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Police ladies and Prisons ladies remain unbeaten in the women’s premier league as it enters into the last round of matches to end the first season. After enjoying some winning streak, KUMASI SPORTS ACADEMY will host defending champions AMPEM DARKOA LADIES at the Paa Joe Park. ASHTOWN LADIES will travel to the north to face PEARL PIA LADIES in the search for a first win of the season. Top on the northern zone table PRISONS LADIES will play host to 4th placed NORTHERN LADIES in Sunyani while SUPREME LADIES and FABULOUS LADIES will clash in a local derby on Sunday.…

PREPARING TO SURVIVE EMERGENCY CONTAINMENT MEASURES AGAINST THE CORONAVIRUS JUST IN CASE (LOCK-DOWN OF CITIZENS AND NEIGBORHOODS) Public Health Emergency Preparedness Series At the time of compiling this list, there has been no case of COVID-19 in Ghana. I compiled this list in anticipation of the possible outbreak of the coronavirus in Ghana. I want to re-assure Ghanaians that in case we are in a lock down situation as part of containment measures against the coronavirus, we should not panic. We can weather the storm of the Coronavirus. But in order to be able to prevail and overcome the challenge…

African universities have been charged to design programmes capable of producing critical thinkers and innovators to manage the continent’s natural resources for development. Professor Chris Gordon, a former Director of the Institute of Environment and Sanitation Studies, University of Ghana who charged the universities said over the years, African tertiary institutions, failed to produce graduates with problem solving skills needed to effect the change required to drive development across the continent. He therefore urged the universities to ‘chat a new path’ of training and developing the continent’s human resource that would be capable of effectively managing, efficiently utilising the natural…

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Chairman of the Ghana National Education Campaign Coalition (GNECC), Kofi Asare is rallying the public to protest how the Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETFund) is being administered by picketing at the seat of government – Jubilee House. He believes the campaign to get reforms at GETFund can yield the necessary results if the presidency is brought into the picture. Speaking on TV3’s current affairs show, The Key Point, hosted by Johnnie Hughes on Saturday, Mr. Asare demanded that the government promulgates a Legislative Instrument (LI) to guide the administration of GETFund. The fund was established by GETFund Act, 2000 (Act…

Two South African nationals working aboard a cruise ship quarantined at sea have contracted coronavirus, according to the country’s health ministry. It quoted Japanese officials as saying the two patients were not outwardly displaying symptoms of the virus but were being treated in Japan. The vessel had at least 3,700 people on board, South Africa’s authorities said in a statement. When a passenger, who disembarked in Hong Kong, tested positive for the virus at the end of January, the ship was quarantined for a four-week period, the statement added. Ten other South African crew members are still on board the…

Twenty cases of unsafe abortion were reported in the Sunyani West Municipality of the Bono Region in 2019 says the Municipal Health Directorate. The cases were reported at Chiraa, Fiapre, Odumase and Nsoatre among girls between 12 and 18 years, but no death was recorded. Mrs Mary Ayobi, the Municipal Health Promotion Officer, said this to the Ghana News Agency (GNA) in an interview on the side-line of the 2019 Annual Review Meeting of the Municipal Health Directorate on Thursday. She said the Directorate has established 22 adolescent health clubs in basic schools in the Municipality to provide information and…

A 21-year-old form three student of the Ghana National College who was arrested for allegedly raping a form-one student has been remanded into police custody by a Cape Coast Magistrate Court. The suspect will reappear in court on Friday, March 13 for his plea to be taken. However, Mr. Daniel Arthur, counsel for the suspect on hearing the facts of the case as read by the Prosecution led by Chief Inspector John Asare Bediako raised doubts about the facts as presented in court. He said: “My Lord, I suspect a “conspiracy…” but we will meet at the appropriate forum to…

The Public Relations Officer of the Electoral Commission of Ghana (EC), Slyvia Annor, Friday declined questions about the state of the Commission’s website, which observers say has not been functional since Jean Mensa took over. Following Media General’s revelations that the website – which was found to cost the state  $108,510 – indeed has not been functional, the issue gained attention with many seeking answers as to why that has to be the case especially in an election year. EC’s over $108k website not functional A member of the communication team of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), Eric Amoako…

AngloGold Ashanti is cautioning the public against fraudsters who have been using the name of people related to the company to extort monies from job seekers. A statement issued Friday said some fraudsters “write to unsuspecting job seekers either on a fraudulently designed AngloGold Ashanti letterhead or the letterhead of other intermediary organisations” to offer them jobs. But the company said the said vacancies “are false”, stating “those involved have not been contracted to recruit on behalf of AngloGold Ashanti”. It has thus asked all persons who have fallen victim to the fraudsters to report to the police or the…