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  Akosua Barko  Foundation Rolls Out Free Vacation Classes For Double track SHS Students In Assin North Constituency    Mr Charles Opoku, CEO for Akosua Barko Foundation in collaboration with The Nation Service Personnel in the Assin North District of the Central Region has organized free vacation classes for SHS 2 Double Track Students. The students will taken through almost all core subjects taught at the second cycle levels. About 15 National Services teachers have drawn and contracted by Mr Charles Opoku to teach the students. For a period of three months of teaching and learning, an average of over 200 students  are expected to Avail themselves.  In a close chat with Mr. Charles Opoku, CEO for Akosua Barko Foundation, He revealed To *Oman fm news Reporter Nana Yaw Entsie Prof Ike* that he has passion for education, hence his motivation to organize the vacation classes free for SHS students to enable them make up for topics in some subjects they fall short of or are unable to compr

Md. Mildred Mintah, Director of MAPnet Ghana . Ghanaians Are Tired Of Regular Change Of The Voters Register.....MAPnet Ghana Laments Milabban Population Network (MAPnet) Ghana, an advocacy group, a member of National Platform for Sustainable Development Goals, Co – Convener of Central Region CSOs Sub – Platform on Sustainable Development Goals, Co – Convener of National Platform of CSOs for SDG 16 etc. puts forward a wakeup call on the Electoral Commission Ghana to update our voters’ register regularly to save the country from huge cost incurred, avoidable bloody clashes, and economic time lost to fix our voters’ register for life. This will help disabuse the minds of some Ghanaians that the Voters’ register is always changed / complied at the behest of the Government in power. It is mind boggling and of National concern that the Electoral Commission Ghana is adopting a periodic ritual of throwing out the existing biometric voters registers for a new one. The recent biometric voters’ r

  Small Scale Miners Gives  President 14 Days (2weeks) Ultimatum  To Call The Task Force To Order Ghana National Association of Small Scales Miners (GNASSM), has expressed total displeasure about government's u- turn on issues raised at the recently held Small Scale Mining dialogue at the Accra International Conference Centre.  Reference to the President H/E Nana Addo Danquah Akuffo-Addo ’s deployment of Task Force of 200 officers and men from the Ghana Armed Forces in an operation to rid the country’s water bodies of activities of illegal miners (galamseyers) which according to the Information Minister Hon Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, the decision by the President was in furtherance of the resolutions of the final communique of the Stakeholder Dialogue on Small Scale Mining held recently. Addressing a Press Conference at one of the mining sites at Twifu Ntafrewaso in the Twifu Atti-Mokwa District of the Central Region, the aggrieved miners threatened they will hit the streets should gover

  SCHOOL FEEDING BROUHAHA IN THE CENTRAL REGION; MMDCEs CALL FOR CALM. Metropolitan, Municipal and District Chief Executives (MMDCEs) in the Central Region together with the Regional Minister have chanced on an audio recording which suggests that monies belonging to school feeding caterers who cooked for students in Private Schools (JHS2 and JHS3) in the region have been paid into a supposed merchant account belonging to the Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party - Mr. Robert Kutin Jnr.  The statement made in the recorded audio was categorically from the Regional Director of NADMO, Mr. Joseph Donkor. We wish to make the following statements in respect of the allegation made by Mr. Joseph Donkor. That, Mr. Joseph Donkor could not substantiate the allegation on the platform where he made the said allegation. That, Mr. Joseph Donkor referenced his unfortunate statement to a purported post on a WhatsApp platform by one Khadijah. This means that he has no basis for making such allegat

  The Centre Has Held, And Will Continue To Hold For The Foreseeable Future - Alhassan Salifu Bawah of UEW writes ...... “Turning and turning in the widening gyre; The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the center cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world” Chinua Achebe in Things Fall Apart, deploys this opening stanza of William Butler Yeats’s poem: “The Second Coming”, from which the title of the novel is derived, as an epigraph to the novel. In invoking these lines, Achebe hints at the chaos that erupts when a system collapses.  By the grace of the Almighty God, the University of Education, Winneba (UEW), has survived almost everything thrown at it in the recent past by way of negative media propaganda sponsored by a known crook; a chain of unmerited legal suits; a certain crook leading delegations composed of empty heads to some prominent traditional rulers and high government officials, with the faint hope of destabilizing UEW; some individuals with warpe

  We Won't Rest Till Criminals Are NO More..Twifo Hemang Lower-Denkyira & Ati-Morkwa District Police Commander  Assures Residents The Twifo Hemang Lower-Denkyira & Ati-Morkwa districts police command has instigated devastating war on criminals particularly on thieves in the dual districts. Speaking in an interview on Sweet FM, the Twifo Hemang Lower-Denkyira & Ati-Morkwa districts police commander DSP Charles Adei Boateng disclosed that, since January this year, the cases of theft have astronomically increased in the districts with very alarming trend. People are consistently breaking into others rooms to steal, he lamented. In this regard, the police has introduced  additional patrol systems to augment the existing strategies. This, he said is to combat wholly the activities of these criminals. DSP Charles Adai Boateng reiterated that this operation won't be a nine day wonder but would continue till the rate of crimes is drastically eradicated in the twin districts

  Catch Them Young: Central Regional Football Association (CRFA) Organizes Exams For Young Referees. With respect to the direction given by the Ghana Football Association to groom young referees at the various Districts and Regional levels throughout the country for more effectiveness in carrying out duties as referees, the Central Region have set the pace for others to follow. Committed to the task of grooming young referees in the Region, an announcement was made through the media at the various Districts and in total, there were one hundred and fifty (150) participants from Mfansteman District, Swedru District, Assin District, Dunkwa On-Offin District, Abura Dunkwa, Cape Coast Metropolitan, Ati- Morkwa&Hemang Lower Denkyira District, Elimina District.  For yielding a good result, an extensive training was organized for the participants to equip them for their jobs as referees with distinction since the goal of grooming up coming referees is to replace the old referees with quali