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Government says it is focused on building its human capital by shaping the educational system to enable young people utilise modern technology to contribute to economic growth. President Akufo-Addo who said this assured his government will capitalise on modern technology to improve the economy. “We have come to a major crossroad in Ghanaian development where we are looking to take some measures that can enable our economy to improve itself,” he said when vice president of the World Bank Africa, Hafez Ghanem, called on him at the Jubilee House on Monday “The fragile raw material producing economy has been essential…

Government says it is focused on building its human capital by shaping the educational system to enable young people utilise modern technology to contribute to economic growth. President Akufo-Addo who said this assured his government will capitalise on modern technology to improve the economy. “We have come to a major crossroad in Ghanaian development where we are looking to take some measures that can enable our economy to improve itself,” he said when vice president of the World Bank Africa, Hafez Ghanem, called on him at the Jubilee House on Monday “The fragile raw material producing economy has been essential…

The Minister of Energy, Mr John Peter Amewu has said saboteurs are behind the collapse of a tower belonging to the Ghana Grid Company (GRIDCo) in Tema on Monday. In what the Minister describes as an act of vandalism, he said people who were not interested in seeing progress in Ghana and want to plunge the country into darkness are the ones behind the act. One of GRIDCo’s towers collapsed on Monday after thieves vandalised the bolts and nuts at Tema along the Volta Smelter transmission site. The incident, which happened at about 1:30 am on Monday saw the power…

The police in the Western Region have denied reports that the officer who committed suicide was part of the four persons being investigated for theft at the Osagyefo Power Barge at Efassu near Half-Assini. Marine Police officer Sergeant Fuseini Mohammed was on duty at the Barge Sunday with one other when he allegedly shot himself dead with his AK47 riffle. This was after he sent his colleague to buy him a razor blade. A handwritten note found on him read: “I cannot face this disgrace about something I know nothing about”. The note had three numbers, including that of his…

Chairman of the Church of Pentecost, Apostle Eric Kwabena Nyamekye, has descended heavily on some Ghanaians, particularly religious leaders and politicians whose actions he said has become the bane of Ghana’s problems. He said it was unfortunate that some pastors spend ample time preaching not about the word of God but designer things they possess, while some chiefs have also made it a practice to sell one parcel of land to 10 people, describing these acts as shameful. Addressing a gathering of religious, political leaders and civil society in Kumasi, Apostle Nyamekye did not mince words in chastising politicians who…

A dormitory of the St Charles Minor Seminary Senior High School in Tamale went up in flames Monday afternoon destroying students’ personal belongings, a development that is likely to render the students homeless. The fire, which started at 12:29pm at the Cardinal Dery dormitory, completely burned eight of the nine rooms at a time that students were in class. It took the intervention of personnel from the Ghana National Fire Service to control the fire and prevent it from burning the last room in the dormitory. A similar fire outbreak at the school in March 2017 destroyed the school’s two-storey…

Theresa May is due to make a statement on Brexit to MPs later, which will be followed by a debate on next steps. MPs are then expected to vote on a series of alternatives to the prime minister’s Brexit deal. Ministers were feeling “more positive” about being able to hold a third vote on the PM’s deal this week, sources told the BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg. But Northern Ireland’s DUP has said its position has not changed and it will not be backing the deal. DUP leader Arlene Foster told the prime minister the news in a telephone call after this…

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo left Ghana on Monday for a day’s official visit to Malta. The visit is a reciprocal one from Nana Akufo-Addo to President Marie-Louise Coleiro Preca who was one of the first foreign leaders visit to Ghana when Nana Akufo-Addo assumed the presidency of Ghana. The reciprocal visit, which is on the invitation of the Maltese President, seeks to deepen and strengthen existing ties between the two countries, as well as explore other areas of co-operation for their mutual benefit. While in Malta, President Akufo-Addo will address the Ghana-Malta Business Forum, which is being held to…

A Kenyan Mathematics and Physics teacher who donates 80 percent of his salary to help impoverished young students has won the world’s best teacher award. Peter Tabichi was awarded the Fifth Varkey Foundation $1 million global teacher prize at a ceremony in Dubai on Sunday. The prize is awarded to a single teacher who has made an outstanding contribution to the profession and aims to shine a spotlight on the role that teachers play in society. Peter Tabichi won the prize from a pool of over 10,000 nominees from 179 countries. The winning educator will put their $1 million awarded…

Employees who were engaged to collect data as part of the 2018 Ghana Census on Agriculture (GCA) have served notice to the Ghana Statistical Services (GSS) that they will embark on a nationwide demonstration if it does not pay them allowances by the end of March. The  Ghana Census on Agriculture project, which was launched by the President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, at Sefwi Wiawso in the Western North Region, is to collect data which will enable government formulate strategies and policies, as well as monitor and evaluate policies in the agriculture sector. Accordingly, the Ghana Statistical Services (GSS) in…