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An Educationist, Mr Ekow Djan has said former Minister of Education Dr Mathew Opoku Prempeh should be held liable for the controversial textbooks disparaging Ewes in the country. According to Mr Djan, the Ministry of Education under the watch of Dr. Mathew Opoku-Prempeh, together with its direct agency, the National Council for Curriculum Assessment (NaCCA) headed by then Executive Secretary, ...

Somewhere in the Daboya-Mankarigu Constituency, the constituency chairman of the National Democratic Congress and ten other branch executives are in a tussle with other constituency executives over their future in the party. The situation, according to a report by Nkilgi FM has created deep cracks within the party in the constituency and if a quick-fix is not done, it could ...

An education-focused NGO Lead for Ghana Fellows has completed and commissioned the first-ever library and Information Technology (IT) center for the Atanve D/A Basic School in the Akatsi North District of the Volta region. The facility which was commissioned on Friday, March 12 was initiated by the 2018 cohorts of LFG, Ms Hamdia Mahama, and Maame Yaa Afram with funding ...

The Council of Elders for the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has called on party members to offer the needed support for the Minority in Parliament in order to hold the Nana Addo-led government accountable. In a press release signed by Chairman of the Council, Alhaji Mahama Iddrisu, the Council noted that recent happenings in Parliament regarding the approval of ...

The management of the Ghana School of Law has directed the President of the Students Representative Council (SRC) of the school Philemon Laar to resign after he failed an exam. The School of Law in a statement said Mr Laar cannot continue to hold himself out as President of SRC following his failure to pass the PLC Part 1 exam. ...

The Ghana Publishers Association says it is taking steps to rein in members over the publication of offensive materials for educational purposes. It follows the public outcry over newly-authored textbooks containing bigotry against Ewes. Speaking to Starr News after an emergency meeting, assistant executive secretary of the association Ernest Oppong said they will ensure that subsequent publications by their members ...

Environmental officers from New Juaben South Municipal Assembly of the Eastern Region became shocked when a corpse infected with covid-19 went missing from the mortuary. The Environmental officers were at the mortuary Sunday, March 14, 2021 to supervise the burial of the late Janet Nyarkoa who reportedly died of Covid-19. However, to the surprise of the Environmental officers, the body ...

The Ghana Grid Company has released a power rationing time table for both the Volta and Oti regions. GRIDCo in a notice to the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG), requested that the outages come into force from Thursday, March 18 to Monday, March 22, 2021. According to the timetable, power will be rationed at various times at various parts of ...

Absa Group Ltd., one of Africa’s largest financial services providers, today reported a 51% decline in normalized headline earnings to R8 billion [$536m] after impairments nearly trebled to R20.6 billion [$1.3b] amid the economic downturn that was precipitated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Earnings and returns improved materially in the second half of the year as lockdown restrictions eased, particularly in ...

The Speaker of Parliament Alban Sumana Bagbin has issued a stern warning to Committees which will consider the 2021 budget estimates against approving such estimates with the figures offered by the president. The speaker further disclosed that he will not forward the appropriation bill to the president for his assent when passed if negotiations are not done to find a ...