time in its 44-year history, the government has announced. President Muhammadu Buhari, who is also the senior petroleum minister, said this was in line with the “prudent management of resources”. The 2020 profit of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) was recorded as $700m […]
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The Volta Region branch of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has called on its supporters to join Friday’s demonstration planned to impress upon government to open the country’s land borders. The demonstration, to be led by Ketu South Member of Parliament Abla Dzifa Gomashie, will be staged in Aflao. But before then, the MP for […]
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