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Feb 20, 2023 | 
graphic.com.gh | Juliet Akyaa Safo
The John Evans Atta Mills Memorial Heritage, founded a year ago to immortalise the memory and achievement of the third President of the Fourth Republic, the late John Evans Atta Mills, will commence activities, this week, to commemorate its first anniversary. The Memorial Heritage was created to, among others, promote the late President's unique view of society to strengthen democratic values and human development and preserve his heritage and legacy.
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Feb 17, 2023 | 
graphic.com.gh | Juliet Akyaa Safo |Dickson Worlanyo Dotse
Another Computerised School Selection Placement (CSSP) time is here and with it, has come the usual attendant challenges for parents and their children. Barely 24 hours after the Ghana Education Service (GES) released the placement for candidates who successfully took the 2022 BECE, the help centres are already being inundated with calls.
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Feb 15, 2023 | 
graphic.com.gh | Juliet Akyaa Safo
The government has been urged to prioritise investment in agricultural research and innovation to increase food production in the country. Such a measure will also help reduce the importation of food commodities and make the country self-reliant. The Founder Director of the West African Centre for Crop Improvement (WACCI) at the University of Ghana, Prof.
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Feb 13, 2023 | 
graphic.com.gh | Juliet Akyaa Safo |Justice Agbenorsi
A BOOK that recounts the life of a former Commissioner of the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ), Justice Emile Francis Short, was on Thursday launched in Accra. The 256-page book does not only open the window to the formative stages of the man who is often called to national duty, but also provides a compendium of lessons for young lawyers to have a taste of what it looked like to practice law in the then Gold Coast.
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Feb 13, 2023 | 
graphic.com.gh | Juliet Akyaa Safo
A delegation from the World Bank last Friday visited two Africa Centres of Excellence (ACEs) for Development Impact at the University of Ghana to study how the project funds had been utilised.
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Feb 9, 2023 | 
graphic.com.gh | Juliet Akyaa Safo
Some residents of Amamoley community in the Ga North District of the Greater Accra Region have called on the Police and social intervention groups to come to their aid as they are being terrorised by land guards within the community. They explained that series of such attacks were carried out by a group of land guards known as the “Snatch and sell land guards”, leaving them in terror.
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Feb 3, 2023 | 
graphic.com.gh | Juliet Akyaa Safo
Head porters popularly called Kayayei, within the Ga West Municipal Assembly (GWMA) can now live in a descent place after work within the next 18 months. This follows the cutting of sod to begin construction of a four-storey hostel facility at Adjen Kotoku to accommodate 300 of them. The facility is among seven other hostel facilities that would be built within seven municipalities in the Greater Accra Region.
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Jan 31, 2023 | 
graphic.com.gh | Juliet Akyaa Safo
The Data Protection Commission says it will this year focus on enforcing and auditing companies who have registered with the commission. The Executive Director of the commission, Patricia Adusei-Poku, explained that the move was to ensure that the registered companies were complying with the Data Protection Act 2012 Act 843, which sought to protect personal data. She said the commission had already received a dedicated prosecutor to prosecute defaulting companies.
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Jan 30, 2023 | 
graphic.com.gh | Juliet Akyaa Safo
The second edition of a campaign aimed at training young people in how to defend themselves when in danger has been launched in Accra. Known as the Safety-For-AlI campaign, it was launched last Saturday, to among others, teach young people non-physical self-defence, how to be safe on the internet and what to do when in danger. About 1000 students from junior high schools and senior high schools in the Greater Accra Region will be trained.
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Jan 28, 2023 | 
graphic.com.gh | Juliet Akyaa Safo
The Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) has said it will in March this year introduce a new digitised revenue collection system to rake in more revenue for the assembly. Already, about 23 banks have been integrated into the new revenue collection platform to give users the flexibility of payment options. Apart from the banks, ratepayers can equally pay their bills via mobile money on all networks, Quick Response (QR) codes and a USSD code yet to be introduced.
