A final year student of the Diabene Secondary Technical School in Sekondi-Takoradi on Saturday drowned in an abandoned, water-filled quarry used by students as their only source of water.   Master Bernard Aikins, in the company of friends, was attempting to fetch water to do his laundry when he slipped and drowned, sparking demonstrations by students on Monday which temporarily disrupted academic work.   AT THE SCHOOLWhen the Daily Graphic arrived at the school at about 8a.m. on Monday, the

The Chief Executive Officer of Stratcomm Africa, Ms. Esther Amba Numaba Cobbah was awarded by her alma mater, Wesley Girls High School (WGHS) at the schools 177th Speech and Prize ceremony held in Cape-Coast last weekend, for her professional achievements over the years. Last year, Ms Cobbah was adjudged the Chartered Institute of Marketing Ghana (CIMG) Marketing Woman of the year 2012 and was also adjudged the Outstanding Corporate Woman of the year at the Ghana Women’s Awards. Presenting the

A Conference of World Religions will open at the Guildhall in London tomorrow Tuesday, February 11, 2014. The conference will be a platform for international faith leaders to bring to the fore the distinctive contribution that religion can make towards peace which the world so desperately needs. Organised by the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, the conference will be attended by more than 500 participants from the world of religion, politics, and diplomacy, as well as specialist NGOs involved in the

Businessman, Alfred Agbesi Woyome has served notice of filing a defence of no case in the ongoing GHC 51 million cedis paid to him as consent judgement debt. This became necessary when the Chief State Attorney, Mr. Matthew Amponsah ended calling prosecution witnesses to testify. ASP Odamme Otchere was the last prosecution witness to be cross examined by Lawyer Osarfo Boabeng, counsel for Mr. Woyome. Lawyer Osarfo Boabeng dropped the hint of filing defence of no case in court on Monday. He is expected

Twenty-five personnel of the Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS) drawn from the Accra and Tema regions have undergone training in manual rescue operations in elevators. The training was organised by the CFAO Equipment Ghana Limited, sole agents  of Otis elevators in the country, in conjunction with the GNFS. The Deputy Chief Fire Officer, Dr Albert Brown Gaisie, speaking at the opening session of the training, said rescue was an integral part of fire management. He said as the country was developing

Lieutenant Colonel Selom Kwasi Amengor has taken over as the Commanding Officer of the 66 Artillery Regiment of the Ghana Armed Forces in Ho. He took over from Colonel Wekite Abase Seidu, who served the unit for four-and-a-half years. Last Friday, Lt Col Amengor was presented with the Regimental Colours of the unit to signify the transfer of authority to him, and the Volta Regional Minister, Nii Laryea Afotey Agbo, inspected an infantry parade as part of the handover ceremony at the Volta Barracks. Colonel

The I’Odomey Conference, the highest legislative body of Musama Disco Christo Church (MDCC), has expressed worry about moves by certain people in authority to deepen the cracks within the church. A statement issued by the General Secretary, Reverend Isaac Kwasi Bagyinah, at the end of the 7th session of the body at Mozano,  the  headquarters of the church, said a review of events over the past years had shown that persons in political and security authority were compounding the woes of the mission. It

An Accra circuit court has issued a release for the arrest of Soale Abubakari Yakubu, a 25-year-old apprentice electrician, for attempted murder. The accused attacked a second-year medical student of the University of Development Studies in Tamale and stabbed her severally on the head and later tied a rope around her head to strangle her. He has since the attack gone into hiding and all efforts by the police to apprehend him have so far proven futile. According to the Public Relations Officer of

The Vice-President of Imani Ghana, Mr Kofi Bentil, has called for an overhaul of Ghana’s public sector. He said the public sector was choked with more than 550,000 workers whose contribution to productivity was nothing to write home about. Addressing the third Entrepreneurship Clinic for students in Kumasi, Mr Bentil said 100,000 workers could very much do the work of the 550,000 workers.   Entrepreneurship clinic The clinic was organised by the Centre for Business Development (CBD) of the Kwame

The Ghana Railway Company (GRC) posted an impressive performance in 2013 following improvement on its services. According to the management and staff of the company, the improved performance was a clear indication that the GRC still held prospects of contributing to the local economy. In 2013, it hauled more than 1.032 million tonnes of manganese, representing 84 per cent of its set target of 1.2 million tonnes.  The volume raked in revenue of GH¢10 million for the company.  Speaking to the Daily

Ghana will be seeking answers to some of its pressing urban management challenges at this year’s UN Habitat World Urban Forum (WUF) scheduled to take place in the Columbian city of Medellin from April 5 to 11 this year. The country has participated in previous fora but it will, for the first time, mount an exhibition to showcase some of its successes in its urban management practices. The Minister of Local Government and Rural Development, Mr Akwasi Opong-Fosu, in an interaction with the new Colombian

A 24-year-old teacher at the First Baptist Preparatory School in Agona Swedru has been sentenced to eight years’ imprisonment for defiling a 13-year-old pupil in his room. The teacher, Amos Nyarkoh, was charged with defilement. He pleaded guilty with explanation. He told the Swedru Circuit Court that he had no intention of defiling the victim, but the victim lured him to commit the act.   Victim’s visit He stated that whilst he was sleeping, he felt someone fondling him and he woke up. According

Some public and private schools are still charging fees in dollars, in contravention of Bank of Ghana (BoG) directives. Others are charging fees in cedis but continue to index them to the dollar.  While the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA) Law School and the University of Ghana Business School have indexed their fees to the dollar, the Liberty American School (LAS), the Ghana International School (GIS), the Ecole Francaise Jacques Prevert and the Galaxy International

The Mankessim Health Centre recorded a total of 335 teenage pregnancy cases last year, as compared to 217 cases in the previous year. A Senior Physician Assistant at the health centre, Mrs Mercy Antwi- Boasiako, who announced this, described the situation as serious and said the cases involved girls aged 10 to 19. Mrs Antwi- Boasiako was addressing a day’s annual performance review meeting of the Mfantseman Municipal Health Directorate in Saltpond. The meeting was attended by both medical and

The Minister of Employment and Labour Relations, Nii Armah Ashietey, has bemoaned the rate at which some children are subjected to all forms of child labour. He, therefore, condemned the act, calling on all stakeholders to support the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection to address the issue which, he said, was hampering Ghana’s development. Speaking at a forum in Accra, Mr Ashietey said apart from affecting the progress of the child, child labour also contravened the international

A renowned heart surgeon, Professor Kwabena Frimpong-Boateng,  was left in a state of shock and disappointment in Kumasi last Friday, February 7, 2014,  when he realised that a scheduled memorial lecture for which he had been invited as the main speaker had been cancelled days back without his notice. He had driven from Accra to Kumasi to deliver the first annual Samuel Enin Memorial Lectures organised by the Ashanti Regional Chapter of the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) only to be told by

The Most Reverend Professor Emmanuel Martey, Moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana (PCG) has criticized Parliamentarians and Ministers of State who abandon their jobs to attend school. “How can you hold a governing position, live your office and go to school? Is Ghana short of graduates?” the Moderator questioned. Rt. Rev. Prof. Martey said this while delivering a sermon to mark the dedication of an ultra-modern structure put up by the Epiphany Congregation of

Archbishop Nicholas Duncan-Williams says people who cannot match his achievements in life are not qualified to criticise him. The Presiding Bishop and General Overseer of the Christian Action Faith Ministries (CAFM) burst forth with that comment midway through his Sunday sermon when, according to him, certain members of his congregation hurled judgmental looks at him, as he narrated a story about how a rich Nigerian man depended on his (Duncan-Williams’) prayers to get round his insomnia. ‘You

The Single Spine Pay Policy (SSPP) has cumulatively cost the country GHC 48 billion in additional expenditure on public sector wages since its implementation in July 2010. The figure represents the cumulated extra spending on emoluments for the nearly 600,000 public sector workers who are on government payroll. “The implementation of the Single Spine Salary Structure (SSSS) was said to be cost neutral, but our research has shown that since July 2010 there has been a divergence of GHC8 billion

A three-year-old boy was stung to death by bees at Gumani, near Tamale, on Saturday. The boy, identified only as Salim, has since been buried according to Islamic tradition.  Salim was playing with his friends around his home when the incident occurred.  According to an eye-witness account, Salim and his friends were playing by a big mango tree. At a point, one of his friends, who is older, climbed the tree to pluck mangoes for them, unaware that there were bees nestling on it.  In the process,