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Information Minister, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, has said the government is leveraging technology to improve how things are done and to offer value to Ghanaians. His comment follows the public lecture delivered by the Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia in which he highlighted how the administration is solving problems with technology. The Ofoase Ayirebi lawmaker in series of tweets said “Across ...

The Helping Africa Foundation (HAF) has provided Asare Bediako SHS in Akrokerri, Ashanti Region; Bomaa community in the Ahafo Region, and Tuobodom community in the Bono East Region of Ghana with ultramodern ICT centers to promote the teaching and learning of ICT under the foundations flagship program, the Yamoransa Model Labs Program.   All projects comprise a 48-seater educational lab ...

US-based Ghanaian Lawyer, Prof. Stephen Kwaku Asare, has called on the Attorney General (AG) to disengage on the banter with Parliament on the Resolution for the General Legal Council (GLC) to compel the Ghana School of Law (GSL) to admit 499 students denied admission. According to him, for a nation to progress, it is prudent that leaders use their power ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo will today, Tuesday, November 2, address world leaders at the ongoing United Nations (UN) Climate Change Conference (COP 26) in Glasgow, Scotland. Ghana’s leader left Accra on Sunday for the summit. He is scheduled to speak on Ghana’s position on Climate Change as well as measures put in place to combat the threat it poses. ...

A bus travelling from Techiman in the Bono East Region to Kumasi in the Ashanti Region on Tuesday, 2 November went up in flames when it crashed into a Kia Truck. The accident occurred in the early hours of the day at Akomadan also in the Ashanti Region. There were passengers aboard the bus when the accident occurred. There are ...

Vice-President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia will today, Tuesday, 2 November 2021 deliver a public lecture on the digital economy. The public lecture, which will be hosted by Ashesi University, will also have an interactive session with students of the university on how digitalisation is transforming the economy and positioning Ghana for the emerging global digital revolution. Dr Bawumia, who has spearheaded ...

The Ghana Health Service (GHS) has released beneficiaries of the Nation Builders Corps (NABCO) in the Upper West Region. This was disclosed in a letter addressed to the Regional Director of NABCO in the region. The letter dated Monday, 1 November 2021, signed by the Medical Director of the Upper West Regional Hospital, Robert Ameniya said: “Following your contractual agreement ...

Deputy Minister of Lands and Natural Resources in charge of Mining George Mireku Duker has assured that government will continue to monitor and ensure that mineral revenues are used to the benefit of communities affected by mining. He decries instances where mineral revenues are used for recurrent expenditure by assemblies in mining areas and assured such practices will cease. “Obviously, ...

The Angola Ambassador to Ghana, Joao Baptista Domingos, has called on African countries to trade more among themselves in order to create wealth and reduce the threatening youth unemployment on the continent. Mr. Baptista Domingos noted that the African Continental Free Trade Area Agreement (AfCFTA) and the One District One Factory (1D1F) initiative by the Ghanaian government are a lifeline ...

One of the beneficiaries of the Nation Builders Corp (NABCo) has expressed frustration as to the way forward after the expiration of the programme on Sunday, October 31. The programme was introduced in May, 2018 by the government as a stop-gap measure to solve the graduate unemployment conundrum in the country. Contracts for the beneficiaries were to take three years ...