The National Service Secretariat (NSS) is asking would-be service personnel to exercise patience as it works to resolve some of the challenges encountered in this year’s postings. The Secretariat released the 2014/2015 service postings on Tuesday. Over 70,000 graduates have been deployed nationwide to undertake their national service as required by law. They have been ...
Ghana’s education system has been described as below international standards at all levels, a report by the World Economic Forum (WEF) has revealed. The WEF in its Global Competitiveness Report 2014-2015 assesses the competitiveness of 144 countries, said the country is not sufficiently harnessing new technologies for productivity enhancements (ICT adoption rates continue to be very ...
The Ghana AIDS Commission has revealed that many HIV positive Ghanaians cannot be traced and counselled after testing positive due to poor addressing system in the country. This means the affected persons cannot continue treatment and could possibly spread the disease if they do not receive proper education on how to live meaningful lives after ...
The Ghana Institute of Engineers says it is struggling to effectively regulate engineering practice in Ghana due to the haphazard registration of contractors. This situation according to the institute thwarts their efforts in ensuring that contractors deliver projects according to set standards. The construction industry in Ghana has in recent times been heavily criticized for ...
Citi Business News investigations reveal the current fuel shortage in parts of the country may worsen in the coming days. An acute shortage of petrol and diesel hit some parts of the Greater Accra Region and other Regions early this week. A visit to some pump stations in Adabraka and the central business district of ...
MTN has reached an agreement in principle with specialist tower company IHS Holding to operate MTN’s 9 151 mobile network towers in Nigeria. The transaction is expected to reduce MTN Nigeria’s operating costs, drive network efficiencies and further expand MTN’s voice and data capacity, the South African mobile giant said in a statement on Thursday. ...
Participants in a workshop have said sexual harassment should be curbed with swift and stiffer punishment to enable women to pursue their career goals. They mentioned profiling of women as expendable objects of men’s sexual desire resulting in their rampant harassment. According to them, sexual harrassment has deterred most women from participating in national development ...
The biggest gathering of movie industry players, the Ghana Movie Awards, comes off at the Accra International Conference Centre on December 30, 2014. This year’s event, the fifth in the series, seeks to take the event a notch higher as it brings the crème de la crème of Africa’s movie stars to celebrate with their ...
The Member of Parliament (MP) for the Ablekuma West constituency, Ursula Owusu, has warned of possible violence in the 2016 elections if the electoral reforms are not implemented. Last Friday, the country marked a year since the Supreme Court’s verdict declaring John Dramani Mahama as the legitimate winner of the 2012 Presidential election. The Supreme ...
The Ghana Theatre Festival has been launched in Accra. The event is being organized by the National Theatre and the Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Creative Arts and comes off between September 11 and October 4. The event is aimed at promoting the diversity and uniqueness of African music, cultural performances and creative arts. The maiden ...
Nigeria will be suspended from world football on Monday at 07:00 GMT if Chris Giwa does not give up his claim to be football federation president. World governing body Fifa issued the ultimatum,  reiterating that it does not recognise his election on 26 August. The ban will only be lifted when the NFF board as it stood ...
Turns out you were pretty much doing sex entirely wrong until your thirties. Awkward. Here’s 22 ridiculous mistakes we’ve all made in the bedroom at least once. 1. Car sex. You end up with a gear stick in your thigh, a steering wheel in your back, a bent neck and cramp so bad you might as ...
As the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) conducts its internal elections across the country, a youth group calling itself John for John Movement in Tamale has launched a crusade against all old party executives seeking re-election. Of particular mentioned are the Northern Regional NDC executives whom the group implored party delegates to reject them at ...
The Minister of Health, Dr. Kwaku Agyemang- Mensah has announced plans to employ critical health personnel for the three regions of the north despite the embargo on employment in the public sector. The employment of the critical health personnel according to the sector Minister, is to enhance the delivery of quality health care in the ...
A suspected armed robber believed to be in his early 30s has been lynched at Pieng while two other suspects were also apprehended at Nabulo, both in the Sissala East District of the Upper West Region. The incident occurred after they allegedly robbed and terrorized some members of the two communities and 7 other adjoining villages. ...
President Vladimir Putin outlined plans for a ceasefire in eastern Ukraine on Wednesday but Ukraine’s prime minister dismissed the proposal, while France expressed its disapproval of Moscow’s support for separatist forces by halting delivery of a warship. After speaking to Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko by phone, Putin said he believed Kiev and pro-Russian separatists could ...
The United Nations said $600 million in supplies would be needed to fight West Africa’s Ebola outbreak, as the death toll from the worst ever epidemic of the virus topped 1,900 and Guinea warned it had penetrated a new part of the country. The pace of the infection has accelerated, and there were close to ...
The Ministry of Health has received a donation of 70 hand-held Infrared Thermometers from Airtel Ghana to help it prevent the possible spread of the Ebola disease in Ghana. Ghana in its quest to prevent a likely outbreak has ordered the screening of all travelers at the various border posts and the country’s only international ...
Benso Oil Palm Plantation (BOPP) has emerged as the best performing stock on the Ghana Stock Exchange (GSE) for the month of August. Citi Business News desk analysis reveals it topped the list after it increased in value by about 24percent. Its share price rose by 70 pesewas to close trading for August at 3 ...
Samsung Electronics Co Ltd, the world’s biggest mobile phone maker, unveiled new versions of its Galaxy Note smartphone on Wednesday after previous design miscues cost it customers in the large-screen phone market it pioneered. The new Galaxy Note 4 features a crisper, 5.7-inch display in a metal frame, reflecting Samsung’s latest design strategy to keep ...
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