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Allowances for about 8,000 National Service personnel across the country have been withheld, the National Service Secretariat has announced. It explained in a statement Saturday that the suspension of the payment of the September allowances is to allow for investigations into the affected personnel, who are either suspected of impersonation or disqualified from doing national service. Meanwhile the September allowances for 58,000 other personnel has been paid after a month-long delay due to the process of authentication and validation, the statement signed by the acting Executive Director of the NSS, Mustapha Ussif explained. “Service personnel are therefore required to go…

No Form One or Two student in any Junior High School (JHS) should be registered as a candidate to write Ghana’s Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE), the Ghana Education Service (GES) has directed. A directive from the GES to heads of heads of all basic schools in the country dated October 23, 2017 stated, “Registration of candidates for the BECE for school candidates is strictly for students in JHS Form Three only”. It has thus warned head of both public and private basic schools to cease forthwith, the practice of registering students who have not gone through Form Three, to…

Deputy minister-designate for Food and Agriculture, Kennedy Nyarko Osei, has kicked against the distribution of free fertilisers to farmers, stating government does not have the finances to do that. For him, the best way forward to helping the over five million farmers across the country is to subsidise the fertilisers so that all farmers can have access to it. “I’ll prefer where government will subsidise [the fertilisers] so that everybody, irrespective of wherever you come from, can get access to it” he told members of the Appointments Committee of Parliament when vetted Friday. In 2014, the John Mahama-led government distributed…

Homeowners in the Kumasi metropolis without toilet facilities in their homes will soon face prosecution, Chief Executive of the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA), Osei Assibey Antwi, has warned. Figures from the sanitation department of KMA shows only 39 per cent of households in the metropolis have toilet facilities. According to the assembly, 60 per cent of homes without toilet facilities rely on public toilets within the city; a situation the KMA is seeking to reverse in a new drive aimed at ensuring every household builds a toilet. Mr. Assibey Antwi noted that per the city’s by-laws, every home ought to…

Executive Director of the Special Mothers Project, Mrs Hannah Awadzi has explained that children suffering from cerebral palsy are not intellectually disabled. Cerebral palsy (CP) is neurological disorders that appear in childhood and permanently affect body movement and muscle coordination. It is caused by damage to or abnormalities inside the developing brain, which disrupt the brain’s ability to control movement and maintain posture. “We cannot exclude children with cerebral palsy from children who have no special needs. Most children with cerebral palsy only have movement challenges and by seeing other children move, they are usually challenged to move,” Mrs Awadzi…

A footballer who robbed members of the Tabernacle of Hope Church International of monies, mobile phones and laptop during an all night service has been sentenced to 18 years imprisonment by a circuit court in Accra. This was after the court presided over by Mr Aboagye Tandoh ad found Misbau Afolabi guilty on the charges of robbery. The court however acquitted Afolabi on the charge of conspiracy to commit crime. Two other accomplices are said to be at large. Prosecuting Superintendent of Police Kwaku Bempah named the complainant as Jerry Akotia an Assistant Pastor of the church, and that the convict,…

Drinking red wine at least once a week may improve women’s chances of becoming pregnant, a controversial new study has found. Research revealed that hopeful mothers who regularly drank red wine had better ovarian reserve, the quantity of eggs present in the ovaries at any one time. The findings of the Washington University study challenge UK Government guidance, which warns women to avoid alcohol when trying to conceive for fear of harming their baby. They were greeted with caution by a number of British experts, who said wider research is needed before altering current advice. It follows a recent flare…

Drinking red wine at least once a week may improve women’s chances of becoming pregnant, a controversial new study has found. Research revealed that hopeful mothers who regularly drank red wine had better ovarian reserve, the quantity of eggs present in the ovaries at any one time. The findings of the Washington University study challenge UK Government guidance, which warns women to avoid alcohol when trying to conceive for fear of harming their baby. They were greeted with caution by a number of British experts, who said wider research is needed before altering current advice. It follows a recent flare…

The Spanish government has stripped Catalonia of its autonomy and taken charge of its government. The measures on Saturday morning came after the Catalan parliament voted to declare independence on Friday. An official state bulletin handed control of Catalonia to Spain’s Deputy Prime Minister Soraya Saenz de Santamaria. Earlier, Catalonia’s most senior police officials had been stripped of their powers. On Friday, PM Mariano Rajoy announced the dissolution of the regional parliament and the removal of the Catalan leader, and called snap local elections. Demonstrations for and against independence went on into the night. More are expected on Saturday, with…

The Karaga constituency chairman of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), Tahiru Zakari, has been arrested together with three others by the police on Friday. They are suspected to be part of those causing disturbances at Karaga in the course of the week. The rest are Baba Ali Osman, Mohammed Alhassan and Abdullai Ziblim. They were arrested on their way from Tamale to Karaga Friday evening and brought back to Tamale. The suspects, according to the Northern Regional Police Public Relations Officer ASP Yussif Tanko, were cited by the Karaga District Chief Executive Alhassan Yabdow. Tahiru Zakaria, the police revealed,…