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NPP, NDC Flagbearers fail to attend TEPPCON’s conference in Tamale

25Nov

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NPP, NDC Flagbearers fail to attend TEPPCON’s conference in Tamale

Flagbearers of the New Patriotic Party (NPP)and the National Democratic Congress (NDC) failed to attend a conference in Tamale to share their perspectives on key development challenges affecting the northern part of the country. They were billed to attend the conference dubbed: "Structured Dialogue Between Political Party Flagbearers and Citizens towards Elections 2024". Key development challenges affecting the northern part of the country, which they were expected to share their perspectives on, were in the areas of education, governance and decentralisation, destruction of the environment, and conflicts. The conference was organised by the Tamale Ecclesiastical Province Pastoral Conference (TEPPCON), which is the mouthpiece of the Catholic Church in northern ...

Election 2024: Youth in PBF project communities march for peace

25Nov

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Election 2024: Youth in PBF project communities march for peace

Some youth in the Wa West and the Sissala West Districts have participated in street march to drum home the importance of peace and stability in Ghana as the 2024 general election approaches. The Upper West Regional Department of Gender organised the floats in the two districts as part of the implementation of the joint UNFPA/UNDP Peace Building Fund (PBF) project in the two districts. The participants were youth drawn from the project communities in those districts-Jeffisi, Zini and Fielemon communities in the SissalaWest District and Kpila, Oli and Dorimon communities in the WaWest District. Security personnel from the Ghana Police Service, the Ghana Armed Forces, the Ghana Immigration Service and the Gh...

SD Dombo University graduates 2,321 students at 3rd congregation ceremony

25Nov

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SD Dombo University graduates 2,321 students at 3rd congregation ceremony

The SD Dombo University of Business and Integrated Development Studies (SDD-UBIDS) has graduated 2,321 students, comprising 1,448 undergraduate and 873 postgraduate students, at its 3rd congregation ceremony. The number represented about 34 per cent increase over 1,513 students who graduated last year. Speaking at the ceremony in Wa at the weekend, Professor Emmanuel K. Derbile, the Vice Chancellor of the SDD-UBIDS, reiterated the university’s commitment to producing industry-fit graduates for the job market. “We seek to produce graduates who are not only well-versed in narrow academic disciplines, but who have interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary skills that will make the difference in an increasingly complex world”, he explained. The...

Manhyia receives 28 more looted artefacts

24Nov

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Manhyia receives 28 more looted artefacts

Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, The Asantehene, has taken delivery of 28 gold artefacts looted during the Sagrenti War at a grand durbar at the Manhyia Palace in Kumasi. This formed part of activities to make the 100th anniversary celebration of the return King Prempeh I from exile. Representative of AngloGold Ashanti who purchased the artefacts from an art collector at West African works in 1922, handed over the ornaments to the King of Asante, bringing the total number of restituted Asante artifacts from the British plunder in the 1900s to 67. The symbolic artifacts from South Africa include linguist staff, swords, palace security locks, rings, necklaces, and proverbial gold-weights depicting crocodiles and gold scandals. Leading the official handover at the Durbar were Mr. Stewart Bai...

MEST Africa, Mastercard Foundation Celebrate 2024 EdTech Fellows at Demo Day

24Nov

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Technology

MEST Africa, Mastercard Foundation Celebrate 2024 EdTech Fellows at Demo Day

MEST Africa, in collaboration with the Mastercard Foundation, has hosted the 2024 EdTech Fellowship Demo Day to showcase the achievements of fellows and their transformative innovations in education technology. The event, held at the Marriott Hotel in Accra, spotlighted the innovative solutions designed to redefine education in Ghana and beyond. The Mastercard Foundation EdTech Fellowship supports African EdTech companies with critical business and financial resources, along with insights into the science of learning, preparing them for scale and sustainability. Speaking at the event, Mr Suraj Shah, Acting Head of Strategic Partnerships and Thought Leadership at the Mastercard Foundation Centre for Innovative Teaching and Learning, emphasised the importan...

UCC alumni organises free health screening, donates GHC5,000 to orphanage home

24Nov

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UCC alumni organises free health screening, donates GHC5,000 to orphanage home

The University of Cape Coast (UCC) old students, led by the biological and physical science alumni, has organised a free health screening and donated GHC5,000 to Center for Hope Charity aid. As part of the alumni’s humanitarian effort, it donated fifteen bags of 25kg rice, 2 cartons of vegetable oil, 2 cartons of sardines, tissues, milk and milo. The free health screening included checking of blood pressure, glucose, and breast cancer among others. The event held at the premises of Center for hope charity aid, in Accra, was in partnership with the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA). About 40 aged women and 20 aged men actively participated in the health screening exercise. Speaking during the event, Mrs&n...

Technical Universities Workers’ Pension Scheme investment increases 24.60 per cent in 2023

24Nov

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Technical Universities Workers’ Pension Scheme investment increases 24.60 per cent in 2023

The Ghana Universities Workers' Pension Scheme investment return increased from GHc 137.02 million in 2022 to GHc 198.35 million in 2023. The figure represents 24.60 per cent for the 2023 financial year as compared to 21.20 per cent in 2022. Professor Solomon Abekah Keelson, the Board Chairman, Ghana Universities Workers' Pension Scheme announced this at the Scheme's maiden stakeholder engagement in Accra. Professor Keelson said the Scheme's benefits decreased by 5.16 per cent to GHc 5.02 million at the end of 2023 compared to GHc 5.29 million in 2022. The Scheme, he stated, recorded a marginal increase in active membership by 2.48 per cent from 4,549 in 2022 to 4,662 in 2023. He said 2023 w...

Petroleum Commission gives 3.6 billion contracts to indigenous companies

24Nov

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Petroleum Commission gives 3.6 billion contracts to indigenous companies

The Petroleum Commission (PC) has so far awarded over $3. 6 billion worth of contracts to Indigenous GhanaianCompanies (IGCs), Mr. Kwaku Boateng, the Director, Local Content has announced. Again, about $8. 7 billion worth of contracts have been awarded to foreign companies while $6.3 billion went to Joint Ventures (JVs). Additionally, Mr Boateng reported that, more than 10, 000 direct jobshad been created with the local content development in the petroleum upstream activities in Ghana. Again, about $8. 7 billion worth of contracts have been awarded to foreign companies while $6.3 billion went to Joint Ventures (JVs). Additionally,...

Kpando Gadza Women Association inaugurated to equip members with economic skills

24Nov

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Kpando Gadza Women Association inaugurated to equip members with economic skills

A voluntary group, Kpando GadzaWomen Association, has been inaugurated in Kpando in the Volta Region to equip members with skills to improve their standards of living. The Association with a current membership of 86 had already began producing ointments, shower gel, liquid soaps and hair balms which are awaiting registration with the Ghana Standards Authority. Mama Kodzogasi II, Queen of Kpando Gadza and Founder of the Association, in an interview with the Ghana News Agency (GNA),disclosed that the Association was formed to help members gain skills and employment to better their lives. She said it was the hope that the output and products of the Association would attract more members despite the small population of the town. Mama&...

Accra-based businessman hands over Police station, JHS block to Lente-Wute community

24Nov

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Accra-based businessman hands over Police station, JHS block to Lente-Wute community

Mr Felix Akakpo, an Accra-based businessman, has handed over a newly constructed police station to his community, Lente-Wute in the Ketu South Municipality. The new building has a charge office, male and female detention cells, offices for the Station Officer and Criminal Investigation Department, an armoury, ultra-modern washrooms and five residential self-contained rooms for Police personnel. Additionally, he handed over a newly constructed Junior High School (JHS) block with ancillary facilities to add to the primary school block he constructed for the community years ago, to enable children of school-going age there receive quality formal education. Speaking at the commissioning of the projects, Mr Akakpo said the decision to constr...