The Ghana Police Service is rolling out a series of digital transformation agenda including going paperless. The Inspector General of Police David Asante-Apeatu said the objective is to position the Service as one of the best in the world. “We are working to be a digital police organization using the best technology on the market to deliver services via mobile ...
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118 pupils escape death as classroom caves in
About 118 Kindergarten Pupils of the Osae Gyan Primary School, a Public School in the Nsawam District of the Eastern Region, have escaped death following the collapse of their classroom block. The incident occurred when parts of the wall erected around the school collapsed during a rainfall which flooded parts of the Nsawam township.The collapsed wall affected the KG block ...
Read More »GES posts 10,348 new teachers nationwide
The Ghana Education Service (GES) has directed 10,348 newly qualified teachers to visit its website to check their duty stations. Three thousand six hundred and sixty-three of the teachers, representing 26.1 per cent, could not pass their final examination and therefore, have to rewrite. The newly trained teachers are the products of the 46 public colleges of education and six ...
Read More »Ga chieftancy dispute: Another claimant pops up
The confusion surrounding the rightful heir to the Ga Stool was deepened when an event to introduce Nii Tackie Oblie II as another claimant to the Stool was disrupted by some angry youth in Accra on Wednesday. The swift intervention of the police at a press conference held by the Abola Piam (Tunma We) Royal House, one of the four ...
Read More »New smart card will be ready within a month – Kafui Semevor
The Deputy Director in charge of Driver Training, Testing and Licensing at the Drivers Vehicles Licensing Authority (DVLA), Mr. Kafui Semevor has underscored that those who will apply for the new smart card will have them ready within a month. He was interacting with Starr FM on Thursday, 26th, October, 2017 when he made this known. According to him, ”The ...
Read More »I wasn’t paid a pesewa for services on Free SHS Committee – Salamat
The former headmaster of the La Presbyterian Senior High School, Samuel Salamat, who claims to have been unfairly transferred, has said he worked for free while serving on a committee whose work led to the implementation of the free Senior High school programme. Prior to the implementation of the free SHS policy, government set up a 22-member committee in March ...
Read More »Prof Botchwey C’ttee Report: People are shifting focus of Ghanaians – Nii Lantey Vanderpuye
The Member of Parliament MP for Odododiodoo constituency, Nii Lantey Vanderpuye says the prominence being given to the National Democratic Congress’ (NDC) internal issues, is an attempt to shift the focus of Ghanaians from national issues. Speaking on the AM Show on Joy News TV on Thursday, Mr. Vanderpuye said there are issues like petrol price increase and other factors ...
Read More »Provide details of procurement process for the Digital Address System – Ayariga to Adwoa Safo
The member Parliament of Bawku Central Hon. Mahama Ayariga has filed an urgent question to the Minister of State in charge of Public Procurement, Hon Adjoa Safo to provide details of the procurement process in respect of the Digital Address System recently launched by the vice president, Mahamudu Bawumia. It would be recalled that the Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia ...
Read More »Government planning to blame individuals for 1-district 1-factory failure – Analyst
Allowing individuals to partner government in the implementation of one-district-one-factory is a deliberate move to shift the blame on them in the event of a possible collapse, according to policy analyst, Mr. Frank Aboagye Dannyansah. “Government will want to exonerate itself in case the policy fails. Here, it will start pointing accusing figures at individuals and the implementers”, he explained. ...
Read More »NDC 2016 Collation System: It Was Not Comfortable Lead; It Was A Complete Mess
With an unsettling frankness, an investigative report into the electoral defeat of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the 2016 polls has described the party’s collation machine as “a complete mess”, “to put it simply and bluntly” The Prof Kwesi Botchwey Committee report said the then governing NDC could not independently ascertain for itself the polling station results because its collation ...
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