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The Minister of Local Government and Rural Development, Hajia Alima Mahama, has announced approval by cabinet for educational units to be streamlined with district administrative structures. The approval will now go to Parliament for the necessary legislative instruments that decentralises the basic structures of education into district or local authority administrative structures. She also announced ongoing work on the election of Municipal, Metropolitan and District Chief Executives (MMDCEs), saying that “the plan is to have a referendum to decide on whether it should be partisan or non-partisan.” Reunion Hajia Mahama was speaking at the launch of the book, “Decentralisation in…

New York police say they have a viable case against Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein after an actress accused him of raping her seven years ago. Robert Boyce, of the New York Police Department, told reporters that the woman had presented a “credible and detailed narrative”. Earlier, actress Paz de la Huerta told Vanity Fair that Weinstein raped her twice in New York in 2010. Weinstein has denied all allegations of non-consensual sex made against him. More than a dozen women have accused the 65-year-old of rape and many more have accused him of sexual harassment and performing indecent acts. Mr Boyce, the…

An accounts officer at the Domestic Tax Division of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) in Tamale has been arraigned for allegedly stealing GH¢310,909.96 belonging to the state. The accused, Fuseini Hamza, who appeared before the Tamale High Court last Wednesday, was remanded in prison custody to reappear on November 8, 2017. The court, presided over by Mr Justice Edward Apenkwah, charged Hamza with two counts of stealing and money laundering. He pleaded not guilty to both charges and would reappear before the court on November 8, 2017. Facts The facts of the case, as presented in court by a Principal…

Ghana’s High Commissioner to South Africa, George Ayisi Boateng has been given a definite date to vacate his post by the opposition. The Greater Accra Regional Chairman of the largest opposition party, NDC, Ade Coker says the embattled High Commissioner is expected to give his resignation letter to the president latest by Monday, November 6. Ayisi Boateng has come under intense pressure, mainly from the opposition parties and civil society groups, to resign after divisive and partisan comments he made while addressing students group of his party, NPP, last week in Kumasi. He had earlier defended his comments in the…

Sixteen (16) remand prisoners at the Kumasi Central Prisons have been freed and 45 others granted bail under the Justice for All Programme (JFAP). This was after their applications had been heard by judges in a two-day session held in the prisons. Another 32 had their applications refused and there were four convictions. Justice Clemence Jackson Honyenuga, an Appeal Court Judge with responsibility for the JFAP, told journalists that a total of 133 cases were heard. These mostly involved misdemeanor – stealing and other lesser offences. The programme, launched a decade ago, is part of the drive to decongest the…

A 29 year old resident of Dompim, a community near Tarkwa in the Tarkwa Nsueam municipality of the Western region was cruelly lashed by a police officer following her refusal to enter police cell. The victim, Sarah Darko who narrated her ordeal to Takoradi-based Connect FM said she was arrested based on a complaint lodged by a lady she suspected to have been having affairs with the victim’s husband. According to her, she visited her mother in Takoradi and made unannounced return about two months ago to find the said lady and the husband in their matrimonial home. A fight…

Delhi Public School International (DPSI) – Ghana, has been awarded the European Quality Award for its contribution to the education industry in the West African sub-region. Director of DPSI Ghana, Mukesh Thakwani received the award on behalf of the school at the International Festival Business Triumph and the European Awards Night held in the French Riviera, the world’s festival capital in Cannes, recently. The European Quality Award is given out annually by the Europe Business Assembly (EBA) Global to organisations that distinguish themselves in their fields of endeavour. “Dear Mr Mukesh Thakwani, Europe Assembly highly values further cooperation with your…

United Cities and Local Governments of Africa (UCLG Africa) (www.AfriqueLocale.org/en) organized a two-day workshop on the establishment of the African Cities Development Fund (FODEVA), October 30-31, 2017 at the Hotel Rabat in Morocco. The workshop proceeded work that was carried out after the conference, “Funding African cities: agenda, alliances and solutions,” which was held in Marrakech, Morocco, in November 2014. At the conference, members of UCLG Africa agreed to establish a financial vehicle dedicated to the funding of African cities, termed the African Cities Development Fund (FODEVA). The Fund aims to enable cities to issue bonds on the national and…

A Spanish judge has issued European Arrest Warrants (EAW) for sacked Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont and four of his allies who went to Belgium. The five failed to attend a high court hearing in Madrid on Thursday when nine other ex-members of the regional government were taken into custody. One of those detained has been freed on bail of €50,000 (£44,000; $58,000). They all face charges of rebellion, sedition and misuse of public funds for pursuing Catalan independence. Mr Puigdemont has said he will not return to Spain unless he receives guarantees of a fair trial. Belgium will “study” the…

More than 400 pupils whose six-unit classroom block was destroyed by rain in March this year have been neglected by educational authorities in the Western Region, forcing school managers to improvise for academic work to progress. The entire roof of the Good Shepherd Anglican Primary School at Effia-Kuma was ripped off by a 30-minute torrential rain that caused destruction to properties in the metropolis in March. Officials of the National Disaster Management Organisation in the area moved to the site to assess the level of destruction and promised to immediately renovate the affected classroom block but eight months on, nothing…