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Dutch Ambassador Ron Strikker will be at the Ocean Green Villas in Prampram in the Greater Accra Region on Sunday to open this year’s training programme for graduates of information technology (IT). The 7-week intensive training begins with 20 graduates of various universities in Ghana. They will be subjected to training from IT professionals from Ghana, Canada and the Netherlands. The training will involve camping at Ocean Green Villas and a month’s internship and specialization. “They will be well prepared for the IT job market,” organizers Maxim Nyansa-Ghana said in a press release. The programme is scheduled to end on…

Dozens of government supporters have burst into Venezuela’s opposition-controlled National Assembly, injuring several lawmakers and journalists. Witnesses said the fracas came after an assembly session to mark the country’s Independence Day. The intruders brandished sticks and set off fireworks in the capitol building’s gardens, AFP reported. Footage from the scene showed two opposition lawmakers with blood running down their faces. Pro-opposition Venezuelan website La Patilla reported that several deputies had been attacked by a mob at the building in the capital, Caracas. It said there were “several injured inside the AN (National Assembly) who were beaten by violent groups”. Lawmaker…

The immediate past Managing Director of the Bulk Oil Storage and Transportation (BOST) Company Limited, Kingsley Kwame Awuah-Darko, has filed a suit at the Accra High Court against outspoken legislator Kennedy Ohene Agyapong. Mr Awuah-Darko accuses Mr Agyapong of expressing defamatory statements about him on two Accra-based radio stations – Asempa FM and Oman FM. He is, therefore, citing owners of those two radio stations in his suit filed on Wednesday. The plaintiff explains that last Thursday, the Assin Central Member of Parliament was on Asempa FM’s Ekosii S3n show, accusing him financial misappropriations while at BOST. He later went…

Ghana’s international player Emmanuel Agyemang Badu has said that, there’s still more he could do for himself and has set his sight on more time with Ghana. “I’m one of the players Ghana can rely on and ready to contribute my best to win laurels for the country. In an interview with the GNA Sports, Badu who plays for Serie A side Udinese, said he is “work in progress” and learning a lot from great players and coaches to enhance his football career. According to the Midfielder, he would continue with his training and maintain his commitment to his career…

The Ho Technical University branch of Polytechnic Teachers Association of Ghana (POTAG) has sent a strong word to government to immediately constitute the governing councils of all technical universities and polytechnics in the country or else they will go on a mass strike. As contained in a press statement issued on Wednesday, July 5, the Association says the institutions have been without a governing council since the change of government. “Since the dissolution of the governing councils of all public tertiary institution by the Presidential Transition Act 2012 (Act 845) on 7th January 2017, the polytechnics and technical universities have…

The Ghana Federation of Disability Organization (GFD) says persons living with disability are qualified to take up jobs in the various sectors of the economy other than tollbooth jobs. While commending the government for employing persons with disability to man tollbooths in the country, Coordinator of the organisation, Mrs Beatrice Akua Mahmoog, said ” manning toll booth is not the only thing we can do” The Ministry of Roads and Highways on Tuesday launched the Persons With Disability Road Toll initiative to ensure that 50 per cent of those manning tollbooths across the country are persons with disability. Per the…

An Accra High Court has struck out a case involving Alhaji Alhassan Umar, the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Member of Parliament (MP) for Zabzugu in the Northern Region for having dual citizenship. The court presided over by Mrs Patience Mills-Tetteh finds the allegation unfounded and set the reliefs aside. Mr Godwin Edudzie Tamakloe, the Counsel for the defendant, said a decision was made on the case after they filed a motion for the court to set aside the reliefs being sought by the plaintiffs. “The court agreed with our motion and set aside the reliefs,” he added. The plaintiffs Nikimola…

The Second Lady, Mrs Samira Bawumia, has paid a working visit to a model school in China with a view to replicate their successes in Ghana. The visit, which took place on the sidelines of the four day official state visit by the Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, was to the Beijing Jingyuan Primary School, one of the most prestigious schools in Beijing, the capital of China. The school is looking at grooming the next generation of responsible citizens and world leaders; focusing not only on teaching the tradition and history of the Chinese people to help them have a…

The Ghana National Association of Teachers is pushing for female teachers in the country to be given six months maternity leave, arguing that would give them enough time to wean their babies. GNAT says it would also give nursing mothers the opportunity to feed their babies with breast milk exclusively for six in line with the Ghana Health Service policy of feeding babies, as well as get enough time to care for their babies. Again, it wants crèches to be established in all communities such that female teachers could conveniently leave their babies and have sound minds to work effectively…

Ghana faces imminent Tuberculosis outbreak as the country is recording increasing numbers of emerging transmission of drug-resistant strain of bacteria amongst newly diagnosed patients. This is causing a multi-drug resistance, a situation where the TB bacteria are resistant to treatment with at least two of the most powerful first-line anti-TB medications (drugs). In an interview with TV3’s health correspondent, Esi Benewaa Nyame, Deputy Manager at the National Tuberculosis Control Programme Dr. Nii Nortey Hanson-Nortey expressed worry about the trend, saying the National TB control is challenged financially to have a firm grip of the situation. “Instead of dealing with drug…