The final year students of Kollege High School at Darkuman Junction, Accra, went on the rampage yesterday and vandalised the school?s property worth millions of cedis. They were protesting against the failure of the school authorities to register them for the West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE), now in progress. Numbering about 195, the students destroyed sliding glass doors and windows at the Administration Block, the classrooms, notice board, ceiling fans and ... Read More
Alhassan Andani, Managing Director of Stanbic Bank, Ghana, has called for high level of financial management in private sector companies, saying that, it is needed to ensure improved access to credit from the banks. According to him, although banks were willing to advance more credit to companies to aid business operations, they were often restrained by the risk posed by inadequate prudent financial management among Ghanaian companies. ?The banks are more than ready to support the growth ... Read More
Pan-African lender Ecobank Transnational Inc. (ETI), has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to partner with India?s second largest bank ICICI to make itself a hub for Indian investment into Africa, Ecobank?s CEO Thierry Tanoh has said. The CEO told the Reuters Africa Investment summit that a similar alliance with South Africa?s Nedbank had helped it gain better access to markets in southern Africa. ?What we are trying to do is become the partner of choice when it comes to dealing ... Read More
Gold Fields Limited says that it has lost around 14,000 ounces of production as a result of week-long industrial action at its 90 per cent-owned Tarkwa and Damang mines, in Ghana. This came as striking employees returned to work on Monday evening and yesterday morning after Gold Fields? Ghanaian management and the Ghana Mineworkers Union (GMU) reached a settlement on the issues that gave rise to the dispute. Gold Fields Corporate Affairs Manager, Sven Lunsche told Mining Weekly Online ... Read More
The Ghana Technology University College (GTUC), Accra, has established a campus in Lagos, Nigeria, Dr Osei K. Darkwa, the president, has disclosed. He disclosed further that the university has introduced a new technology-oriented educational model, which provides new cutting-edge programmes in information technology and related areas. The model is expected to reduce the burden of classroom work, such that courses could be divided into two with half being put online for the students to ... Read More
Mr. Moses Asaga has formally handed-over his position as Minister of Employment and Labour Relations to his successor, Nii Armah Ashietey, at a ceremony in Accra. Mr. Asaga welcomed Nii Ashietey and urged him to stand firm to tackle the major issues facing the ministry including that of habitual lateness of staff members to work. He said the Ghana Youth Employment Development Agency has been included in the minis-try?s portfolio and urged him to fight for its successful ... Read More
The National Democratic Congress says it is unfazed by the evidence provided in affidavits by petitioners in the election petition case which is before the Supreme Court. Victor Kojogah Adawudu, a member of the NDC legal team, which is also the third respondent in the case, said the affidavits by the petitioners is nothing but a rehash of unfounded allegations in the earlier petition filed by Nana Akufo-Addo, flag-bearer of the NPP, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, vice presidential candidate of the NPP ... Read More
Pressure group Alliance for Accountable Governance (AFAG), has set Thursday, April 18, 2013, as the new date for its much awaited demonstration against government. The group agreed on the new date after several consultations with the police. The ?mi eku? or ?we are dying? demonstration suffered several postponements after the police raised objections to the route the demonstrators wanted to use. On Tuesday, the head of operations for AFAG, Abu Ramadan told the media that all was set for ... Read More
Did the Ghana Football Association (GFA) slip up by appointing the full-of-beans goal-poacher Asamoah Gyan, as the substantive skipper of the Black Stars? Some responded in the affirmative. Others said it was a move in the right direction. Somehow, those who backed the FA move, are beginning to assert that Gyan?s own lack of self-belief and self-assurance has let him down, with the weight of the nation?s arm?s band also pushing the dagger ? even deeper. The performance of the Al Ain top ... Read More
Ageing is inevitable. Everybody will become old and hit 70 years and except death lays its cold hands on the person he or she would experience old age. There are so many problems pertaining to old age in Ghana. I mean people of 70 years and above. The aged problem is everybody?s problem, but what do we see today in the Ghanaian society? When I was a small boy, hardly would a young person see an old person carrying a load that he or she will not go and carry it for the older person. A ... Read More
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