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,…
Author: Kwame Stephen Yeboah
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…
Telecommunication giant, MTN Ghana on Monday 26th December, 2022 stormed the premises of some hospitals in the Western Region to celebrate this year’s Christmas with new born babies. A team from MTN led by the Senior Manager for South-West, Prince Owusu Nyarko who was accompanied by the Omanhene of Essikado Traditional Area, Nana Kobiba Nketsia lV, made a presentation to babies born on the Christmas Day at the Effia-Nkwanta Regional Hospital, and the Essikado Hospital with a hamper each. The hampers contained diapers, towels, baby lotion, cream and powder, wet wipes plus some MTN talktime. At the Effia Nkwanta Regional…
Students, parents and invited guests gathered at the Delhi Private International School auditorium in Tema for the high-profiled Francophone awards ceremony held on November 25, 2022. The colourful ceremony, that witnessed some top-notch personalities in the country present and about hundred of students awarded was to facilitate the award winners in the Francophone inter-school competition. This year’s edition of the awards had Delhi Private International School chosen by the Ministry of Education to host the event. The Francophone awards has been held annually with the purpose of promoting french language and to support education, training higher education and research in…
The Chief Executive Officer of Big Joe Ventures in Kasoa in the Central region, Samuel Okyere has won the ultimate prize at this year’s edition of the MTN Momo Agents and Merchants Awards. The awards ceremony was held at the Best Western Plus Atlantic Hotel in Takoradi on Saturday, December 10 with Samuel Okyere receiving a motorbike and a cash of Gh¢50,000 emerging as the overall winner Mr Okyere emerged the best MoMo agent for South West Business District ahead of other 275 mobile money partners which was made up of two hundred agents, fifty merchants and Twenty five mobile…
The acting CEO of Mobile Money Limited for MTN Ghana, Shaibu Haruna has said his outfit is keen on making frantic efforts in minimizing fraud issues of mobile money transactions. In his address at this year’s edition of the MTN MoMo Agents and Merchants Awards at the Best Western Plus Atlantic Hotel in Takoradi on Saturday, December 10, Mr Shaibu Haruna said, “it is particularly important that as partners in the business we keep engaging and respecting the rules of engagement to succeed. “The issue of fraud prevention is particularly important in our operations and as partners, we continue to…
Shaibu Haruna, the newly-appointed acting Chief Executive Officer of Mobile Money for MTN has entreated its agents to ensure his outfit becomes the preferred digital payment platform in Ghana. Speaking at this year’s edition of the MTN South West Business District Awards for MoMo Agents and Merchants at the Best Western Atlantic Hotel in Takoradi on Saturday December 10, Shaibu Haruna stated that customers can make transactions whenever necessary due the support of over 250,000 mobile money agents nationwide. He said; “our over 200,000 merchants who have accepted MoMo for payments for goods and services have continued to support us…
The Acting Chief Executive Officer of MTN Mobile Money Limited, Shaibu Haruna has said the future of the first and preferred digital payment platform in Ghana, MTN MoMo looks very bright despite the varying challenges the industry is faced with. He highlighted that in 2009, the company decided to redefine the course of Ghana’s financial sector with the launch of the mobile money and with a little over a decade, the impact and success stories have been immeasurable. Speaking at this year’s edition of the MTN South West Business District Awards for MoMo Agents and Merchants at the Best Western…
Shaibu Haruna, the acting CEO of MTN Mobile Money Limited has disclosed that the telecommunication giants currently has 11.3million subscribers on their digital payment platform. According to him, in 2009, the company decided to redefine the course of Ghana’s financial sector with the launch of the mobile money and with a little over a decade, the impact and success stories have been immeasurable. He was of the conviction that this has come about because of the unwavering commitment and contributions of its partners, customers and other stakeholders. Speaking at this year’s edition of the MTN South West Business District Awards…
Even after the novel coronavirus exposed glaring flaws in the world’s collective ability to respond to infectious disease outbreaks, we are seemingly back to the old ways, as evidenced by the global response to the now endemic monkeypox. The world may once again lose a chance to control a pandemic. The zoonotic viral disease, which is already endemic in 10 countries in West and Central Africa, only drew the world’s attention after affecting people in rich countries in the Global North. Wealthy countries’ self-destructive unwillingness to cooperate for the benefit of the entire global population is evident again, even after…