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Government has said that it would incorporate cybersecurity education into the basic and senior secondary schools in Ghana as part of an agenda to build capacity of citizenry in tackling cybersecurity. President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo said this in a speech read on his behalf by Mr Ambrose Dery, the Minister of the Interior, at the opening of the National Cyber Security Awareness Month 2019. The President said, including cybersecurity education in the curriculum of basic and senior secondary education would help in building the capacity of citizens from an early stage and take the efforts made during the awareness…

Justin Trudeau’s Liberal Party has retained power in a narrow Canadian election win but he will now be prime minister of a minority government. The Liberals are projected to win 157 seats, 13 short of a majority, and will find it harder to pass legislation in Mr Trudeau’s second term. The opposition Conservatives are expected to win the popular vote but have not translated that into seats. They are projected to take 121, up from the 95 they held before. Although Monday night’s results saw a sharp decline in seats for the country’s left-leaning New Democratic Party (NDP), its leader,…

Former Power Minister, Dr. Kwabena Donkor has backed government’s decision to abrogate the controversial Power Distribution Services (PDS) concession agreement with the Electricity Company of Ghana. He is therefore urging Ghana not to kowtow to the dictates of the USA’s Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) at the expense of the laws of Ghana. Speaking to Winston Amoah on 3FM’s Sunrise Morning Show on Tuesday, the former minister maintained that Ghana is a sovereign state and cannot therefore be instructed by another state to take decisions against its will. Government in a letter dated October 18, 2019 to the MCC announced the…

The Ghana Education Service (GES) is currently undergoing the process of posting teachers who passed the 2018 Licensure Examination. According to the GES, postings will be completed and made public by end of November, 2019. GES noted in a statement that only persons who completed Colleges of Education and passed all necessary examinations in 2018 will be posted. They also charged all teachers who will be placed this year to accept their place of posting, and serve in the best interest of Ghana. “The GES reserves the right to post teachers to where their services are needed.” The Ghana Education…

A private security company, Chriwdog Security Company, as part of efforts to motivate teachers in their line of work has presented three separate awards to some teachers of the New Akrade Presbyterian Primary School in the Eastern Region. The award ceremony was held during the school’s Education Week on Sunday, October 20. The three best teachers, Augustina Aboagyewaa, Edze Felix and Theophilus Buetey, were given certificates of honour and undisclosed amount of monies for their good work. The award is the first if its kind by the company. Aside motivating teachers, it is also aimed to prioritize commitment and hard…

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has planned to hold Parliamentary primaries in areas where it has sitting Members of Parliament (MP) on April 25, 2020. The NPP has I69 sitting Members of Parliament out of the total 275 seats in Parliament. The party has already elected more than 95 Parliamentary candidates who would be contesting on its ticket in orphan constituencies [areas the party does not have sitting MPs]. The same April 25, 2020 date would also be used to elect a flagbearer for the party for Election 2020. Fees Nomination fees for the aspiring MPs have been pegged at GH¢2000 and…

The US government is threatening sanctions against Ghana over the termination of the controversial Power Distribution Services (PDS) Ghana Limited deal with the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG). Government in a letter dated October 18, 2019 to the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) announced the termination of the agreement which came into effect on March 1, 2019 and saw PDS take over Ghana’s major power distribution company, ECG. The decision, government explained, was prompted by some breaches of the agreement by PDS. According to the Ghana government, PDS failed to fulfil the necessary “condition precedent” in the agreement, which borders on…

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has asked leaders of ECOWAS member countries to demonstrate strong political will to make the subregion an economic and political success. He also underscored the need for them to make the project of integration real, especially as the African Continental Free Trade Area come into force. Speaking at the Annual International Conference of the ECOWAS Court of Justice on Monday, Nana Akufo-Addo noted that the principal reason for the creation of ECOWAS was to enhance inter-regional commerce and co-operation. He explained that there was a clear recognition that the countries of West Africa would be…