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The Minister of Education, Dr Matthew Opoku Prempeh, has bemoaned the poor academic performance in public first and second cycle schools and advised directors of education to provide the kind of leadership and supervision that is conducive for teaching and learning. “That leadership should provide an environment for the teacher to work with dedication, commitment and a sense of responsibility. ...

The Minister for Communications, Ursula Owusu-Ekuful, has pointed out that the unavailability of the critical competencies to deal with cyber security issues, is a primary cause of increased global challenges in the fight against cyber security. She cited a 2017 Global Information Security Workforce Study – Benchmarking Workforce Capacity and Response to Cyber Risk conducted by Frost & Sullivan early ...

Former President Jerry John Rawlings during a public lecture at the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA) was described as a gentle giant after delivering his speech but the former President immediately interrupted the MC saying he isn’t a gentle giant so shouldn’t be called so. He claimed former President John Agyekum Kufuor should rather be referred to ...

The Coalition of Civil Society Organisations has said Ghanaians are worried over President Akufo-Addo’s inability to act decisively on cases of corruption that hit his government since assuming office. “…There is considerable public frustration,” said Prof Emmanuel Gyimah-Boadi, the Executive Director of the Centre for Democratic Development (CDD) Wednesday when the Coalition paid a courtesy call on the president. “I ...

Government has been urged to properly cater for female teachers posted to rural communities in the country to avert the situation where they are compelled to trade sex in exchange for food as the only means of survival. First National Trustee of the Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT) Madam Victoria Affram who revealed this on Accra-based Adom Fm on ...

Former president Jerry John Rawlings has called for the revision of the processes leading to the composition of the membership of the Council of State. “We must ensure that the processes for pre-qualifying, electing and appointing these members are tightened-up,” he said. “In the traditional system, an elder who misbehaved was expected in the past to commit suicide but honorably. ...

Former Director General of the Ghana Education Service (GES), Mr. Michael Nsowa Agyei has attacked freedom of speech of teachers asking them to shut up on the introduction of the new licensing examination for teachers. “If anybody says the minister is not following proper communication channels that person is just being untruthful”, the current chairman of the Education Council took ...

Ghana’s First Lady Mrs. Rebecca Akufo-Addo has called on African scientists attending the Emerging Infectious Diseases and Biosecurity Conference in Accra to deal with the challenge of emerging infectious diseases on the continent. She said she believes the continent has “enough brilliant minds to deal with our own challenges” through innovative solutions. She further noted that the 2013 Ebola outbreak ...

Members of the Abudu and Andani Royal families have clashed at Alabar, a suburb in Kumasi in the Ashanti region. Ultimate FM’s Isaac Bediako Justice reports that the two rival groups clashed Thursday morning over the management of a lorry station at Alabar. The swift intervention of the Police, however, prevented the clashes from turning bloody. According to Bediako, the ...

Social media handles have been awash with a story curled from an interview with Kofi Amoabeng, Founder of UT Bank over claims he does not see the need to pay tithe and therefore will not honour that part of a religious obligation. According to the Bible, tithing is the act of giving one tenth of annual produce or earnings, formerly ...