Peer educators have been trained and their clubs launched in the Kassena-Nankana and Kassena-Nankana West districts of the Upper East Region. Launching the project at Navrongo in the Kassena-Nankana municipality, the Project Director of Our Lady of Mercy Community Services, an NGO, Mr. Emmanuel Atiiga, explained that the training of the peer clubs was among one of the strategies his [...] The post Pear
The Ghana Education Service (GES) has been urged to institute a national reading competition for students in the country to whip up the habit of reading. According to Dr Kwasi Annoh, a former General Secretary of the Ghana Association of Writers (GAW), such an initiative was necessary to unearth talents and improve the falling standards of education. He was speaking [...] The post Institute
A team of researchers from the University of Ghana have called for a congenial school environment that allows teenage mothers to resume schooling after child birth. They said although Ghana’s education policy allows female students who get pregnant to resume schooling after child birth, the conditions, including stigmatisation and unavailability of counselling and child care facilities, makes the policy unproductive. [...] The post Teenage
Members of the Volta Coalition for Research and Advocacy (VOCRA) have called on the commission of enquiry responsible for the creation of new regions in the country, to be cautious not to disregard the law in executing their duties. It noted as an action in that regard would demean their rights as natives of the Volta Region. In a statement [...] The post Creation
Vice President of policy think tank IMANI Ghana, Kofi Bentil, has charged the President to stop the talk and take an action against vigilantism in the country. He held the view that the only person who can put a stop to the phenomenon is President Nana Akufo-Addo and until he does that, nothing will change. Mr Bentil in reference to [...] The post Govt urged to show more action
Legal practitioner, Maurice Ampaw has stated that appointment of an Independent Special Prosecutor would not solve the problem of corruption in Ghana. President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo assured Ghanaians that when the Independent Special Prosecutor Bill is passed into law, it would enhance accountability in the public life and weed out corrupt practices. But Mr Ampaw wondered how effective the [...] The post Special
The Member of Parliament for Ledzokuku Constituency in the Greater Accra Region, Dr. Bernard Okoe Boye, has accused the Minority in Parliament of trying to block the “light in the tunnel” which Ghanaians are seeing due to government’s prudent policies. The Minority in Parliament on Monday chastised government for its management of the economy citing the country’s rising public debt stock as [...] The post Minority
Ghana will from next year increase power supply to Burkina Faso, from 9.2 megawatts to 100 megawatts, the Minister of Energy, Mr. Boakye Agyarko, has announced. He said the installation of transmission cables, transformers and sub-stations at Bolgatanga in the Upper East Region, to transmit 50 megawatts of power to Burkina Faso, was scheduled for completion later this year, but [...] The post Ghana
The Chief Justice (CJ), Ms Sophia Akuffo, has warned that indiscipline and judicial misconduct would not be countenanced under her administration. She expressed regret at the attitude of some Judges, which led to the exposé by Anas Aremiyaw Anas, a journalist. Ms Akuffo issued the warning during a two-day working visit she embarked together with other officials of the [...] The post I
A North Korean who defected at the heavily guarded Demilitarised Zone was shot at least five times and is in a critical condition, South Korea says. The soldier crossed to the South Korean side of the Joint Security Area (JSA) in the village of Panmunjom on Monday. He had driven near the JSA, but had to finish his journey by [...] The post N Korea defector was shot 5 times—South Korea
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