Новости за 01.10.2019

The Minister for Interior, Ambrose Dery has admonished feuding factions in the Bolgatanga chieftaincy dispute to stop the violence and accept due process. The protracted Bolgatanga chieftaincy dispute between Naba Raymond Alafia Abeliba and Naba Joseph Apakre over the enskinment has led to the loss of lives and destruction of property. Addressing journalists in Bolgatanga Mr. Dery said both parties should respect the ruling of the court and encouraged any aggrieved party to us ...

Unemployed graduates of the School of Hygiene in Accra, Tamale and Ho, have given the government a 21-day ultimatum to release financial clearance for their employment. The unemployed graduates, made up of four batches and numbering about 1,300, say some of them have been without work for the past five years. They demanded that the government ldquo;release financial clearance for the about 1,300 graduates who have gone through hell during and after training within the next 21 ...

The Ghana National Education Campaign Coalition (GNECC) has questioned the basis for the introduction of Comprehensive Sexual Education (CSE) by the Ghana Education Service (GES) to the countries basic schools. Reports of the purported content of the programme have been met with mixed reactions. Some critics felt the CSE was an attempt to push an LGBT agenda into the country 39;s education system. The National Chairman for GNECC, Kofi Asare, speaking on Citi TV 39;s Breakfast D ...

A woman in China went further than that, suing the man who delivered the condoms she ordered too late, thus causing her unwanted pregnancy. Chinese media recently reported the somewhat funny case of a young woman from Xuzhou, in Jiangsu province, who allegedly sued a deliveryman for bringing the box of condos she ordered online eight minutes late, and thus indirectly causing her to become pregnant. Apparently, the woman, referred to as Su (pseudonym), had her boyfriend over one ev ...

From September 25 - 27, 2019, the Government of Ghana and Agrihouse Foundation with support from the U.S. Government rsquo;s Feed the Future Initiative through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), organized the 9th Annual Pre-Harvest Agribusiness Conference and Exhibition. Recognized as the largest annual gathering of farmers, buyers, manufacturers, government officials, development partners and financial institutions in Ghana, the Pre-Harvest Agribusiness Conference ...

The Sawla-Tuna-Kalba District NABCO Secretariat celebrates 1st anniversary with a surprise package to the good people of the District by renovating the prime health facility (Sawla Polyclinic). The initiative is part of the NABCO secretariat lined up activities to celebrate it anniversary in the District. The celebration will formally start on the 3rd of October with community engagement on National Digital Property Addressing and climax on the 4th ...

The Christian Service University College, CSUC is for the second time hosting the High School Debate on its campus. The programme which is organized by the Luv FM, Multimedia Group, has become an annual event keenly contested by the various Senior High Schools in the Ashanti Region. The High School debate being an academic activity is competitive in nature and train students in public speaking and critical thinking. Again, debating provides the platform for students to practice the ...

Members of the National Union of Ghana students have raised concerns about a proposed new constitution by their executives. Below is a press release by members to express their disapproval of the constitution. Below is the full statement: WE ARE AGAINST THE IMPOSITION OF A NEW NUGS CONSTITUTION ndash; CC MEMBERS. We bring you special greetings from the various institutions under the National Union of Ghana Students (NUGS). We the Central Committee (CC) Members of the ...

An 18-year old, Abubakar Sidick, would spend15years at the Nsawam prisons for robbing a man of his GH cent;1,200. His accomplice, Ibrahim Sunde, 20, who pleaded not guilty to the charge of conspiracy to rob and robbery has been remanded into prison custody to reappear in court on Thursday, October 10, 2019. Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Irene Oppong, the Regional Police Public Relations Officer of the Ghana Police Service who confirmed this to the GNA said, the robbery ...

A young Ukrainian man has managed to successfully avoid compulsory military service by staying married to a woman 57 years his senior for almost two years. Despite widespread criticism online, the man has the law on his side. In late 2017, Alexander Kondratyuk, a young man from the Ukrainian city of Vinnitsa, received his conscription papers. He was to report to the nearest military commissariat for enlistment in his country rsquo;s one year military service. All able-bod ...

United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) resident representative, Niyi Ojuolape, has countered criticisms of the introduction of the Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE) into the basic school curriculum. Amid concerns that the CSE could expose children to various ideas concerning sexuality at too early an age and flout Ghana rsquo;s societal norms, Mr. Ojuolape clarified that the CSE manual for Ghana was put together by Ghanaians. ldquo;This concept was brought up by ...

A total of 600,000 brilliant but needy students have benefited from the Otumfuo Education Fund since its inception two decades ago. The Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, introduced the initiative immediately he ascended onto the Golden Stool of Asanteman as a way of complementing government 39;s efforts towards helping Ghanaian students to realise their academic goals. Addressing the United Nations (UN) General Assembly in New York, United States, recently, the Asantehene sai ...

The Sagnarigu Municipal Chief Executive (MCE), Mrs. Mariam Iddrisu, has commissioned three classroom blocks for Kanvilli R/C Primary School in Tamale. The project was initiated by the Parent Teacher Association (PTA) of the school and completed by the municipal assembly. Besides, the MCE commissioned two additional schools in the municipality. The Sagnarigu MCE commended the PTA of the Kanvilli R/C Primary for initiating the project. He encouraged parents in other schools to e ...

The Ministry of Education says they do not intend to approve and implement the Comprehensive Sexuality Education Programme as part of a new curriculum for basic schools in the country. PRO for the Education Ministry Vincent Assafuah in an interview with Joy FM said the Ghana Education Service and his Ministry have no intention to approve the said controversial document. I am trying to tell you that the Ghana Education Service and the Ministry of Education have no intention of ...

The Office of the National Chief Imam (ONCI) has backed calls to reject the Comprehensive Sexual Education (CSE) to be introduced in primary one. The release cited by modernghana.com described the move as ldquo;satanic rdquo;. According to the statement, the move is an attempt to hide behind educational reforms to brainwash the pupils with LGBT agenda. In its view, the Islamic jurisprudence only recommends sexual education to children above the age of 10. ldquo;We wo ...

About 1,000 bags of Cannabis aka 39;Wee 39; have been burnt in the Ashanti Region upon the directive of a court. The bags of 39;Wee 39; were part of exhibits marked for destruction after completion of cases. In the presence of the police, the substances were set ablaze at the Oti Land Fill Site, near Kumasi. DSP Jeremiah Alale, the Drug Law Enforcement Unit (DLEU) Commander, told DAILY GUIDE that the illegal substance had been in police custody for two year ...

The fight against the illicit trade of refined petroleum products is yielding results, with the latest report on the activities in the downstream petroleum subsector showing that the country saved nearly GH cent;1 billion, which would have otherwise been lost through smuggling of the products. The report showed that GH cent;952 million was saved from blocking the sale of illicit sale of petroleum products in the country in 2018. This was a reversal from the losses made in the last t ...