The 1971 year group of the Labone Senior High School (SHS) yesterday donated a set of musical instruments to the music department of their alma mater in Accra. The instruments included a keyboard stand, microphones, amplifiers and an organ. A representative of the group, Professor Albert Addo-Quaye, stated that the purpose of donating these instruments … The post Labone SHS 1971
About 40 percent of start-up businesses in Ghana do not make profit at all, Mr Sherif Ghali, Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Chamber of Young Entrepreneurs, has noted. Majority of them also lack access to finance, market, infrastructural and innovation support, as well as the skills development required to sustain these entities, he stated. … The post 40
The Ghana Stock Exchange Composite Index (GSE-CI) at the end of Tuesday’s trading session posted a year-to-date (YTD) return of 41.32 percentage points on stock prices for investors. This is despite the flattening of the GSE-CI to close Tuesday’s trading session with 2,743.94 points. The GSE Financial Stock Index (GSE-FSI) also remains unchanged to close … The post GSE
The President of the Association of Building and Civil Engineering Contractors of Ghana (ABCECG), Mr Prosper Ledi, has said the association will soon launch a ‘Build Right’ campaign’ to sensitise its members and key stakeholders on the need to ensure that all projects undertaken meet all requirements including environmental sustainability. Mr Ledi who has been … The post Building
The President of the Association of Building and Civil Engineering Contractors of Ghana (ABCECG), Mr Prosper Ledi, has said the association will soon launch a ‘Build Right’ campaign’ to sensitise its members and key stakeholders on the need to ensure that all projects undertaken meet all requirements including environmental sustainability. Mr Ledi who has been … The post Building
Hearts of Oak legend, Amankwaah Mireku, says the team must show consistency if they hope to conquer Africa. The 2020-21 Ghana Premier League champions will represent Ghana in the CAF Champions League next season, a competition they won in the year 2000. According to the former Hearts of Oak captain, the Phobians will need to … The post ‘Show consistency to conquer Africa again’
The proposed Independent elite Premier League (PL) competition that has been at the front burner under the current administration will take off with the 2022/23 season. The GFA Executive Council took the decision at a meeting in Accra. According to the Executive Council, the current 18 club format will be maintained for the initial years … The post Autonomous PL approved to
The Ghana Football Association (GFA) has launched a new competition dubbed Division One League (DOL) Super Cup involving eight teams. It will kick start from September 19 at the Ghanaman Soccer Centre of Excellence in Prampram. The DOL Super Cup competition is an eight-team competition made up of the three Zonal champions, Real Tamale United, … The post GFA launches ‘DOL Super Cup’
A GH¢260,000 Community-based Health Planning and Service (CHPS) Compound project at Adaklu-Dave in the Adaklu District of the Volta Region, is nearing completion. So far, 90 per cent of the project, which started last September, with funding from the MP’s Common Fund, has been executed and the facility is scheduled to be ready before … The post Adaklu-Dave CHIPS compound nearing
Our Lady of Mercy Community Services (OLAM), a non-governmental organisation (NGO), operating in the Kassena-Nankana Municipality, in the Upper East Region, has presented items to Our Lady of Lourdes Girls’ Senior High School (OLL SHS), in Navrongo. The items included 1,000 packets of menstrual pads, gallons of liquid soap, nose masks, cooking oil and soft … The post OLAM supports
Wildfires tearing through northern Algeria have now killed at least 65 people, including 28 soldiers deployed to help the firefighters. The blazes in the mountainous Kabylie region are some of the worst in the country’s history. Officials have blamed arson for many of them. President Abdelmadjid Tebboune has declared three days of national mourning for … The post Algerian
The Ethiopian military and its allies are responsible for widespread sexual violence against women in Tigray, using rape as a strategy of war, Amnesty International says. The scale of violations during the nine-month conflict in the north of the country amounts to war crimes, the human rights group says. One woman reported being gang-raped in … The post ‘Ethiopia using rape as strategy
An 11-year-old boy has allegedly committed suicide at Atonsu Bokro, in the Asokwa Municipality of Ashanti.The boy, identified as Okyere Boateng, was said to be a class four pupil of the Dompoase M/A Primary School.Assembly Member for Bokro Electoral Area, Owusu Brempong, confirmed the incident, saying the grandmother of the boy asked him to accompany … The post Boy,11, commits suicide appeared first
The police have arrested a businessman, Gabriel Medawar, for allegedly operating an unlicensed insurance firm, at North Ridge, in Accra. He was nabbed in a joint operation by the Airport Police and the National Insurance Commission (NIC), to clamp down on fake insurance firms. The Commissioner of Insurance, Dr Justice Ofori, told journalists that, Mr … The post Businessman
Police in the Upper East Region on Tuesday killed a suspected armed robber, Stephen Atia, who has been terrorising residents of the Bolgatanga Metropolis. Atia was gunned down at an undisclosed suburb of Bolgatanga, when he was leading the police to a hideout to apprehend suspected criminals. The Upper East Regional Police Public Affairs Officer, … The post Police kill suspected armed
Five Fulani herdsmen, who allegedly kidnapped two teenagers and demanded a ransom of GH¢200,000 from their parents, have been remanded into police custody by the Kete Krachi Magistrate Court, in the Oti Region. The court presided over by Mr Ben Attobrah, remanded Sule Kassim, 28, Sameko Kaduna, 28, Kassim Koron, 18, Gariba Mbonge and Sanda … The post 5 kidnappers remanded
The Consumer Protection Agency (CPA), a non-governmental organisation that mediates between consumer and producers, has called on the Ministry of Communication and Digitalisation to sanction telecos providing poor services in the country. According to CPA, with the new technologies available to telecos, their services should have improved by now, rather, the situation was getting worse … The post Sanction
It is a pity that Ghana boasts of experts in the field of internal audit and anti-graft bodies, yet corruption in the country keeps rising, which simply shows that those involved in it are not being checked enough. The recent history of the country’s corruption index shows a chequered pattern but one that proves that … The post Auditors have significant role in fight
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