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Over 33k teachers sit for GES maiden Staff Promotion Exam

The revised promotion process for the staff of Ghana Education Service has taken off smoothly in all the 35 examination centres spread across the 16 regions. The first-ever aptitude test for staff promotion has replaced the hitherto face to face interview sessions that was fraught with multiple challenges. The Director-General of the Ghana Education Service, Prof Kwasi Opoku-Amankwa, has described ...

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Mahama was not in support of minority walkout – Majority Leader

Majority Leader in Parliament of Ghana, Osei-Kyei Mensah Bonsu has said that information he gathered prior to the State of Nation Address which saw the minority MPs walkout, indicated that their action was well planned and executed. According to him, plans by the minority side to stage a walkout few moments before the president’s address had the full backing of ...

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My son is not involved in galamsey – Frimpong-Boateng

The Minister of Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation (MESTI), Professor Kwabena Frimpong-Boateng has stated that his son is not involved in mining contrary to public speculations that he was engaged in the mining business. When asked if his son was involved in galamsey [illegal mining] during a media interview after the delivery of President Akufo-Addo’s State of the Nation Address ...

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Kennedy Agyapong is greedy and selfish – Blakk Rasta

Fearless Broadcaster and Reggae musician, Blakk Rasta born Abubakar Ahmed has described New Patriotic Party (NPP) firebrand Kennedy Agyapong as a selfish and greedy politician who wants everything to himself alone. He observed that the Assin Central lawmaker is always quick to criticize others who have been given contracts under the current regime while he complains that he who contributed ...

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Vivo Energy, ABCDE hold maiden breakfast meeting on education

The African Business Centre for Developing Education in partnership with Vivo Energy Ghana, marketers and distributors of Shell products yesterday held its maiden Breakfast Meeting on Education at the British Council, Accra. The event was held under the theme: ‘The Promise of e-learning to STEM Education in Ghana: a special focus on Girls’. Nearly 200 stakeholders from the diplomatic corps, ...

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Fake dollar syndicate busted in Accra

Suspected hardened criminals Yemenis and Syrians – Sanousi Khalifa Mohammed and cousin Amel acting to be Libyans are in the police grips after countless failed attempts to arrest them. The suspects were yesterday picked by the Tesano Police Intelligence team at the Landing Restaurant at the Kotoka International Airport (KIA) to conclude an ‘Unfinished business’ with the victims-El Klink Moustapha ...

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Your payments will begin Monday – Akufo-Addo to Savings & Loans customers

President Akufo-Addo has hinted customers of the collapsed Savings and Loans firms who still have their investment locked up with the Receiver will begin receiving full payments from Monday. “I am informed that the Receiver of the Savings and Loans and the Microfinance institutions will on Monday 24th February [2020], begin making payments to their customers, [with] these monies totalling ...

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Coronavirus: We’ll evacuate Ghanaian students when necessary – Akufo-Addo

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has stated that Ghanaian students in Wuhan, the epicentre of the deadly coronavirus outbreak in China, will be evacuated only when it becomes necessary. The President addressing Parliament during his 4th State of the Nation Address revealed that there are over 4600 Ghanaian students in China adding that over 300 are located in Wuhan. He, ...

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