Today in History: My heart still beats for the NDC – Allotey Jacobs
Politics of Thursday, 16 September 2021Source: www.ghanaweb.comFormer Central Regional Chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Bernard Allotey Jacobs, in 2019 professed his love for NDC despite the several backlashes he received from his party members. He said, "My commitment to the NDC is unquestionable despite my avowed aim to stand for what is true and godly. Mr. Allotey Jacobs has received backlash from some members of the party following his recent defensive comments about President Akufo-Addo. The NDC bigwig stuck his neck out to 'cover' the President following heavy criticisms about corruption in the NPP-led administration. Defending his earlier stance about the President, Bernard Allotey Jacobs noted that he is now a social commentator and hence had not left the party.
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September 16, 2021 10:18 UTC
Exam leakage: Minority in Parliament pushes for bi-partisan C’ttee of Inquiry
General News of Thursday, 16 September 2021Source: kasapafmonline.comThe Minority in Parliament is pushing for a bi-partisan Committee of Inquiry to investigate the increasing spate of exam leakages in the West Africa Senior Secondary Certificate Examinations(WASSCE). This follows the West African Examination Council (WAEC) rescheduling the physics and business management papers that were set to be written on Wednesday, September 15, 2021, in the ongoing WASSCE amid fears of leaked examination questions. The Council noted that it detected evidence of possible exam leakage on social media and on “rogue” websites prior to today’s exams. “The cheating social media groups were in full swing prior to the conduct of the mathematics and the English language papers on 9th and 13th September,” the Head of Council’s Test Administration Division, George Ohene-Mantey, said at a press briefing. Mr. Ohene-Mantey said, “the Council’s monitoring revealed the circulation of numerous versions of questions, both printed and handwritten.”Two subjects found to have some questions circulating were elective mathematics and English language papers.
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September 16, 2021 09:56 UTC
Services rebound sees economy grow 3.9% in Q2
In fact, no sub-sector in Services saw any contraction in the second quarter. No sub-sector under Agriculture experienced a contraction in the second quarter. In terms of overall contribution to growth, 50 percent came from the Services sector, whereas 29 percent and 21 percent came from Industry and Agriculture respectively. Growth target and recovery planGovernment has targetted 5 percent growth in GDP at the end of the year. Another one is the establishment of a new Development Bank of Ghana, which government said will begin with a seed funding of US$500million.
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September 16, 2021 09:33 UTC
President Akufo-Addo, Mahama meet face-to-face in Koforidua
A Dailyguide report indicates that President Akufo-Addo and John Mahama both attended the one-week ceremony of Nana Agyei Twinie which was held in the Eastern Regional capital of Koforidua. John Mahama is reported to have proceeded to the one-week ceremony of Nana Kodua Kesse II who is a former member of the Council of State. President Akufo-Addo and John Mahama have recently been engaged in some verbal attacks, criticizing each other for his management of the Ghanaian economy. In an interview with the BBC, John Mahama said that President Akufo-Addo’s management of the economy has been atrocious. But President Akufo-Addo hit back stating that, Mahama cannot lecture him on economics since his administration led the country into a ditch.
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September 16, 2021 09:11 UTC
Mahama vindicated as Agric Ministry makes U-turn on possible food shortage
General News of Thursday, 16 September 2021Source: www.ghanaweb.com• The Agric Ministry has admitted Ghana faces a possible food shortage• This comes days after calling former president Mahama a 'scare-monger' over similar calls• Ghana has banned export of food in order to stock national reservesDeputy Agric Minister, Yaw Frimpong, has admitted that Ghana faces a possible food shortage days after slamming former President John Dramani Mahama as a scaremonger for raising the issue. “Food security is national security, because it is everybody’s responsibility to ensure that we have food in the system. Late last week, the Ministry of Food and Agriculture via a statement dated 10 September 2021, urged Ghanaians to ignore comments by John Dramani Mahama regarding a possible food shortage in the country next year. Mahama had specifically stated that the shortage was because the government’s Planting for Food and Jobs Programme (PFJ) has failed. The PFJ was introduced in 2017 by the Akufo-Addo led administration which is to ensure sufficient food supply in the country.
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September 16, 2021 06:11 UTC
All you need to know about the new GBA President
But who is Yaw Acheampong Boafo? Yaw Acheampong Boafo is the Partner in charge of the Kumasi office of S.K Boafo and Co. He has served as the President of the Ashanti Region branch of the Ghana Bar Association and also a member of the General Legal Council from 2013 to 2016. Since January 2013 he has been a member of the Legal Service Board representing the Ghana Bar Association and was the Head of the Legal Department of Asante Kotoko Sporting Club. He is the outgoing National Secretary of the Ghana Bar Association and now its President.
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September 16, 2021 06:00 UTC
Kamal Sowah glitters on UCL debut as Club Brugge hold star-studded PSG
Sports News of Thursday, 16 September 2021Source: ghanasoccernet.comGhana forward Kamal Sowah gave a wonderful account of himself on his UEFA Champions League debut against star-studded Paris Saint Germain at the Jan Breydel Stadion on Monday. Sowah has swiftly established himself as a mainstay at Club Brugge since joining from Leicester City this summer. Sowah was one of the most exciting players on the pitch as the visitors found it difficult to keep him at bay. His scintillating debut outing in Europe’s elite club competition overshadowed PSG’s all-star attacking front which consisted of Messi, Neymar and Mbappe — who had an early shower as a result of injury. Club Brugge meanwhile began the game on the back-foot as Ander Herrera shot the visitors ahead in the 15th minute.
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September 16, 2021 02:15 UTC
MMDCEs: Akufo-Addo submits finalised list to Dan Botwe to announce
General News of Thursday, 16 September 2021Source: 3news.comPresident Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has finalised the list of metropolitan, municipal and district chief executives (MMDCEs) to be nominated to serve in the next three-and-a-half years. The list is expected to be received by the Minister of Local Government, Decentralisation and Rural Development, Daniel Botwe, Thursday morning for onward announcement. “Expect the list to be announced by the Minister very soon,” he wrote on his official Facebook page on Wednesday, September 15. Delay in nominating chief executives for the various metropolitan, municipal and district assemblies (MMDAs) has been a matter of concern to many groups and individuals. In July, the Chamber for Local Government (ChaLoG) accused President Akufo-Addo of employing “unnecessary” and “unproductive” processes in nominating MMDCEs.
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September 16, 2021 00:56 UTC
KLM blocks Ghanaian couple from travelling over meat protest
General News of Thursday, 16 September 2021Source: Tarlue Melvin, ContributorA Ghanaian-Dutch couple has allegedly been blocked from flying to Amsterdam, Holland onboard a KLM plane. According to him, they had registered their opposition to KLM's attempt to stop serving meat from their economy class flights meals worldwide with an exception for destinations such as Argentina and Texas. In protest to the attempted cancellation of meat serving, which might affect travellers from Ghana, Mr van Staalduinen said he and his wife took on board KLM, urging other passengers to oppose the cancellation of meat from meals. The incident occurred on Wednesday night, September 15, 2021, leaving the couple stranded. A flyer shared with African Entertainment by the aggrieved couple read in part: "Respect Ghana and Africa and our choices by giving us our meals with meat!
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September 16, 2021 00:33 UTC
Let’s end plastic menace with 1D1F industrial hub - PWWCA
Business News of Thursday, 16 September 2021Source: GNAThe Pure Water Waste Collector Association (PWWCA) has called for an industrial hub in the plastic programme yet to be out-doored by Government to end the plastic menace in the country. Mr Oppong indicated that generating plastic waste had become part of everyday life and that setting up a hub under the One-District-One-Factory initiative to “recycle, reuse and reduce” would create employment and halt plastic pollution. He said some neighbouring countries, including Togo, Burkina Faso, and Ivory Coast had been bringing their plastic waste to Ghana for recycling and that Government's ability to set up an industry could make Ghana a plastic recycling hub in the sub-region and create jobs for the youth. Plastic waste can be equated to gold mines. Plastic waste has found its way into surface water and marine environments with negative impacts on the ecosystem.
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September 15, 2021 19:41 UTC
Three nabbed at Akatsi for engaging in recruitment fraud
Crime & Punishment of Thursday, 16 September 2021Source: GNAThe Volta Regional Police Command has arrested three persons at Akatsi in the Ketu South Municipality of the Volta region for their alleged involvement in recruitment fraud. The three, Bernard Amenya, 18, Godsway Adzikah, 23, and Godson Wemegah 21, were arrested on September 14, 2021. The release said the said publication was advertising to assist potential applicants to be enlisted into the Ghana Police Service. It said the Command remained resolute in pursuit of recruitment charlatans in the Region and has arrested a total of five suspects in the past weeks. The release urged persons who had fallen victim to the said scam to report to the Command to assist in investigation and prosecution.
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September 15, 2021 19:30 UTC
Achimota School lists rasta student in NSMQ team while appealing his admission
Oheneba Kwaku Nkrabea and Tyrone Iras Murghuy were asked to either do away with their dreadlocks or forfeit their admission into Achimota School. The school and other defendants argued in court that the dreadlocks of the two rasta students was in variance with its rules and regulations. The court held that Achimota School and other respondents in the case failed to justify the position of the school in denying the students admission. The Attorney General in support of the school’s appeal is arguing that the decision by Achimota School does not interfere with the right to the education of the boys. It has, however, come to light that Oheneba Kwaku Nkrabea has transferred from Achimota School to Ghana International School where he has been offered full scholarship worth $160,000.
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September 15, 2021 19:18 UTC
KNUST students asked to vacate campus by Saturday
General News of Wednesday, 15 September 2021Source: 3news.comStudents of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) have been warned not to remain on campus after midday on Saturday, September 18. Only foreign students and students permitted by management can stay, the regional minister has directed. According to the Ashanti Regional Security Council (REGSEC), it has picked intelligence that some “unruly” students are planning some disturbances on campus on Friday, the eve of vacation. In a press statement issued on Wednesday by the Head of REGSEC, Simon Osei-Mensah, who is also the regional minister, the campus is still a security zone as declared in 2018. “It is instructive to remind the student population that the declaration of the University Campus as a security zone in November, 2018, is still in force and, therefore, it is an offence to demonstrate within the security zone,” he stated.
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September 15, 2021 18:33 UTC
Henry Quartey pledges GH¢1,500 monthly support to Psalm Adjeteyfio until 2025
General News of Wednesday, 15 September 2021Source: www.ghanaweb.com• Psalm Adjeteyfio has been receiving a wave of financial assistance• The latest is coming from Greater Accra regional minister Henry Quartey• Quartey has pledged to give ‘TT’ a GH¢1,500 monthly stipend until 2025The Greater Accra Regional Minister, Henry Quartey has pledged to support legendary actor Psalm Adjeteyfio of the Taxi Driver ‘fame’. The actor has recently been making rounds in a viral video pleading for financial support to assist him pay his monthly rent of GH¢3,000. The regional minister has pledged to give a monthly stipend of GH¢1,500 to the ace Ghanaian actor, starting this month, September till 7th January 2025 when his tenure in the eighth parliament expires. A statement issued from the Minister reads, “inspired by the positive impact in the film and entertainment industry where you distinguished yourself, I have equally decided to support you with a monthly stipend of GH¢1,500.00 from my Parliamentary salary”. Following the video which was widely circulated, Businessman and entrepreneur, Daniel McKorley has made a donation of GH¢5,000 to support Psalm Adjeteyfio.
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September 15, 2021 18:33 UTC
Ghana Badminton Association presents medals won at Benin 2021 to Sports Authority
Sports News of Wednesday, 15 September 2021Source: www.ghanaweb.com• The National Sports Authority has been presented with 19 medals won by the Ghana Badminton team at the 2021 Benin Internationals• The team at the competition won 18 bronze medals and 1 silver medal• The Presentation was held at the head office of the NSA on TuesdayThe Ghana Badminton Association on Tuesday, September 14, 2021, presented 1 silver and 18 bronze medals it accumulated at the 2021 Benin International Badminton Games to the Secretariat of the National Sports Authority in Accra. Ghana’s participation in the 2021 edition of the competition saw the nation attain great feats including the 19 medals in total. Aside the medal haul, all of Ghana’s participants in the tournament made it to the quarter-finals stage. Also, Racheal Quarcoo, a 12-year-old silver medalist female member of the team based on her performance won her and her team a five-year scholarship to participate in the Benin Internationals annual event. “I want to address a separate thanks to your coaches, management team and our indefatigable High-Performance Committee of the Association.
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September 15, 2021 18:30 UTC