Elizabeth Opoku-Darko from the Newmont Ahafo Development Foundation stopped by the Ahafo Regional Minister Charity Gardiner's office in Goaso to invite her to a scholarship alumni meetup happening mid-December. Opoku-Darko brought along Nana Frimpong Addai, and they pitched the event as a networking thing where past beneficiaries can swap ideas and figure out potential business collabs.
Gardiner got a NADeF scholarship herself back in the day, and she said she's definitely showing up. The minister told them she'll link up with other alumni to help make the whole thing work.
They also talked about teaming up on health programs, education stuff, and mentorship opportunities for young women across the region.
Sammy Gyamfi from GoldBod got handed the Suma Adinkra Sword by Paramount Chief Odeneho Dr. Affram Brempong III for basically turning Ghana's gold game around. The award goes back over 470 years, and past presidents like Kufuor, Akufo-Addo, and Mahama have all gotten it before.
Gyamfi pushed through reforms that helped small-scale miners get better training and market access while running programs like the Domestic Gold Purchase thing. His work apparently helped stabilize the exchange rate and made Ghana look better in the international gold scene.
The Asantehene called him patriotic and said he's shifting the country away from just reacting to illegal mining toward actually planning long-term. The whole honor is basically recognition...
Vice President Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang rolled out the Think 360 Degrees Prisons Initiative while speaking at a cadet graduation ceremony, calling it the backbone of Ghana's overhaul of the correctional system. The program ties into President Mahama's reset agenda and pushes for mechanized farming, vocational training, and turning lockups into money-making operations that actually help the economy.
Opoku-Agyemang said the whole point is creating jobs and smoothing out reentry for former inmates while treating officers and prisoners better. She asked the public to chip in on fundraising drives since even small amounts can improve conditions inside facilities.
The VP gave props to the Director General for running a tight ship and urged...
A Catholic priest from the Techiman Diocese in Bono East just wrapped up training at the Prisons Officers school in Roman Ridge and got commissioned as an Assistant Superintendent. Richard Baatabe finished with Intake 32, and the diocese threw up a social media post hyping him up along with the other clergy who showed up for the ceremony.
Vice President Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang spoke at the event and talked about pushing reforms in the Ghana Prisons Service with better infrastructure and job-training programs. The government is backing manufacturing setups for textiles and furniture inside facilities to help inmates learn trades before they get out.
Ghana's Public Utilities Regulatory Commission jacked up power bills by almost 10% and water rates by nearly 16% starting next year after wrapping up their multi-year tariff review. The hikes hit all customer types and factor in stuff like inflation sitting at 8%, the cedi trading around 12 to the dollar, and natural gas prices climbing to nearly eight bucks per unit.
The power grid is leaning heavy on thermal generation at 79%, with hydro making up most of the rest and renewables barely registering. Water losses from leaky infrastructure are supposed to drop to 43%, while the commission claims the price bumps are needed to keep utilities running and fund upgrades. Quarterly adjustments will keep happening based on fuel costs and...
Ghana's government dropped a relief package for families after six people died in a stampede at the El-Wak Stadium during an Armed Forces recruitment drive. Each family gets 50,000 cedis for burial costs and another 100,000 cedis on top of that, plus the option to send one qualified relative into military service if they want. Defence Ministry reps announced while checking in on survivors and visiting the bereaved households.
Injured applicants who made it out are getting fast-tracked for enlistment once doctors give them the all-clear. Officials promised ongoing help with mental health support and said they're reviewing crowd control procedures after the disaster sparked questions about how these massive recruitment events get managed.
The Centre for Research and Education Policy is calling out some pretty rough numbers from Ghana's latest WASSCE exam results. Math scores tanked from 67% passing last cycle down to just 49%, and Social Studies dropped hard from 72% to 56%. The group says the Ministry of Education and Ghana Education Service need to get their act together because the decline points to packed classrooms, weak teacher support, and students just memorizing stuff for tests instead of actually learning.
The cheating situation is completely out of hand. WAEC canceled over 6,000 subject results for smuggled materials, tossed 653 full results for phone possession, and caught 185 schools with suspected collusion schemes. Nineteen teachers got wrapped up in the...
The Kwahu South Municipal Assembly rolled out a faster system for handing out building permits, and the Municipal Chief Executive Effah Osei Bonsu says his team already knocked out the entire backlog of old applications. The speedup is meant to tighten up oversight on construction while also bringing in more money for the local government.
Osei Bonsu told reporters that sketchy monitoring in past years let people throw up buildings in random spots without proper paperwork or decent designs. He blamed the mess on how long it used to take to get permits approved, which basically gave developers an excuse to skip the whole process.
The new setup is supposed to cut out those delays and get everyone following the rules. The MCE is asking...
The Ashanti Youth for Development group is backing John Dramani Mahama on his plan to build a major expressway in the Ashanti Region. They say the president deserves credit for pushing both this new route and finishing up the dual-lane upgrade on the Accra to Kumasi road, which apparently has crews already working on it.
The youth org thinks critics are being unhelpful and should pipe down. They figure having two separate road projects running at the same time makes way more sense than settling for just one, and they reckon the whole setup will boost jobs and make transportation way smoother across Ghana.
