The National Identification Authority (NIA) has begun the Ghana Card mass registration exercise in the Volta Region amidst some technical challenges. The month-long registration exercise is expected to capture at least 85 per cent of Ghanaians in the Region in all 18 districts and municipalities. At about 0950 hours when the Ghana News Agency visited some registration centres in the …
The National Identification Authority (NIA) is unable to issue Ghana cards to applicants in a number of centres in its mass registration exercise in the Volta Region on Monday. Applicants had queued at some 350 centres designated for the exercise as early as 7:00 am but the Authority was unable to upload data of the applicants onto the authorities severs. …
The Ministry of Finance (MoF) has granted letters of commencement to the three development authorities to commence the full implementation of the $1-million per Constituency pledge under the Infrastructure for Poverty Eradication Programme (IPEP) for the 2020 fiscal year. The commencement certificate makes available GH¢1.66 billion (equivalent of $320 million) for the 275 constituencies across the country. This covers $275 …
With barely few days to end the limited registration exercise, people still get stranded, joining long queues to be able to register at various registration centres across the country. Recounting her observations to the media as part of her tour to some constituencies in the Central Region, the Deputy National Women Organizer of the Opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Maame …
Nine candidates, three males and six females failed to report for the 2019 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) at the Twene Amanfo Senior High/Technical School (TASTECH) cluster of examination centers in Sunyani. The examination supervisors could however not assign reasons for the candidates not turning up when the Ghana News Agency (GNA) visited the ‘TASTECH A’, ‘TASTECH B’ ‘TASTECH C’ …
The Ghana Education Service (GES) has assured all candidates and stakeholders within the Chereponi area that all the necessary steps had been taken to ensure maximum security and safety during the examinations. It also called on the security agencies to help deal decisively with all those who would attempt to undermine the integrity of the exercise and to jeopardize the …
Some Junior High School (JHS) students who fled fighting in Chereponi in the North East Region have returned to sit the Basic Education Certification Examination (BECE). The candidates are being conveyed back to the town to sit for the exams despite losing several contact hours. Some of the candidates who fled fighting between Chokosis and Konkombas are being accommodated at …
The Ghana Tourism Authority office in the Western Region would embark on an enforcement exercise in the Western and Western North regions from June 14 to 17, 2019, to clamp down on all tourism enterprises operating illegally. In a press release issued on June 3, 2019, and copied to the GNA, the Authority announced that all operators of unlicensed establishments …
Voting is underway in Malawi’s tripartite elections, with 6.8 million registered voters electing President, 193 parliamentarians and 462 local government councilors. The African Union (AU) Election Observation Mission to Malawi and other international groups including SADC, COMESA, the EU and Commonwealth have deployed observers across Malawi to monitor the election process. This was disclosed by former President John Dramani Mahama …
