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Chief Executive of Strategic Communication Africa (Stratcomm Africa), Esther A.N Cobbah, has been appointed as a board member of the International Public Relations Association (IPRA). Ms Cobbah becomes the first person from sub-Sahara Africa to be appointed to the board of IPRA.  The IPRA brings together public relations practitioners from all over the world. The board, drawn from the Association’s global membership, was inaugurated in Vienna, Austria on February 23. Svetlana Stavreva, External Relations Manager of Global Technology Services (GTS), IBM Europe and Official Member of the Forbes Communications Council was also installed as President of the IPRA on February 22.…

A presidential staffer and Secretary to the Inter-Ministerial Committee on Illegal Mining (IMCIM), Mr. Charles Cromwell Bissue, has been fingered as the foremost turncoat against efforts by President Akufo-Addo to weed out illegal mining in the country. In the latest undercover work of ace investigative journalist, Anas Aremeyaw Anas and his Tiger Eye PI group exposing corruption, which airs on a number of TV stations and Graphic Online today, February 27, 2019, Bissue emerges as a facilitator for a company seeking to circumvent laid down processes to be given clearance for its mining operations. He is captured in a secretly…

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has been re-elected for a second four-year term, the election commission says. The 76-year-old defeated his main rival, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, with a margin of nearly four million votes. Mr Abubakar’s People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has rejected the result. Turnout was 35.6%. Delays and violence marred the run-up to Saturday’s poll but no independent observer has cited electoral fraud. Mr Buhari’s All Progressives Congress (APC) won in 19 of the 36 states while the PDP was victorious in 17 states and in the capital, Abuja, according to the electoral commission (Inec). “The new administration…

In the famous words of Charles de Gaulle, a former French army officer and statesman who led the French Resistance against Nazi Germany in World War II, he said, “France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.” The understanding of this quip is that, you can only win a battle but not the war; in that, a war is a composite of endless battles which will be fought at different forms and phases. Over the weekend, hundreds of thousands of delegates and supporters of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) across the length and breadth of the…

A Deputy Minister of Education, Dr. Yaw Osei Adutwum, has denied claims that education at the basic level would soon be privatized and commercialized. The Deputy Minister of Education in charge of basic and second cycle education said although there are plans by the Ministry of Education to revamp education at the basic level, there is no such thing as privatizing or commercializing it. On Tuesday, February 26, 2019, four teacher unions held a press conference and raised concerns over government’s intention to privatize and commercialize basic education. These teacher unions, GNAT, NAGRAT, CCT-Ghana and TEWU indicated that majority of…

The 2019 Stanbic Jazz Festival is barely a couple of days from now, and jazz lovers across the country are getting ready to be treated to music from some renowned jazz artistes. Ghanaians will welcome, for the first time, legendary UK reggae and pop band UB40, Salif Keita and Richard Bona as headline acts for the 2019 edition of the Stanbic Jazz Festival from February 28, at the Labadi Beach Hotel, through to March 2,  at he Fantasy Dome. The question on the minds of many Ghanaians is which local act makes the grade this time to join these global…

The 2019 Stanbic Jazz Festival is barely a couple of days from now, and jazz lovers across the country are getting ready to be treated to music from some renowned jazz artistes. Ghanaians will welcome, for the first time, legendary UK reggae and pop band UB40, Salif Keita and Richard Bona as headline acts for the 2019 edition of the Stanbic Jazz Festival from February 28, at the Labadi Beach Hotel, through to March 2,  at he Fantasy Dome. The question on the minds of many Ghanaians is which local act makes the grade this time to join these global…

The Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT) has cautioned government against rushing to implement the proposed standards-based curriculum until implementers and stakeholders have been thoroughly sensitised. This is because, if properly implemented, the new curriculum would go a long way to address the shortfalls in the educational system and eliminate the “chew and pour” method, which had characterised the country’s educational system. President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo–Addo in his state of the nation address on Thursday February 21, 2019 announced that Ghana would in September 2019, roll out a new standards-based curriculum from kindergarten to Class six in primary schools…

The Grand Ballroom of the Boston Park Plaza Hotel in Boston, Massachusetts was filled with excitement and pride on the 17th of February 2019 as 11 Ghanaian students received awards for winning the Resolution Project pitch contest as part of this year’s Harvard National Model United Nations (HNMUN) Conference in the United States of America. For their rewards, the group wins a total of $10,000 grant to enable them to undertake various social development interventions in their home country within the framework of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations. A statement published on the website of Life-Link…