The minister made the admonition at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology speaking at the opening of the twenty third congress of the Graduate Students Association of Ghana (GRASAG).

Professor Yankah pointed out that there was enough evidence to show that public leaders embroiled in corruption sagas trailed the same path in their student leadership offices.

Making reference to some past incidents, he recounted that, “I have been around for a while and I realize that those who were corrupt SRC leaders followed the same trajectory until some of them were disgraced at the national level when they became politicians, members of parliament and ministers of state.”

“Those currently held up as corrupt within the society some of whom are very well known, just ask their mates about their beginnings and you will realize that it didn’t start yesterday. It started from corruption within student unions,” Prof Yankah added.

Professor Kwesi Yankah also expressed worry at the growing complaints of violence, acrimonies and accusations of rigging that has characterized student leadership elections which he described as a contest of warfare and not a matter of seeking the welfare of students.

The GRASAG congress 2017 was marked on the theme “60 years on, sustaining a national character of research and innovation for job creation and industrial transformation.”

Source:Ultimatefmonline.com

Applications are invited from qualified teachers to teach at Little Saints School.

The School is a Private Basic School located at Abeka Lapaz,around free pipe down, Mantseman a  suburb of Accra in the Greater Accra Region.

The School   invites applications for the following subject areas;

English Language (Jhs)
Ga Language (Jhs)
RME (primary and Jhs)
Citizenship Education (primary)

Qualification:

Diploma and degree holders in Any Education related Course.
Kindly call at the school and submit your cv and other document on or before 21st of August, 2017.

Call the CEO and the principal on ( 0208238215 and 0249786788) respectively.

Source:EducationGhana.net

The headmaster of a public basic school in the Sekyere East District of the Ashanti Region has turned his five-bedroom house into a classroom block for his pupils.

The school, Naama D/A primary, was established in 2012 by the community without classrooms and later adopted by the district assembly.

Until four years ago when the headmaster, Amankwah Ampofo, voluntarily turned his 5-bedroom house into classrooms, students were forced to take their lessons under trees.

Currently, the kindergarten and primary one have been merged as one class while primary two and three have also been merged as one due to lack of more rooms to serve as classrooms.

Primary four and five however have separate rooms in the building as their classrooms.

Mr Ampofo told TV3 he took the decision to sacrifice his building as school block for the pupils in his quest to make teaching and learning more effective.

He said prior to that, whenever it threatened to rain, school authorities had to close the pupils for the day.

“I had no choice than to convert my 5-bedroom apartment into classrooms for these pupils even though they keep destroying portions of my building,” he said.

He said was hopeful at the time of taking the decision that the assembly would provide the school with a 6-unit classroom block within a short time.

However, he said that is yet to happen four years on, noting the construction of a 3-unit classroom block for the school but that is yet to be completed.

“The Sekyere East District Assembly started the construction of a 3-unit classroom block for the school but the project is yet to be completed and handed over to us.

“The contractor told me the project is about 96% complete but the assembly is yet to pay him his outstanding debt to enable him complete the block” he said.

Mr Ampofo is thus appealing to the assembly to fast-track the completion of the project for the pupils to move in next academic year.

Per the Ghana Education Service standard, a primary school requires at least eight classrooms to run effectively.

This clearly shows that the 3-unit classroom block even upon completion will not be adequate for the school and that some of them will continue to use a portion of the headmaster’s house as their classrooms.

By 3news.com

Ghanaian actress Clara Benson, better known by her screen name, Maame Serwaa, has said her lowest West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) grade is C6.

There were speculations among section of the public that the young actress had failed her WASSCE hence kept mute about her results.

However speaking on Tv3’s Newday programme, Maame Serwah who was pleased with her grades after her 3-year stay at Serwaa Nyarko Girls’ Senior High School in Kumasi, stated that she will pursue her acting career at the University of Ghana.

“Everything went on well and I thank God Almighty for everything…even my least grade was C6. I still want to continue with acting so I will be in Accra to pursue my career…. Yeah Legon,” Maame Serwaa stated.

She was one of the 289,207 final-year public and private Senior High School (SHS) candidates who sat for this year’s West African Senior School certificate Examination (WASSCE).

Maame Serwaa talked about her relationship with her new found boyfriend after she completed Senior High School.

She said, “I do have a boyfriend and I love him too but don’t want to talk about him since it’s my private life… We recently started dating when I completed school.”

Commenting on her favourite Ghanaian artiste, Maame Serwaa revealed she likes Ebony Reigns because she is genuine.

When asked what she would have wanted to become apart from her acting career she said, “Yes… a custom officer. If God permits and wants me to pursue that career, I will.”

Talking about her acting profession, Maame Serwaa disclosed that she prefers to be called a ‘child actress’ than an adult giving reason that she wouldn’t want the public to assumed that since she is an adult she can do all things by herself.

Speaking about her role models in the movie industry, the young actress said, “I take inspiration from Emelia Brobbey and Jackie Appiah. I really like them because they are real and don’t fake so I’m looking up to be like them.

Credit:Kasapafmonline.com

The West African Examination Council has released time table for the 2017 West African Senior Secondary Certificate Examination for Private Candidates (NOV/DEC).

Find below the timetable for Ghanaian Students.

CORE SUBJECTS

1. Integrated science
(Saturday, 2nd Sept. 2017)

2. Oral English
(Friday, 8th Sept 2017)

3. Core maths
(Saturday, 9th Sept. 2017)

4. English written
(Saturday, 23rd Sept. 2017)

5. Social Studies
(Saturday, 30th Sept. 2017)
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BUSINESS SUBJECTS

1. financial accounting 1and 2
(Thursday , 7th Sept. 2017)

2. Cost Accounting 1 and 2
(Wednesday, 13th Sept. 2017)

3. Economics 1 and 2
(Saturday, 16th Sept. 2017)

4. Elective Maths 1 and 2
(Tuesday, 26th Sept. 2017)

5. Business Management
(Thursday, 28th Sept. 2017)
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SCIENCE
1. Biology practicals
(Monday, 11th Sept. 2017)

2. Biology 1 and 2
(Tuesday, 12th Sept. 2017)

3. Physics 1 and 2
(Thursday, 14th Sept. 2017)

4. Chemistry practicals
(Friday, 15th Sept. 2017)

5. Chemistry 1 and 2
(Tuesday ,19th Sept. 2017)

6. Elective Maths
( Tuesday, 26th Sept. 2017)

7. Physics practicals
(Wednesday, 27th Sept. 2017)
– – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – –

GENERAL ART
1. Geography 1 and 2
(Monday, 11th Sept. 2017)

2. Geography practicals
(Thursday, 14th Sept. 2017)
3. Economics 1 and 2
(Saturday, 16th Sept. 2017)

4. Literature 1,2 and 3
(Monday, 18th Sept. 2017)

5. Government 1 and 2
(Tuesday, 19th Sept. 2017)

6. History 1 and 2
(Friday, 22nd Sept. 2017)

7. CRS
(Monday, 25th Sept. 2017)

8. Asante Twi 1and 2
(Monday, 2nd Oct. 2017)

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HOME ECONOMICS
1. Food and Nutrition practicals
(Monday, 15th August 2017)

2. Food and Nutrition 1 and 2
(Wednesday, 27th Sept. 2017)

3. Economics
(Saturday, 16th Sept. 2017)

4.Management in living1,2and 3
(Wednesday, 20th Sept. 2017)

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AGRIC
1. General Agric practicals
(Monday, 4th Sept. 2017)

2. Animal husb. practicals
(Tuesday, 5th Sept. 2017)

3. General Agric 1 and 2
(Tuesday, 5th Sept. 2017)

4. Animal husb. 1 and 2
(Friday, 15 Sept. 2017)

5. Crop husb. $ Horti.1,2 and 3
(Friday, 29th Sept. 2017)

Government is working to employ all graduate teachers in to the Ghana Education Service.

This was contained in a statement by the Deputy Education Minister in charge of Primary and Junior High Schools,Barbara Asher Ayisi in a response to a petition submitted to her Ministry by a group of Unemployed graduate teachers from the Universities and other tertiary institutions in the country.

The group,Unemployed Graduate Teachers embarked on a demonstration on Tuesday, August 8, over what they described as government’s failure to provide jobs for them after so many years of completion of their Studies in Education from the Universities in the country.

According to the Deputy Minister,the Ministry is working on recruiting members of the group.

She also said government shares in the plight of the teachers and is working to get all of them into the classrooms to teach.

Education Minister, Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh has tasked the National Council for Curriculum Assessment to revise the closing time for basic schools.

“School closes too early in this county…. why can’t schools close at 4pm”, he said, at the National Education Sector Review Forum in Accra Tuesday on the theme ‘Strengthening accountability for results.’

He says the current closing time of 2pm for most schools is not favorable for some parents and guardians because, they are compelled to leave work to go for their children.

He said this is putting undue pressure on parents which in turn affects their productivity at work.

The Minister also revealed an estimated 362,781 students will be enrolled in the free Senior High School (SHS) programme for the 2017/2018 academic year, the Minister of Education (MoE).

He said statistics in the Ministry indicated that for the past four years, an average of 110,000 students who passed their Basic Education and were placed in SHS, fail to enrol for reasons including fees charged at the secondary level.

He explained that in this response, implementation of the free SHS policy would remove cost barriers by absorbing fees currently charged to students; adding that “This is intended to present equal opportunity to every child, access to education”.

Free SHS further confronts inequity in secondary education by reserving 30 per cent of places in the top 82 SHS to students from public basic schools, Dr Opoku Prempeh stated.

He noted that currently, top schools with good performance in the West Africa Senior School Certificate (WASSCE) tend to be filled by students from private basic schools with good performance relative to public basic schools.

“Under free SHS, we will ensure that students from public basic schools have equal opportunity to enrol in any of the top SHS in Ghana,” the Minister said.

Source:ghanaguardian.com

Teachers and other Government workers who are on the payroll of the Controller and Accountant General’s Department are to take note of the various means by which employees who have been transfered from one school to the other and could not find their names on the staff list should follow the steps below to solve such abnormalities.

1. Login into your epayslip account at www . gogpayslip .com
2.Click on Feedback/Tickets
3.Click on New Ticket (blue tab) to open a Feedback, Suggestion Or Complain Page
4. Select a subject from the drop down menu box labelled Select Subject
5. Under subject select Wrong Management Unit
6.Enter the details about how you want your management unit to be changed into a box that reads Enter comments, suggestions or complains.
7.Make sure to include the following details: Your full name, staff ID, the name of the school/management unit you want your name to be transferred to, include the district of that management unit/school and region.
8.After entering your complaint click on send ticket.
.
Note:If you did not receive any feedback within 3 days do follow ups by going to controller Or call  the CAGD Electronic Services Support Centre located at all regional capitals.
CAGD Electronic Services Support (ESS) Centres have been setup in the various regions to provide support and ssistance to all GoG Employees on issues relating to their E-payslip.

These centers are operational and are open from Mondays to Fridays, 8:00 am to 5:00 pm.

Greater Accra Region:
ESS Center, Room 104, GIFMIS Block, Ghana News Agency (GNA), opposite Registrar General’s Department, Ministries Accra.
Telephone Number: 0540116391/ 024 23 68 024
.
Western Region:
ESS Center, Ground floor, CAGD Block, Ministries, Sekondi.
Telephone Number: 054 01 14 618/ 020 68 50 911
.
Central Region:
ESS Center, Ground floor Ministry’s Block, opposite SSNIT building Kingsway/Castle Area, Cape Coast.
Telephone Number: 0540114205
.
Volta Region:
ESS Center, Room 10 Forestry Commission, Ministries Ho.
Telephone Number: 0540116432
.
Eastern Region:
ESS Center, 1st floor, CAGD building, close to All Nations University, New Site Koforidua.
Telephone Number: 0540116889
.
Brong Ahafo Region:
ESS Center, 1st floor, Same building with Wenchi Rural Bank and ASA Savings and Loans, Night Market traffic light, Sunyani.
Telephone Number: 0540116435
.
Northern Region:
ESS Center, 1st floor, CAGD Building, Ministries, Tamale.
Telephone Number: 0540116427

Upper East Region:
ESS Center, Ground floor CAGD Building, Ministries, Bolgatanga.
Telephone Number: 0540116456
.
Upper West Region:
ESS Center, 1st Floor Ghana Revenue Authority Block, CAGD premises, Wa.
Telephone Number: 0540116887

The Government of the Republic of Ghana has given urgent directive to heads of  all public nursing and midwifery schools to as a mater of urgency  reduce the intake of fresh students by 40 percent.

This directive means that only 60 percent  of qualified applicants would be absorbed in the public nursing and midwifery institutions in the next academic year.

This was contained in a statement by the Chief Director of the Ministry of Health ,stating that the directive should be followed strictly by all public nursing and midwifery schools as the academic year starts in September.

According to a StarrFm news report,Nana Boateng Agyemang,who is the spokesperson for the nursing and midwifery council who was granted an  interview on Morning Starr Wednesday, explained that the policy is to improve on quality of nurses and to produce nurses to meet the demands of the health sector.
“We want to produce [nurses] to meet demand…I won’t call it a cut down…Its about quality, we want to train health professionals who will give quality healthcare,” Mr. Agyeman told Francis Abban host of Morning Starr.

In recent times,government was criticised on the introduction of the quota system, stating that the policy is a smart move to help the Akufo-Addo led government restore the nurses’ trainee allowance withdrawn by the previous NDC administration.

Source:EducationGhana.net

The web ranking of world universities have released the second and final ranking of universities for the year 2017 and below shows the ranking of universities in Ghana according to webometrics.

The ranking is based on a number of factors most of which is measured by the institutions openness on the world wide web. Read full methodology HERE

Here is the list for 2017, released on 31st July, 2017. Credit: Webometrics Ranking of World Universities

ranking	World Rank	University	Det.	Presence Rank*	Impact Rank*	Openness Rank*	Excellence Rank*
1	2063	University of Ghana		99999	3782	1826	1385
2	2568	Kwame Nkrumah University of Science & Technology		99999	5059	2104	1821
3	3177	University of Cape Coast		1084	9306	2607	2759
4	4217	University for Development Studies		4729	11613	3454	3625
5	4589	University of Education Winneba		4483	4982	4331	5254
6	6076	Ghana Telecom University College		9951	5524	6153	5789
7	7557	Ashesi University		1247	8526	7434	5789
8	8363	University of Mines & Technology Tarkwa		12431	14258	6171	4921
9	8727	African University College of Communications		22274	4907	9491	5789
10	9007	Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration		2660	12134	5548	5789
11	9502	Presbyterian University College		13465	10537	7150	5789
12	9683	Accra Polytechnic		20535	10121	7006	5789
13	11423	Valley View University		6168	13991	6992	5789
14	13261	University of Health and Allied Sciences		17195	18965	2305	5789
15	13686	University of Energy and Natural Resources		14836	16494	6701	5789
16	14771	Methodist University College Ghana		19639	16930	7296	5789
17	14792	Christian Service University College		7213	19084	6258	5789
18	15632	Koforidua Technical University		14995	18646	7115	5789
19	15769	Knutsford University		16048	14569	9491	5789
20	16437	Pentecost University College		21670	17614	8277	5789
21	16445	Central University		11514	15918	9491	5789
22	17865	Accra Institute of Technology		18376	16964	9491	5789
23	18068	Zenith University College		14134	19935	8582	5789
24	18185	Regent University College of Science & Technology		1054	19221	9491	5789
25	18232	University of Professional Studies Accra		16724	17614	9491	5789
26	18258	Takoradi Polytechnic		17604	19633	8705	5789
27	18391	Catholic University College of Ghana		19989	17467	9491	5789
28	18576	Wisconsin International University College Ghana		16539	18101	9491	5789
29	18829	Garden City University College		18455	18207	9491	5789
30	18950	Regional Maritime University		21785	17985	9491	5789
31	18972	All Nations University College		22841	20556	8299	5789
32	20665	National Film and Television Institute		25839	19419	9491	5789
33	20806	Data Link Institute		18315	21463	9241	5789
34	20889	Ghana Baptist University College		21167	20380	9491	5789
35	21595	Ho Technical University		23831	21731	9241	5789
36	21822	Evangelical Presbyterian University College		19554	21659	9491	5789
37	21940	Kings University College		23552	21356	9491	5789
38	22352	Ghana Christian University College		26976	21079	9491	5789
39	22420	Radford University College		26307	21463	9491	5789
40	22672	Kumasi Technical University		19524	24851	8111	5789
41	23041	Dominion University College		24543	22987	9353	5789
42	23167	Tamale Polytechnic		27152	22753	9241	5789
43	23338	Anglican University College of Technology		22682	23100	9491	5789
44	23483	Jayee University College		24242	23100	9491	5789
45	23546	Marshalls University		19653	23623	9491	5789
46	23703	Bolgatanga Polytechnic		27171	23897	8949	5789
47	23732	West End University College		24242	23339	9491	5789
48	23823	Sunyani Technical University		21543	23766	9491	5789
49	23921	Catholic Institute of Business and Technology		25866	23339	9491	5789
50	23952	University College of Managment Studies		25243	23472	9491	5789
51	24256	KAAF University College		24987	23897	9491	5789
52	24439	Christ Apostolic University College		26831	23766	9491	5789
53	24478	Concord Business College		26123	24015	9491	5789
54	25055	Maranatha University College		27385	24149	9491	5789
55	25106	University College of Agriculture and Environmental Studies		25243	24864	9491	5789
56	25885	Cape Coast Technical University		24242	25795	9491	5789
57	26123	Laweh Open University College		4452	26574	9491	5789
58	26958	Perez University College (Pan African Christian University College)		21921	27047	9491	5789
59	27092	Mountcrest University College

22,000 ‘ghost’ names restored onr 22,000 names removed from the government payroll have been re-entered.

The names were part of more than 26,000 names which the finance minister ordered to be removed from the payroll for failing to register on the new SSNIT biometric system.

Ken Ofori-Atta earlier this year ordered the removal of 26,589 names of public workers from the government’s payroll for failure to register on the new SSNIT biometric system despite several directives to do so.

The move according to him, was aimed at protecting the public purse by plugging leakages in the system.

The directive which came into effect in April 2017 treated as “ghosts” had their salaries suspended indefinitely until their SSNIT re-registration is complete.

But speaking to Starr Business Wednesday, a deputy Finance Minister Abena Osei Asare disclosed that over 22,000 names out of the 26,589 deleted names have been restored onto the government’s payroll with some 3,000 yet to migrate onto the new system.

“Currently, as we speak we have been able to restore a little over 22000 names onto the SSNIT biometric system…and so they have been reinstated onto the payroll and they are receiving their salaries,” she stated.

Credit: Starrfmonline.com

Zimbabwe is to build a $1bn (£770m) university dedicated to the man accused of leading his country to the brink of economic collapse, Robert Mugabe.

Jonathan Moyo, minister of tertiary education, told reporters it was a fitting tribute to the 93-year-old president’s “commitment to education and his exemplary leadership”.

It is unclear where the money will come from in a country where unemployment and poverty is endemic.

Economic output has halved since 2000.

Last year, more than four million Zimbabweans were in need of food aid due to drought. The country was once known as the breadbasket of southern Africa.

‘Populism that defies logic’

Despite this, the cabinet has agreed to spend $800m building the new university in Mazowe, 35km (20 miles) outside the capital Harare.

Another $200m has been set aside for an endowment fund for research and innovation at the Robert Gabriel Mugabe University, which will focus on science and technology, Mr Moyo said.

He would not be drawn on where the funds were coming from.

Africa Live – read more on this and other stories

The announcement of the new university was met with derision from opposition parties, which hope to end Mr Mugabe’s 37-year reign at next year’s general elections.

“This is populism that defies logic,” said Obert Gutu, a spokesman for the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC). “It is meant to stroke Mugabe’s ego because we know this government is broke.”

Zimbabwe already struggles to pay for education – as well as public services and infrastructure like roads and hospitals – spending 90% of the country’s annual budget on wages.

The MDC says the money would be better spent on Zimbabwe’s existing universities, where students face crumbling infrastructure and a lack of accommodation.

According to state media, Mr Mugabe has seven earned degrees and 11 honorary degrees.

He is a trained teacher and after coming to power in 1980, his government massively increased the provision of state education to the previously disadvantaged black majority.

Zimbabwe recently had the highest literacy rate in Africa, at 90% of the population.

Mr Mugabe’s wife Grace was awarded a controversial PhD from the University of Zimbabwe in 2014.

Concerned teachers in the Ashanti Region have welcomed the proposed extension of basic school hours from 2pm to 4pm .

At a National Education Sector Review forum in Accra, Dr Matthew Opoku Prempeh proposed as part of reforms for the sector, the revision of closing hours from the current 2 pm to 4 pm to enable parents to pick up their wards after work.

The extension of the closing time for pupils at first cycle institutions attracted some mixed reactions from some parents and guardians after the hint by the Minister.

A statement issued and signed by Mr Richard Boahen, Chairman and Mr Richard Asante, Spokesperson, Principal Superintendent of Education and Assistant Directors of Education respectively, said teachers are prepared to teach for such extra hours, but reminded the minister to also make adequate preparation towards provisions of additional allowances.

It said, under the shift system one class used two teachers for morning and afternoon classes and government paid both of them when they closed at 5pm.

According to the group, any attempt by the ministry to introduce such extension without considering provision of adequate allowances will render teachers as babysitters and such decision will be resisted lawfully.

The statement advised government to ensure that the free Compulsory Universal Basic Education (FCUBE) be enforced to deter basic schools from taking fees from the pupils.

It also asked government to fill the vacancies in the various basic schools due to the six years embargo on employment by the NDC government which is still in force.

General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress, Johnson Asiedu Nketia has disclosed that the party’s school is not opened to party members only but to non-party members interested in the courses that will be offered.

The school, which was launched on Thursday at the NDC headquarters, is aimed at training and preparing party and non-party members in politics, governance and social democracy.

Speaking at the launch, the General Secretary of the NDC, Johnson Asiedu Nketia said: “The school shall be opened to all Ghanaians especially cadres of the NDC as well as all progressive political parties, civil society groups who share in the democratic philosophy.”

He also revealed the key objective of the school is to provide continuing education for members and appointees on the ideologies of the party.

‘The party school’

In April 2017, the party school’s working committee based on its previous report proposed the formation of the Ghana Institute of Social Democracy.

The school currently has as its Acting Rector, Dr William Ahadzi, who is assisted by Peter Boamah Otokunor.

The institute, in the interim, will be operated from the party’s headquarters until a permanent campus is completed for its relocation.

Some proposed programs of the school are;

. Philosophy, principle and practice of social democracy

Political economy of development

. Elections and election

. Gender mainstreaming

. Youth development

. Development and environmental sustainability

. Grassroots political mobilisation and activism

. Public sector management

. Public policy formulation and implementation

The Department of Fisheries and Watershed Management, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), is leading efforts at increasing the nation’s fish production levels, to substantially boost household incomes.

It is doing this through aggressive promotion of reservoir cage farming to transform aquaculture practices under a project dubbed “Cage Aquaculture in Northern Ghana: Enhancing Food Security and Livelihoods”.

The Australian government is providing the funding.

A report from the Department, a copy was made available to the Ghana News Agency (GNA) said the goal is to increase fish production in that part of the country by about 300 per cent.

The farmers would be introduced to cage construction, commercial fish production, marketing, proper farm inventories and management.

The project also has a component on comprehensive training of farmers in record-keeping, cage netting and sewing, and frames fabrication.

The Ghana Irrigation Development Authority (GIDA) is collaborating with the department on the implementation.

The report said some identifiable farmer groups and decentralized assemblies within the Bontanga, Golinga and Ligba irrigation reservoirs catchment areas are the other partners.

The project, which commenced last year, had as of July, this year, procured fingerlings for growth trials in ponds at Bontanga, Golinga and Ligba, and trained six District Fisheries Extension Officers.

Added to this is the completion of an environmental and social impact assessment report on reservoir cage culture.

The report said the project had the overall objective of establishing a hapa-based tilapia hatchery for the production of 30, 000 fingerlings per month in Northern Ghana.

It said this was intended to grow fish for local consumption and exports, enhance food security and employment, while reducing poverty in the beneficiary communities.

Separately, the University is working in partnership with University of Pine Bluff, Arkansas in the United States (US), to enhance the nutritional value of tilapia for human health.

The project had so far conducted a survey to determine the availability and distribution of potential fish feed ingredients containing Omega-3 fatty acids and other beneficiary fatty acids in tilapia.

Dr. Regina Edziyie of the Department of Fisheries and Watershed Management, told the Ghana News Agency (GNA) that the expected outcomes included information on nutritional composition of local ingredients, improvement in proximate and fatty acid composition in tilapia to boost the health of consumers.

Credit: GNA

A 23-year-old independent candidate is the next Igembe South MP after he was declared winner Thursday morning.

Mr John Paul Mwirigi, a Bachelor of Education student at Mt Kenya University won after garnering 18, 867 against Jubilee’s Rufus Miriti, who had 15, 411 votes.

Other candidates, who were seasoned politicians include Mwenda Mzalendo (7,695), Kubai Mutuma (6,331) and Raphael Muriungi (2,278) votes.

Mr Mwirigi, who could be the youngest elected MP, did not have a flashy campaign.

He said he has been campaigning on foot by visiting homesteads before he received support from boda boda riders.

His supporters started celebrating on Wednesday when provisional results showed he was ahead of his rivals.

Source: All Africa

Mrs Joan Addison, the Principal of the God’s Grace International School, has called for new enhanced teaching models that would expose school children to problem solving activities.

She said it is important for government to come out with early teaching of skills acquisition, entrepreneurship and some collaborative activities among the children in schools for them to appreciate the meaning of self-worth and patriotism.

She said this would help the children to overcome the challenges of their time and this is what quality education is all about.

Mrs Addison made the call at the graduation and the 30th anniversary celebration of the school at Tesano in Accra.

The event was held under the theme: “Quality Education, meeting the Challenges of our time and beyond.”

The occasion saw 57 students graduating from Junior High School to Senior High School while 62 Montessori graduated to primary one.

The Principal said the school is redesigning its curriculum to include the values of skills training in order to put the children on the right path of transformation and quality education at the early age so that they would be become trail-blazers wherever they may find themselves.
Mr Boamah urged the students to use their time profitably as they go further in education and avoid being lured by social media and telenovelas, but listen to the instructions by their teachers and parents.

Mr Mohammed Adjei Sowah, the Accra Metropolitan Assembly and the Chairman of the occasion, said education is the best form of social security for children and urged parents to continue investing in it.

He called on the public to be environmentally conscious and help to clean the filth in Accra, adding that good sanitation is a shared responsibility.

Prizes were awarded to deserving students and staff of the school.