The show saw the likes of Black Sherif, KiDi, Kuami Eugene, Joe Mettle, Ohemaa Mercy and Cina Soul performing on the evening.
KiDi walked away with the topmost award- which is the Artiste of the Year award
Meanwhile, Black Sherif won the Breakthrough Act of the Year, Group of the Year went to R2Bees while Black Sehrif’s Second Sermon won Song Of The Year.
Most WhatsApp users especially Ghanaians easily Loose their WhatsApp to scammers.
The picture below shows an hacked account and when ever you come across with these or smilar message try to ignore them..The person didn’t activate his two step verification that is the main reason his account got hacked…And never share your pin nor send any message you received from WhatsApp to anyone not even your family member.
How to manage two-step verification settings
You can manage two-step verification settings in your WhatsApp account. You have the option to enable or disable this feature, change the PIN or update the email address associated with two-step verification.
Enable two-step verification
Open WhatsApp Settings.
Tap Account > Two-step verification > Enable.
Enter a six-digit PIN of your choice and confirm it.
Provide an email address you can access or tap Skip if you don’t want to add an email address. We recommend adding an email address as this allows you to reset two-step verification, and helps safeguard your account.
Tap Next.
Confirm the email address and tap Save or Done.
If you don’t add an email address and you forget your PIN, you’ll have to wait 7 days before you can reset your PIN. Since whatsapp don’t verify this email address to confirm its accuracy, make sure you provide an accurate email address you can access.
The best web browser to check your school placement smoothly is the Chrome and Mozila Firefox
This year over 500,000 students who sat for the just-ended Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) the spokesman for the Ministry of Education in an interview monitored by countryghana.com/ has said will get placement.
How to check 2021 school placement using E-voucher
3. Enter your BECE Index Number (eg. 100000000019) and
4. Enter your E-Voucher pin (10 digits)
5. Click on ‘Proceed‘ to be redirected to the self-placement module
When redirected successfully to the Self-placement module, you will be provided with a selection of schools to pick from based on your aggregate.
6. Choose carefully your desired second cycle school.
7. Choose your residential preference (Day/Boarding).
8. Select your programme of choice
9. After doing all the necessary checks, confirm and print. Remember that once you have completed the self school selection process it can not be undone or changed.
Congratulations as you successfully check your 2021 Senior High School placement, please do not hesitate to leave a comment in case any problem persists. Please report placement challenges to the CSSPS solution centre in your region.
We have money and huge resources, just that the political elites are failing to think about how we can effectively raise them
Prof yaw Gyampo is on the neck of Elite politicians again.He made reference to the fact that Ghana has resources but the greed of the elite leaders are the main root cause of not been able to utilize these resources for the betterment of Ghana.
The lecturer in a post cited by countryghana gave a break down of what he feels politicians are not putting in proper measure to help the country
We are in difficult times and must do all to save and generate income. Recently the finance minister announced some austerity measures that will help us raise some 3.6 billion cedis even as we borrow 2 billion dollars to help stabilize our currency. The thinking behind borrowing 2billion dollars to put in place a single intervention that will contribute to earning 3.6 billion cedis is quite problematic. But let’s leave this for another day.
I have been thinking about our resolve to look for money to govern Ghana and I am tempted to believe that we, to put it mildly, aren’t truly resolved to help ourselves.
3 We complain about the amount of money spent on our salaries and wage bill as being too huge a percentage of government revenues and income. But this amount will pale when compared to our true wealth and resources as a nation.
We have money and huge resources, just that the political elites are failing to think about how we can effectively raise them. Why are we getting only 5 percent of our mineral resources and not 50 or 60 percent as happens elsewhere? Why are we getting only about 13 percent of our oil revenues and not about 60 percent? At one point in time, Gaddafi of Libya was charging 70 percent of the oil revenues pumped in his country.
Someone may not have negotiated well. Someone may have colluded to rip us off our needed revenues from our natural resources. But that’s in the past. What prevents the current political elites from renegotiating such deals to get us bigger revenues from natural resources being exploited from our own land for the development of other people’s countries?
I don’t agree with E-levy but it would be unfair to insist that it’s proponents do not know what they are talking about. There certainly may be some rationale for the quest to introduce this form of taxation (which many believe is regressive). The question however is, Why are we pursuing this E-levy as if it is the panacea to our financial needs, when we can renegotiate agreements with those exploiting our natural resources to raise bigger and better resources?
It is true, y3 t3 sika so, nanso okom de y3n. We sit on huge resources, yet we are hungry. Our leaders must think through some of these areas of resource mobilization and show a little more commitment beyond the rhetorics to help us achieve beyond mediocrity. For those who have done these to bring about development in their countries are not better human beings than us. We went to school with some of them and we outsmarted some of them in the classroom. We have great minds which must be deployed to solve our problems. We aren’t cursed!
We have the penchant to spend much effort and waste time just to raise pittance, when we actually can do more to raise more. We are not being fair to the ideals and dogmas of governance. Indeed, our political elites have been so unfair to the good people of Ghana. Unfortunately this unfair governance practices would thrive because we, the citizenry, apart from our deep-seated ignorance, have also allowed ourselves to be excessively polarized on very bogus partisan lines.
Arise Ghanaians!
Yaw Gyampo A31, Prabiw P.A.V. Ansah Street Saltpond & Suro Nipa House Kubease Larteh-Akuapim
Minister for Finance, Ken Ofori-Atta stated emphatically that all things being equal, Parliament will pass the E-Levy by the end of March 2022.
Addressing the public on the decisions taken by the government towards reviving the economy he said the levy which has been opposed by the Minority will be passed.
He was responding to questions by journalists after he had presented the decisions by the government in reviving the economy.
He accused the Minority of scaring investors away because they opposed the levy.
The Minister said the government did not anticipate the decision of the minority and so their decision not to support the levy threw its plans off-balance.
“[We didn’t expect] that parliament would approve government’s 2022 budget statement, appropriation, and its expenditure plans and then turn around to vote against one of the key revenue generation measures that were being introduced, the E-levy. The unyielding stance of the minority in parliament against the levy gravely affected investor confidence in our capacity to implement our programs and settle our debts, triggering the downgrading by credit agencies and now leaving the cedi vulnerable as we cannot access the international capital market,” he said.
They have maintained that the levy will burden Ghanaians.
The Ministry of Education has announced that the 2021/2022 Computerized School Selection and Placement Systems (CSSPS) for students into Senior High Schools (SHS) will be publicized today, Saturday, March 26.
According to the Ministry, 367, 811 candidates out of the 555,353 who qualified for the placement have been placed automatically into schools of their choice.
The remaining 187, 542 qualified candidates will, however, have to do self-placement to available schools since they could not be matched with any of their choices.
“The 2021/2022 Computerized School Selection and Placement System (CSSPS) into Senior High Schools (SHS)/ Senior High Technical Schools (SHTS) and Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) Institutes, will go live on Saturday, March 26, 2022,” a statement from the Ministry of Education.
Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has cut sod for rehabilitation and auxiliary infrastructure of Kumasi inner city roads under the Sino hydro facility.
The 100 kilometres road project has been scheduled to be completed within 30 months.
The project shall upgrade and improve the condition of 145 separate roads through various periodic maintenance activities like minor rehabilitation, upgrading and partial reconstruction.
Beneficiary areas include Suame, Kwadaso, Bantama, Manhyia, Asante Mampong and Effiduase Asokore.
The scope of works for the project include construction of road side drains, provision of culverts, earthworks, provision of base and sub base, double surface dressing, road line marking.
Speed calming devices will also be installed around schools and other locations that shall be identified along the roads.
Roads and Highways minister, Kwasi Ofori-Atta indicated “adequate provision has b een made in the contract for the payment of compensation to properties that shall be affected by the project”.
Vice President, Dr Bawumia is optimistic the 100 kilometres of road will ease the burden of residents in the beneficiary areas.
He touted the NPP’s road infrastructure achievements.
“Completed roads in 4 years of the NPP administration surpassed that of the NDC in 8 years. In Ashanti region alone government has so far asphalted 227 km of roads and additional 400km of asphalt will be completed by 2024. Several other roads have been upgraded. This is a testimony of government’s resolve to give the region its fair share of the national cake and more are in the offing”, Dr Bawumia stated.
Ambassador of the People’s Republic of China to Ghana, H.E. Lu Kun was elated about the strong bilateral ties between Ghana and China.
The 100 km Kumasi city inner roads project would be undertaken by Messrs Sino hydro corporation limited.
Contractors have assured that the project will be executed well and as scheduled.
The former Director of the Law school has this as response to the all suit and other matters
BRIEF RESPONSE TO THE MEDIA DISCUSSION ON PURPORTED NOMINATION TO THE COURT OF APPEAL
My attention has been drawn to various media publications and discussions on my suitability or otherwise to be recommended for an appointment as a Court of Appeal Judge. The basis for these discussions is the alleged unlawful admission of 10 students into the Ghana School of Law. For the records I have not been officially notified or contacted for the said nomination neither has I been served with any court process or copies of multiple petitions circulating on social media.
I was appointed as an Acting Director of the Ghana School of Law in June 2020. Prior to this appointment, I have worked as a Senior Lecturer of the School from 1998. As it is widely known, the General Legal Council introduced Entrance Examinations for entry into the Ghana School of Law from 2012 as part of the reforms for professional legal education. This policy restricted entry into the Ghana School of Law to only LLB holders who passed the entrance examination with a percentage of 50+. My views on these reforms are of public knowledge and, therefore, need not be repeated.
However, it is of public knowledge that I have been against the said restrictions and has always advocated for the opening of more opportunities for LLB holders to achieve their heart desires. Apart from the restrictive nature of admissions to the School, the Council also operated “a zero-concession admission policy” which meant that no concession whatsoever was extended to the wards of key stakeholders, including members of staff and faculty.
As a matter of fact, this policy was used to deny, not only my ward but wards of other lecturers and staff, admission to the School after obtaining scores ranging from 46 to 49 percent. I considered this policy as unfair especially on my part after 23 years of dedicated service to the School. Upon assumption of office, and considering my long-held views on the admission policy, I submitted two policy proposals for consideration namely, Concessionary Admission Policy and Full Fee-Paying Policy.
The Concession Admission Policy was to offer concessionary admissions to wards of faculty, staff and other key stakeholders without compromising the meritorious admission system. The Full Fee-Paying System was meant to stem the tide of Ghanaian students travelling to other jurisdictions, notably the Gambia to pursue a professional legal education.
It was meant to reduce the cut-off point for those desirable and ready to pay the full cost of the education as it is done in all public universities for their sought after programmes. For instance, in the 2021/2022 academic year, 330 Ghanaians applied to enter the Gambia School of Law paying $100 as application fees.
Out of the number, only 55 were admitted paying almost $10000 as School fees for one year. Apart from saving our compatriots the hassle in travelling to other countries, the policy was also to be used to generate revenue for the expansion of infrastructure to admit more students at the Ghana School of Law.
In the 2020/2021 academic year, I managed to convince the General Legal Council to admit all students who scored 50 per cent and above. This culminated in the admission of 1045 students. The admission of this number of students led to the introduction of the innovative triple track system of classes which created the potential to admit almost 1100 students. In addition to the 1045 students, the school offered concessionary admission to 10 students upon request from key stakeholders who have contributed immensely to the school and the nation as a whole. This brought the total admission to 1055, compared to the 450 admitted in 2018/2019 and the 128 students admitted in 2017/18 academic year.
Admittedly, the offer of the 10 concessionary admissions was made without the approval of the General Legal Council but was not done in secrecy. The issue was brought to the attention of the Chairperson of the Examinations Committee. Other key members of the Council were also aware due to discussions on the issue prior to the admissions. These admissions were offered without any ill-motive or for any personal gain but in the interest of the Gnana School of Law.
Indeed, it should be made known that one offer of admission paved the way for the release of an entire building at KNUST which serves as the Kumasi Campus of the Law School. This enabled the School to increase the intake in Kumasi from 50 to over 200 as well as securing places for a library, staff common room, administration facility and a canteen for the students. I must stress all the decisions taken in my one year as Acting Director were in the best interest of the School and students.
In fact, in addition to the admission of the 1055 students, I was also instrumental in securing the approval of the Council to introduce a Transitional Law Course Programme which paved the way for over 274 students to be allowed to re-enter the School to finish their one-year programme. These were students who were caught by the reversal of professional law to two years without any transition period for repeating students.
The New Transitional Law Programme enabled the affected students to continue with the one-year programme for three years after which they would be withdrawn. All these were done to offer opportunities to enter the Ghana School of Law. This has been my avowed aim for the over 23 years that I have served the school.
The General Legal Council on or about July 2021 established a 3-member committee to investigate allegations of admission of non-LLB holders to the Ghana School of Law; admission of students who did not write the entrance examinations; the payment of monies for admission to the Law School and other issues. The Committee found all the reportage as false except the admission of the 10 students on concessionary basis.
The Committee found as a fact that all the 10 students wrote the Entrance Examination but failed to secure 50 per cent or more. The Committee found as a fact that the said admissions were done without the approval of the General Legal Council. The Committee, therefore, concluded that the said admissions were irregular. The General Legal Council accepted the recommendations of the Council that those 10 students admitted without the approval of the Council based on my proposed concessionary admission policy be withdrawn from the School.
The students have been duly withdrawn. Further, the Council has set up a three-member Disciplinary Committee to conduct disciplinary hearings against myself, the Registrar and the Deputy Registrar of the school on charges of insubordination and acting improperly in our office contrary to the provisions of the Public Service Policy and Framework Manual for Public Servants. The Disciplinary Committee is yet to commence its proceedings let alone pronounce any sanctions.
My Public Record
As stated earlier, I have served the Ghana School of Law for over 23 years. My passion and commitment to legal education is known by all, especially thousands of students who have passed through my hands. In all my public life I have stood firmly on principles I believe in to the displeasure of some segments of society, which to me is normal. I must emphasize that in all my dealings in public no one can accuse me of corrupt act or rendering services for unlawful gain.
As the Acting Director of the Ghana School of Law, I performed my task diligently and sought at all times to change the face of professional legal education. As already indicated, the admission of 10 additional students on a concessionary basis to the 1045 students admitted for the 2020/2021 academic year was not done for any personal or pecuniary gain.
There were no underhand dealings, as all the requests for admissions were considered officially. I must stress and without sounding boastful that I performed very creditably in just one year as an Acting Director. Short as the period may seem, I was able to facilitate the following projects at the school:
Massive renovation of the entire Makola campus, the first since the construction of the School in 1958
Construction of 20 additional washrooms to cater for the increasing number of students
Asphalting and paving the entire Makola campus
Construction of a new 100-seater classroom at the Makola campus
Construction of an astroturf for the School’s quadrangle
Renovation of the school’s water fountain
Construction of a modern and imposing Law school entrance
Rehabilitation of the two residential facilities at Taifa
Commencement of the construction of the Law Village project at Legon, a project which was on the drawing board for over 20 years
Securing a 57- Seater bus from the office of the President for the School
Securing a 47-seater bus from the office of the Vice President for the School
Purchase of 57-seater modern Marco Polo bus from the IGF of the School
Purchase of Nissan Urvan Mini bus in collaboration with the SRC of the School
Procurement of Landcruiser Prado for the Office of the Director from the IGF
Procurement of Toyota Fortuner for the office of the Registrar from the IGF
Procurement of Toyota Corrolla for the office of the Deputy Registrar from the IGF
Securing the entire ICIL Building at KNUST rent free for the Kumasi Campus
Introduction of industry specific short courses to generate revenue for the School
Mobilising over Eight Hundred Thousand Ghana Cedis {GHȻ800,000}from alumni and corporate sponsors
Admitting over 1000 students and introducing the triple track class system in the 2020/2021 academic year
Introduction of the New Transitional Law Programme for almost 300 repeating students
Ensuring the Call to the Bar of over 650 students in the midst of COVID 19
Conclusion
Much as I do not begrudge anyone who feels offended by my decision to introduce a concessionary admission policy at the Ghana School of Law, leading to the admission of 10 students without approval of the General Legal Council, it is my wish that the issue be considered dispassionately and in consideration of the service I have rendered to the Ghana School of Law. Rather than sounding repetitive, I still hold the view that denying admissions on some concessionary basis to key stakeholders of the school, such as faculty, staff and others who have contributed immensely to the School is unfair.
It is my hope that the General Legal Council and the public at large will ponder over whether it is fair for a ward of a member of faculty or staff to be denied admission to the Ghana School of Law for obtaining between 47% and 49% in an entrance examination. As I have done consistently, save as I admitted the 10 students in addition to the 1045 students for the 2020/2021 academic year without the approval of the General Legal Council, for which I apologized to the Council, same was not done for any personal or pecuniary interest but in the best interest of the School.
A story has been corroborated by several authentic sources about how Zuweira, an Accra-based make up artist who was pronounced dead at the Ridge Hospital yesterday Thursday 24th March resurrected few moments to her burial.
Narrating what happened, her aunt, Rabu said Zuweira was pronounced dead by doctors yesterday and in line with Muslim customs, she was prepared for burial today.
Cemetery authorities and all arrangements were made for her burial and prayers today only for the doctors to call that she “resurrected”.
The doctors said as at the time they pronounced her dead, they were 100% certain there was no life in her and had made sure before informing the family.
Later today however, she came back to life to the shock of nurses who processed her for the Mortuary and doctors who handled her case.
The family had been preparing to get to the Mortuary and retrieve her body for burial before the news came to them.
“God of wonders. My Niece was announced dead yesterday. We were just waiting for the body to be buried. Arrangement has been made at the cemetery. Doctors just called and say she us up. What a wonderful God we serve. Am just in tears. We THANK you God.” Her aunty, Rabi Dan Alpha Sharubutu wrote on Facebook.
The family is urging all and sundry to remember their daughter in prayer.
The fever surrounding the much anticipated West African derby between the Super Eagles of Nigeria and Black Stars of Ghana seems to have found its way into Parliament.
Later tonight, the Black Stars are facing Nigeria’s Super Eagles in a bid to secure a place in the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar.
On Friday, legislators who had assembled to conduct the business of the day were seen clad in the jerseys of the senior national team, Black Stars, ahead of the clash.
First Deputy Speaker, Joseph Osei-Owusu, was not left out in the decision to ditch the official suits for the sports
