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Achimota School last Saturday showed its prowess in its knowledge of climate change and forestry issues when it conquered three other schools in the maiden inter-school quiz which formed part of this year’s Forestry Week celebrations. Although the Presbyterian Boys Senior High School (PRESEC) took an early lead in the quiz moderated by the popular ‘What Do you Know’ Quiz Master, Mr Dan Afari-Yeboah, the ‘Presecans’ were licking their wounds at the end of the contest. Organised by the Forestry Commission, the competition was meant to court and prompt a positive attitude in the youth towards sustainable forests and wildlife management issues.    Facing competition from GHANATA Senior High School in Dodowa, Amasaman Senior High Technical School (Amastech) and Achimota School, the ‘Presecans’ won round one on a high note but the second round brought misery as they failed to score a single point.  From the second round, Achimota stepped up their game by w...

THE Chief Executive Officer of the Digital Education Group (DEG), Mr George Sackey, has urged educational institutions and parents to take advantage of emerging information and communications technology to improve teaching and learning. “Education is very dynamic and especially in this technological age, educational technology is growing very fast. The world is departing from the traditional blackboard, straightjacket way of learning.” “It is now about inculcating new learning methods including modern science and technology,” he said at an e-learning conference in Accra. Conference aims The conference, organised jointly by DEG and Intelitek, brought together more than 500 players in the educational sector made up of proprietors of schools, teachers and officials from polytechnics. The participants were taken through areas in developing e-learning and virtual classrooms, provision of e-science laboratories in schools and the role of robotics in modern education. According to Mr Sac...

Thirty-five people, including the top hierarchy of the National Service Scheme (NSS), who were implicated in a massive fraud at the secretariat have been charged with conniving to deprive the state of more than GH¢107 million. They are alleged to have, between September 2013 and August 2014, acted together to loot the state through the payment of allowances to 31,516 non-existent national service personnel. They are the Executive Director, Alhaji Alhassan Mohammed Imoro; his deputy, Michael Kombor; the Accountant, Nelson Ayeltiga; the acting Internal Auditor, Gloria Aku-Mensah; the Head of Project Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation, Alhassan Iddrisu, and the Director of the National Voluntary Service Scheme, Ebenezer Anim Danquah. Others are the Internal Auditor, Sammy Ofori; a former Greater Accra Regional Director, Seth Nana Obugyei Asiedu;  the Volta Regional Director, Gabriel Nyorke; the Central Regional Director, Ali Ahmed Awumbila; a former Western Regional D...

Factionalism has taken centre stage within the New Patriotic Party (NPP), following the sudden death of Alhaji Adams Mahama, the Upper East Regional Chairman of the party last week . While some regional executives of the party have called on the National Chairman, Mr Paul Afoko, and the General Secretary, Mr Kwabena Agyei Agyepong, to step aside, a new group calling itself Save NPP Now has demanded the resignation of the flag bearer, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, too.  The group is asking Nana Akufo-Addo to resign by Friday or face indefinite demonstrations until he is ousted.   Already, the executives of seven regional branches have called for Mr Afoko and Mr Agyepong’s resignation for the party to begin the process of rebuilding.  They are the Central, Western, Northern, Upper East, Volta, Greater Accra and Eastern regions.  The executives of the Ashanti and the Upper West regions are yet to take a position, while those of the Brong Ahafo Regio...