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GES shuts down Buipe SHS after fire razed school

Nearly 300 students of Buipe Senior High School have been asked to go home after they lost all their personal belongings in a fire that burnt down their dormitory, Monday, February 3, 2020. Public Relations Officer (PRO) of the Ghana Education Service (GES) in the Northern Region, Kanzoni Donald, in a release said the decision has become necessary because both students and the ...

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‘I didn’t know it was abuse until I nearly died’

Abi Blake

It was only when Abi Blake was nearly killed by her abusive husband that she decided to break up with him and press charges. A new policing pilot in Cheshire encourages women not to leave it so late, reports the BBC’s Sue Mitchell. They were introduced by friends just after Valentine’s Day in 2014. She was an operations manager at ...

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Lagos motorbike taxi ban: Chaos as Nigerian city removes okadas

There has been widespread disruption in Nigeria’s commercial capital, Lagos on the first working day of a ban on motorbike- and tricycle-taxis. There were long queues at bus stations even though extra transport was laid on, while some walked for miles. Commercial motorbikes are the most common form of public transport in the city of at least 20 million people, ...

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Road Safety Authority to sanction drivers who cause road accidents

The National Road Safety Authority (NRSC) has indicated that the time has come for drivers who cause road accidents in the country to be sanctioned. According to the Authority, this will go a long way to deter others and ensure that drivers observe all safety rules and regulations when on the road. This comes in the wake of recent accidents ...

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GNECC dismisses Kofi Asare as its Chairman;Homadzi takes over

Ghana National Education Campaign Coalition (GNECC)held a press conference in Accra toannounce the dismissal of Mr Kofi Asare as the chairman of the coalition following investigation which revealed that he came to the office based on false information with regards to the constitution of GNECC. This has led to instability in the activities of the coalition as he still holds ...

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Obuasi’s return to productivity, profitability excites Akufo-Addo

Nana Akufo-Addo

President Akufo-Addo has expressed his delight at the return to production, productivity, and profitability of the Anglogold Ashanti Gold mine, six years after it was effectively closed down. According to President Akufo-Addo, the coming back on stream of the Obuasi mine signals to the rest of the world “new beginnings for Obuasi, which will help in spurring on the development ...

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In Africa, ideas aren’t enough

– Environment is king but Ghana must be an exception-  For two decades, we have been running with the narrative of ‘a Ghana rising.’ Today, it is no longer a narrative but a reality, although in fading shadows. Ghana is now a land of economic freedom where investors from all over the world troop into to start businesses and/or takeover ...

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Isn’t our democracy a fraud?

Fundamental to every democracy is the rule of law. To put it simply, the submission of the entire nation to rules and laws is paramount to any working democracy. While it’s obvious that democracy depends on several interdependent and interrelated complex elements of society to serve its purpose, the removal of the rule of law spells disastrous feet for every ...

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Educating Ghana’s imprisoned: A pathway to remain out of jail

Imprisonment, in recent times, has moved from the era of human warehousing to that which seeks to correct the offending behaviour of offenders. The shift in focus, undoubtedly, requires from the Ghana Prisons Service newer treatment modules which focus on filling behavioural and intellectual gaps of offenders to empower them for fruitful and law abiding lives upon discharge to keep ...

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Ghana not ready for cyber attack – Cybersecurity advisor

Dr Albert Antwi-Boasiako

National Cybersecurity advisor Dr Albert Antwi-Boasiako says Ghana has much to do in order to be able to defend itself from any attack in its cyberspace. According to Dr Antwi-Boasiako, the fact that individuals and even organizations fall for the simplest of scams speaks to how much work is required in securing the country’s cyberspace. Starr News’ Ibrahim Alhassan caught ...

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