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Reports from the Auditor-General reveals that three non-staff members of the Ministry of Finance received a total sum of GHC 1,112,895.96 as salaries for the period January 2020 to December 2021. This is contained in the 2021 Auditor-General's Report presented  to Parliament. Paragraph 95 of the report states that during the audit exercise, the "personal files and names on the nominal roll of the Ministry could not be traced." Meanwhile, Regulation 86 of the Public Financial Management Regulation, 2019(L.I 2378) mentions that, a "Principal Spending Officer of a covered entity shall ensure that only names of personels eligible to receive payment for work done are kept on the payment voucher and keep records of the nominal roll of the covered entity in a manner that ensures that the correct amount of emolument is paid." The three non-staff members of the Ministry of Finance include: Allotey Eamon James with staff ID number TAMF1902, Kwakye Nana Yaw Asiedu with sta...

  Earlier this morning, the Hon. Member of Parliament for Lawra Constituency, Bede A. Ziedeng, together with the Lawra Municipal Coordinating Director who represented  the MCE for Lawra at this ceremony, the  Lawra  NDC constituency chairman, Hon. Joshua Lotaa, and other party executives, at  a short ceremony, handed over eleven executive chairs and a public address system all together  worth twenty-one thousand, four hundred Ghana cedis(GH¢21,400.00)to the Lawra Municipal Education Directorate. The Director of the Lawra Municipal Education Service received the items on behalf  of the Directorate and thanked the MP for his swift response to her appeal for this support. In fact, the Education Director and her staff eulogized the MP for all the good works he has done so far with regards to matters bordering on education in the Lawra constituency.  The Hon. Member of Parliament in his speech catalogued some achievements he has chalked so far with reg...

A 23 year old level 200 student of the McCoy College of Education has the bragging right of being the crown owner of their famous SRC sponsored beauty pageant. This year's contest saw seven beautiful young ladies battling it out in an unprecedentedly fierce contest.  The multitalented dark-skinned lady however distinguished herself beating her closest contender Lawrencia Abea.  Benedicta got the thousands who gathered at the McCoy Assembly Hall amazed with her enviable fashion and design skills on stage. In a matter of 5 minutes, she was able to design different styles of dresses with Ghanaian fabrics. Her victory was therefore not surprising to many who followed her from the start of the program.  When asked what she would use the crown to do, she indicated her plans of championing a sensitization on sanitation, insisting sanitation has become a major problem to confront. She added that, she would advocate for the distribution of dusbins in some Senior High Schools and s...

The 1st runner up for this year's Miss McCoy has made a clarion call on philanthropists, NGOs, Faith Based Organizations and other stakeholders to support her to impart lives in society. According to her, she wants to help minimise if not eradicate school dropouts in rural communities in her home region, the Upper East Region. According to her proposed project, dropouts and other teenagers will benefit from skills training that can give them a source of income to support themselves. She made the revelations while speaking to straight news GH in a one on one interview on what she wants to use her influence of Queenship for. ABOUT MISS LAWRENCIA, 1ST RUNNER UP, MISS MCCOY, 2022. Abeaba Lawrencia Atupoka, a native of Winkogo in the Upper East Region was crowned as the 1st runner this year's Miss McCoy, a beauty pageant put in place by the Student Representaive Council (SRC) of McCoy College of Education, Nadowli. The Miss McCoy Contest has become the headlined activity of SRC week...

  The former SRC President of McCoy College of Education, Mr. Dominic Angbangna in his address to the students of the College, stated that one  of the surest ways of making teacher education a catalyst for national development is that presevice and inservice teachers should see teaching as their work and not their job. He said this when  he was addressing the audience on the climax of their 6th SRC Week celebration dated 20th August, 2022 in the school's pavellion. He added " when you see teaching as your work, you are committed to it,  you own it, you make it part of you and you will do everything possible to protect it. However, when you see it as your job, you are apathetic to it especially when conditions of service are not favorable and you do not care about its collapse ".

Yesterday,17th August , 2022. At the invitation of the British High Commissioner to Ghana Her. Excellency Harriet Thompson to a breakfast meeting at Royal Cosy Hills popularly known as Jirapa Dubai for a brief discussions on areas of interest in development and update on strategies for sustainability of the Strategic Approaches to Girls Education (STAGE) Project in Jirapa  Municipality. THE STAGE PROJECT, has bridged the equity gap in education in favour of the girl child, it has both formal and non-formal components.   Since 2019, the Municipal Assembly through the Education Directorate has collaborated with Pronet North in the implementation and the following remarkable results has been achieved. The  formal component recorded 904 girls transitioned into 27 Schools across 35 Communities Municipal wide. 98 of these girls have been provided with bicycles to facilitate their movement to school especially those far away from their schools. The informal component trained 198...

  Banks are reporting a shortage of FX to meet payments of maturing Letters of Credit (LCs) issued to international oil trading companies such as BP Vitol,  Trafigura etc etc This is due to Bank of Ghana’s inability to meet requirements at the various FX auctions. Some Banks have even stopped quoting FX rates as there is simply no availability for the quantities required by the fuel importers (BDCs). This is causing BDC‘s to max out their credit-line limits with their banks, and the implication is that the banks will no longer have credit lines available for the BDC’s to import fuel going forward. Banks also are running the risk of maxing out their credit-lines with their corresponding foreign banks that confirm (or guarantee) the local banks’  trade instruments such as Documentary LCs and Standby LCs (aka Guarantees). This could prove very disastrous for the country as essential imports could come to a grinding halt.  Government needs to act decisively and quickly b...

  On 3rd August, 2022 Hon Abdul- Rashid Iddrisu Submitted his nominations form to the electoral commission of AAMUSTED,ahead of 2022 NUGS Presidential Election. Mr Abdul-Rashid Iddrisu has however declared his intention to contest the position of National Union of Ghana Student (NUGS) Presidential Slot for the period 2022/2023 academic year at AAMUSTED Kumasi campus. Hon Abdul-Rashid Iddrisu is a professional Teacher from the Northern part of Ghana precisely North East Region Nagboo. Now a level 200 construction student at AAMUSTED Kumasi campus. He is best known by his peers as Hon Member and has played so many roles as student leader from basic level to Tertiary Level.  He started his elementary Education in Guakudow in the west mamprusi municipality of the North east region in the year 2002 later moved to Nagboo in the East Mamprusi Municipality in the year 2004 where he continued his elementary Education. At  primary four, he was promoted to primary six and became a s...