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Former President Jerry John Rawlings has commended the Registrar of the Scholarship Secretariat, Kingsley Agyemang and members of his management team for the decentralization of the scholarship process. He said the difficulty many deserving students suffer in their bid to obtain scholarships will be a thing of the past if the Secretariat supervises the process adequately to ensure that there is no discrimination. “I am impressed that responsibility has been devolved to the Districts. There has been so much prejudice against the scholarship secretariat because of the perception that there is discrimination in the choices made and it only benefits…

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has withdrawn one of its two demands in the case at the Supreme Court against the Electoral Commission, Ghana (EC) on the compilation a new voter register. The largest opposition part was given an option by the Court on Thursday to choose whether it wants the Court to decide on the exclusion of the existing voters’ ID cards or the compilation of an entirely new register. Under the circumstances, lead counsel for the NDC Godwin Tamakloe was not allowed to consult his clients before making a choice. He thus asked the Supreme Court to proceed…

The Supreme Court premises was Thursday morning taken over by high security officers ahead of the hearing of the case between the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and the Electoral Commission of Ghana (EC) regarding the use of the old voters’ ID cards in compiling a new voter register. The NDC went to the apex court to challenge the EC on its decision to exclude the use of the existing voter’s ID cards as an identification for compiling a new voter register. The Supreme Court asked the EC to justify its decision in law by providing legal basis, which was done…

The jungle training school of the Ghana Armed Forces in Akim-Achiase in the Eastern Region has not recorded any positive coronavirus case, Chief Instructor of the school, Major Bright Basuglo, has revealed. He said several covid-19 protocols put in place by the Jungle Warfare School has ensured personnel were do not get the deadly virus which has affected more than 10,000 people and killed over 40 of them in Ghana. Major Basuglo said Veronica buckets have been placed in front of every department within the school, while personnel have been encouraged to frequently use alcohol-based hand sanitisers, practice physical distancing.…

I took the Ghana Driver and Vehicle Licensing Authority (DVLA) driving test some time ago. I tried my best to be a good student and eventually scored 80% in the theory test. But the most important lesson I learned from that exercise is from one of the road regulations or I should say principles. It says when two or more vehicles meet at an uncontrolled intersection (intersection without traffic lights, stop sign or human direction), the vehicle that gets to the intersection first has right of way. It does not say that always the small taxicab must give way to…

The Northern Regional Security Council has warned it will deal with any group of people or politicians who attempt to recruit the youth from the region to foment trouble in the upcoming general elections in December. Chairman of the Council, Salifu Saeed, said the region has suffered enough in the hands of politicians who always run to the area to influence and recruit people to cause mayhem in parts of the country on election day. Addressing some soldiers at the Northern Command of the Ghana Armed Forces in Tamale to launch the disinfection and fumigation of military installations in the…

The Municipal Chief Executive for Sunyani, Justina Owusu-Banahene, says she is hopeful the disinfestation and disinfection of Sunyani Military Barracks (3 Battalion) will spur military personnel on to continue to support the government’s fight against Covid-19. She made the remarks at the launch of the disinfestation and disinfection of military facilities in the Bono, Bone East and Ahafo regions. As one of the front-runners in the war against Covid-19, she said, it was crucial that homes and offices of military officers were safeguarded against the novel coronavirus which has infected more than 10,000 people in Ghana. The exercise being undertaken…

Former President Jerry John Rawlings has cautioned Ghanaians not to let down their guard on the dangers of the Covid-19 virus till it has been contained. The former President who made the call during a courtesy call on him by 95-year-old ex-Private Ashiteye Hammond, a World War II veteran on Tuesday, said, “I don’t want to take any chances and I think we should all cooperate to handle the pandemic as seriously as we can.” Ex-Private Hammond undertook a seven-day walk a couple of weeks ago to raise funds for frontline health workers dealing with the corona virus pandemic. He…