Новости за 10.06.2019

The Ghana Refugee Board is working closely with the UNHCR and Partners in assisting over 13,000 refugees with a child population of about 4,600 (representing about 34% of the refugee population) refugee children in Ghana. This is to ensure that their rights, dignity, and welfare are improved. This was disclosed by the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection in commemoration of the Day of the African Child (DAC), dubbed ldquo;Humanitarian Action in Africa: Childr ...

The Executive Chairman of Zoomlion Ghana Limited, Eld. Dr. Joseph Siaw Agyapong has pleged the Company 39;s total commitment to establish waste treatment plants across the sixteen regions in the country to manage plastic waste products into something valuable. Zoomlion Ghana Limited, over the past decade, has provided integrated waste management solutions from waste collection, haulage, composting and recycling; where waste is recycled into reusable materials such as compost for Agricul ...

Statistics from the Mental Health Authority in Ghana indicates that about four million Ghanaians, out of an estimated population of 28million are suffering from mild to severe mental illness with treatment gap hovering around 98% of the total population expected to have a mental disorder. It has also emerged that an estimated number of 5.6 million active social media users in Ghana are at risk of suffering from various degrees of mental disorders with woefully inadequate knowledge for de ...

Dr Vladimir Antwi-Danso, a Senior Lecturer at the Kofi Annan International Peace Keeping Training Centre(KAIPTC), has fingered political saboteurs of President Akufo Addo, administration as brains behind the spate of kidnapping. He says their main motive is to make the government unpopular ahead of the 2020 general elections. Dr Antwi-Danso said this during a discussion on the kidnapping of two Canadian nationals in Kumasi on the AM Show on Multi TV Monday, June 10, monitored by M ...

The Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) for Ga East Municipal Assembly (GEMA), Hon. Janet Tulasi Mensah, has urged candidates writing the 2019 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE), to app avoid malpractice and write with confidence to make the municipality proud. She was speaking to candidates at some of the exams centres in the municipality. The Ga East Municipality is presenting a total number of 4,298 candidates from 191 Schools (Public - 34 and Private-157) for the 2 ...

A headteacher of Kekeli Preparatory School in Aflao has been arrested for registering 62 Togolese pupils to partake in the 2019 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) as Ghanaian pupils. The headteacher 39;s name given as Mr. Mawuli, registered the foreigners as Ghanaian students without any cumulative records in the school. This was disclosed to the media by the Municipal and District Chief Executive of Ketu South in the Volta Region, Elliot Agbenorvu, who caused the arrest ...

A group calling itself, United Krobo Foundation, in the Lower Manya Krobo Municipality has rejected the Power Distribution Services (PDS) revised accumulated debts of Ghc84,625,624.87 been bills of power customers in Krono Municipality consumed. According to the Foundation, residents of Krobo have been paying electricity bills without default until between 2014 to 2018 where some abnormal bills were noticed. Following the chaos some weeks ago, where a young girl was killed and severa ...

Mrs. Theodosia Jackson, the Principal of Jackson College of Education has advised this year 39;s Basic Education Certificate candidates to refrain from any form of examination malpractice to avoid cancellation of papers. The veteran educationist further admonished them to aim at earning their certificates honestly and on merit. She gave the advice at a press briefing in Kumasi to exhort the candidates to a sterling performance in their first ever external examination. The ...

Hon Mohammed Abdul-Aziz, Member of Parliament for Mion Constituency in the Northern Region has chided President Akufo-Addo 39;s government One-Village-One- Dam policy, describing it as a deceptive policy ever in the history of democracy. According to him, the policy though is laudable, it has been poorly implemented as dams government claimed to have executed are turned out to be dugouts. Hon Abdul-Aziz made this comment during a newspaper review discussion on GHONE TV , Monday June ...

The Ghana Investment Fund for Electronic Communications (GIFEC) as part of its efforts to enhancing teaching and learning of Information Communication and Technology (ICT) has presented computers and accessories to Nsawkaw R/C, Menji D/A and Seikwa R/C Junior High Schools in the Tain district of the Bono region. The presentation formed part of GIFEC rsquo;s school connectivity project which seeks to help bridge the digital gap between the rural communities and the cities and to also he ...

Staff of the Food and Drugs Authority in Sunyani last Friday joined students of the Gyamfi Kumanin Secondary-Technical School at Wamahinso in the Asutifi North District of the Ahafo region to donate blood to the regional Blood Bank at the Bono regional capital. The exercise, which lasted for several hours, attracted about 152 blood donors and formed part of the corporate social responsibility of the FDA. Some of the students who spoke to Modernghana said even though the ...

Former Energy Minister, Mr. Boakye Agyarko has donated a new Mahindra double Cabin 4X4 Pick-up to Krobo Girls SHS. The vehicle which will be used for administrative duties was presented to the authorities of the school in a colourful brief ceremony at the forecourt of the School premises on Sunday, June 9. The donation was in fulfilment of a promise made to the School during its Speech and Prize Giving day and 92nd Anniversary Celebration on the 9th March, 2019. In present ...