A far-right candidate, Jair Bolsonaro, has won the first round of Brazil’s presidential election. He will face the left-wing Workers’ Party candidate, Fernando Haddad, in the second round on October 28 after he failed to win the 50 per cent of valid votes needed to win outright. With almost all the votes counted, Mr Bolsonaro had 46 per cent and [...] The post Far-right candidate
More than 50,000 critical care nurses are needed to ensure effective management of critical and emergency cases at various hospitals in the country, the Principal of the School of Peri-Operative and Critical Nursing (SPOCN) in Accra, Dr. Kwaku Asante Krobea has said. According to him, currently, there are only 1,000 of such specialised nurses in the country, a situation which [...] The post Ghana
The crisis situation facing the Accra Psychiatric Hospital (APH) is far from over as the facility meant to originally treat mentally ill patients and reintegrate them into society has virtually been turned into a home of vagrants. With high societal stigmatisation against mentally ill patients coupled with minimal information to trace their roots, most patients treated at the facility have [...] The post Accra
Nine players have arrived ahead of the Black Stars qualifier against Sierra Leone, despite the uncertainty surrounding the fixture. South Africa based goalkeeper Richard Ofori, Reading right back Andy Yiadom, Udinese defender Nicholas Opoku, Atletico Madrid midfielder Thomas Partey, Mubarak Wakaso of Alaves, Empoli’s Afriyie Acquah, Captain Asamoah Gyan, Bernard Mensah and Newcatle United winger Christian Atsu have all touched [...] The post 9
Communications Director of the Normalisation Committee, Dan Kwaku Yeboah says his outfit has not received any official communiqué from the Confederation of African Football (CAF) indicating that they have cancelled the upcoming 2019 African Cup of Nations qualifier against Sierra Leone. The Leone Stars are scheduled to travel to Ghana to face the Black Stars in Kumasi on October 11 [...] The post Ghana
Chairperson of the Local Organising Committee (LOC) of the Africa Women Cup of Nations in Ghana, Madam Freda Prempeh has stated that the Mascot and Trophy tour will begin this week as the country continues with preparations to host the competition. The tour is expected to begin in the Ashanti Region when the Black Stars take on Sierra Leone in [...] The post AWCON Mascot, trophy tour to hit
Professor Eric Danquah, the Founding Director of West Africa Centre for Crop Improvement (WACCI), University of Ghana, has called for transformative changes of agriculture and food systems in Africa. He said current forecasts placed the sub-Saharan Africa as the only region in the world where hunger and malnutrition would worsen over the next two decades unless some drastic measures are [...] The post WACCI
Ghana’s leading home deco company, Orca Deco is planning to establish a factory in the country after enjoying 15 years of successful business. The factory when established, according to Sales and Marketing Director of Orca Deco, Sonia Sharara, would put Ghana at the centre of Orca Deco’s operations across the globe as it would factory supply other countries in [...] The post Orca
Finance ministers from the 53-member countries of the Commonwealth will meet in the margins of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank annual meetings this week in Bali, Indonesia, to discuss financing solutions to help counter the risk of natural disasters in their countries. Under the theme ‘Enhancing national capacity to reduce disaster risk’, the Commonwealth Finance Ministers Meeting [...] The post Commonwealth
The University of Professional Studies, Accra (UPSA) has held its 2018 matriculation ceremony to enrol students for the 2018/2019 academic year. The Institution received a total of 4,407 applications, made up of 3,778 undergraduate and 629 post graduate applications. In an address, the Vice Chancellor, Prof. Abednego Feehi Okoe Amartey said the objective of the University was to equip students [...] The post UPSA
The 1978 year group of the St. Thomas Aquinas Senior High School over the weekend marked 40 years of their completion of the school with a symposium and a donation of 24 set of computers. The move which was to climax series of activities marking the celebration also saw the commissioning of a newly refurbished Information and Communication Technology (ICT) [...] The post 1978
Our Lady of Mercy (OLAM) Senior High School, has organised a health screening and walk as part of activities to mark its 20th anniversary celebration. The anniversary to be climaxed in March 2019 is under the theme: “20 Years of holistic Catholic education: Overcoming challenges, building resilience and sustaining excellence.” About 800 students took part in the one [...] The post OLAM
Stakeholders in education at this year’s World Teachers’ Day Celebration in Bolgatanga have called on government to motivate teachers to enhance the quality delivery service. They said when the teachers were well catered for through revised policies that raise the standards of teachers in terms of receiving good salaries and other incentives, they would be more determined to give off [...] The post Government
Former President John Dramani Mahama has expressed shock over the suspension of the headmaster of Tempane Senior High School, describing the New Patriotic Party (NPP) government as highly intolerant. According to him, the action taken by the authorities is a clear testimony of the intolerance of the government, investigating him for what? The schools have children who are 18 years [...] The post Mahama
The National Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Freddie, Blay has advocated the law protecting coup makers be expunged from the 1992 constitution. He explained that “the call for the removal of the clauses in the 1992 constitution is not to open the gates for the trial of acts of subversion that dominates the nation’s 61-year political history. [...] The post Law
A National Nasara aspirant, Alhaji Ahmed Zaruk Nuhu has lauded the effort of the government to introduce flagship programmes to ameliorate the plight of the citizenry. He explained that the free Senior High School (SHS), one-district-one-factory and one-village-one-dam policies would boost education, employment and agriculture which would increase access to education for the Ghanaian child, create employment and support farmers [...] The post Nasara
Augustus Goosie Obuadum Tanoh, a presidential candidate aspirant of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), says for the party to capture power in the 2020 elections it needs a positive political culture. He said the NDC should further have a clear vision and the trust of Ghanaians Mr. Tanoh explained that when given the nod during the upcoming NDC presidential [...] The post Goosie
Pandemonium broke when members of Delta Force, a vigilante group of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) stormed a meeting of the Old Tafo Constituency and chased away the Member of Parliament, Dr. Akoto Osei, and beat up the executives, ending the meeting abruptly. Dr. Akoto Osei, who is the Minister of Monitoring and Evaluation escaped unhurt as he was said [...] The post Delta
The Sekyere Kumawu District Assembly is embarking on an aggressive infrastructure development to help open up rural communities and improve on the living conditions of the people in those areas. It is geared towards alleviating poverty and improve socio-economic conditions in rural communities, to help achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). Samuel Addai Agyekum, the District Chief Executive, made this [...] The post Sekyere
Nigeria’s presidential election was shaping up to be a contest between two veteran male politicians, but the candidacy of Oby Ezekwesili could change that. Women have run for the presidency before but she is the most prominent Nigerian woman to challenge for the top job, the BBC’s Nigeria reporter Chris Ewokor says. Ms Ezekwesili is well known for leading the [...] The post Oby
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