By Alex Ababio SatyaNadella, Chief Executive Officer, Microsoft Corporation, USA has stated:“I’m most grounded on the role of technology. Ultimately to me it’s about the human capital and the human potential and technology empowers humans to do great things. You have to be optimistic about what technology can do in the hands of humans.” Accordingt to a new study by Accenture (NYSE: ACN), Optimizing the use of digital skills and technologies could generate $2 trillion of additional global economic output by 2020, the study also reveals the vast role digital plays in economic activity, with more than one-fifth…
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A 34-year-old businessman, Ibrahim Jawab, has lost several thousand of Ghana cedis after a raging fire engulfed a compound house with 11 rooms and and over five stores at Aboabo near Tamale main bus stop in the Northern Region. The fire which occured last Sunday dawn destroyed several properties belonging to the occupants including thousand of cedis , provisions, clothes, foodstuff, glasses, among others. A quick intervention by the Ghana National Fire Service Personnel saved some nearby rooms, stores and houses from being affected. The eye witness accounts suggested that the fire started from an empty room with no…
Collins Sambaya Nailed To A Tree In Kenya. It was revealed that the boy was tied to the tree, arms wide apart, with two roofing nails driven through each palm of his hands after he was alleged to have stolen a radio. The entire village was shocked and was overwhelmed with the incident and was brought to a standstill, as they reported the incident to the police, who quickly rescued the boy and rushed him to a Hospital where he is in stable condition. Kenya’s Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI), who confirmed the incident in a statement, said that a…
The quest to deepen citizen participation in local level development has led to considerable reforms in the Local Governance and Decentralization structure particularly under the fourth republican constitution of Ghana. Considering the four arms of decentralization in Ghana, i.e. Administrative, Political, Decentralized Development Planning and Fiscal decentralization, a relatively significant improvement has been made in an effort to deepen decentralization in all these four arms. In spite of these reforms, there is still a myriad of bottlenecks facing the actual realization of the objectives of decentralization in Ghana. One significant reform that is being championed in reference to the…
The Gambia Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission, TRRC, has found former President Yahya Jammeh and 13 others criminally liable for the unlawful killing, torture and enforced disappearances of about 67 West African migrants, including about 44 Ghanaians and recommended their prosecution. The Commission has also recommended the “setting up of a joint international joint investigation team (Joint Forensic Investigation Team) based in The Gambia” to, among other things, “locate, exhume and conserve the remains of the victims that may be found in those wells or graves.” The Commission further recommended the payment of D32, 400, 000 (Thirty-two million, Four…
The National Democratic Congress under the leadership of its Chairman , Samuel Ofoso Ampofo has challenged Government to engage them for a national debate on Sector comparative analysis. Mr Ofusu Ampofo argued that the NDC stands tall in all sectors of the economy in terms of performance and impact on the nation’s development. Samuel Ofosu Ampofo threw the challenge at the Town Hall meeting organized by the communication bureau of the party at the great hall of Knust in Kumasi. There is more in the following report The opposition National Democratic Congress held its Town hall meeting at the…
By Alex Ababio Ghanaian Watch Newspaper investigation has revealed that the Multi-Million dollar Kwahu Afram Plains Cattle Ranch at Wawase in the Afram Plains South District in the Eastern region has become death trap for thousands of Cattle which have been confined to the Folder Bank within the ranch . The establishment of the ranch which President Akufo Addo said in his speech during his familiarisation tour on Saturday ,24th November 2018 that it was going to help to end the incident of clashes between local farmers and nomadic herdsmen has failed to live up to its purpose despite millions…
By Alex Ababio President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo has stated that his Government has shown enumous commitments in investing more resources in the education sector in the country. He noted that his New Patriotic Party Government was able to double public expenditure on education,as compared to previous NDC Government within five years of his administration. “So great has this government’s commitment to education been that public expenditure on education has almost doubled from twenty billion, seven hundred million cedis (GH¢20.7 billion) between 2013 and 2016, that is in the Mahama era, to forty billion, four hundred million cedis…
Ranking Member of the Finance Committee of Parliament Dr Cassiel Ato Forson and other two persons have been brought before a High Court on five counts of willfully causing financial loss to the state. The facts of the case revealed that , Dr Ato Forson, then a Deputy Finance Minister, executed a contract by the government of Ghana to purchase some 200 ambulances for the National Ambulance Service. Despite the granting of a medium term loan facility of €15.8 million for the 200 ambulances, only 10 were shipped to Ghana in 2014. “A post-delivery inspection of the first batch…
Speaker of Parliament Alban Sumana Bagbin has recounted claims indicating that he left the chamber on Monday as part of ploy to sabotage the approval of the 2022 budget for onwards operation of government business. Hon Bagbin noted that he formally informed in writing through his usher that it was late and he needed to go home and rest. The Speaker said on the day, he had to literally force the New Patriotic Party (NPP) members to sit at 2:00pm and got tired along the line since he was made to vary proceedings to approve some loans and undertake…