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Portrait of James Barnor in front of some of his photographs in Accra, Ghana, circa 1952. Born in 1929 in Accra, Barnor established his Ever Young studio there in the early 1950s, capturing a nation on the brink of independence
Photograph: Autograph
Photograph: Galerie Clémentine de la Féronnière
Ghana’s first prime minister, Kwame Nkrumah, in his prison graduate cap, kicks a football before the start of an international match at Owusu Memorial Park in Fadama, Accra, in 1952
Photograph: Autograph
Early morning in Covent Garden market in 1960s London. Barnor arrived in London in 1959, furthering his studies and continuing assignments for the influential South African magazine Drum, reflecting the experiences of London’s burgeoning African diaspora
Source: Dickson Boadi, Contributor
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo Political Science Expert, Prof Owusu Quarteng is calling on the President to ensure heads of state institutions above age 60 retire as has been enforced in the case of the former Auditor General, Mr Daniel Yao Domelevo.
In a recent piece by Prof Quarteng, he notes that despite the constitutional requirements of article 199 (1) which demands public officials to retire on attaining age 60, noted that the first term of the President was characterised by over aged individuals occupying state institutions and underscored that such individuals remain bent on retaining office in the President’s second term.
Source: Dickson Boadi, Contributor
Enoch Kwasi Gyetuah, Executive Director of the Private Schools Council
The Ministry of Education (MoE) through the support of the National Council for Curriculum Curriculum and Assessment (NACCA) in collaboration with the Ghana National Council of Private Schools (GNACOPS) have commissioned 200 Master Trainers to train all private school teachers on the implementation of Common Core Programme (CCP) in the country.
The incident happened on Friday 22nd January 2021 at the closing ceremony of the 5-day Residential CCP Master Training Programme Workshop for Private Schools which was held in Accra at the Atomic Energy Commission.
The Director of Pre-Tertiary Directorate at the Ministry of Education,
The Ghana School of Railways and Infrastructure Development has finally started operations.
The School of Railways and Infrastructure Development is part of the University of Mines and Technology, Tarkwa. All programmes being offered by the School are engineering courses.
On January 15, 2021, the first batch of students reported to the School and are currently undergoing orientation.
In 2021, the School is expected to admit some 300 students. Over the next four years, the School is looking to admit about 5,000 students.
The duration of each programme is four years.
For years (2017-2021), the Minister of Railways Development, Hon. Joe Ghartey, spearheaded the establishment of the School.
Group kicks against calls for dismissal of Chief Imam’s spokesperson
A group, the Independent Zongo Communicators Team have described as misplaced calls for the dismissal of the Spokesperson of the National Chief Imam, Sheikh Aremeyaw Shaibu.
According to the group, the Coalition of Progressive Muslim Youth Organisations – Ghana, had no locus within the scheme of administration arrangements of Office of National Chief Imam to be ordering the National Chief Imam to dismiss individuals working in his Office.
In a petition addressed to the Office of the National Chief Imam, the Progressive Muslim Youth Organisation – Ghana, said the Chief Imam’s Spokesperson in discharging his extra duties as the Acting Chairman of CODEO towed a political line when he in his assessment of the 2020 election results asked Ghanaians to give confidence to the presidential election results declared by the Electoral Commission (EC) as it reflected accurately how citizens voted on December 7, 202