Author: Krobea

The United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) has organised a four-day capacity building programme for 40 inspectors of theTimber Industry Development Division (TIDD) of the Forestry Commission (FC) in international quality inspection management standard for the inspection of wood export products and timber. The capacity building workshop is to equip the TIDD Inspectorate, which is currently being supported by UNIDO through the Trade Capacity Building (TCB) Programme for Ghana, to obtain an accreditation in ISO/IEC 17020:2012 and its operating processes in accordance with the ISO 17020 management system. The international quality management standard, ISO/IEC 17020:2012 specifies requirements for the competence…

Police in northern India are searching lists of missing children to try to identify a girl believed to have been living with monkeys. The little girl, aged between eight and 10, was found a few weeks ago in a forest in Uttar Pradesh. Doctors said she could not communicate and displayed “monkey-like” traits. A senior police official told BBC Hindi she had been playing with a pack of monkeys and imitating their behaviour when police went to rescue her. The little girl was spotted by villagers in the Katarniaghat wildlife sanctuary, on the Indian border with Nepal. The police official,…

First Deputy Speaker of Parliament Joseph Osei-Owusu and Minority Chief Whip Mohammed Muntaka Mubarak have been asked by the Speaker of Parliament to find a place in their hearts to forgive Member for Bawku Central Mahama Ayariga. Mr Ayariga on Friday, April 7 read an apology letter over the bribery allegations he made against Mr Osei-Owusu, who is the Chairman of the Appointments Committee, and Alhaji Muntaka, who is a leader on that Committee. The Bawku Central MP’s allegation of receiving bribe from now Minister of Energy Boakye Agyarko through Committee leaders Mr Osei-Owusu and Alhaji Muntaka called for an…

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Speaker of Parliament Mike Aaron Oquaye on Friday, April 7 had to cajole Member of Parliament for Bawku Central Mahama Ayariga to read a letter of apology written over the bribery allegation against the Appointments Committee. Mr Ayariga had failed to impress the Speaker on March 30 in the plenary after the five-member ad hoc committee found him guilty of contempt and asked that he apologized. “With magnanimity in mind, I gave Honourable Ayariga an opportunity to apologise again,” Speaker Oquaye said on Friday. He indicated that the former minister of state had written to him to render an unqualified…

All 275 members of Ghana’s Parliament have appended their signature to the Multilateral Mining Integrated Project (MMIP), a quasi-militant campaign against illegal small scale mining. The campaign, which calls on the MPs to “save our lands and water bodies”, gained a massive support on Friday, April 7 when members thronged to append their signatures to it. Recent media campaign against illegal mining, popularly referred to as galamsey, has been heightened with calls on security agencies to descend heavily on culprits. Pressure group OccupyGhana has already declared the month of April #RedMonth and rolled out a campaign to go red each…

Protesters have marched in cities across South Africa including Cape Town, Durban, and the capital, Pretoria calling for the removal of President Jacob Zuma. The demonstrations came after Mr Zuma’s sacking of a respected finance minister, which led to the country’s credit rating being cut to junk status. The move added pressure to South Africa’s already embattled economy. But supporters of Mr Zuma also turned out to defend the president. This week Mr Zuma survived calls by powerful groups allied to the governing ANC for him to go. He also got the backing of a major decision-making body within the…

PRESIDENT AKUFFO-ADDO AND NPP MUST TAKE FULL RESPONSIBILITY FOR TERROR ATTACK BY THE MILITANT LAWLESS “DELTA FORCE” ON KUMASI CIRCUIT COURT. The National Democratic Congress (NDC), condemns in no uncertain terms and without any reservations, the attack on the Circuit Court in Kumasi yesterday, by a group of lawless brigands known as the Delta Force, who owe unalloyed allegiance to President Nana Akuffo-Addo and the New Patriotic Party (NPP). This shameful and barbaric conduct by the so-called “Delta Forces” of NPP, is absolutely repugnant, bizarre and reprehensible. These wanton unleashing of acts of banditry on the people of Ghana since…

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) have given President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo seven days to take full responsibility of the action of pro-New Patriotic Party (NPP) vigilante group Delta Force, failure of which they will embark on a series of mass actions. Describing Delta Force as a group of lawless brigands with allegiance to President Akufo-Addo and the NPP, the opposition party says that such an act will happen less than 100 days into a government tells of the “weakness, gross incompetence and an inability to maintain the basic tenets of law and order” of the current government. In a…

Former national team coach Samuel Hemans Arday has been laid to rest, following final funeral rites held on Friday at forecourt of the State House. Funeral services began on Thursday, April 6 at the St Peter’s Catholic Church at Osu, Accra, where a pre-burial service was held. After the final rites, Coach Arday was interred at the Osu Cemetery. The ‘Multi-System man’, as he was affectionately called, died on February 12, 2017 after a short illness. He was survived by two children and four grand-children. Arday won Africa’s maiden medal in a senior men’s football tournament at Barcelona, Spain in…