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A research and advocacy think-tank has asked the Ministry of Education to scrap the use of scratch card by BECE and WASSCE candidates in accessing their results, describing the sale of the cards as exploitative. Since 2004, results of students who sit for WAEC examinations are first released online before hardcopies are dispatched to the various schools for candidates to pick them up. Candidates wishing to utilise the online platform to check their results are required to buy a scratch card for 5 cedis before they are able to gain access to the WAEC system. But this, according to CUTS…

The General Secretary of the Public Utility Workers’ Union (PUWU), Michael Adumatta Nyantekyi, has opposed calls for the dismissal or resignation of individuals whose actions or inactions led to the suspension of the ECG-PDS concession agreement. Mr. Nyantekyi is of the view that it is early days yet to call for heads to roll since the subject matter of the suspension of the agreement is under investigations. Government Tuesday announced the suspension of the agreement which was in its fifth month of execution since PDS took over the distribution of electricity from ECG in March 2019. A statement from the government…

The General Secretary of the Public Utility Workers’ Union (PUWU), Michael Adumatta Nyantekyi, has opposed calls for the dismissal or resignation of individuals whose actions or inactions led to the suspension of the ECG-PDS concession agreement. Mr. Nyantekyi is of the view that it is early days yet to call for heads to roll since the subject matter of the suspension of the agreement is under investigations. Government Tuesday announced the suspension of the agreement which was in its fifth month of execution since PDS took over the distribution of electricity from ECG in March 2019. A statement from the government…

The Steering Committee Chairperson of Star Ghana Foundation, Dr. Esther Offei-Aboagye, has stressed the need for local government structures to strengthen compliance with the country’s Inclusive Education policy. Speaking at a public lecture on the state of the implementation of the policy, Dr. Offei-Aboagye stated Ghana is bound to safeguard the rights of the vulnerable and marginalized such as Persons with Disability (PWDs) and children with special needs. Citing the 1992 Constitution and a host of international conventions, including the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), to make a case for inclusive education, Dr. Offei-Aboagye proposed a bottom-up approach which underscores inclusiveness,…

A 23-year-old man has been found dead in a bush at Nkubem, a suburb of Koforidua in the Eastern Region, in what is suspected to be suicide. The lifeless body of Alex Oduro was found Saturday morning tied with a rope around his neck to a branch of a tree, behind the walls of the Central Tabernacle branch of the Church of Pentecost. It is unclear what might have caused him to take his own life. People in the area who trooped to the scene were shocked at the incident. Some residents at Konorkodzi where the deceased lived with his…

The Family Physician and Director for Medical Services at FOCOS Orthopaedic Hospital, Dr. Gerhard Ofori-Amankwah, gave a talk on ‘Your Spine, Your Health and Back Pain’ among professionals at this year’s Bar, Bench and Faculty Conference held last week at the Labadi Beach Hotel, Accra. Addressing the gathering of lawyers and judges of various divisions, Dr. Ofori-Amankwah first made the point that pain is “an unpleasant sensory or emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage or described in terms of such damage”. He emphasised that back pain is usually the pain extending from the nape of the neck…

It is emerging that the Police team which conducted a special operation to retrieve human parts suspected to be that of the three kidnapped Takordi girls were ill-prepared for the homicide investigation. Personnel from the Police CID headquarters in Accra joined their counterparts in Takoradi Friday night to an uncompleted building at Kansaworodo in Takoradi where the key suspect in the kidnapping case lived before his arrest last year. The operation by the team led to the discovery and retrieval of “some human remains” from a septic tank behind the building. Police say the remains will be taken for a…

The Takoradi Port is gearing itself up to increase the annual container handling of 50,000 to 20,000 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) in the next 24 months. This follows the successful casting of the first block for the commencement of work on a one million TEU ultra-modern multi-purpose container terminal at the port. The one million TEU ultra-modern multi-purpose container terminal is a joint venture between wholly Ghanaian owned company IBISTEK and the Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority (GPHA) under a concession agreement. The contractor, Jan DE Nul, has begun the casting of blocks for a 600-meter quay wall with a…

Ed Sheeran has thanked his fans after breaking a tour record set by U2. The singer-songwriter’s Divide tour will be officially the biggest, most attended and highest grossing of all time when he plays in Germany later. He wrote on Instagram: “Thanks so much for each and every one of you who have come to a show. 12 shows left, will never forget it x.” The tour began in March 2017 and will culminate at Chantry Park in Sheeran’s local town Ipswich later this month. By the time the finale comes around he will have spent 893 days on the…

Ed Sheeran has thanked his fans after breaking a tour record set by U2. The singer-songwriter’s Divide tour will be officially the biggest, most attended and highest grossing of all time when he plays in Germany later. He wrote on Instagram: “Thanks so much for each and every one of you who have come to a show. 12 shows left, will never forget it x.” The tour began in March 2017 and will culminate at Chantry Park in Sheeran’s local town Ipswich later this month. By the time the finale comes around he will have spent 893 days on the…