Dr Mahamadu Bawumia on Tuesday, August 27, ushered into the world of work, 10,000 young people trained under the Youth Employment Agency’s (YEA) Skills Training programme. This latest effort by the government to provide employable skills to Ghanaian youth joins other ongoing efforts such as the Kayayei Empowerment Programme and the training and provision of start up support for MSMEs by the Ghana Enterprises Agency. The graduands undertook a six-month training in vocational skills including hairdressing, masonry, plumbing, painting, steelworks and wielding among others. During the training, they were paid GHc500 each every month as stipends, and at the passing…
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The determination by Asantehene Otumfuo Osei Tutu II to fight galamsey from all angles moved another step forward on Monday, August 26 when he destooled three chiefs in Sabronum in the Ashanti Region. The three, made up of the Gyaasehene, Nana Awua Gyau Atuomi, the Akyeameahene, Nana Osei Kwadwo, and the Baamuhene, Nana Tabiri Gyansah, were found complicit in the illegal act, and the King acted accordingly. This comes after similar destoolments in other parts of the region in the past few years. Petition The latest destoolments followed a petition sent to the Asantehene by some concerned individuals from the…
Dr Matthew Opoku Prempeh continued his campaign in the Ashanti Region with visits to communities in the Atwima Nwabiagya South, Atwima Mponua and Atwima Nwabiagya North constituencies on Tuesday, August 27. There was massive response from the chiefs and people as the NPP running mate, affectionately called Napo, made a case for why the party’s flagbearer, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia and the parliamentary candidates should be voted for in the elections. Partnership for development At a durbar of the chiefs and people at Nkawie in the Atwima Nwabiagya South Constituency, Napo recollected historically, the traditional authority’s involvement in the UP tradition…
Ethiopia has signed an agreement for the design of a new four-runway airport that will be Africa’s biggest when construction is completed in 2029, the head of state-owned Ethiopian Airlines said on Friday. Located near the town of Bishoftu, around 45km (28 miles) from the capital Addis Ababa, the airport will have capacity to handle 100 million passengers a year and provide parking for 270 aircraft, Ethiopian Airlines’ CEO Mesfin Tasew told a news conference. Dubai-based engineering and consulting firm Sidara will design the airport, the company’s director of operations Tariq Al Qanni said. Plans to build the airport were…
The Electoral Commission (EC) will, for the first time, publish on its website the guidelines for the conduct of the 2024 presidential and parliamentary elections for the resolution of any irregularities that may occur during the counting and collation process. They include the handling of over-voting, mismatched reconciliation and incomplete or incorrectly filled-in results forms. Context In every election, the EC establishes guidelines which is made available only to election officers but this time around it would be published on the commission’s website for all to access. Apart from publishing the guidelines on its website, the commission would develop it…
The internet has been ablaze in the last few days with heated clashes between South Africans and Nigerians, sparked by the controversy surrounding the Miss South Africa 2024 pageant. The debate intensified after a finalist of Nigerian descent, Chidimma Adetshina, withdrew from the competition amid accusations against her mother involving fraud and identity theft. Adetshina, 23, who was born in Soweto to a Nigerian father and a South African mother of Mozambican descent, faced significant backlash on social media due to her Nigerian heritage. The controversy reached a boiling point when the South African Home Affairs Ministry launched an investigation,…
The Chief Executive Officer of Ghana Trade Fair Co Ltd., Dr. Agnes Adu, has said that the Trade Fair site was not operational prior to her appointment as CEO by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo. Speaking on Artsy on Asaase 99.5 on Saturday (10 August), Adu stated that Akufo-Addo was very deliberate in sorting after her professionalism. “I walk in my first day, July of 2017, I walked in and there’s total chaos, right? You would think that nobody cared. There’s garbage everywhere. The townspeople dump their garbage into the Trade Fair site.” “His Excellency Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo,…
Hollywood superstar Tom Cruise has made a dramatic appearance at Sunday night’s Paris 2024 closing ceremony, abseiling off the Stade de France roof. Spectators shrieked in delight as the Mission: Impossible star, dressed in leather jacket and gloves, lowered himself into the stadium while his compatriot H.E.R. performed on guitar. To mark the handover to Los Angeles, which will host the Olympics in 2028, Cruise was seen in a pre-recorded film travelling through Paris and onto the US. There he journeyed to the legendary Hollywood sign and unfurled the Olympic colours. The ceremony in Paris marked a formal “au revoir”…
The Minister of Education, Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum, has said Ghana is in a good position to achieve the sustainable development goal (SDG) targets on quality education – SDG 4. He said the government’s investment in education infrastructure, rolling out of sound policies and deployment of innovation in the sector, had put it in a better place to achieve SDG 4 by 2030. In particular, the minister said the free senior high school (FSHS) policy had significantly improved the country’s chances of meeting SDG 4.1. SDG 4.1 requires that by 2030, countries must “ensure that all girls and boys complete…
Daasebre Dr. Asumadu Appiah, the Chief of Akyem Wenchi in the Eastern region has expressed scepticism about the possibility of winning the fight against illegal mining popularly known as galamsey in his jurisdiction. The Oseawuohene explained that the lack of employment opportunities in the area makes it extremely difficult to weed out galamsey which is said to be destroying Ghana’s vegetation and water bodies. Making the remarks during a visit by the New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) flagbearer, Dr. Mahamadu Bawumia, Daasebre Dr Asumadu Appiah said “As for the galamsey, it is not something we can stop if you tell us…