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2 nd Capital Market Quiz launch: Students urged to embrace investment to drive away poverty Dr. Adu Anane Antwi, Director General of Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has charged young students in the country to be highly motivated and committed in learning and practicing of investment so as to keep poverty forever at bay.  “Children should learn about investment, start early to keep poverty forever, it’ll be behind them” he stressed. Dr. Antwi made the call at the launch of the 2 nd edition of the Capital Market Quiz Competition for Senior High Schools at the GNAT Hall in Accra on Friday, July 15 2016. The Capital Market Quiz Competition is a program initiated by Young Investors Network, a Ghanaian based NGO seeking to promote education and inculcation of the spirit of investment in students within the Senior High Schools in the country. Since the inception of the first edition of the program in 2015, about thirty-two (32) Senior High Schools w...

Parliament urged to condemn distasteful comments by Ken Agyapong against EC Chair Parliament has been urged to strongly come out and condemn the scalding comments made by Mr. Kennedy Agyapong, Member of Parliament for Assin Central against the EC Chair, Charlotte Osei suggesting she got her position through sexual favour and not on merit. The call has been made at a press briefing in Accra on Monday, July 11 2016 by the Greater Accra Queen Mothers Association (GAQA) to add their voice to numerous calls from individuals, groups and gender advocates in the country who has condemned the act insisting parliament take quick action to call the beleaguered legislator to order.  The association says it has found those ‘comments unacceptable, to be in a very bad taste especially coming from someone holding a noble and honorable position in our country’ and unequivocally condemned it, calling on the Speaker of Parliament and the NPP to do same without fear or favour....

Enough is enough! Parliament should call Ken Agyapong to order  -Zongo Magajia The National Zongo Magajia Association has added its voice to the call by other individuals and women groups in the country, on Parliament to as a matter of urgency call to order Mr. Kennedy Agyapong, Member of Parliament for Assin Central for his derogatory remarks against Chair of the EC, Charlotte Osei. Hajia Issah, National President of National Zongo Magajia Association addressing the press at the conference  The group on Friday, July 8, 2016 at a press conference vehemently condemned the scalding comments made by Mr. Kennedy Agyapong against women in the past including the recent one which suggested the Chairperson of the Electoral Commission Mrs. Charlotte Osei exchanged sex for her job. National Secretary of the Association, Hajia Issah in an interview with journalists at the conference described those disparaging comments from the astute legislator against women ...