Новости за 11.11.2019

The National Inspectorate Board of the Ministry of Education reviews its school inspections approach and switches from a manual inspection process to a digital data-analysis friendly approach. After a review of its school inspections approach, the National Inspectorate Board under the direction of its new Executive Director, Dr Haggar Hilda Ampadu, has made school inspections technological and data analysis friendly. Until June 2019, The National Inspectorate Board (NIB) typically i ...

After 13 weeks of intensive coaching and hard work, the top ten startups in the 2019 Startupbootcamp (SBC) AfriTech cohort were finally ready to show off their ventures to the world at a Demo Day on Thursday, 7 November 2019. Opening the event, SBC AfriTech Programme Director, Nsovo Nkatingi, said: ldquo;By the end of the century, one third of all people on the planet will be African. Within the next 80 years, the population of Africa is projected to increase to a staggering 4.5 bill ...

A two-man delegation represents Ghana in a 3-day workshop of the United Nation Disaster Risk Reduction workshop currently ongoing in Kenya-Nairobi. The delegation from Ghana made up of Mr. Abrokwa Koranteng and Mr. Bill Boampong Darlington joins other participating countries like Angola, Botswana, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Guinea Bissau, Kenya, Eswatini (Kingdom of), Cote d 39;Ivoire, Namibia, Rwanda, Sao Tome and Principe, Tanzania (United Republic of) and Zamibia to discus ...

The second Conformance and Interoperability Training programme for sister members of the ITU in the African Region has been successfully organised in Accra. The training was organised by the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) with the support of the National Communications Authority (NCA). Staff of the NCA facilitated the session. Addressing participants at the end of the training, Director General of the NCA, Joe Anokye, expressed his satisfaction with the interest shown ...

Ghana rsquo;s High Commissioner to South Africa, His Excellency Mr. George Ayisi Boateng has bemoaned the failure by Ghanaian nationals in South Africa to register their names and addresses at the mission. He said less than six hundred (600) Ghanaian citizens living in South Africa have registered their names and location addresses at the Ghana High Commission (SA), a situation he said would disfranchise people from participating in the Representation of the People Amendment Act (ROPAA ...

A wood dealer at Nkwanta in the Nkwanta South District of the Oti Region has been picked up for illegally reconnecting his washing bay. 32-year-old Abubakari Mamuda took the law into his hands and reconnected his washing bay after staff of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) disconnected it for non-payment of bills. The Acting District Manager of ECG for the Nkwanta District, Richard Bavor, said Abubakari was picked up on 5th November, 2019 by the Nkwanta police during a night mon ...

An Accra High Court has refused a bail request by defence lawyers in the trial of persons accused of plotting to topple the government. The court presided over by Justice George Buadi in its ruling noted that the accused persons were lawfully arrested and have not been kept in custody unreasonable. Defence lawyer Victor Adawudu had urged the court to grant bail assuring his clients will show up in court when needed. State prosecutors led by Hilda Craig, Senior State Attorney, opp ...

A trailer carrying two 40-footer containers crushed a woman to death. The incident which occurred on Friday, November 8, 2019, at about 6:000pm attracted a large crowd. Residents, traders and commercial drivers in the area have still not come to terms with the incident, they described as horrific. An eyewitness, who gave his name as Elolo explained that the woman had gone to stand at the Asikuma to Ho junction to wait for a vehicle before meeting her death. He said, ldquo;th ...

The Chief Executive Office (CEO) of the Ghana Chamber of Bulk Oil Distributors (CBOD) will be speaking to students at the University of Cape Coast (UCC) on how to prepare themselves for the job market. Mr. Hosi was recently in the news for criticising the country 39;s premier University, University of Ghana, Legon for failing to adequately prepare its students for the job market. A video of his presentation went viral, prompting both commendation and condemnation has caught the eye ...

Mrs Victoria Adu, the (MCE) for Birim Central has advised the Informal Sector Workers to register the Tier-3 Pension Scheme to enable them to become financially independent after attaining retirement old age. She indicated that government under the leadership of His Excellency Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo is putting in place pragmatic measures to formulate and implement more social intervention programmes to ensure the living conditions of citizens are improved. Mrs. Adu made the sta ...

President Akufo-Addo has called for the need to have local content in media programmes in Ghana as a matter of regulation, to preserve the rich Ghanaian culture. The President said the future of tourism rested in the rich culture of the country and it was imperative for the media to promote that culture in a well-packaged manner to attract investments for the growth of the economy. In a speech read on his behalf at the opening of the 2019 edition of the National Festival of Ar ...

The High Court has dismissed a bail application by the seven accused persons facing trial for their alleged plot to overthrow the government. According to the Judge, Justice George Buadi, none of the accused persons had been detained beyond two months and their arrest and detention are not arbitrary or unlawful. He further added that the accused persons have the capacity to interfere with investigations if released. The Judge cited an example of how Junior Officers managed ...

Nigerian traders in Ghana under the umbrella of Nigerian Union Traders Association (NUTA) have appealed to President Akufo-Addo and his Nigerian counterpart President Muhammadu Buhari to come to their aid. In a release signed by their president, Chief Chukwuemeka Nnaji and secretary general, Evaristus Nwankwo; they complained about the closure of their shops in both Accra and Kumasi. The closures they claimed had resulted in their losing of millions of Cedis. Not even their re ...

In May 2019, The Ghana Statistical Service selected some districts across the country for the Trial Census ahead of the 2020 National Population and Housing census. At the District launch and its opening ceremony at Chinderi, the capital of Krachi Nchumuru District in the Oti Region of Ghana on Thursday November 7, the RS, Mr. Henry Nuglo admonished the trainees to take their 10 days studies seriously ahead of the main exercise. He hinted that there would be an assessment before the ...

As part of the social responsibility of Danquah Institute, its Executive Director, Richard Ahiagbah has paid a courtey call on the Overlord of Dagbon, Yaa-Naa Abubakar Mahama II at the Gbewaa Palace following a three day working visit in the Region. According to him, the visit is a great honour to obtain the Yaa-Naa 39;s audience to highlight the shared values of Dagbon and the Danquah Institute. He said, The Danquah Institute believes in the leadership of ideas to formulate ...

A corruption scandal is in the news in Ghana again. Media reports suggest an elaborate scheme of cronyism in the procurement of private sector involvement in the country rsquo;s energy industry. This is only the latest of many allegations of serious corruption in the country. Annual reports by the Auditor General and disclosures from undercover investigations provide evidence of widespread corruption across Ghanaian society. The latest Afrobarometer survey also showed that 33% of the Ghanaian ...

Executive Director of the National Service Scheme (NSS), Mustapha Ussif, says the scheme has seen major transformation under the leadership of President Akufo-Addo by shifting away from manual paper-based processes to adopting digital innovation. According to him, there was an urgent need to reposition the scheme on a higher pedestal worthy of its mandate and align it to the changing times to deliver quality service, considering the critical role it plays in the nation building pr ...

President Akufo-Addo has urged people of the newly created Bono, Ahafo and Bono East regions to show the same commitment to the development of the regions as demonstrated by their forefathers in the creation of Brong-Ahafo in 1959. The President gave the advice during the 60th anniversary celebration of the former Brong-Ahafo Region which was also used to welcome the three separate regions of Bono, Ahafo and Bono East under the theme: ldquo;United in Separation for Progress. rdqu ...