NEWS IN GHANA

Hon. Alban Bagbin, Member of Parliament, (MP) and Majority Leader has said that “this year, for August alone, I have paid over 43200Gh₵ as school fees for students across all the educational sectors — teacher   training college, Nursing training   college, polytechnic, and university,” as he showed a list indicating the payments to TheBridge reporter as evidence for this story. “Education and the roll of the teacher in education;” according to the Hon. MP, “these two are the passion that keeps me moving”. He said he had developed the passion from childhood. “How I myself got enrolled into school, I had to weep and wail to scratch my parents to allow me to go school.” The Hon. Majority Leader said his father who believed in fairness and was polygamous with three surviving wives at that time, thought a child from each of his wives should be send to school. He said his mother was the second among the three surviving wives. The Hon. MP who was the second chil...

The reigning champions of  Enactus Ghana national competition, University of Ghana team (UG) is set to represent Ghana in this year’s Enactus World Cup event slated for 28-30th September, 2016 in Toronto, Canada. The 2016 World Cup tournament, According to the Country Director of Enactus Ghana, Baba Sayuti seeks to bring together an international network of students, academic and business leaders to showcase how Enactus teams around the world are enabling progress through entrepreneurial action. Aside the competition, events such as the culture fair provide an exhibition of the rich diversity of cultures represented within Enactus. There will also be multiple receptions, lunches and dinners, along with special activities such as the Top to Top and Top to Future-Top Forums, as well as panel discussions,  and other sessions to provide engagement and collaboration opportunities for participants. Enactus University of Ghana team was adjudged the national champion...

Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Sparkplug Ghana, Miss Annabelle Naa Ayorkor Agbemadon of the Ghana Institute of Journalism, (GIJ) shines as her platform empowers more students of the institute with two exceptionally brilliant but needy students to access the Ollennu Scholarship. She has really drawn the light upon herself with the successes chalked so far by her organization; Sparkplug Ghana with its recent most educative and informative event which benefited most students on campus. It was  dubbed “LET’S TALK,” under the theme: “Career Guidance” being the second initiative of the group’s mega event since inception a year ago.  The recently held ground-breaking program also coincided with the launch of the Ollennu Scholarship scheme aimed at supporting “exceptionally brilliant but needy students” in the Institute. Miss Annabelle, currently a student of GIJ is the brain behind all the great feats achieved by the student group; Sparkplug Ghana. Currentl...

Smart device maker, Infinix has introduced its latest sleek NOTE3 smartphone into the Ghanaian market aimed at offering mobile phone users high-technology experience interspersed with comfort, durability and flexibility.   The Note 3 device comes with an XE02 noise-cancelling headphone derived from the 3rd generation of Infinix NOTE series with a high- performance automatic noise-cancelling IC able to reduce up to 95% of all noise. “With the industry-leading "5 minutes charge: 200 min talk" as its primary highlight, in addition to 6-inch 1,080-pixel ultra-high definition screen, 4500mAh battery, fingerprint recognition, 13MP back camera, 5MP front camera, water-cooling technology to prevent battery overheating including other amazing features, the latest Note 3 smartphone device is wonderfully made to bring charm to the hearts of mobile phone lovers in Ghana and beyond” said Infinix.  According to Kimo Cai, Ghana Country Manager of Infinix, the new device ...

The Ghana Private Road Transport Union (GPRTU) of the Trades Union Congress (TUC) has rejected claims that it is joining a proposed nationwide strike to be staged by members of a group calling itself Ghana Concerned Drivers Association against government plan to roll out the Bus Rapid Transit Service (BRTS) which some say will see the removal of some commercial drivers from their current lorry stations in the capital, Accra. Emmanuel Ankrah, Gt. Accra Regional Chairman of GPRTU The proposed nationwide strike by the Ghana Concerned Drivers Association (GCDA) is scheduled to take effect from Monday, 19th September, 2016. The Concerned Drivers Association on Thursday September 15, 2016, organized a press conference in Accra to register their displeasure over government’s decision to roll out the Bus Rapid Transit Service which they claimed will disadvantage them. Chairman of the Association, Charles Danso at the press conference said “this impending action has bec...