Mobile Money transactions dipped by 18.58 per cent to ¢71.4 billion in May 2022, the month of implementation of the Electronic Transaction Levy (E-Levy). However, in the month of June 2022, the transactions via Mobile Money went up to ¢77.4 billion, an 8.4 per cent growth. According to data from the Bank of Ghana, Mobile […]
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Ho — The President of Evangelical Presbyterian University College (EPUC), Professor Edem Kwasi Bakah, has appealed to government to extend the GETFund to private tertiary institutions, especially universities. He noted that “if we accept the fact that government alone cannot shoulder the burdens of educating the masses and that private partners are viable collaborators, then […]
A 1.5 million dollar project has been launched in the North East Region to help address the challenges of Early Childhood Education (ECE) acquisition in the region. The project dubbed “Quality and Inclusive Early Childhood Education (QAIECE)” is a three-year intervention aimed at reducing the number of challenges facing the provision of ECE in Ghana, […]
The Ghana Hockey Association (GHA) and the Greater Accra Hockey Association at the weekend, honoured the late president John Evans Atta Mills with a hockey tournament. Held at the Theodosiah Okoh Hockey Stadium (TOHS), the tournament brought hockey lovers, friends and family of the late professor to enjoy a thrilling game of hockey to commemorate […]
Justice Inyang Eden Ekwo of the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, on Friday issued a seven-day ultimatum to a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Mr Rotimi Jacobs, SAN, to show cause on why he should not be disqualified from further prosecuting a former Abia State Governor, Senator Orji Uzor Kalu in N7.2 billion money laundering […]
On Monday, February 14, 2022, while the rest of us were either expressing or receiving words and gifts of love, being that it was Valentine’s Day, the disgraced so-called super cop, Deputy Commissioner of Police, Abba Kyari, was being caught in a sting operation, and was exposed as a member of a drug cartel. Well, […]
Introduction The Electoral Act, 2022, was welcome with much enthusiasm across Nigeria for its innovative provisions, especially in the area of empowering INEC to, among other things, transmit results of elections electronically from the polling units to INEC server. See Section 52(3) of the Electoral Act. INEC was also given more express powers, over the […]
On Tuesday last week, Nigeria’s national oil firm transitioned from a corporation to a limited liability company, marking a milestone after over 44 years of its establishment. In this report, Emmanuel Addeh examines what this change means for the new Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) and aggregates stakeholders’ perspectives on the future of the […]
Remarks by the French ambassador in Burkina Faso, Luc Hollade has caused anger and controversy to such an extent, that certain civil society organisations and political players are demanding his departure. Reporting to senators in France on July 5th, 2022 Hollade said: “the absence of results is causing strong frustrations in the country and the […]
When Mr. Benoni W. Urey took the hands of Madam Mai Bright, to be his lovely wife until death does them apart, little did he know that one day, the honeymoon could lead to a rough road saddled with a grave hangover. In May 1986, the social journey commenced. So, with over thirty-six years of […]
President Cyril Ramaphosa has announced a set of actions to respond to South Africa’s years-long energy crisis. “The crisis that we are facing requires that we should take bold, courageous and decisive action to close the electricity gap,” he said in a televised address to the nation, continuing that, “as government, we are announcing a […]
The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, has advised the Federal Government not to toy with another people’s uprising as witnessed during the #EndSARS protest in 2020 by quickly taking steps to resolve the ongoing industrial actions by staff unions in the nation’s tertiary institutions. The call was made on Tuesday by the Chairperson of the Lagos […]
What we say and where we say it matters for preventing discrimination, and social media is now a priority. In 2021, almost half of South African adults – over 25 million people – used social media. Twitter had an estimated nine million users, over 80 per cent of whom were aged between 15 and 44. […]
The Nigerian public universities have been shut for more than five months over unresolved issues of poor welfare and underfunding. Led by the umbrella Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), workers across all sectors of the national economy filed out on Tuesday to commence a two-day nationwide protest against the continued shutdown of public universities. The Nigerian […]
Mr Shehu said President Buhari’s trip to Liberia on Tuesday signifies the importance attached to the security and wellbeing of that country and the rest of West Africa. President Muhammadu Buhari will depart Abuja on Tuesday for Monrovia, Liberia, to attend the 175th independence anniversary of the country. The Senior Special Assistant to the President […]
Status update on priority Mutual Legal Assistance and Extradition requests to and from South Africa by Minister Lamola The purpose of this media conference is to provide the members of the public with a status update on priority Mutual Legal Assistance and Extradition requests to and from South Africa. The Department of Justice and Constitutional […]
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Uganda Government Printer Turns 120 Years
Kampala, Uganda — On July 22, Uganda Printing and Publishing Corporation (UPPC) started activities to mark 120 years of its existence with a public forum held in Kampala. Executives said, more activities including corporate social responsibility, and visits to higher institutions of learning would follow. “This journey has sometimes been bumpy, but in most cases […]
Roads are the best instrument for awakening memories. Whenever my feet touch the soil of Asiakwa, I remember the first time I saw a road being tarred. I remember how the hard-working PWD [Public Works Department] road-builders piled up sand at the roadside. We watched silently and wondered what they were going to do next. […]