Новости за 05.09.2019

ACCRA, September 5, 2019 (GJA) ndash; PROF Kwame Karikari, the Dean of the School of Communication Studies of Wisconsin International University College, Ghana, is scheduled to deliver the first Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) 70th Anniversary Public Lecture on Tuesday, September 10, 2019. The public lecture, which will take place at 3 pm at Alisa Hotel, North Ridge, Accra, is on the topic: ldquo;Journalism yesterday and today: Repositioning media with technology rdquo;. ...

Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources has denied employing the services of one Clement Gyato to reclaim government lands on its behalf. Mr Gyato, who claims he has been contracted by the Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources, has allegedly been terrorizing residents in some parts of Accra, with the help of land guards. The self-acclaimed contracted staff of the Ministry was on Wednesday called out by landowners around the University of Professional Studies in Accra after h ...

The sole arbiter in the Bimbilla chieftaincy fracas, Awoamefia of Anlo State, Togbe Sri III has assured factions in the Bimbilla chieftaincy dispute that he will not allow internal or external influence to affect the mediation process. Togbe Sri gave the assurance when he met the factions separately at a meeting in Tamale on Wednesday. The sole mediator has also called for the support and cooperation of the factions to ensure a smooth, transparent and successful process that w ...

The office of the Head of Civil Service has endorsed the second edition of the Africa Public Sector Conference Awards (APSCA) scheduled to hold in Accra on October 23rd -24th at the Movenpick Ambassador Hotel. Themed, ldquo;Enhancing Public Sector efficiency through Digitization rdquo; the second edition of APSCA will bring together senior leaders in public and private sector to discuss key issues pertaining to public interest, share best practices, expe ...

The Ghana Police Service has confirmed the abduction, killing and dumping of a 7-year-old girl, who was sent on an errand by the mother on Monday evening at Nyive-Ghana, a village in the Ho municipality and found along the Ghana-Togo boarder. The mother -Serwaa Abaloo, after waiting for the return of the daughter, few minutes after she sent her on an errand, followed to find out why the young girl didn 39;t return on time. She told journalists on Wednesday that, I sent her on an er ...

The Eastern Regional Police Command in collaboration Operations Vanguard Team have arrested 13 Nigerians who were allegedly engaged in illegal mining activities in the Atiwa Forest. They were arrested at Akyem ndash; Sankubenase in the Atiwa West District, Eastern Region, during monitoring operations. http://cdn.modernghana.com/images/content/95201954130-uapctgfsrm-nigerians-galamsey-2.jpg The team managed to seize one water pumping machine, four pickaxes and f ...

Government has been urged to include a gun-manufacturing factory in its grand industrialization plan dubbed One District, One Factory. Chief Executive of the African Centre for Security Studies Paul Boateng claims it can curb the proliferation of firearms in the country. The security analyst who made the call on Adom FM late night current affairs program, Burning Issues Monday. Some 11 out of 54 African countries manufacture some of the weapons used by their military and police. ...

Rural and Community Bank Managers across the country have pledged their commitment to offering credit facilities to farmers with Warehouse Receipts from certified warehouses. The bank managers also indicated that giving more loans to the farmers will enable them to increase their agricultural portfolios while supporting farmers to produce more food to expand their respective local economies. The bankers made this commitment at a training workshop in Kumasi organized by the In ...

A girl named Yawa Agyemang who was reported missing to Police at Nyive has been found dead at Nyive, a town in the Ho Municipality, Nsemwoha can confirm. Mother of the deceased Madam Abalo Serwaa, is said to have reported to Police at Nyive at around 10:30am on Tuesday 3rd September 2019 that she sent her daughter at around 5pm the previous day to buy her Vitago Balm and had since not returned. At 12:10pm, the complainant called at the station and reported that her missing child Yawa Agyem ...

Leadership of Teachers and Educational Workers Union (TEWU) says it has noted with grave concern the manner in which government is supporting some private managers to take over the administration of some public schools. This, they say it is done under the guise of Ghana Partnership Schools (GPS) project where about 100 selected public schools in some selected regions, would be handed over to private school operators to manage. ldquo;We are not opposed to having private school opera ...

The Ghana Book Publishers Association says textbooks developed based on the new curriculum, will not be available in schools when the new academic year commences next week. President of the Book Publishers Association, Eliot Agyare, says his members are currently developing the books to submit to the National Council for Curriculum Assessment (NACA) for evaluation. The delay, he says, will impact negatively on academic work. ldquo;The policy paper 23 makes a very strong case that every ...

According to Selly Galley, AKA has blocked her after she expressed disappointments in him over his tweet supporting the xenophobic attacks on foreigners in South Africa. Angry Selly Galley wrote; ldquo;Bro @akaworldwide Stop deleting my comments under your post If you block i go open accountssssss for you man I woke up for you I haven rsquo;t even started with you yet you freaking monster You xenophobic retard. You rsquo;re less of a human Speak against the brutality now Re ...

The National Association of Graduate Teachers (NAGRAT) has declared a strike over what it terms as untold pressure and hardship brought on to teachers by the newly introduced human resource management information system. (HRMIS). According to NAGRAT President, Angel Carbonu, the HRMIS acquired by the Public Services Commission, has created a lot of setbacks for teachers which is affecting their work. Outstanding salary arrears, delays in promotion, additional responsibility allowance, dela ...

Delegates of opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) on Saturday humiliated Dr. George Sipa Adjah Yankey, former Minister of Health under the administration of Professor John Evans Atta Mills, for meddling in local politics. The former Minister who also served as the immediate Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Ghana National Gas Company (GNGC) was thrown into the race by delegates following unflinching support he openly offered Mieza Alleah-Mea, an aspirant who challenged the ...

Some angry caterers of the School Feeding Programme in the Wa Municipality of the Upper West Region are up in arms against the Municipal Chief Executive of the area, Isahaku Moomin Tahiru, for allegedly abrogating their contracts without recourse to the managers of the programme. At a press conference in Wa on Wednesday, the group accused the MCE of allegedly replacing them with his cronies. The about 150 caterers, who are mostly supporters of the New Patriotic Party, massed u ...

An Accra Circuit Court has remanded nine land guards for allegedly shooting indiscriminately. They are Stanley Tagoe, 42, alias Abuasupanin; Joshua Obosu, 20, land guard; Moses Quarshie, 23, fisherman; Ibrahim Tetteh, 40, fashion designer; Cephas Ahiagu, 24, alias Nii Ayikwei, bus conductor; Benjamin Botchwey Barnes, 24, driver; Simon Borketey Okyeame, 42, fisherman; Arnold Sethowu Amuzu, 24, fisherman, land guard; Noah Ashaley Ashilley 31, artist. They all pleaded not guilty ...

Government is on course to fulfilling its campaign promise of relocating the operational headquarters of the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) to the Western Region. The government has therefore, acquired some acres of land close to the Ghana Secondary Technical School in Takoradi to commence the construction of offices and ancillary facilities to make them fully operational in the Region. Relocating the GNPC 39;s headquarters to the Western Region from its current ...

The Deputy Minister for Local Government and Rural Development, Osei Bonsu Amoah, has questioned the Tema Metropolitan Assembly 39;s (TMA) inability to meet its revenue targets. He expressed surprise about TMA, which once upon a time intended to dash its share of the Common Fund to other assemblies, is now struggling to meet its Internally Generated Fund (IGF) target for the year. The MP called for the need to interrogate rationale behind the shortfall in revenue regeneration ...

Members of the Ghanaian community in South Africa say they are living in constant fear as renewed xenophobic attacks on Nigerian nationals worsen in the capital, Pretoria. According to them, though various governments have raised concerns and appealed to the South African government to intervene in the situation, security measures are weak. Speaking to Citi News, a member of the Ghana community living in South Africa, Raymond Kiss called on the Ghana 39;s High Commissioner to ...

Residents of Sabonjida , a suburb of Tamale in the Northern Region, have nabbed a suspected kidnapper in the area. The suspect, one Ibrahim Kassim, 38, was arrested when he allegedly tried to kidnap a 5-year old girl, from Hariya Primary, an Arabic school in the area. An eyewitness, Baba Fuseini , a teacher at Hariya Arabic school told DGN Online , that he spotted the suspect talking to the victim but became suspicious when he moved from the little girl and came back th ...

Investigations have commenced into alleged Illegal trade and export of Rosewood from Ghana. A seven-member Committee was inaugurated by the Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, Kwaku Asomah-Cheremeh, on August 26, 2019, to among other things, probe allegation of corruption in Rosewood trade in Ghana. Its inauguration followed a BBC report that entitled: Ban-boozled: How Corruption And Collusion Fuel Illegal Rosewood Trade In Ghana. rdquo; On Wednesday, September 4, 2019, the ...

The Wa Regional Airport is expected to be opened for commercial flights by Africa World Airlines (AWA) on October 15 this year. Aviation Minister, Joseph Kofi Adda, made the announcement in a statement dated September 4, 2019. The statement indicated that the move was part of government rsquo;s commitment to promote seamless air travel in the country. It said commencement of the commercial flight operations is due to the successful testing and confirmation of the Pavement Conditi ...

President Akufo-Addo together with eight other Former Head of States have today cut sod for the construction of a statue in memory of the late United Nation rsquo;s General Secretary, Kofi Annan at the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre (KAIPTC) in Accra. According to the President, the late Kofi Annan was a man of principle who valued important concepts of life and lived according to those values. Speaking at the sod cutting ceremony at the Kofi Annan Inter ...