Author: Krobea

The Petroleum Commission has begun collaborating with International Oil Companies (IOCs) and local oil and gas training institutions to offer in-country training to Ghanaians as part of efforts to enhance in-country value addition and local content development. In the past, the training of Ghanaians for the oil and gas industry was done overseas in foreign institutions and such trends denied the growth of indigenous training institutions. However, the Petroleum Commission believes that in order to achieve its strategic objective of making Ghana a training hub for the oil and gas industry in the sub-region, the example should be to train…

Member of Parliament (MP) for Ellembelle Emmanuel Armah Kofi Buah has charged fellow MPs to develop a strong working relationship with their MMDCEs irrespective of the political party they belong to as that will safeguard development of their respective districts. “Between yourself as the MP and your DCE you have the option to either let your political differences thwart the development of your area or work together,” he said. “For me, I have decided to make education a topmost priority in Ellembelle and the DCE has been very supportive. And together we are doing great things for Ellembelle.” The MP…

A newly married woman and three of her family drowned in a reservoir after trying to take a selfie, said police in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu. The dead were among a group of six who held hands and stood in waist deep water near Pambar dam before one of them slipped, pulling the others. The woman’s husband was able to save his sister but the others drowned. India has the highest number of recorded selfie deaths in the world. India accounted for about half of the 259 reported fatalities between 2011 and 2017, according to a study…

Jasmine Baroudi is hopeless in an array of desolate shots. Imagine being immobile for hours on end without any possibility of relief…well that is what happens to Jasmine Baroudi’s character in the upcoming movie, The Cell. In the first released set pictures, movie lovers get to see the actress in character – a woman tied up and tortured for past mistakes. The upcoming movie captures the final moments of a medical professional caught up in a revenge web that quickly escalates to a life-and-death situation. The story focuses on how easily it is to tip from sanity to insanity as…

The Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) has partnered iWatch Africa, a not-for-profit organization that draws on their expertise in data and investigative journalism and data visualization, to fight corruption and human rights abuse in Ghana. The project, ‘Leveraging the power of data and digital tools to Stop Human Rights Abuse – An iWatch, CHRAJ and Police Collaboration’, will train and empower journalists and student journalists with these data and digital tools to find and report on cases involving human rights abuses and corruption. The goal is to support CHRAJ and the police to use these effective communication…

The University of Lagos in Nigeria says it has suspended a lecturer featured in a BBC documentary on sexual harassment at two top West African universities. This comes shortly after Boniface Igbeneghu, who is also a pastor, was suspended by his church. There has been an outcry on social media after a report by BBC’s Africa Eye revealed secret footage of Dr Igbeneghu propositioning and sexually harassing an undercover reporter, posing as a prospective student. The Foursquare church, where the lecturer was also a pastor, said in a statement it does not condone sexual misconduct, and has distanced itself from…

The Technical Universities Teachers’ Association of Ghana (TUTAG) has declared an indefinite strike, with immediate effect. This is “to press home our demand on government to implement the conditions of service of public universities for staff of technical universities”. The action was declared on Monday, October 7 by TUTAG President Dr Solomon Keelson. According to TUTAG, although polytechnics were converted into technical universities as far back as 2016, government has failed to put measures in place to enable their lecturers enjoy benefits received by university teachers. Dr Keelson stated that despite a directive from the Finance Ministry to the Controller…

At least 10 protesters have been arrested after the demonstration by law students on Monday, October 7 ended abruptly. The demonstration, seeking reforms to legal education in Ghana, started peacefully at the main campus of the Ghana School of Law. But their last-ditch effort to present their petition to the president at the Jubilee House was met with resistance from police officers, who claimed the demonstrating students had no permission to enter the presidency. According to the students, the police lured them to come close but started splashing hot water on them. The police splashed the water as far as…

Twenty-five candidates of the Akropong School for the Blind in the Eastern Region have had their concerns met as they have been placed under the Computerized School Selection and Placement System (CSSPS) after a month. Onua FM’s Yen Sempa on Thursday, October 2 reported that barely one month after the Ghana Education Service (GES) began the process for the placement of students who passed their Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) into Senior High Schools (SHS), the 25 candidates of the Akropong School for the Blind in the Eastern Region were yet to placed. CSSPS: 25 Akropong School for the Blind students…

The flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), John Dramani Mahama, says his party will continue to promote greater academic freedom in the universities, promising that disturbances on the campuses of the University of Education, Winneba, and the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) will never occur under his administration. He has therefore cautioned government against its actions, claiming they are affecting cordial engagements among lecturers and also management members, and ultimately affecting teaching and learning. Speaking during a meeting with the National Executives of the University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG), the former President maintained that government…