Новости за 23.05.2019

From May 8 - 17, 2019, the Ghana Education Service and the American people, through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Learning Project, distributed over 400,000 reading and teaching materials to 7,273 public primary schools in 100 districts in Ghana. Through this project, USAID partners with the Ministry of Education and its agencies to improve primary school students rsquo; reading and to foster a culture of reading in primary schools. USAID has supported the pro ...

The Paramount Chief of Upper Dixcove Traditional Area in the Ahanta West Municipality of the Western Region Obrempon Hema Dekyi has expressed worry about the slow pace of investigations in allegations leveled against the Secretary to the Inter-Ministerial Committee on Illegal Mining, Mr. Charles Bissue. He said found it baffling that two bodies are investigating embattled Executive Secretary to the Inter-ministerial Committee on Illegal Mining Charles Bissue for the same alleged misco ...

The Atebubu-Amantin Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) Mr. Edward Owusu has urged the Ghana Police Service to reconsider its decision to auction two vehicles belonging to the municipal police command. He says the assembly is prepared to commit resources into the rehabilitation of the vehicles to increase the fleet available to the command. This he said will improve the capacity of the police to ensure law and order in the municipality. Delivering his sessional address at the ...

The Acting Chief Executive Officer(CEO) of the Ghana Trade Fair Company (GTFC) Limited Dr. Agnes Adu last Wednesday embarked on a ruinous demolition of some offices of private businessmen who are tenants of the Trade Fair Company, blatantly disregarding an injunction placed on her by an Accra High Court whilst ignoring advice from the La Traditional Council (LTC) too. In an interview with the Chairman of Tenants Association of the GTFC, Peter Awoonor-Williams indicated that it was obvi ...

Sales of Kalyppo drinks has gone down sharply, according to traders at the Madina market and other places within the Greater Accra Region. Members of the ruling New Patriotic Party(NPP) that used to purchase the product in cartons to boost theirs campaigns in support of president Akufo Addo campaigns now resort to buying Pizza and fry rices, the visibly disappointed traders lamented. Except basic schools and parents patronage of the drink for their children at home and in churches, no ad ...

Some irate youth of Basake Community in the Ellembelle District of the Western Region have wipe off the name of the Member of Parliament for the area, Armah Kofi Buah embossed on the toilet facility. The NDC MP for the area, Emmanuel Armah Kofi-Buah commissioned this 16-seater water closet toilet facility for the area in 2016. During the commissioning, it was revealed that the facility was financed through the MP 39;s Common Fund with the inscription on the building, Donated ...

Persons with disability have cautioned self-acclaimed dancehall king Shatta Wale to apologise to Livingstone Etse Satekle better known as Stonebwoy for making a mockery of his disability. This comes after Shatta Wale, reacting to the recent fracas with the Bhim Nation President, Stonebwoy at the 20th Vodafone Ghana Music awards ndash; where the former revealed that Ghanaians support Stonebwoy over him because he is a cripple and most Ghanaians are sympathetic to his lsquo;foolish ...

A group calling itself the Root Journalist Association (RJA) has called on the government to intensify its education on the Right to Information (RTI) law to conscientise public officials to be very accommodating towards journalists who seek information on a particular matter. The group raised a concern that some public institutions such as the Ghana Police Service, Health Services and other institutions are fond of withholding information and also intimidate journalists whenever ...

The Accra High Court has ordered the Despite Group of Companies together with two employees with its subsidiary, Okay FM, to apologize to Investigative Journalist, Anas Aremeyaw Anas for the defamatory comments made against him and his associates during a discussion on investigative documentaries on their programme entitled lsquo;Ade Akye Abia rsquo;. The retraction and apology, according to the agreement, should be published in the Daily Graphic. The second defendant, Kwame ...

The Deputy Commissioner in Charge of Operations at the Electoral Commission of Ghana, Samuel Tettey, has indicated that the new EC administration is doing all it can to avoid some of the pitfalls which caused the removal of the former EC Boss, Charlotte Osei and her two Deputies. He said the EC under the leadership of Mrs. Jane Mensa, has taken the recommendations of the Reforms Committee of the Chief Justice seriously since it formed the basis for the removal of the former EC Bos ...