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Education Minister Dr. Mathew Opoku Prempeh, popularly known as Napo, has paid a working visit to one of Ghana’s world-class learning institution, Delhi Public School (DPS) International. Dr. Opoku Prempeh’s visit to the Tema-based school on Wednesday, February 20, 2019, was to help familiarise himself with the operations of the institution. Speaking to journalists on the purpose of his visit, the minister observed that “my main purpose was to visit a wonderful facility done really on the back of good social responsibility for the better education in this country.” He said it was also to see for himself “and also…

President Nana Addo Dankwa-Akufo says government will soon pass a legislation to redefine basic education in the country to include senior high school. The President disclosed this while presenting the 2019 State of the Nation Address on Thursday, February 21. He expressed delight over current reforms in the education sector, which he says provides a bright future for the young in the country. “It warms my heart that we are now able to say that education in the public sector is free from Kindergarten to Senior High School, and that this year, a legislation would be passed to redefine Basic…

Students of the Ghana School of Law have expressed displeasure with the handling of bar examinations given the latest results. Results of the 2017 exams recorded an 81 per cent failure of prospective lawyers with some repeated while about 170 others have been referred. The exams are conducted by the Independent Examination Board (IEB) set up by the General Legal Council (GLC) in 2013. The recent results have provoked student agitations with some calling for a scrapping of the exams body. Speaking on 3FM on Wednesday, a member of the Judicial Council of the Students’ Representative Council, Frederick Abu-Bonsrah, who…

The timely intervention of personnel from the Central regional police command saved a man who had visited his 12 year old daughter at school from been lynched after mob mistook him for a kidnapper.   The man, Enoch Mensah Nortey, was at the St Lawrence Catholic Basic School to visit the small girl but some residents raised false alarm that he had gone there to kidnap some of the school children. He had sought permission from the head teacher to see his daughter who lives separately from him only to leave the head teacher’s office to meet a thick crowd…

Member of Parliament for Assin Central, Kennedy Agyapong says he will continuously throw his weight behind pro-NPP vigilante group, Invisible Force so long as they provide protection for the NPP as a party. Mr. Agyapong who was speaking on his television network, Net2 TV on Wednesday, said the political militias provide better protection than the Ghana police. “Until the whole Ghana says Azorka Boys, Hawks, Invisible Force and Delta Force should stop their activities, I will continue to support Invisible Force because they have defended the NPP,” Mr. Agyapong said in Twi. The maverick politicians stressed that until the NDC…

Russia’s parliament has voted to ban soldiers from using smartphones while on duty, after their social media use raised issues of national security. The bill forbids military personnel from using a phone with the ability to take pictures, record videos and access the internet. Soldiers also cannot write about the military or talk to journalists. More than 400 of 450 lawmakers in Russia’s lower house of parliament, the Duma, backed the law on Tuesday. Phones with basic calling and messaging facilities could still be used, but tablets and laptops would also subject to the new ban. Soldiers’ social media data…

Russia’s parliament has voted to ban soldiers from using smartphones while on duty, after their social media use raised issues of national security. The bill forbids military personnel from using a phone with the ability to take pictures, record videos and access the internet. Soldiers also cannot write about the military or talk to journalists. More than 400 of 450 lawmakers in Russia’s lower house of parliament, the Duma, backed the law on Tuesday. Phones with basic calling and messaging facilities could still be used, but tablets and laptops would also subject to the new ban. Soldiers’ social media data…

National Democratic Congress’ candidate in the Ayawaso West Wuogon by-election Delali Kwasi Brempong has denied assertions by leadership of the National Security Council and the Ghana Police Service’s SWAT Unit that there were arms kept in his house prior to the by-election. Mr. Delali Brempong made this known when he appeared before the Commission of Inquiry investigating incidents of violence which took place during the by-election on January 31, 2019. Minister of National Security Albert Kan-Dapaah had told the Commission that they had intelligence some fire arms were being kept in the residence of the NDC candidate, and that it…

Mrs. Jean Mensa[/caption] The Minority in Parliament say they would be forced to pass a vote of no confidence in the chairperson of the Electoral Commission, Jean Mensa over the Commission’s incompetence. Contributing to a statement on the floor of parliament Wednesday over the implementation of the Representation of the People’s Amendment Act (ROPAA), Minority Leader, Haruna Iddrisu while outlining a number of concerns said the EC must not engage in activities that question the credibility of the country’s elections. He called for proper maintenance of the data system of the Commission. “The Electoral Commission and the Commissioner must up…

Delali Kwasi Brempong[/caption] The parliamentary candidate of the National Democratic Congress in the Ayawaso West Wuogon (AWW) by-election is predicting the end of everyone if vigilantism, fueled by “wicked mafias” within the political parties, are not clamped down. Delali Kwasi Brempong told the Emile Short Commission, investigating the bloody incident perpetuated by some masked-wearing blazing men during the by-election, that he suspects persons behind the violent activities are political militias acting as national security operatives. Asked what political leaders can do to stop the activities of these militias, commonly known as vigilantes,  he noted that the groups are not owned…