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The biggest casualty in the one-eighth contest of the National Science and Maths Quiz so far was recorded on Friday, June 28 as former winners St Thomas Aquinas Senior High School were ousted. The Cantonments boys failed to progress to the quarter-final after losing the final round of their contest to Achimota School. Aquinas won the contest in 2013 and finished runners-up to Prempeh College in 2017. Though overtaking Achimota School before the final round, Aquinas failed to answer any of the riddles in the final round, allowing Achimota School – who answered two on the trot – to leapfrog…

The First Lady, Rebecca Akufo-Addo, has called for an open discussion on infertility to demystify the condition, which many misconstrue as a curse. Mrs Akufo-Addo said infertility is not a curse and that there is the need for both men and women to talk about it without feeling bad. She observed that even though infertility affects more men than women, the women are the more stigmatized. “Childless women still suffer discrimination, stigma and ostracism and the women are always blamed for infertility even though studies show that 50 percent of infertility cases are associated with men,” she said at the…

The seventh edition of the Ghana Garden and Flower Show has been launched in Accra to take place from August 28 to September 3 at the Afua Sutherland Children’s Park. Launched by the Israeli Ambassador to Ghana, Liberia and Sierra Leone, Shani Cooper-Zubida, this year’s show is on the theme “Be the Change”. A number of exciting activities such as a karaoke/music night, taste of the park, fashion in the park, children’s playground, and party in the park have been lined up for the annual show, which had about 19,000 visitors last year. A Green Innovation Competition has also been…

Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi is in hospital after suffering a “severe health crisis”, officials say. They gave no further details. Mr Essebsi – who at 92 is the world’s oldest sitting president – was also treated in hospital last week. PM Youssef Chahed said Mr Essebsi was receiving all the attention he needed and people should stop spreading “fake news” about his condition. There had been reports that the president had died. Mr Chahed said in a Facebook post (in Arabic) that he had visited the president in hospital. Mr Essebsi won Tunisia’s first free elections in 2014 following Arab…

General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Johnson Asiedu Nketia, has accused the Electoral Commission (EC) of a deliberate attempt to cause confusion with its ongoing limited registration exercise. Speaking at a press conference in Accra on the ongoing exercise, Mr. Asiedu Nketiah said the EC has refused to pay heed to concerns raised by the NDC about some hitches with the registration exercise in order to satisfy the interest of some political powers. “Our observation of the registration exercise so far seem to point to a calculated and well-rehearsed orchestration designed by the Electoral Commission to intentionally create…

President Nana Addo-Danquah Akufo-Addo has lauded GOIL for venturing into the local production of bitumen to end Ghana’s dependence on foreign sourcing. In a speech read on his behalf by the Minister of Energy, Mr. Peter Amewu, the President said, “No Oil Marketing Company (OMC) in Ghana, today, supplies PMB for road construction. Most major road contractors import the product in bitumen containers from abroad. It is therefore remarkable that GOIL has taken the initiative in conjunction with Société Multinational de Butimes (SMB) to construct a Bitumen Plant for storage of raw bitumen.” The President said this on Thursday at…

President Nana Addo-Danquah Akufo-Addo has lauded GOIL for venturing into the local production of bitumen to end Ghana’s dependence on foreign sourcing. In a speech read on his behalf by the Minister of Energy, Mr. Peter Amewu, the President said, “No Oil Marketing Company (OMC) in Ghana, today, supplies PMB for road construction. Most major road contractors import the product in bitumen containers from abroad. It is therefore remarkable that GOIL has taken the initiative in conjunction with Société Multinational de Butimes (SMB) to construct a Bitumen Plant for storage of raw bitumen.” The President said this on Thursday at…

Guinea and Ghana have undertaken to deepen economic ties as preparations near completion for the establishment of the Africa Continental Free Trade Area. Guinean President Alpha Condé expressed this expectation when Ghana’s Minister for Information, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, delivered a special message from President Nana Akufo-Addo to Prof. Condé Mr Nkrumah who was in Guinea as President Akufo-Addo’s special envoy, engaged President Condé on how both countries can work to ensure the full implementation of the Free Trade Area. For his part, President Condé who acknowledged a long standing relationship between Ghana and Guinea,  agreed that the free trade area…

Stakeholders in the extractive industry are calling for the establishment of Public Interest and Accountability Committee (PIAC) in the mining industry. This, they believe, will enable the country monitor how much revenue is being generated in the mining industry and also how the revenue is being utilized. The call was made at the launch of PIAC 2018 annual report, in Kumasi. Ghana per the report, has raked in close to five billion dollars in revenue since oil production started in 2011. In 2018, an amount of 977 million dollars was generated from the petroleum sector. A total of 414 million…