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Recent happenings on Ghana’s roads, particularly within the last few months or so, give many well-meaning Ghanaians a cause for worry, anxiety and frustration. Many believe that the time is more than ripe for Government, road users and all citizens in general to begin to exercise the necessary caution and responsibility to stem the tide of road traffic accidents in Ghana. For a long time now, road traffic accidents have become one of the leading causes of deaths in Ghana. Within the last two months alone, disturbing reports of road traffic accidents and related deaths have been recorded in many places across the country including Bonsaso, Aboadze-Takoradi, Gomoa Mpota, Nsawam-Ofankor, Tetteh-Quarshie-Adenta, Michel Camp-Afienya and Mataheko. The multiple accidents and deaths that have occurred on the Madina-Adenta highway since the beginning of the year eventually led to angry protests by residents when the latest victim, a first year SHS student of West African Senior High School...

Discipline can be defined as the training expected to produce a specific character or pattern of behavior, especially training that produce moral and mental improvement. It can also be said to be a set of rules or methods as those regulating the activities of a group of persons. School discipline, therefore, is the system of rules, punishments and behavioral strategies appropriate to the regulation of students and the maintenance of law and order in schools. Its aim basically, is to control the activities of students in the various schools. To ensure effective and efficient disciplinary actions in schools, there are committees charged with the responsibility of ensuring discipline. These committees adjudicate cases brought before them and met out appropriate sanctions to culpable students. The committees use the Ghana Education Service, GES codes of conduct as the primary source of reference and so are expected to follow it. In most cases, the committees leave up to expectation. In re...

Sports in an area without the requisite infrastructure and equipment is like a human subsisting on an unbalanced diet, indeed growth for that human would be sloppy. So therefore, sporting activities in that area would be sloppy. The lack of sporting infrastructure represents a major setback for all round sports development in the Volta region. Sport is just not sports standing on its own. It impacts every sector of life. Sports facilities, therefore, could bring certain dynamics in the economy of the geographical area of location. There are fallouts in the social and environmental areas as well. There is also the aesthetic, feeling good and safe, whiles competing or cheering on, in a beautiful scenario. Sport is growing steadily so the approach towards sporting infrastructure development must tow same lane and pace. In the Volta region, it’s not so contenting to speak about sporting facilities, it is either the facilities are deteriorating or not there at all. The Ho Sports ...

The National Peace Council (NPC) is responsible for promoting peace in the country and by the NPC Act [Act 818] of 2011, it is mandated to establish Regional Peace Councils in the ten administrative regions of the country.  The eminent members of the maiden Regional Peace Councils have served their four year term, paving the way for the re-constitution of new Regional Councils.  It is against this background that the National Peace Council, beginning from today, November 6, 2018, is inaugurating the ten reconstituted Regional Peace Councils starting from the Central and Northern Regions. There is no doubt that the task ahead of the new members of the Regional Councils is very tough, considering the fact that their tenure of office would extend beyond election 2020 which could present very challenging hurdle for members to scale. However, what is reassuring is the fact that some members of the immediate past councils have been re-nominated by their respective institutions and ...

The 23rd GJA awards passed off successfully over the weekend. For the first time, it was held at the imposing Gold Coast Kempinski Hotel in Accra to at least give a new lease of life to the event. It was relaxing to see Media men treated to a good cocktail and interactive moments ahead of the start of the programme. Dinner also came in good time. This year’s GJA awards had a rather interesting theme coming in the wake of a number of investigative works by some media persons including Manasseh Azure Awuni and the undercover journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas. It was “State of investigative journalism: boundaries of privacy and borders of the public interest”. This theme couldn’t have come at a better time as the Media and a section of the public are miles apart regarding what should be reported and what should not in the public interest. The debate got even hotter with Anas Aremeyaw Anas’ expose of the ‘rot’ at the Ghana Football Association under the leadership of Kwesi Nyantekyi. Many...

The Adjudicatory Chamber of the Independent Ethics Committee of the World football governing body, FIFA has banned Mr Kwesi Nyantakyi, former President of the Ghana Football Association (GFA), for life from all football-related activities. The activities include football administration, ownership and any other sport related engagements both at national and international levels. It is not clear if Mr. Nyantakyi can even watch football games on his own Television set, visit the stadium or donate football kits to clubs or his community youth as the ban appears to be sweeping and restrictive. Many interpretations have been given to the ban when the news broke. Some discussants have argued that Mr. Nyantakyi should not even be seen either playing or observing gutter-to-gutter games or small pole marches among children in any community. The news on the ban has been received with mixed reactions. While some people believe the punishment which came into force immediately, was swift, timel...

In an era when quality education is a concern for education focused international organisations and dominates national debates, teacher quality must equally be a priority. The central role of the teacher requires quality teacher education to properly position them to help in achieving overall educational agenda. It is therefore commendable that government has decided to implement the Colleges of Education Act, Act 847, which was passed in 2012 to give legal backing to the new status of the training institutions. By that Act, Colleges of Education have been placed under the National Council for Tertiary Education the agency responsible for the regulation of tertiary education institutions in Ghana. With the upgrade of the training institutions to university Colleges a first degree will be the minimum requirement for teaching at any level of our education. Over the past forty years, teacher education in Ghana has gone through a lot of changes. The modifications were as a result of po...