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Insurance marketer Edgar Wiredu has disagreed with President Nana Akufo-Addo’s position that laboratories and workshops of Technical High Schools are the answer to unemployment in the country. In his view, the president is championing “ancient ideas” instead of thinking of technology which is ruling the world now. “It is high time we think of technology not laboratories and workshops for students in that level, the president has misfired.” President Akufo-Addo said his government’s flagship policy, Free SHS, will not be turned into a process of churning out young people that will not be equipped with skills to cope with the…

Introduction The Ghanaian banking system is growing at a fast pace with the number of commercial banks increasing each year. Most savings and loans and microfinance institutions are working very hard around the clock to meet the Central Bank’s requirements for gaining licences to become commercial banks. There are currently 35 fully licensed and operational commercial banks in Ghana that are serving just a little above 7 million people out of the nation’s population of about 27 million. This simply means that there is a huge unbanked population, although the number of commercial banks is growing. It is very unfortunate…

Mukesh V. Thakwani, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of B5 Plus Limited, a highly patronized steel manufacturing company in Africa has been named the “Industrialist of the Year” at the Ghana @ 60 edition of the Ghana Entrepreneurs & Corporate Executives Awards (GECEA). This recognition attests to the commitment the company has made to become the leading steel manufacturing company in the West African sub-region. Through its broad range of operations, B5 Plus Ltd has created jobs for several youth in the country thus assisting to improve standards of living and hastening the socio-economic development of Ghana. The event held…

A leading member of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has called on the Inspector-General of Police (IGP) to establish an “environmental police” unit to be stationed at vantage points to solely fight illegal mining (galamsey). Abraham Amaliba said like the marine police who patrols the country’s territorial waters on the daily basis, there should be an urgent need to recruit people for the environmental police whose core mandate and duties would be to guard water bodies, lands and forest reserves that are being mined. Mr. Amaliba, who is legal practitioner, made the call whilst contributing to discussions on galamsey…

The Ghana Cocoa Board said the purchase of the 2016/2017 Main Crop Cocoa Season would cease at the close of business on Thursday, May 18, 2017. This was in a statement issued by the Chief Executive Officer of COCOBD and copied to the Ghana News Agency on Sunday. It said in order to assist the Licensed Buying Companies to obtain the final returns from up-country stations, the Board had decided that returns on the declared purchase would be accepted up to 1600 hours on Thursday, May 25, 2017. Source: GNA

Recent happenings in the two political parties which have managed the state of affairs in our country between them since 1993 confirm my intellectual argument that our politicians require some training in Emotional Intelligence (EI). The Otiko-Bugri Naabu recent spat showed that the politician could lose his or her head under any provocation. Indeed, the internal wrangling within the NPP in the run-up to election 2016 which led to the suspension of Messrs Afoko, Sammy Crabbe and Kwabena Agyepong and the kinds of verbal exchanges which followed painted a certain picture of the emotional imbalance of some of the actors.…

On the occasion of Mother’s Day, the second Deputy Minority Whip, Comfort Doyoe Cudjoe Ghansah has asked Ghanaians to fight against factors that are militating against women in the country. She observed one serious thing that affects women and threatens their existence is maternal mortality, which has become topical in Ghana in recent times. Ms Ghanasah who is the Member of Parliament for Ada explained delays in seeking appropriate healthcare and reaching health facility as well as obtaining timely and effective care at health facilities have been the key contributor to maternal mortality in Ghana. She said it thus behooves…

President Akufo-Addo’s nominee for the Bawku West District Chief Executive post, Mrs Victoria Ayamba, was on Saturday given a massive endorsement by the assembly members despite earlier protest against her nomination. Of the 49 assembly members who voted in the confirmation election, 35 representing 71 percent, endorsed her with only 14 against. Mrs Victoria Ayamba who is the current constituency organizer of the New Patriotic Party, is a teacher by profession. Some party youth had earlier opposed her nomination claiming she lacked leadership skills to head the district. A protest against her nomination days ago resulted in destruction of party and…

An acute shortage of medicines has hit infirmaries of Prisons across the Ashanti Region, Chaplin of the Kumas Central Prison, Rev. Canon Paa Kwesi Ansah, has revealed. The situation, which he said has been frequent, is affecting healthcare delivery to inmates of prisons in the region. He blamed the shortage on insufficient budgetary allocation from the government. Speaking at a short ceremony to receive foodstuff and cosmetics from a philanthropist, Rev. Kwasi Ansah revealed officers are sometimes forced to use their own money to buy drugs for the inmates whenever the need arises.The items worth GHC30,000 was donated by the…

A criminal defense lawyer, Martin Kpebu, is advocating the fading out of police prosecutors in the cities to rural communities. He explained that there cannot be development in the judicial system when persons who are not lawyers serve as prosecutors in court. Across the country’s courts, police officers who have not been trained as lawyers are at the forefront of criminal prosecutions especially in the lower courts. Speaking on the topic ‘the challenges of the criminal defense lawyer to all indigent defendants’ Mr. Kpebu observed criminal procedures have not seen any improvement because nonprofessionals are engaged in justice delivery. Currently,…