The Ministry of Education has supplied 2,586 pieces of assorted science, ICT, technical and vocational equipment to the Mampong Technical College of Education in its bid to deliver quality technical education in the country, using the college as a centre of excellence. The equipment includes electronic kilns, heat transmission ovens, concrete block making machines, concrete drilling machines, desktop and laptop [...] The post Mampong
Government has secured a $300,000 African Development Bank facility to support the schools of hygiene in the country, Mr Joseph Kofi Adda, the Minister for Sanitation and Water Resources has announced. According to him, the schools of hygiene need to be supported to increase the current number of trainee intake. “Government is exploring the possibility of establishing a fourth school [...] The post Government
The Progressive People’s Party (PPP), has urged the government to ignore the deliberate attempt by the National Democratic Congress (NDC) to disrupt the progress of the ongoing national identification card registration by the National Identification Authority (NIA). It said government should allow the process to continue while addressing the issues raised by the NDC since the card is critical [...] The post PPP:
Member of Parliament (MP) for South Dayi Constituency in the Volta Region, Rockson-Nelson Dafeamekpor has revealed that the Minority will rescind its decision to sue the National Identification Authority (NIA) because another institution has already sued it. The Minority NDC had threatened to take legal action against the NIA after the latter excluded the use of voter ID card [...] The post Minority
Member of Parliament (MP) for Mpraeso Constituency, Seth Kwame Acheampong has admonished former President John Dramani Mahama to better stay off talking about the economy. The New Patriotic Party (NPP) MP said he is advising him as a senior brother. This advice comes in the wake of the former president’s mockery of Vice President Dr Mahammudu Bawumia in a tweet [...] The post ‘Stay off politics on
Professor Stephen Adei, a former Rector of the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA), has advocated urgent review of the country’s criminal laws to make it easy to deal with the rising spate of corruption. “There must also be an urgent need to restructure anti-corruption institutions to make them potent to deal effectively and efficiently with matters of [...] The post Stephen
Italy’s right-wing populist Interior Minister, Matteo Salvini, has prompted a new outcry by saying he wants a census of the Roma community that would lead to non-Italians being deported. After a chorus of criticism he said his only aim was to protect Roma children. There are at least 130,000 Roma (Gypsies) in Italy, and many live in unlicensed camps on [...] The post Italian populist
ONE profession that is noble and very respectful in this country and the world at large is teaching. Teachers serve as symbols of discipline and role models for many people in society. While some teachers live up to expectation through their disciplined lives and help to bring up good children, others serve as very bad examples to the public. This [...] The post Teachers must protect the girl-child
A study on corruption in Ghana’s basic education sector has attributed the menace to misappropriation of resources in the educational sector. The study conducted by Ghana National Education Campaign Coalition (GNECC), through a desk study and literature review in 2016, showed that corruption in basic education sector pertained to allowances, construction and maintenance, teacher misconduct, distribution of furniture and educational [...] The post GNECC
Six people, including three teenagers, from Jasikan, in the Volta Region, who were hauling 767.079 grams of marijuana on a convoy of two tricycles and a vehicle, to Accra, appeared before the Ho Circuit Court last Wednesday. Arafat Abu, 18, Yahaya Gibril, 25, Kondo Yao, 18, Bless Ansong, 17, Abubakar Suraj, 20, and MussaYaro, 20, all pleaded not guilty to [...] The post 6 in court for transporting
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