Новости за 10.09.2019

The Ghana Education Service (GES) says it has successfully placed 351,022 qualified candidates who sat for the 2019 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) to 721 public and private Senior High Schools across the nation. The figure represents 74.01 percent of the total 473,728 qualified candidates who were due for placement for the 2019/2020 academic year. This was revealed by Mr David Banamini, a staff at the Public Relations Department of the Ghana Education Service ( ...

The Northern Regional Minister, Salifu Saeed , celebrated this year rsquo;s lsquo;Bugum rsquo; also known as fire festival with the overlord of Dagbon, Ya-Na, Abukari Mahama II, at his Gbewa palace in Yendi. It was full of joy and excitement as the youth for the first time witnessed and celebrated the fire festival with a sitting overlord of Dagbon. The fire festival led to the demise of late overlord of Dagbon, Ya-Na, Yakubu Andani in 2002. For over 17 years , Dagbon did ...

A total of 122,706 candidates who qualified to enter the senior high schools, technical and vocational institutions but have not been placed, have the chance to do self-placement. By this system, a candidate who misses out on the placement under the Computerised School Selections Placement System (CSSPS) and is required to go to the self-placement platform on the cssps.gov.gh or cssps.org to select his or her preferred school from a list of schools provided. The Head of the Public Relation ...

The ongoing financial sector clean-up being undertaken by the government is estimated to cost GH cent;14 billion, the Information Minister Kojo Oppong Nkrumah has said. This came to light during the fourth regional town hall meeting at Techiman in the Bono East Region under the theme: 39;Accounting For Financial Sector Resolution, Jobs And Agriculture 39; 39;. Information Minister disclosed that government would use the amount to repay over one million depositors whose sav ...

The Wasipe Traditional Council in Gonjaland has accused the Mamprusis of being those behind the shipment of about 59 assault rifles which were seized at Ablekuma, Accra. The weapons were reportedly enroute to Walewale on 30th August 2019. According to the Wasipe Traditional Council, they are ready to fight the Mamprusi forces on land, on the white volta river and in the air. The Gonjas have indicated that no threat whatsoever can make them cede even an inch of their land t ...

The Bank of Ghana, BoG has notified the general Public, Banks and Specialized Deposit-Taking Institutions to require full personal details of persons making deposits or withdrawals on behalf of other account holders. In a statement signed by Mrs. Frances Van-Hein Sackey, the BoG directed Banks and Specialized Deposit-Taking Institutions as well as individuals to provide Name and address of the third party, a verifiable identification card and a telephone number of the third party to ...

Although the International Monetary Fund rsquo;s (IMF) July forecast was that global GDP would rise from 3.2% this year to 3.5% in 2020, all the other forecasts and economic evidence has been pointing to a sharp cut in growth next year. FedEE has been forecasting, for the last year, that we would be in a global recession by Q3 2020 and many other economic forecasters are now falling in line with our projections. Why then, all the IMF optimism? The inescapable fact is that the OECD Comp ...

The Electoral Commission (EC) will from today, Tuesday, begin the exhibition of the voters register for eight days in the over 30,000 polling stations across the country. Voters who were captured in the electoral roll between 2012 and 2019 are expected to visit their respective polling stations where they will be allowed to confirm or review their details. The process is only for corrections to be made and not to capture new registrants. Any person who is eligible to regis ...

The family of the slain Gyaasehene of Gomoa Akraman in the Central Region, Nana Ahor Egyiri I, are trusting the police to arrest the perpetrators of the heinous crime as soon as possible. Nana Egyir Ahor I was shot dead in a suspected reprisal attack incident, following reports that he had attacked someone earlier. A brother of the deceased, Joseph Ahor Kpessah, told Citi News that they have reason to believe that the gruesome act was perpetrated by a number of people. ...

The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) have sensitized Wa market women on the dangers of skin bleaching as part of a campaign to end the practice. The harmful effects of the practice which is said to be dominant among many in the society has led to the rise in many diseases of the liver, kidney, skin cancers, bad body odour, striae (stretch marks), ochronosis, and skin infections. Mr Albert Ankomah, the Upper West Regional Director of the FDA, in an interview with the media at the ...

Late disbursement of the three per cent District Assembly Common Fund (DACF) to Persons with Disabilities (PWDs) has been identified as a major challenge adversely affecting businesses of beneficiaries. Research findings show that apart from the DACF Secretariat rsquo;s late release of the funds to the assemblies, the assemblies, upon receipt, also delay in the disbursement to beneficiaries. The Seed for the Economic Empowerment of the Vulnerable (SEEV-Ghana), a Non-Government ...

The new SRC President for the Evangelical Presbyterian University College, Mr. Faisel Abdul-Iddrisu has called on the leadership of the old students association -EPUC Alumni, to revitalize the association and make the it revelant towards the policy direction and growth of the university. He made the call when he delivered his inaugural speech at the 11th handing-over and investiture ceremony on Saturday in Ho. He said the association over the years has lost the energy it ought to exhibit i ...

Ghana has designated 2019 as the Year of Return to commemorate 400 years since the first enslaved Africans arrived in Jamestown, Virginia in the United States. The government has been running a massive marketing campaign targeting African Americans and the diaspora, and various events have been arranged but the problems with Ghana rsquo;s Year of Return diaspora campaign to boost tourism has just started to unfold as one disabled visitor Wanja Mania shared her bitter expe ...

Ghana rsquo;s leading telecommunications network, MTN has partnered with the Akwasi Antwi Foundation to build a library facility at Tema Community 20 to mark World Literacy Day. The Day which falls on September 8 of every year was declared by UNESCO on 26 October 1966 at 14th session of UNESCO 39;s General Conference. It has been celebrated each year since 1967 to highlight the importance of literacy to individuals, communities, and societies. MTN Ghana which is known for contribu ...