Tap into online teaching mode – Retired lawyer tells GES

Retired lawyer and senior partner of Bentsi-Enchill, Letsa & Ankomah, Kojo Bentsi-Enchill, has called on the Ghana Education Service (GES) to fully incorporate Information & Communication Technology (ICT) into all of forms and levels of education to prepare the learning population for the future.

Ghana High Commission in London to resume full operations July 1

The Ghana High Commission, London, has announced that it will begin full operations effective July 1, 2020.

This follows the announcement of the introduction of new measures by the UK Government to gradually ease the lockdown and the re-opening of nonessential retail shops as well as the hospitality industry effective June and July respectively.

With the decision to resume full operations, the High Commission says it will strictly adhere to social distancing rules as well as other protocols to minimize healths risks.

In addition to that, passport applicants whose appointments were affected by the lockdown and subsequent closure of the Mission should expect new appointment dates via email in the coming week.

“As soon as this batch of applicants have been served, new applicants will be facilitated hopefully, effective 15th July 2020. Applicants are to note that anyone who turns up at the Mission without confirmed appointment will not be served”, a statement release by the High Commission dated June 3, 2020, in part read.

The High Commission however, observed that it will operate a ” no-mask-no-entry” policy in addition to the other strict protocols to minimize health risks to clients and members of staff.

I’ll continue to speak freely against ills in society – PNC Chair tells CID

The National Chairman of the opposition People’s National Convention (PNC), Bernard Anbataayela Mornah, says nothing will ever move him to turn deaf ears to wrongs in the society.

He told the Police CID that he will speak freely against ills in society and that he still stands by his comments against the Electoral Commission (EC) of Ghana.

The PNC Chairman who is also the leader of the Inter-Party Resistance Against a New Voters’ Register (IPRAN), was invited by the Police CID to answer questions about some public statements deemed to be threats on the election management body.

Addressing journalists on the on the sidelines of a press conference in protest against the new voters roll, Mornah suggested that if the EC does not discard its decision or amend the approach in creating the roll, they will go down the violence path.

“So people who are already Ghanaians, who are already registered voters are now going to be taken away from the voters’ register, don’t you think that confusion will come at the registration station and when confusion comes there you think the Electoral Commission’s staff will be safe? We will beat each other there, we will kill each other there,” he said.

Subsequently, the CID on Thursday, May 28, 2020, invited him to assist in investigations into the claims.

At the Police CID Headquarters in Accra, Tuesday, June 2, 2020, in the company of his of lawyers, Mornah in a caution statement said “I have not committed any crime, I have nothing more to add”.

He was then granted bail in the sum of GH₵20,000 with one surety.

Interacting with his teeming supporters who escorted him, Mornah reiterated his caution to the EC saying they won’t survive if they proceed with the new register.

“We shall not allow our freedoms in any form to be trampled by any person. President Nana Akufo-Addo cannot stifle the freedoms that we are granted by the Constitution. Those freedoms include the freedom to speak and we will speak. We will dare them and we will speak the truth because, at all points in time, we must correct the ills in our society which if we don’t correct, has the potential of eroding the peace and stability of our nation,” he said.

He added “This afternoon I have just gone through a cordial process with the police. My statement is that I made the statements that are contained in the 37-second video and that I stand by those statements and I have nothing more to add…The EC must know that their actions have the potential to plunge this nation into calamity. We are cautioning them that if they do not heed to us and anything happens to this country, they will not be safe”.

Spanish La Liga celebrates Michael Essien in mix of Twi and pidgin

Ghana’s legend, Micheal Essien has been celebrated in a unique style by the Spanish La Liga despite only playing in Spain during a short loan stint at the Spanish giant, Real Madrid.

Essien reunited his former Chelsea boss, Jose Mourinho who joined the Spanish club from Inter Milan after winning the 2010 UEFA Champions League.

The former Liberty Professionals midfielder on June 1, 2013, played his last game for the club scoring the second goal for Los Blancos in the 38th minute to end his Real Madrid stint with a total of two goals.

Seven years down memory lane, Michael Essien has been remembered for his last game with Real Madrid in which he scored a goal.

Choosing to celebrate him in a unique style, the Laliga official Facebook page on Monday, June 1, 2020, hyped the maestro with a caption carved out of a mixture of English and Twi.

The statement on the La Liga official Facebook page reads, “On this day in 2013, Michael Essien b)) ni last game and scored in the LaLiga Santander. We dey miss the Bison.  ✨”

He made 35 appearances and scored two goals.

Source: ABCNewsgh.com