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The General Secretary of the Industrial and Commercial Workers Union (ICU), Solomon Kotei has charged government to learn the ways of private sector businesses in terms of their work output and gains, and replicate same in the public sector. He made this comment on The Key Points on TV3 Saturday while speaking on issues of salary and productivity on the back of Worker’s Day celebration and labour matters arising. According to Mr. Kotei, the private sector has been successful in terms of ensuring that its workers have the necessary tools to work with in order to produce desired results, but…

The General Secretary of the Industrial and Commercial Workers Union (ICU), Solomon Kotei has charged government to learn the ways of private sector businesses in terms of their work output and gains, and replicate same in the public sector. He made this comment on The Key Points on TV3 Saturday while speaking on issues of salary and productivity on the back of Worker’s Day celebration and labour matters arising. According to Mr. Kotei, the private sector has been successful in terms of ensuring that its workers have the necessary tools to work with in order to produce desired results, but…

About 61 personnel of the Ghana National Fire Service have died in the last 12 months whilst discharging their duties. Many firefighters also sustained various degrees of injuries in the year under review, Chief Fire Officer, Edwin Ekow Blankson has said. He recounted this in a statement issued on Saturday to commemorate the annual International Fire Fighters Day which falls on May 4. The day is set aside to celebrate personnel’s dedication, gallantry, loyalty, dexterity and sacrifices as firefighters and rescuers. “Some of these deaths can be linked directly to the effects of firefighting.  We call them heroes because they…

The Ghana Legal Council (GLC) has constituted a Committee to look into recent mass failure in the Professional Law Examinations. The unprecedented failures in the past few years have raised concerns among prospective students and the general public. Read:284 of 525 LLB graduates fail final professional law exams The law student body has even petitioned parliament and the Legal Council to intervene and deal with the matter. It is on the back of these developments that the Legal Council established a Committee led by her Ladyship Justice Sophia Adinyira to investigate the matter and find solutions to it. “As an…

George Perrot, 50, was jailed for life for rape in 1987 photo: SPRINGFIELD POLICE DEPT[/caption] A man whose rape conviction was quashed after he had served 30 years in jail has been accused of sexually assaulting a woman this year, reports say. George Perrot, 50, is due to appear in court accused of rape and other charges, the Republican newspaper reports. He has pleaded not guilty to all charges in relation to an incident on 4 January in Lawrence, Massachusetts. Mr Perrot is being held without bail until his case is heard on Monday. The allegations against Mr Perrot come…

Professor Emeritus Joseph Hansen Kwabena Nketia, a renowned Ethnomusicology and Writer, has left Ghana a legacy of formidable cultural capital to fortify her unique African identify, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo said on Saturday. During the final funeral rites for Prof. J.H. Nketia at the forecourt of the State House, President Akufo-Addo said: “His life’s achievement is a salutary message for the youth, that the sky is the limit for anyone who wants to work hard. Indeed his life experiences point to the crucial significance of education.” He advocated for a Ghana where holistic cultures and identities played key roles…

Professor Emeritus Joseph Hansen Kwabena Nketia,[/caption] Professor Emeritus Joseph Hansen Kwabena Nketia, a renowned Ethnomusicology and Writer, has left Ghana a legacy of formidable cultural capital to fortify her unique African identify, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo said on Saturday. During the final funeral rites for Prof. J.H. Nketia at the forecourt of the State House, President Akufo-Addo said: “His life’s achievement is a salutary message for the youth, that the sky is the limit for anyone who wants to work hard. Indeed his life experiences point to the crucial significance of education.” He advocated for a Ghana where holistic…

Prof Yankah[/caption] The Minister of State in charge of Tertiary Education, Professor Kwesi Yankah, has restated the government’s commitment to support technical universities with the needed resources to produce the skilled manpower to enhance productivity for the country’s accelerated development. He said the success of government’s programmes to make Ghana an industrial hub of Africa, hinged in part on the ability of the technical education system’s ability to produce advanced skilled workforce to drive the nation’s development forward. Speaking at the first congregation of the Cape Coast Technical University (CCTU), in Cape Coast during the weekend, he called on technical…

Former CEO of Kumasi Asante Kotoko, Mr Herbert Mensah, has advocated for a draconian law regime to deal with football hooligans who threaten the survival of the game. He said the strong passion with which Ghanaians followed football called for stringent measures to check any possible spillover that could degenerate into violence such had been witnessed in the country on many occasions. “Supporters will always be passionate and it requires strong decision to ensure that this [May 9 tragedy] never recurs,” he said. “The people who oversee the game, the people who oversee the society, are they strong enough to…

Islamic State group militants say they were behind a Saturday attack on a training camp for the forces of Libyan military strongman Khalifa Haftar. Hospital officials said nine people were killed in the attack in Libya’s southern city of Sabha. Gen Haftar’s eastern forces took control of key areas in the oil-rich south during a January offensive. They are now concentrated in the north west, where they are battling for control of the capital, Tripoli. In a statement posted online, the Islamic State group said it had killed or wounded 16 people in the Sabha attack, as well as freeing…