Author: Krobea

Ghana’s major teacher unions – GNAT, NAGRAT and CCT-G – have declared a nationwide strike, beginning Monday, December 9. This was made known to journalists at a joint press conference held on Thursday, December 5. The teacher unions admitted being invited to a meeting on Thursday, November 28 by the Ministry of Employment and Labour Relations in the presence of representatives of the Ghana Education Service (GES), the Controller and Accountant General’s Department (CAGD) and the Ghana Audit Service (GAS). The subject of the meeting was the legacy arrears of 2012 to 2016. “Primarily, we the unions were concerned with…

Universal Plastic Products and Recycling (UPPR) Ghana Limited in collaboration with Ecobank Ghana Limited and the Environment Service Providers Association (ESPA) has launched the One Million Waste-Bins Project. The project is aimed at facilitating the supply of one million waste bins to households and businesses in all cities and communities around the country to reduce indiscriminate littering and promote good health. Speaking at the event, Managing Director of Ecobank Ghana Dan Sackey noted: “Ecobank entered into the collaboration to ensure that we are able to help create mass awareness about environmental cleanliness among the Ghanaian populace. “It is our aim…

Celebrated economist Kwame Pianim has urged Ghanaians to support the Bank of Ghana’s introduction of higher denominations into the economy. According to him, the initiative should have been done earlier. The Bank on Friday, November 29 introduced GH¢100 and GH¢200 banknotes as well as GH¢2 coins. Mr Pianim cited the practice of quantitative easing in other economies, where the Central Bank pumps additional monies into the economy to boost liquidity. He questioned why the Bank of Ghana cannot also print more money into the economy. “Look in Ghana there are certain institutions that are independent. We get competent people to…

Government will not be able to continue with its development projects in cocoa-growing communities, particularly the construction of the good roads and also give attractive educational packages including scholarships if cocoa farmers choose to give out their farms to illegal miners, COCOBOD CEO Joseph Boahen Aidoo has warned. Apart from its core mandate of regulating the country’s cocoa industry and marketing cocoa beans, the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) also undertakes development projects especially in cocoa growing areas to better the living standards of residents. At a cocoa farmers’ rally at Asankragua in the Wassa Amenfi West District of the Western…

The National Communications Authority (NCA) has ordered Scancom PLC, operators of MTN Ghana, to among others compensate customers affected by the recent network challenges. Customers of the telecommunications giant have recently complained about billing inaccuracies as regards purchased data. Calls via the firm’s Customer Care line have been unsuccessful despite the company issuing a notice of assurance to all customers. “We are working round the clock to resolve the issues as soon as possible,” MTN Ghana said in a notice on Monday, December 2. But NCA accuses MTN Ghana of failing to notify it, as a regulatory body, of the…

The 10 per cent of the $1 million arbitration money paid to Davies & Davies Law has been returned to the Ghana Football Association (GFA), the country’s football-governing body has confirmed. The money was inadvertently paid to the law firm by the erstwhile Normalisation Committee as legal fees for retrieving the arbitration money from Globacom Limited. The Nigerian multinational telecommunications company had agreed to sponsor the Ghana Premier League for a five-year period but unilaterally abrogated the contract. Quite recently the President of the Normalisation Committee, Dr Kofi Amoah, confirmed that despite receiving $1 million from the Nigerian firm, $900,000…

Connect FM’s news anchor and producer of Asem Yi Dzi Ka, Paa Kojo Peters, has been adjudged the Producer of the Year at this year’s Hyperlinks Media Awards held over the weekend in Sunyani, the Ahafo Region. The Awards was to honour media personnel across the country for their hard work and dedication in the line of duty. Connect FM had three nominations in the categories: Producer of the Year, Radio Programme of the Year and Technician of the Year. Paa Kojo Peters competed with seven others but emerged as winner for the Producer of the Year category while his…

The Minister of Education, Dr. Mathew Opoku Prempeh, has revealed that the education sector was on the verge of collapse when NPP government took office in 2017. Teacher absenteeism, according to him, was hovering around 30 per cent resulting in 45 per cent of SHS candidates failing in Mathematics. Only 2 per cent pupils in Primary Two were found proficient in reading per the Early Grade Assessment Test whilst 25 per cent pupils in Primary Six were proficient in English. Dr. Mathew Opoku Prempeh disclosed this on Tuesday, December 3, 2019 while speaking at Innovation Africa 2019: Africa’s Official Ministerial…

The UN’s Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) has appointed Israel and Ghana to co-chair the Council’s Science, Technology and Innovation Forum. The two countries will together lead discussions, take part in the selection of speakers, and prepare receptions on promoting innovation in the world. Neither of the countries has previously led the Forum. The senior appointment also makes Ghana the first African nation to hold the post. The ambassadors of Ghana and Israel to the UN met recently at the UN headquarters to coordinate their plans for the Forum’s activities in 2020, deciding to focus on advancing women in science…

The Minister for Education, Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh, has disclosed that government, under its Ghana Accountability and Learning Outcomes Project (GALOP), seeks to improve the quality of low performing basic education schools and strengthen education sector equity and accountability in Ghana. The Project is targeting 10,000 most disadvantaged schools based on examination performance. It will also support the training of teachers, manage class sizes and improve systems for accountability, national assessments and teacher management. The Minister made this revelation when he addressed the 9th Innovation Africa Ministerial Summit currently under way in Accra. He stated that the various GALOP disbursement…