Новости за 09.10.2019

Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, has organised a luncheon to bid farewell to the outgoing Canadian High Commissioner to Ghana, Dr. Heather Cameron. Dr. Cameron served her country in Ghana for a period of three years. Delivering an address at the luncheon held on Wednesday, October 9, 2019, Madam Ayorkor Botchwey observed that Dr. Cameron had distinguished herself as a worthy representative of Canada in Ghana. According to her, ...

State prosecutors have charged nine persons with treason felony for allegedly engaging in an ldquo;elaborate plot rdquo; to destabilise the Akufo-Addo government. Two other persons, personnel of the Ghana Armed Forces, Lance Corporals Godwin Nii Ankrah and Albert Baba Ibrahim, have meanwhile been discharged by the court after the state dropped charges against them. The suspects charged with first-degree felony are; -Dr Frederick Yao Mac-Palm, Dornyah ldquo;Ezor rdquo; Kaf ...

The Bono Regional Communications Directorate of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) says under no circumstance was any student nurse or any head of any public institution in Sunyani or any part of the region asked or forced to welcome President Akufo-Addo during his recent tour of the region. It is therefore completely false, mischievous and palpable lies for the Bono Regional Youth Organizer of the opposition NDC, Efo Worlanyo Tsekpo, to state that ldquo;the Regional Minist ...

Deputy Minister for Works and Housing, Barbara Ayisi Asher has said the BBC expose, lsquo;Sex For Grades rsquo; at the Tertiary institutions for grades is nothing new. According to her, issues concerning student-lecture relationship has been rampant in the various University campuses for a very long time. She advised the University authorities to take strict and appropriate measures to ensure they eradicate behaviors from Tertiary institutions. rdquo; Lecturers harassing ladies in scho ...

The Founder and Leader of the Liberal Party of Ghana (LPG), Mr. Percival Kofi Akpaloo, has said the University Of Ghana should sue broadcasting giant BBC if the institution believes the undercover investigation conducted by the BBC was wrong. According to him, the university should take legal action against the media house if they think the media house is finding a deliberate way of embarrassing the noble institution. However, Mr. Akpaloo sees nothing wrong with the work of the BBC and has ...

The immediate past Security Coordinator of the Metro Mass Transit Limited, Lawal Fuseini, has said he will challenge his dismissal. Speaking to Citi News, he refuted the claims his dismissal was because of misconduct and ldquo;unbridled recalcitrance. rdquo; ldquo;I will contest it because it wasn 39;t borne out of good faith, it is as a result of the investigation I am conducting on them. rdquo; Lawal Fuseini, who has been described as a ...

A Kpando Police officer has sustained kinfe injury on his palm after a scuffle with a man at the Kpando Circuit Court in the Volta Region today, Wednesday. The judge, who spotted the man in court armed with the knife, ordered his arrest but he resisted the arrest threatening to hurt anybody who came close to him. Upon calling for reinforcements, the police officer at the court known only as lsquo;Corporal rsquo; rushed on the man and forcefully collected the knife from him bu ...

Government has released cent;88,056,438 for disbursement to all public senior high schools (SHSs) for the implementation of the free SHS programme for the 2019/2020 academic. The amount will, however, cover only second-year students for the first semester. The Director-General of the Ghana Education Service (GES), Prof. Kwasi Opoku-Amankwa, who made this known in an interview with the Daily Graphic yesterday, said already GH?61,669,394 had been released for the upkeep of third-year ...

The Minister of Gender, Children and Social Protection, Cynthia Mamle Morrison, has cautioned against sexual harassment of women and girls with the excuse that they have dressed provocatively. She stated that dress codes vary across the world due to cultural differences and thus one cannot use his understanding of decent dressing to sexually harass a girl or woman who dresses contrary to what is deemed decent by such a man. The Minister made the call during a press conference ...

The Acting President of the Sampa Traditional Area, Nana Kwadwo Magsah II, says President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, deserves a second term in office, following the good work his government has undertaken since assuming office in January 2017. Speaking on Tuesday, 8th October, 2019, when a durbar of Chiefs was held in honour of President Akufo-Addo, the Sampa Chief noted that, in every facet of national life and in every sector, the developmental achievement of the Akufo-Addo government can ...

Government has begun engaging the General Legal Council and the relevant stakeholders on a review of the legal education system in Ghana to increase access to legal education. On the Citi Breakfast Show, the Information Minister, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, said the review has become necessary because more students are needed to strengthen legal education in Ghana. 8220;What government has done is that it has made formal written presentations through the Attorney General to the G ...

The Builsa South District Security Committee (DISEC) has closed down the Fumbisi Senior High School in the Upper East Region over an alleged spiritual attack on some students. A female student (Salomey Akambog) on Sunday night, 6th October 2019 was alleged to have fallen from the first floor of the school 8217;s dormitory block after a hot chase by an alleged spirit (ghost) from her classroom after prep hours. https://www.youtube.com/embed/s3Gr1xRuEr0 The student lost her ...

One of the lecturers captured in the BBC's 'Sex for Grades' documentary, Professor Ransford Gyampo has accepted his interdiction in good faith. Prof. Ransford Gyampo and one other lecturer at the University of Ghana, Dr. Paul Kwame Butakor were interdicted after being implicated in BBC 8217;s documentary on their alleged sexual harassment of female students. They are expected to be hauled before the university 8217;s Anti Sexual Harassment Committee to assist with internal investigations ...

Students of the University of Ghana 8217;s Commonwealth Hall have threatened to embark on an intellectual walk should government fail to take action on their demands on issues of accommodation in the university. Addressing the press on the perennial accommodation challenges facing the University, the JCR President of the hall, Prince Lumor acknowledged the Vice-Chancellor and the Government of Ghana 8217;s response to their petitions, but demanded that further actions should be taken to add ...

There was massive turnout for this year rsquo;s Aviation and Tourism Conference organized in Takoradi in the Western Region. The theme for the conference was ldquo;Investing in the Aviation and Tourism sectors for sustainable socioeconomic development rdquo;. Stakeholders from the Aviation and Tourism sectors turned out in their numbers to participate in the three-day conference organized by GH-Aviation, and hosted by the Western Regional Coordinating Council (WRCC). Over ...

Two Enyan Abaasa Technical Institute students in the Ajumako Enyan Essiam District of the Central Region narrowly escaped death in a public toilet which nearly fell on them. The toilet has become dilapidated for the past 15years. According to residents, it is the only toilet facility in the area and serves a community of about 600,000 inhabitants. The students lamented that the institution is left with no choice than to share the facility with the community members because ...

A section of residents at Kasoa-Congo Villa in the Awutu Senya East Municipality are agitating over power loss for three days in the area. Residents have had to endure power cut for three consecutive days whiles management of the Power Distribution Service (PDS) sit unconcern. The power cut has been intermittent close to a year but management have resort to temporal solutions each time it occurs. Information gathered is that, workers have resort to the collection of fees from res ...