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A total of 13 students from Tema-based Delhi Public School International (DPSI) Ghana have booked their tickets for the 2018 edition of the National Spelling Bee competition. They include Adam Koray Seidu, Kwabena Adu Asare, Chayel Annie Mefful, Raj Thakwani, Naimah Agbenoto, Ashkaya Lakshika, Kwaku Addo Asamoah, Tumi Asare Darko, Shrirang Chandankheda, Sibongile Henaku, Michelle Lawson and Hawa Tijani. They are among a total of 57 students who qualified for the contest from Tema. A total of 8 schools namely Beacon College, East Airport International, Tema Parents, SOS, Solidarity International, Angel’s Ridge, Able Academy and DPSI Ghana competed for Tema.…

The third edition of the worm-free child project came off last week at the Dr. Bannerman park in Korle Gonno, Accra treating children to good food, music and play. The health exercise that provides medical assistance and moral support to deprived communities with high incidence of worm infestation was a sight to behold as the children gathered together to partake in the exercise. It was all fun as a team of medical professionals administered drugs including dewormers, multivitamins and food supplements to them. The climax of the event was when the Member of Parliament for Ablekuma South constituency, Alfred Oko…

The wives of police officers in the Upper East Region have been entreated to give their husbands peace of mind and support to enable them carry out their duties effectively.  The Upper East Deputy Regional Commander of Police, ACP Paul Ayittey, gave the advice in Bolgatanga at the 30th Anniversary celebration of the Police Wives Association (POLWA). He said the duties of police officers included; preventing and detecting crime, apprehending offenders and maintaining peace and order but that could not be achieved if wives made excessive demands and over protected their husbands in their fight against crime. “The work of the…

A total of 19,815 birth registrations were recorded in the Upper East Region between January and September this year, officials have revealed. The figure represents 72 per cent of the 36,670-target given to the region. Speaking at the commissioning of a refurbished regional office of the Births and Deaths Registry in Bolgatanga by the World Vision International and UNICEF, officials announced they are targeting 100 per cent of birth registration. The Upper East Regional Births and Deaths Registry has now been fitted with automated equipment and office furniture to attain full registration coverage of infants. With the new registry, all…

The Metropolitan Archbishop of Accra, Most Rev. Charles Palmer-Buckle, has urged catholic priests in the West African sub-region to build effective relationship with civil authorities engender peace among the people. He observed such relationship would help address the challenges confronting many West African countries and Africa in general. The Archbishop made the appeal at the opening of the 5th Congress of Regional Union of Priests of West Africa in Koforidua in the Eastern Region. It was on the theme: “Behold Your Mother: Mary in the Heart of Priestly Ministry”. The Congress attracted over 50 delegates from 12 member countries of…

Small-scale miners in the country say they have begun feeling the heat of government’s ban on small-scale mining, claiming some of them are dying because their legitimate businesses have collapsed. According to President of the Small Scale Miners Association, Evangelist Collins Osei Kusi, some of their members have had their properties confiscated by banks making life unhearable for them. “We are ready to collaborate with government to end and outmanoeuvre illegal mining to save the water bodies and the environment but government should consider sustaining our work”. The government earlier in 2017 imposed a six-month ban on small-scale mining as…

Barely a week after a letter addressed to some personalities with the above caption was intercepted there was the need for deep reflection on the recent happenings in Bimbilla now. In fact we on our part. have come to terms with the fact that this is the only traditional kingdom left for us as Nanumbas and so shall we be accountable for it. Unfortunately repercussions have tempted us to assert that indeed the good will of the kingdom is infested with what can be described as the foreign nuisance. The actions and inactions of this category of  heartless people can…

All elected executives of the All People’s Congress (APC) at the constituency, regional and national levels, have been stripped of their positions. Leadership of the party announced Friday that it has dissolved all elected positions in the party, the Ghana News Agency reported. “All executive members are now acting leaders with the exception of the General Secretary and the Leader/Founder of the party,” Mr. Hassan Ayariga announced at a news conference. He said the APC has notified the Electoral Commission to that effect and that members of the party who are interested in managing the affairs of the party are…

Outspoken Ghanaian professor, Stephen Kwaku Asare, is begging President Nana Akufo-Addo not to sign into law, the Major Mahama Act, a trust fund to cater for the wife and two children of the military officer who was gruesomely murdered. As a lawyer, he said, the Act “cannot withstand constitutional scrutiny” in its current form because it is goes contrary to the principles of the supreme law of Ghana. “…You [President Akufo-Addo] should return it to Parliament for it to be replaced by a comprehensive Bill that provides timely, predictable and easy to access benefits to the families of ALL SECURITY…

Four people accused of booing First Lady Grace Mugabe are facing charges of undermining the president’s authority. They were arrested after a rally in Bulawayo where Mrs Mugabe spoke last Saturday, the state-owned Herald newspaper reports. They have now been released on bail and have not yet commented on the charges. The booing came amid a bitter battle between rival factions of the governing Zanu-PF party to succeed President Robert Mugabe, aged 93. Mrs Mugabe leads one faction, while former Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa leads the other. He was sacked two days after the heckling and has since fled to neighbouring…