The Project Director of Special Attention Project (SAP), the leading non-governmental organisation in Ghana working for the rights of children with learning difficulties has expressed worry about the low level of awareness on children with disabilities in Ghana. Mr. Richard O. Opoku said the lack of knowledge and recognition of disabilities has further deepened the misconceptions about children with disabilities in the country. The Project Director was speaking at the Autism and Digi ...
The craze for sports betting among the youth of Ghana has the potential to retard their development and by extension, the future of the country if not checked as a matter of urgency. Mr. Daniel Jackson, Pro-director of Jackson College of Education (JCE) who made the observation, said the alarming rate at which the youth are patronizing sports betting is likened to a national disaster in waiting. He said the youth of today are too obsessed with betting at the expense of produ ...
The Ghana Education Service (GES) has asked the general public to disregard claims by the Textiles Workers Union that government had imported its new school uniform for Junior High Schools. According to GES, it has not awarded any contract to any local or foreign firm to bring the fabric into the country. The Textiles Workers have raised concerns about the alleged importation of the new uniforms introduced by the GES stating that the action makes no sense. But in a stateme ...
The Child Health Department of the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital (KBTH) has called on Ghanaians to help it acquire magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and computed tomography (CT) scan machines at its Paediatric Oncology Unit (POU) where cancers are treated. These machines are used to capture images of the body to help clinical analysis and treatment. The Senior Nursing Officer, Child Health Department, Eunice Owusu, made the appeal when members of the North Kaneshie Assemblies of G ...
The British High Commission (BHC) has donated a Toyota Fortuner vehicle to the Ghana Immigration Service (GIS) for its newly created visa fraud and related offences unit. The vehicle was handed over to the GIS by the Regional Capacity Building Manager, Mr. Alistair Rushton, on behalf of the mission at the GIS National Headquarters in Accra yesterday. Other items that were also donated to the GIS included specialized laptops, fraud detection equipment, batons and handcuffs. ...
The Wassa Amenfi East Municipal Assembly in the Western Region has commissioned three projects which would help boost service delivery to the people. The projects included a maternity block with various components, a three-unit classroom block with ancillary facilities at Ntowkrom and a rehabilitated six-unit classroom block at Abreshia, all in the municipality. The maternity block was funded by the District Development Facility at a cost of GH cent;410, 410.35 while the newly ...
The Western Regional Minister, Kwabena Okyere Darko-Mensah, has noted that the Regional Coordinating Council was poised to provide a permanent solution to the water problem in Supomu Dunkwa in the Shama District of the region. He mentioned that improving water services and uses, was essential for increasing hygiene and sanitation service levels that affected productive lives of people. The Regional Minister stated this when he cut the sod for the extension of water supply from ...
A 28-year-old scrap dealer, who stole police motorcycle at police barracks at Malejor near Oyibi, has been sentenced to 18 months in jail in hard labour. Mohammed Kwame, who resides at Agbogbloshie in Accra, was charged with stealing and causing unlawful damage when he was put before the Dodowa Magistrate Court presided over by Gloria Naa Botor Laryea. He pleaded guilty and was convicted accordingly on his own plea. The court explained that for the fact that Kwame was able ...
The deceased police officer, Lance Corporal Alhassan Asare who was found dead under mysterious circumstance at Akyem Swedru on guard duty in the Eastern Region has been laid to rest at Asante Mampong in the Ashanti Region. The funeral of the late officer which took place on Tuesday August 27 2019 was attended by family and sympathizers that included top hierarchy of the Ghana Police service. Some officials present at the solemn event were Commissioner Of Police (COP) Dr. Georg ...
The concreting of roads in some parts of the Tema Heavy Industrial Area in the Greater Accra Region by government is progressing steadily. Currently, the 5.4 km stretch at TOR-Tema Steel Works to DVLA Road which is being undertaken by two local firms ndash; Messrs L egrave;mef Construction Limited and Messrs Joshob Construction Limited ndash; is seeing the casting of concrete. Stone basing works ndash; the final work before concreting ndash; have also commenced around the ...
Five police officers have killed in the past 30 days, the deadliest in recent times. Myjoyonline.com recaps the tragedies that have hit the country within the Ghana Police Service. July 30, 2019: Corporal Agatha Nana Nabin with the Northern Regional Police Command was shot dead at a police checkpoint on the Tamale-Kumbungu road in the Sagnarigu District. The report is that armed and masked men in a grey saloon car discharged their weapons after being stopped at the check-p ...
Government has denied allegations by former President John Dramani Mahama that it has abandoned the Mpaha Day Senior High School. The District Chief Executive Officer of Central Gonja district, Mustapha Mahama told Joy News the former president got it wrong when he said the school completed during his tenure as president has been left to rot. John Mahama, who was in the Savannah region to thank members of his party for electing him as the flagbearer for National Democratic Congress ...
