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Presidential staffer Charles Bissue and five police officers accused by Anas Aremeyaw Anas of taking bribes to facilitate a company to circumvent laid down processes to be given clearance for mining operations have been cleared of any wrongdoing. “At the conclusion of investigations, based on the available evidence, none of the suspects was found to be culpable for any offence,” the leaked Police CID report sighted by 3news.com stated. Presidential staffer, others caught in ‘galamsey’ deals in latest Anas video “None of the suspects in the case including suspect Charles Bissue was found to have circumvented the laid down procedure…

The Ministry of Education has said teachers who hold certificates acquired through Distance Learning qualify to teach at the Senior High School level, contrary to reports that the Ministry has issued a directive denying such teachers an opportunity to teach. According to the Ministry, there is no policy from them nor the Ghana Education Service which exempts such teachers from teaching at Senior High Schools. You can’t teach at SHS with Distance degree – GES directs In a statement issued and signed by the Ministry’s Public Relations Officer, Vincent Ekow Assafuah,  there are specific courses acquired through the Distance Learning…

The Ministry of Education has said teachers who hold certificates acquired through Distance Learning qualify to teach at the Senior High School level, contrary to reports that the Ministry has issued a directive denying such teachers an opportunity to teach. According to the Ministry, there is no policy from them nor the Ghana Education Service which exempts such teachers from teaching at Senior High Schools. You can’t teach at SHS with Distance degree – GES directs In a statement issued and signed by the Ministry’s Public Relations Officer, Vincent Ekow Assafuah,  there are specific courses acquired through the Distance Learning…

The mid-year budget review to be presented by the Minister of Finance in Parliament has been rescheduled to Monday, July 29. The delivery by Ken Ofori-Atta was initially scheduled to be done on Wednesday, July 24 but was rescheduled to Monday, July 22. But the date for the presentation has again been rescheduled to Monday, July 29. Already, the Minority in Parliament has warned the Minister of Finance, and by extension government, not to make it a “populist, vote-buying gimmick” but to address the hardships currently facing Ghanaians. Minority cautions gov’t ahead of mid-year budget review The government at a…

Eritrea has signed up to the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCTFA) meaning that all countries on the continent have now agreed to the deal. The AU says that AfCFTA will create the world’s largest free trade area. It also estimates that implementing AfCFTA will lead to around a 60% boost in intra-African trade by 2022. The first step is to cut tariffs for goods from countries within the bloc but the timeframe to do this is yet to be announced. Economic superpower Nigeria signed up earlier this month leaving Eritrea as the only country outside the deal. Eritrea did…

Factions loyal to the two feuding Paramount chiefs of Dixcove in the Western region clashed Sunday night throwing the entire twin-community into chaos and uproar. The Paramount chief of Lower Dixcove, Nana Kwesi Agyemang is reported to have been captured from his palace by thugs loyal to the chief of Upper Dixcove to an unknown location, sparking unrest within the paramountcy. This, terrified residents, said led to indiscriminate detonation of dynamite causing damage to many properties in both Upper and Lower. Some residents including children, women and the aged have had no sleep as people continue to flee from the…

When it comes to bathroom etiquette, the sins of men extend far beyond leaving the toilet seat up. Men really are less likely than women to wash their hands after using the bathroom, research suggests, and may put other people at risk from the germs they leave behind. A snapshot study swabbed the door handles of a large office building in London, discovering the men’s bathroom door contained almost six times more bacteria than the ladies’. It comes after the Royal Society of Public Health found only half of men rate not washing their hands after using the toilet as ‘high-risk’…

A Deputy Chief Health Tutor at the Nursing and Midwifery Training College at Korle-Bu, Perpetual Ofori- Ampofo, has identified nursing and midwifery as the key to achieving Universal Health Coverage (UHC) in the Ghanaian community, and has called on the government to invest in them.  According to her, nurses and midwives are usually the first point of call and sometimes the only health professionals patients see when facing health challenges. “Nurses and midwives can advance the agenda of UHC if Ghana as a country maximizes  the capacities and potential of nurses and midwives through professional collaborative partnerships, education and continuing…

Government has announced plans to deploy a Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) system aimed at comprehensively protecting transactions and interactions on the country’s digital space. Ghanaian businesses are becoming ever more dependent on digital information and electronic transactions, and as a result, face stringent data privacy compliance challenges and data security regulations. With enterprises increasingly under threat of cyber-attacks and malicious insiders, business entities access sensitive data and critical system, the introduction of the PKI system has been considered as timely. Over the years, there have been a few forms of authentication, which have been developed to safeguard critical and sensitive…