The Deputy Attorney-General of Ghana, Diana Asonaba Depaah has called for equal rights for women as the world mark this year’s international women’s day today, March 8, 2023. According to her, the calls for gender equality and opportunity for women is never about competition, neither has the position taken to implement an advance equal rights and opportunity for women meant lesser rights and opportunity for men. In a video, Mrs Asonaba Depaah who doubles as the Deputy Minister for Justice entreated women to endeavor to pursue leadership positions. https://youtu.be/7neim6SFTLY She said, “as we celebrate International Women’s Day today, I want…
Author: Kwame Stephen Yeboah
Gifty Oware-Mensah, the Deputy Executive Director of the Ghana National Service Scheme and a gender-equality activist has bemoaned the isolation of women in the digital space. According to her, this is as a result of the stereotypes in the society that restrict women’s participation and educational opportunities when it comes to science and technology, therefore making it very difficult to increase the influence of women in the tech industry. In a statement commemorating the International Women’s Day, Gifty Oware-Mensah said, “Women are still systematically underrepresented in technology and innovation. This means not only missing out on high-paying jobs, but also…
500 students to participate in Global StudentSat competition in collaboration with Navars Edutech Ghana-based DPS International School will launch its first Student Satellite in Germany later this year. DPS International has collaborated with Navars Edutech’s global StudentSat contest for 500 students to participate in the program. This partnership enables DPS International to become Ghana’s first school to participate in the student satellite launch in Germany later this year.[ads2] Navars Edutech is a leading Astronomy & Space education company with a primary focus to drive awareness and education through engagement and innovation by offering real-life experience through live content, software tools,…
Delhi Public School International (DPSI) has held it’s annual industrial application and science exhibition fair on Saturday, February 18, 2023. The event held at the premises of the school saw dozens of student presentations on a wide range of topics at the exhibition. As a top ranking school in Ghana which is affiliated to Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) and International General Certificate of Secondary Education (IGCSE), DPSI mandated the students to research, design and make a brief presentation of their projects to parents and other guests who visited the event.[ads3] The first point of call was the main…
The Minister for Works and Housing, Francis Asenso-Boakye (MP) has expressed optimism that the implementation of the new National Rent Assistance Scheme (NRAS) intended to support deserving households, especially the youth to access decent rental accommodation and to effectively protect them from undue exploitation from home owners will go a long way to further reduce the housing deficit which currently stands at 1.8million housing units. The Scheme, the sector Minister noted, was introduced in response to wide public outcry against years of rent advance payment, which has become a major challenge to majority of Ghanaians especially those living in urban…
Member of Parliament for Bantama Constituency in the Ashanti region, Francis Asenso-Boakye on Tuesday, February 14 celebrated the Valentine’s Day with the students of Kumasi Girls Senior High School. The astute lawmaker used the occasion to advise the students that Valentine’s Day is not about romance as misconstrued lately. “I spent my Valentine’s Day morning with students of Kumasi Girls Senior High School (KUGIS) at Abrepo, in the Bantama Constituency”, he posted on Facebook. He added; “I reminded them that the ‘Love’ associated with Valentine’s Day is not about romance, as has been misconstrued lately, but represents important core values…
The Ghana National Gas Company has signed an agreement to construct a Gas Processing Plant (GPP) train 2 at Atuabo in the Ellembelle district of the Western region. The project estimated to cost $700m was signed in a brief ceremony at the Gas House Forecourt in Accra on Friday, February 3, 2023. Addressing the media, the Board Chairman o Ghana Gas, Hon Kennedy Agyapong said the project will boast of a nominal capacity of 150 MMscfd, expandable to 300 MMscfd, to process incremental raw gas volumes from Greater Jubilee and Ten fields. He said the project which comes as part…
The Ghana National Gas Company has signed a project implementation agreement for the Gas Processing Plant train 2 project. The agreement was signed at a brief ceremony at the Gas House Forecourt in Accra on Friday, February 3, 2023. The objective of the project is to construct a train 2 of the Gas Processing Plant (GPP) with a nominal capacity of 150 MMscfd, expandable to 300 MMscfd, to process incremental raw gas volumes from Greater Jubilee and Ten fields.[ads3] The project which comes as part of the strategic development plan of Ghana Gas, is to add up a second gas…
Sekondi College Senior High School in the Western Region has been handed a new 24-unit sanitary facility by the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) Foundation to help address a long-standing challenge with hygiene and sanitation posed by the absence of a befitting lavatory. The facility, which comes with a mechanized water system, replaces an old, dilapidated structure which had been in use of many years until it was abandoned due to the physical and health risks it posed to students. A situation which resulted in practices of indiscriminate and open defecation by some students. During a short handing over ceremony,…
Morocco keeps scoring major points in its bid to host the 2025 AFCON finals after the country passed strict FIFA prerequisite criteria for the organisation of an expanded new-look FIFA World Cup. On Wednesday, the North African country became the only country to successfully get the greenlight in the strict FIFA prerequisite criteria specifications on sports, hotel, health and infrastructures that make a country eligible to organise the FIFA World Cup under its new format of an increase from 32 to 48 teams. This is not the first time Morocco gets the thumbs up after a Task Force composed of…