By Morkporkpor Anku – (ACCRA Ghana) – Occupational Management Limited, a UK-based, human resource consultancy firm, is organizing a two-day conference and exhibition for business starts-ups and small and medium scale enterprises (SMEs), from February 25-26, 2011 to empower new businesses and existing once in the country. The conference and exhibition will be on the theme: “Business Sense 2011- Turning ideas into profitable businesses to drive Ghana’s private sector forward”. A Statement issued in Accra on Thursday by Mr. Paul Asinor, Conference Director and copied to the GNA said the conference would enable Ghanaian entrepreneurs to learn and share ideas... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Thursday, September 30th 2010 |
By Morkporkpor Anku – ACCRA(Ghana) – Professor Kofi Asare Opoku, Vice President for Institutional Advancement at African University College of Communications (AUCC) has challenged the African youth to inquire more into information that would help them know the truth about the Africa continent. Prof. Asare Opoku also encouraged them to get closer to the elders in order to maintain and continue the legacy of their ancestors. He asked the participants two nagging questions by saying “African youth, an elephant cannot give birth to a dwarf” and “African youth, you can only be taller if you stand on the shoulders of... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Wednesday, September 29th 2010 |
By John Owoo – Versatile bodies take on issue of the environment with a formidable stage presence. Dancers and students from the Noyam African Dance Institute last week took the issue of the environment on stage with spectacular movements that vividly lamented on the most dangerous threat to the planet earth. Titled “Future of Tomorrow”, the forty-five minute issues driven piece, which was performed at the Noyam Centre in Dodowa (Dangbe West District), took on sensitive concerns relating to the environment with blunt, raw and engaging honesty. Indeed, highly expressive movements with the aid of brooms, tree trunks, cement covers,... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Saturday, September 18th 2010 |
The leading German academic exchange program, the DAAD, will hold a workshop in Accra, Ghana to address quality assurance in higher education. Ghana’s Ministry of Education and other critical national organisations are partners in the seminar, which will begin on August 30. The program will examine current challenges in quality assurance, as well as strive for regional cooperation in this area. The German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), the National Council for Tertiary Education (NCTE), and the Ministry of Education, National Accreditation Board (NAB), Ghana are jointly organizing a Workshop under the title ”Harmonization and Quality Assurance in the Ghanaian Higher... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Wednesday, August 25th 2010 |
Zack Ohemeng Tawiah – Ghana’s immediate past President; John Agyekum Kufuor says security in that West African state under current President John Evans Atta Mills has not been the best. Giving what would be describe as a clear assessment of the 2-year old administration of his successor, Mr. Kuffour said the ‘rule of law has been put in bracket somehow’: accusing the Mills-administration of threatening the atmosphere of freedom. He says Ghana’s economy has since his departure as President has stalled, a situation he blames on President Mills administration. It was Mr. Kuffuor, a former African Union Chairman’s first public... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Sunday, August 8th 2010 |
