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Connect FM’s news anchor and producer of Asem Yi Dzi Ka, Paa Kojo Peters, has been adjudged the Producer of the Year at this year’s Hyperlinks Media Awards held over the weekend in Sunyani, the Ahafo Region. The Awards was to honour media personnel across the country for their hard work and dedication in the line of duty. Connect FM had three nominations in the categories: Producer of the Year, Radio Programme of the Year and Technician of the Year. Paa Kojo Peters competed with seven others but emerged as winner for the Producer of the Year category while his show…

The 10 per cent of the $1 million arbitration money paid to Davies & Davies Law has been returned to the Ghana Football Association (GFA), the country’s football-governing body has confirmed. The money was inadvertently paid to the law firm by the erstwhile Normalisation Committee as legal fees for retrieving the arbitration money from Globacom Limited. The Nigerian multinational telecommunications company had agreed to sponsor the Ghana Premier League for a five-year period but unilaterally abrogated the contract. Quite recently the President of the Normalisation Committee, Dr Kofi Amoah, confirmed that despite receiving $1 million from the Nigerian firm, $900,000…

The Ghana National Gas Company Limited and Quantum Terminals Plc have presented a nursery school block and two teacher quarters valued at GH¢2.5 million to the Anokyi and Asemda communities in the Ellembelle District of the Western Region. The two communities are in the operational area of the two companies. The four-unit two-bedroom self-contained teachers’ quarters valued at GH¢750,000 each is located at Asemda and Anokyi. The ultra-modern nursery, on the other hand, cost GH¢750,000 with an extra cost of GH¢200, 000 for teaching and learning logistics and is located at Asemda. The Human Resource Manager of Quantum Terminals Plc,…

Universal Plastic Products and Recycling (UPPR) Ghana Limited in collaboration with Ecobank Ghana Limited and the Environment Service Providers Association has launched a ‘1 million waste bin’ project. The project is aimed at helping reduce indiscriminate disposal of waste in the country. Waste bins under the project have been fitted with radio frequency identity tags to enable waste management companies to closely monitor and to record how often the bins get emptied. The feature is expected to eliminate the current situation of overspill of waste bins, which often lead to air pollution and contamination. Also, under the project, officials of…

Some 150 students of the Accra High School have been rushed to the Adabraka Polyclinic after eating meals served them at school. Information available to 3news.com indicates the students complained of stomach upset after taking the meals and were subsequently rushed to the hospital Monday dawn. They are all suspected to be suffering from food poisoning and diarrhoea. The students are mostly final year students staying in a private hostel run by the school. Speaking to 3news.com on anonymity, a parent of one of the affected students said he received a phone call from school authorities asking him to come…

The Minister of Education, Dr. Mathew Opoku Prempeh, has revealed that the education sector was on the verge of collapse when NPP government took office in 2017. Teacher absenteeism, according to him, was hovering around 30 per cent resulting in 45 per cent of SHS candidates failing in Mathematics. Only 2 per cent pupils in Primary Two were found proficient in reading per the Early Grade Assessment Test whilst 25 per cent pupils in Primary Six were proficient in English. Dr. Mathew Opoku Prempeh disclosed this on Tuesday, December 3, 2019 while speaking at Innovation Africa 2019: Africa’s Official Ministerial…

Former President Jerry John Rawlings has expressed concern about the whopping increase in the filing fee for the presidential primary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and called on the party’s National Executive Committee to take a second look at the decision. The Founder of the NDC cautioned that certain actions or decisions could either be a reflection of the circumstances of the NDC’s birth or “mark a departure from where we are coming from as a party”. “I doubt if anyone of us who has served with integrity, relying on our salaries can raise these filing fees unless we…

The Minister for Education, Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh, has disclosed that government, under its Ghana Accountability and Learning Outcomes Project (GALOP), seeks to improve the quality of low performing basic education schools and strengthen education sector equity and accountability in Ghana. The Project is targeting 10,000 most disadvantaged schools based on examination performance. It will also support the training of teachers, manage class sizes and improve systems for accountability, national assessments and teacher management. The Minister made this revelation when he addressed the 9th Innovation Africa Ministerial Summit currently under way in Accra. He stated that the various GALOP disbursement…

Students of the University for Development (UDS), Navrongo Campus are threatening to demonstrate if management of the school fail to pay monies owed the Northern Electricity Distribution Company (NEDCO) to have power restored on campus. NEDCO has disconnected the Navrongo campus of the UDS from its distribution network over arrears owed by the school since 2012. The Student Representative Council (SRC), in a statement, accused management of not showing commitment in paying the arrears to NEDCO. “Even though we are a government institution, we are not the only institution owned by government in Navrongo but other institutions have shown a…