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The University of Ghana branch of the Tertiary Education Institutions Network (TEIN) has issued a week ultimatum to government to ensure persons under the Students Loan Trust Fund are paid their allowance for the 2018/2019 academic. In a statement signed by its president, Ayikwei Andrew Richardson, TEIN lamented over delays in disbursement. According to TEIN, their checks with the managers of the Trust have revealed government has not yet released funds for disbursement, hence, the delay. The student group said the delay is having a serious toll on the academic work of students under the Trust, hence will not tolerate…

Government is set to introduce new school uniform for pupils in all public Junior High Schools (JHS) across the country. The move forms part of the new reforms in the educational sector announced by President Nana Akufo-Addo during his State of the Nation’s address in February this year. This reform will among other things see the implementation of new curricula from next academic year in September. “The minister through consultations, presented a memo to cabinet which was duly accepted for us to change the junior high school uniform,” Director General of GES, Prof Kwasi Opoku Amankwa he said. Why new…

Here’s a quick recap of what’s been happening on Game of Thrones (GOT) and what to remember for season 8, character by character as the April 14 premier date gets closer. In Kingslanding, Cersei and Jamie may no longer be having incestuous sex, at least for a while. Cersei pretended to join Jon and Daenerys to fight the night king, but changed the plan once they left Kingslanding. Jamie, gullible as he is, is disappointed and has ridden off possibly to find the dragon queen? Up in Winterfell Arya and Sansa have masterfully killed off Little finger and the Stark…

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has assured Ghanaians that the massive infrastructure his government is embarking on in the next two years will not add a pesewa to Ghana’s debt stock which stood at 173.2 billion cedis at the end of 2018. Critics have argued the 2 billion-dollar Ghana-Chinese barter arrangement under which the projects will be financed, will add to the country’s total debt stock. Figures from Bank of Ghana showed the government added 30.6 billion cedis to the debt stock that was 142.6 billion cedis at the end of 2017. The Minority in parliament which has been critical…

Counsel of customers for Menzgold Ghana Limited says she treats the news about the Chief Executive Officer of the embattled gold dealership firm, Nana Appiah Mensah, popularly known as NAM 1, as “fake news”. NAM1 is widely reported to have won his court case in Dubai. Lawyer Amanda Clinton explaining her reasons said every two weeks, there is news about NAM1 in Ghana and that does not make the latest news on the winning of the case authentic. According to his spokesperson, NAM1 was acquitted and discharged on Tuesday morning. The court has also reportedly ordered the Dubai-based company, which…

Two students of the University of Mines and Technology (UMaT) have developed a cocoa disease detection machine, an invention that is likely to give a boost to cocoa production in the country. Developed by Ami De-Quist Sosu and Asiedu Brempon, both level 400 students, the machine was adjudged the best technology at the 5th Innovation and Career Fair of UMaT in Tarkwa in the Western Region. It uses digital image processing to detect cocoa diseases on farms, something that will be a welcoming news for cocoa farmers in the country. The developers received 5,000 cedis, a certificate and a plague…

The Ghana Investment Promotion Centre (GIPC) has for the fourth consecutive time, been adjudged the Best Investment Promotion Agency in West and Central Africa for 2018. The Centre won the award for 2015, 2016, and 2017. Also, the Centre has been given the Loyalty Award for being consistent in its investment promotion drive in the sub-region. Both awards were given at this year’s Annual Investment Meeting (AIM) 2019 Investment Awards Gala Dinner, held on 8th April 2019 at Fort Island, Madinat Jumeirah in Dubai. The AIM Investment Awards is organized under the patronage of Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum,…

One in ten Japanese men are 40-year-old virgins as women choose to have sex with wealthier lovers, a new study reveals. The virginity rate among straight men has more than doubled since 1992 as “simply put, money talks”, researchers said. Low-income men were up to 20 times more likely to be virgins than their richer and usually older counterparts, but the effect was reversed for women on lower incomes. Adults in their 30s were up to ten times more likely to be virgins compared to their British, Australian and Americans counterparts – where the rate was between one to five per cent. Study author…

The Ghana National Gas Company Limited says civil works to interconnect its pipelines to that of the West Africa Gas Pipeline in a bid to transport natural gas to power thermal plants within the Aboadze and Tema enclaves are over 90 per cent complete. “98 per cent of the work is completed and we are ahead of [completion] time,” Head of Communications, Ernest Owusu Bempah, told journalists Tuesday. In the wake of the recent unannounced disruptions in electricity supply to many parts of the country, the Energy Ministry announced power generating plants within the Tema enclave had to be shut…

Professor Samuel Kobina Annim has been appointed as the new Government Statistician Graphic Online has gathered. He was appointed by President Nana Addo Akufo-Addo on the recommendation of the Public Services Commission. Prof Annim, who is an Associate Professor of Economics assumed duty on March 1, 2019. He joined the Statistical Service from the University of Cape Coast (UCC) where he worked for over 18 years. Graphic Online