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Strategic Communications Africa Ltd. (Stratcomm Africa) been awarded for using communication to promote positive behaviours towards environmental conservation in Ghana through its ground- breaking Ghana Garden and Flower Movement. The award was given by the International Public Relations Association (IPRA) at the IPRA Golden World Awards for Excellence in Public Relations in Yerevan, Armenia. The award which came with a citation was presented by President of the IPRA Svetlana Stavrena, President of the IPRA. The citation recognized Stratcomm Africa’s professional use of Public Relations and Communications as a Behaviour Change tool to contribute to the Sustainable Development Goals. The annual…

Strategic Communications Africa Ltd. (Stratcomm Africa) been awarded for using communication to promote positive behaviours towards environmental conservation in Ghana through its ground- breaking Ghana Garden and Flower Movement. The award was given by the International Public Relations Association (IPRA) at the IPRA Golden World Awards for Excellence in Public Relations in Yerevan, Armenia. The award which came with a citation was presented by President of the IPRA Svetlana Stavrena, President of the IPRA. The citation recognized Stratcomm Africa’s professional use of Public Relations and Communications as a Behaviour Change tool to contribute to the Sustainable Development Goals. The annual…

The University of Ghana (UG) has interdicted two of its senior lecturers implicated in the explosive ‘sex for grade’ scandal in West African universities. Prof. Ransford Gyampo and Dr. Paul Kwame Butakor were caught on tape allegedly propositioning and sexually harassing undercover journalists who posed as students of the University of Ghana. Prof Gyampo cited in #SexForGrades exposé asking for kiss “…the Business and Executive Committee of the University has taken a decision to interdict Prof. Ransford Gyampo and Dr. Paul Kwame Butakor, the two lecturers featured in the documentary to allow for further investigations into the matter” a statement issued Tuesday…

Renowned playwright James Ebo Whyte, popularly known as Uncle Ebo Whyte, has given a chilling account of how God saved him through prayers following a revelation that he had been “taken somewhere” by “some people”. The revelation, according to him, was made by a man of God to a lady, whose name he gave as Esther, during a church service. He said after Esther, in turn, told his wife, there were “strange” happenings in his life as the prophecy was about death before his birthday two years ago. Uncle Ebo Whyte said on more than five occasions, different people at…

Dr. Adu-Ampomah (L) has been struggling in testifying against Dr. Opuni (R)pu[/caption] The Appeals Court is set to hear a motion asking for a stay of proceedings at the High Court that rejected a document that “contradicts and shatters the entire [state’s] case” against former COCOBOD CEO, Dr. Stephen Opuni. The document in question is a letter addressed to Agricult Ghana Limited, asking it to pay for the reassessment and evaluation of “Lithovit Liquid Fertiliser” in 2014. The document, titled: “Renewal of CRIG certificate for pesticides, fertilisers and spraying machines for January to December 2015” was signed by the then…

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…

School children have been advised to be extra vigilant, cautious and obey road traffic signs to safeguard their lives when crossing the road. This was made known at the fourth edition of the annual Junior Road Care programme by Vivo Energy Ghana in partnership with Applause Multimedia, the National Road Safety Commission and the Ghana Education Service. Junior Road Care is an interactive programme aimed at influencing the attitudes and behaviours of children to become more conscious on the road as pedestrians, cyclists and responsible future drivers. This year’s event attracted over 700 school children from 25 basic schools in…

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…

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…

US opera singer Jessye Norman, one of the most renowned sopranos of the 20th Century, has died at the age of 74. A native of Augusta, Georgia, Norman was one of the rare black singers to reach fame in the opera world. She established herself in Europe in the 1970s and made her debut at the Metropolitan Opera in New York in 1983. Norman died in a New York hospital of septic shock and multiple organ failure related to complications from a spinal cord injury in 2015, her family said. Born on 15 September 1945, Norman grew up in a…