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The National Union of Ghana Students (NUGS) has congratulated St. Augustine’s College for emerging winners of this year’s National Science and Mathematics Quiz (NSMQ) competition. St Augustine’s College beat former winners Presbyterian Boys’ SHS and St Peter’s SHS to annex their second ever trophy. “St. Augustine’s College after battling dozens of competitors in this year’s competition deserve laurels for exhibiting knowledge and a captivating performance as well as proper sportsmanship,” NUGS said in a statement on Thursday. “We commend the teachers and scholarly teams that competed in this year’s event from all across our country.” NUGS expressed appreciation how successful…

Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) has held a day’s seminar for its Chartered Accounting staff at Cocoa House in Accra with a call by the Chief Executive Officer, Joseph Boahen Aidoo, to embrace emerging trends in the financial fraternity. He also charged them to continue to build a formidable team in handling cocoa revenues. Mr Boahen Aidoo disclosed that COCOBOD is undergoing some transformation and the Board needs a lot of financial resources to do so, noting that this requires time and money to be saved. He therefore called for the cutting down of losses and improvement in revenue generation. He…

What was expected to be a clash of the titans in the grand finale of the 2019 National Science and Maths Quiz turned out to be a walkover for the Cape Coast-based St. Augustine’s College, as there was no strong opposition to their sail to victory. Until their second win this afternoon, Augusco, as they are referred to, had squared up with five-time winners, Presec-Legon, and  defending champions, St Peter’s Boys’ SHS in the finals held at the National Theatre in Accra. The Augusco boys dominated all rounds of the contest and emerged victorious with 39 points setting them apart…

The year-on-year inflation rate in Ghana fell to 9.1 per cent in June, from 9.4 per cent recorded in May. The fall is due to a 0.3 percentage point fall in the inflation rate of the Non-Food group and a 0.2 percentage point fall in the inflation of the Food and Non-Alcoholic Beverages group. Monthly change rate for June was 0.8 per cent compared to the 0.9 per cent recorded for May. The 9.1 per cent inflation rate is the lowest in the last five months – since February. Non-Food group recorded a year-on-year inflation rate of 10.3 per cent…

The year-on-year inflation rate in Ghana fell to 9.1 per cent in June, from 9.4 per cent recorded in May. The fall is due to a 0.3 percentage point fall in the inflation rate of the Non-Food group and a 0.2 percentage point fall in the inflation of the Food and Non-Alcoholic Beverages group. Monthly change rate for June was 0.8 per cent compared to the 0.9 per cent recorded for May. The 9.1 per cent inflation rate is the lowest in the last five months – since February. Non-Food group recorded a year-on-year inflation rate of 10.3 per cent…

Law Faculties at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), University of Ghana (UG) and University of Cape Coast (UCC) are respectively ranked 5th, 11th and 14th among 20 English teams that participated in the African Moot 2019 organized by the Centre for Human Rights. A total of 40 teams participated in the annual event which was hosted this year by the Faculty of Law, University of Botswana. The African Moot 2019 amongst other things afforded participants the opportunity to meet and interact with colleague LLB students from different countries on the similarities and differences among laws and…

The Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, has served notice that the digitisation agenda of President Nana Akufo-Addo will soon extend  to the distribution of premix fuel in Ghana in order to increase efficiency of its delivery to fishermen. According to Vice President Bawumia, introducing digital technologies in premix distribution will ensure that fisherfolk, for whom the product is subsidised and provided for, actually get it. Vice President Bawumia stated this when he gave the opening address at the 3rd Ghana International Petroleum Conference (GhipCon) in Accra on Wednesday 10th July, 2019. “We have to increasingly leverage on the digital technologies…

The Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, has served notice that the digitisation agenda of President Nana Akufo-Addo will soon extend  to the distribution of premix fuel in Ghana in order to increase efficiency of its delivery to fishermen. According to Vice President Bawumia, introducing digital technologies in premix distribution will ensure that fisherfolk, for whom the product is subsidised and provided for, actually get it. Vice President Bawumia stated this when he gave the opening address at the 3rd Ghana International Petroleum Conference (GhipCon) in Accra on Wednesday 10th July, 2019. “We have to increasingly leverage on the digital technologies…

Ghana is set to host the ‘I have a vision (IHAV) Project Conference 2019’ aimed at tackling issues with the standard and quality of education in Africa. The four-day conference takes off July 24-27, 2019 at the University of Ghana. It brings together 100 participants from 20 African countries to deliberate on the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 4; elaborating on the impact of quality education, as well at the development requirement to ensure the attainment of this goal. In a statement signed by Media Relations Officer Sabtiya Wahab Abubakar, IHAV noted that the aim of the conference is to bring…