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Reading your Bible at work is a mark of incompetence – Professor Adei

A former Rector of the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA) Prof. Stephen Adei has stated that reading Bibles, chatting on WhatsApp and watching Television programs at workplaces are marks of incompetence. He advised people not to take their Bibles to workplaces but to read them in their various homes before going to work. The Professor who said ...

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Health Minister wages war on admission fraud in nursing training

Health Minister Kwaku Agyeman Manu has announced series of new measures to deal with the bribery and corruption in the admission process into nursing training colleges. The Minister is introducing an online application system and has set an investigative team to look into admission fraud reports. Addressing a news conference in the Central Region, the Minister said the online application ...

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If you want us licensed, pay for it- NAGRAT tells gov’t

The National Association of Graduate Teachers (NAGRAT) is calling for broader consultation on the teacher licensing exam policy to address its many deficiencies. The teaching body said the current state of the policy, recommended by the National Teaching Council (NTC), does not endear itself to stakeholders in the education sector. Addressing a news conference in Accra Thursday, NAGRAT Vice President, ...

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uniBank staff provide bath-house to Talensi Hospital

Personnel of uniBank through their charitable Initiative, the ‘One Ghana Project’, have handed over a newly constructed contemporary bath-house facility to Management of Talensi District Hospital in Bolgatanga, Upper East region. Through this integrated approach, Management of the Fund reviewed a request to provide a Bath-house facility for the hospital which serves 96 communities with a total population estimated at ...

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President Akufo Addo appoints Togbe Afede as NIB board chairman

President Nana Akufo Addo in consultation with the council of state has appointed the president of the national house of chiefs, Togbe Afede XIV as the board chairman of the National Investment Bank (NIB). Togbe Afede was the board chairman of the NIB during John Drama Mahama’s era. According to players in the financial industry he is the best person ...

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Rashid Bawa’s wife, daughter cited for fraud

The next time you want to go into business or any other monetary transaction with people close to high profiled politicians, it is only advisable you scrutinize cautiously, as some have already been using the opportunity to defraud unsuspecting victims, ripping them off millions of Ghanaian cedis and other currency equivalents. Fingered in such acts, is the wife of newly ...

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GH¢4m debt hangs over NIA

The 2015 Auditor General’s report has revealed that the National Identification Authority (NIA) is heavily indebted to the tune of GH¢4, 132,795.00. The Management of the Authority were therefore admonished to “make efforts to settle the liabilities” and also operate henceforth within “actual income received in future.” The Authority was also cited for illegally using its Internally Generated fund to ...

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Capital Bank’s collapse has exposed Otabil’s incompetence – Kweku Boahen

Deputy Communications Director of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has accused renowned Bible teacher, Pastor Dr Mensah Otabil of ensuring the collapse of Capital Bank through his poor managment of the financial institution of which he served as the Board Chairman. According to Kwaku Boahen, Pastor Mensah Otabil whose church, businesses and family allegedly have a huge stake in ...

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V/R: 4 die of suspected fish poisoning

Tweet Four persons have reportedly died at the Margret Marquart Catholic Hospital at Kpando in the Volta Region, where they were rushed after eating a fish, suspected to be poisonous. Three of the deaths were recorded two weeks ago after a number of individuals were sent to the facility from one of the Alavanyo communities. The latest death occurred on ...

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NIA offsets GHC1.6m Cal bank loan without approval

The 2015 Auditor General’s report has cited the National Identification Authority (NIA) for illegally using its Internally Generated fund to offset a loan facility it acquired from CAL Bank. According to the report, Management of the Authority arranged with CAL Bank to retain funds generated internally by it to defray the loan facility of $1.5million taken from the Bank. “As ...

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