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2021 NSS postings: 81,081 graduates deployed

The National Service Scheme (NSS) has released postings for the 2021/2022 service year. The list postings were released on Wednesday, October 6, 2021. A total of 81,081 graduates from accredited tertiary institutions who enrolled for the 2021/2022 have been deployed for national service to various user agencies across Ghana. A statement signed and issued by the new and Acting Executive ...

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Owusu Bempah Woes Deepen

The woes of General Overseer of Glorious Word Power Ministries International, Reverend Isaac Owusu-Bempah, have deepened after the police separated the case in which he allegedly threatened the life of Patricia Oduro, aka Okomfo Agradaa, and also allegedly instigated an assault on some police officers. With the latest development, Rev. Owusu-Bempah is now facing two different cases in separate courts. ...

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Investigate law entrance exams mass failure – Dafeamekpor

South Danyi Member of Parliament, Rockson Nelson Dafeamekpor has raised concerns against the rate of failure in the law entrance examinations. According to him, 499 out of the 1289 law students who failed the entrance should have been admitted. His comments come after two thousand LLB candidates who sat for the 2021/2021 academic year Ghana School of Law 2021 Entrance ...

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Facebook explains app outage after services are restored

Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp are back. The apps, owned by Facebook, stopped working Monday for millions of users across the U.S., according to outage site Down Detector. Both the mobile and web browser editions of the apps were not working as of 11:42 a.m. ET, the site reported. They were down for more than six hours. “To the huge community ...

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Akufo-Addo cuts sod for 100-bed Obuasi Trauma & Accident Hospital

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on Monday, 4 October 2021, cut the sod for the construction of a 100-bed Trauma Hospital for the Obuasi Municipality. The construction of the Obuasi Municipal Trauma Hospital is being facilitated by a €55 million facility acquired by the Akufo-Addo government, which will also be used to remodel and construct three projects, namely Atiwa East ...

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NPA boss visits Sierra Leone; promises Ghana assistance

The National Petroleum Authority (NPA) has offered to assist its counterpart in Sierra Leone, the Petroleum Regulatory Agency (PRA), to improve efficiency in regulating the petroleum downstream in that country. In furtherance to this, a team from the NPA, led by its Chief Executive, Dr. Mustapha Abdul-Hamid, paid a working visit to the Executive Chairman of PRA, Brima Baluwa Koroma and his ...

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We must learn – Okoe Boye admonishes politicians over Mahama’s ‘do or die’ comments

Former Member of Parliament for Ledzokuku Constituency Dr Bernard Okoe-Boye has admonished fellow politicians, especially former President John Mahama to learn from past events in the country. He advised that politicians must do well to learn from the experiences of their fellow politicians in the country. Dr Okoe-Boye pointed out that when President Akufo-Addo said “all die be die” in ...

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OKADA, PRAGYA RIDERS TRAINED BY CLEMENT C. BLAY FOUNDATION IN ELLEMBELLE DISTRICT

Clement C. Blay Foundation “Shaip Africa Foundation” in conjunction with the Ghana National Fire Service in Jomoro municipal and the Ghana Police Service in Aiyinase in the Ellembelle district of the Western Region, has organised an educational workshop for about 200 motor and Pragya riders on various road safety regulations. The riders from Essiama, Aiyinase and Asasetr3 were taken through ...

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Kumasi power outages to last till December

The Managing Director of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) Mr Kwame Agyeman-Budu has asked residents of Kumasi in the Ashanti region to brace up for more power outages from now till the end of the year. He said the current situation of unannounced power outages could persist till the end of the year by which time the company would ...

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S/R: 17 killed in Sarekyekura accident

Seventeen persons have died after two Yutong buses clashed at Sarekyekura in the Central Gonja District of the Savannah Region. The vehicles with registration numbers GT 3345-16 and AC 1699-20 with about 45 passengers onboard each were travelling from Kumasi to Zebila and from Garu to Kumasi respectively. Forty-five other passengers onboard the two vehicles are also said to have ...

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