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Why Mustapha Hamid wants to focus on education in zongos

Minister for Inner-cities and Zongo development

Minister for Inner-Cities and Zongo Development, Dr Mustapha Abdul-Hamid says his focus while at the ministry will be to tackle education and human resource development among zongo communities. These are the biggest challenges of dwellers of these sprawling settlements where social amenities are lacking and standard of living low, according to the immediate past Minister for Information whose recent reshuffle ...

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Bagre Dam spillage: Lives under threat in the north

A humanitarian crisis is looming in a number of communities in northern Ghana, particularly areas along the White Volta and the Black Volta, following the spilling of excess water from the Bagre Dam in Burkina Faso. “Swathes of farmlands have been consumed by flood waters and lives are under threat. The situation is very bad,” the Director-General of the National ...

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30 African Migrants Including Women And Children Drown

Security officials in Yemen confirm that a boat carrying at least 150 African migrants has capsized off a southern province, killing at least 30 people including five women and children. The officials said on Tuesday that the boat capsized on Sunday off the coast of Shabwa province. They say most of the passengers were Somali migrants. The narrow waters between the ...

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More Than 96 Per Cent Of Electrical Products Are Fake – GSA

A Market Surveillance conducted by the Ghana Standard Authority (GSA) has revealed that 96 per cent of electrical products sold at the Opera Square and Zongo lane, in Accra were counterfeit and failed to meet standards. The Surveillance discovered that, out of the 204 electrical products sampled for laboratory testing, more than 92 per cent of them failed to meet ...

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NSS To Weed Out National Service Dodgers

Mr Ussif Mustapha, acting Executive Director of NSS

The National Service Scheme (NSS) is set to deploy an enforcement team to all private and public organisations across the country to weed out workers who have not undertaken their mandatory national service. A statement issued by the NSS said the enforcement team would visit both private and public organisations across the country to ensure that Act 426 (1980) of the NSS is complied with, and ...

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NEIP Opens Application For Window 2 Of Presidential Business Support Programme

The National Entrepreneurship and Innovation Plan-NEIP, under the Ministry of Business Development has announced the call for application under the WINDOW 2 of the NEIP Presidential Business Support Programme. NEIP is a flagship program of the Government of Ghana to support and promote entrepreneurship and business development. NEIP was launched by the president, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo with a seed ...

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Maxwell Konadu rallies support for grassroots football

Assistant coach of the Black Stars, Maxwell Konadu has emphasized the need for the government to pay attention to grassroots football in the country. Speaking to journalists on the sidelines of the Accra edition of the Betway Talent Search tryouts, Maxwell Konadu who expressed excitement with the talents discovered by the initiative made a passionate appeal to the government to ...

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Zoomlion delivers 500 waste trucks to MMDA’s

Dr. Joseph Siaw Agyepong,Executive Chairman, Zoomlion, Ghana

Zoomlion Ghana has delivered 500 new waste management trucks to Metropolitan Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDA’s) across the country in a response to government’s agenda of a good environmental health condition within cities. It is projected that the move will create additional 300 direct jobs and 1,000 indirect jobs in various MMDA’s. The trucks, however, are expected to go to ...

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Education in Africa must be radically and urgently reengineered!

Education consists not only in the sum of what a man or woman knows, or the skill with which he or she can put this to his or her own advantage. A man or woman’s education must be measured in terms of the soundness of his or her judgment of people, situations and of things, and in his or her ...

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The Ghanaian mind must be activated to turn the nation’s fortunes around

One of the purposes for which God created man was to have him function as His development partner on this earth, the very reason why He created man in His own image and likeness. God is a visionary, imaginative, an awesome creator and innovator, a strategic thinker, long term planner, an efficient organiser, accurate implementer and a brilliant Achiever. All ...

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