NEWS IN GHANA

Youth Arise Organization Leadership Diary Training Program graduates 75 youth The Deputy Regional Director of Africa Leadership Development, Mr. Victor Addom has charged the youth to be steadfast in learning and work very hard in order to excel in life and be good leaders in the future.  “I challenge all of you to learn and work very hard; no laziness!... if you want to become committed, effective, selfless and dedicated leaders in Ghana and Africa” he stressed. He made the remark at the closing ceremony of the 4 th Annual Leadership Diary Training Program (LDTP) on the theme: “Becoming a generational thinker” which took place at the GNAT Hall in Accra on Saturday, July 16 2016.  The Leadership Diary Training Program (LDTP) is a brainchild of Youth Arise Organization, a Ghanaian based NGO instituted four years ago which seeks to educate, motivate and empower the youth become leaders in every sphere of life.  About seventy-five (75) youn...

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....