Category: Education

The Ghana Table Tennis Association (GTTA) has awarded scholarships to six astounding young table tennis players. The scholarship package would see each student get GH?2000 per year and would be reviewed annually to help boost their academic performances. The gesture was made on the opening day of the WTTC West Africa Regional Championship that is currently being staged at the Trust Sports Emporium in Accra. Speaking at the opening ceremony, Mr. Mawuko Afadzinu, President of the GTTA, described the students as young people who have demonstrated the commitment to excel in sports and deserve the support to help propel them to greater heights. 'We want them to grow and become a blessing to the country and themselves. We often give these scholarships to students so that they can take school seriously and maintain the highest standards of discipline. 'These young ones have demonstrated the commitment and hard work to become great for the country by becoming future champions. We are delighted to offer them this package to further motivate them. Noami Aryee, a beneficiary of the scholarship and a JHS student, speaking on the sidelines of the championships, said the financial package would ease the burden on her family. She stated that the package would also help her acquire some books that would boost her academic performance, and she was grateful to the GTTA for the support.

Source: Ghana News Agency

Two men appeared in the Rundu Magistrate’s Court on Monday in connection with the robbery of a teacher at Rundu’s Rudolf Ngondo Primary School last week.

According to the charge sheet, the two are Annanias Amutenya, 27, and 33-year-old Paulus Shaanika.

The two were arrested at a local bar in the Sikanduko informal settlement on Thursday.

The vehicle allegedly used in the robbery was also found hidden in a yard at Sauyemwa informal settlement and it is believed to have been hired from Independence Car Hire in Windhoek.

Both were denied bail when they appeared in court, and the case was postponed to 25 July 2023.

It is alleged that on the day of the robbery, the teacher withdrew an amount of N.dollars 14 000 from a local bank, meant for a regional sports event, before heading to school.

It is suspected that the accused followed her there and jumped the school fence to gain entry.

They allegedly went from class to class searching for the teacher, and when they finally found her while teaching, they grabbed her handbag, in which she had the cash she withdrew along with an additional N.dollars 1 200 of her own and some documents.

A male teacher who tried to defend his colleague was injured in the process.

Source: The Namibian Press Agency

Attorney General's Office (PGR) has reiterated the need for the inclusion of subjects on corruption in the academic curriculum in the country.

The need was reiterated by National Director for Prevention and Fight Against Corruption of the PGR, Inocência Pinto, on Tuesday in Luanda, who said that the move was intended to fight against corruption in education sector.

The PGR official was speaking at the ceremony that marked the official launch of the consultation process of draft National Strategy for Prevention and Repression of Corruption (ENAPREC).

In her capacity as coordinator of the technical sub-group, in charge of drafting the proposal, Inocência Pinto, who is also Deputy Attorney General, said the inclusion of the corruption prevention in the education system aims at curbing such practices.

According to Pinto, the consultation process, due to start this month, will last more than 30 days in all country’s provinces.

She said that the proposal aims to allow, from an early age, people to have "contact with matters related to public probity and the common good".

In her speech, Pinto noted that the implementation of actions to combat corruption in Angola "has been bearing fruit".

As an example, she highlighted the fact that Angola was ranked 116th in the corruption perception index, according to non-governmental organisation Transparency International, in its report published in January 2023.

Contribution of the institutions

Although the content has already received various contributions from public and private, national and foreign institutions, the coordinators deemed it necessary to conduct a nationwide public consultation process, as part of the participatory democracy principle.

This exercise is extensive to all natural and legal persons interested in sharing their knowledge for the enrichment and conclusion of the document.

The draft National Strategy for the Prevention and Repression of Corruption was prepared by a Working Group created in 2019, integrated by various public bodies.

The group is coordinated by the minister of State and Head of the Civil Affairs Office to the President of the Republic, Adão de Almeida, under the guidance of the President of the Republic, João Lourenço.

The Working Group was also tasked with conducting studies and drafting of proposals and mechanisms for the implementation of the United Nations Convention Against Corruption

Source: Angola Press News Agency (APNA)

Management and students of Okuapeman Senior High School have expressed a desperate need for computers following a recent theft of computers in the school.

The incident happened when the school went on a short break during the Easter festivities.

Mr Peter Anoma-Kodie, an alumni of the school told the Ghana News Agency that thieves broke into the ICT lab of the school and made away with about ten desktop computers, four laptop computers and a sound system which was mostly used by students for their oral English.

The school has several students who are visually impaired and who do not know how to use braille, so they rely heavily on computers and laptops to do anything academic.

Mr Anoma-Kodie said the students were going to write their West Africa Senior Secondary Certificate Examination (WASSCE) in three months and the students who were visually impaired would be the most affected if they did not get computers to write the exams.

He said the absence of computers and the sound system would also affect how the school prepared the students for the final exams.

Mr Anoma-Kodie said, 'We would want to appeal to the public, and government through the Ministry of Education, corporate Ghana, NGOs' and churches that this was an emergency, and we need their support as soon as possible.

'We need as a matter of urgency about 20 desktop computers and 10 laptop computers before July so we can prepare the visually impaired students for the WASSCE exams, and we will also need a good sounds system for oral English and lectures at the center,' he added.

Okuapeman Senior High School located in the Akuapem North Municipality has a lot of students who are visually impaired.

Source: Ghana News Agency

The Costheta Educational Support Fund in partnership with Duamenefa Foundation, a non-governmental organisation has awarded 20 brilliant, but needy Christian students from various institutions in the country.

The awardees made up of 11 males and nine females received a certificate and a cash amount of GHS1,500.00 each with an added Ipad for the best awardee.

Dr David Kotei Nutakor (also known as Costheta), a Geotechnical Engineer based in California, USA and the brain behind the Fund in a speech read on his behalf during the third award ceremony at Dzodze said he started the Fund in memory of his late parents, Mr Leonard Besa Gbede Nutakor and Madam Sabina Atsemuyo Evortepe as a way of giving back to society.

He congratulated the awardees whose visions for the future he was proud of saying, he set out to get 'the smartest, most creative needy Christian students to address ongoing challenges we currently face in the world.

'It is important to note that success is not only about titles, the awards, the recognition and the money we have, but joy of personal success resides in how much we contribute to society by helping family and friends to build a better life for themselves and those around them,' Dr Nutakor said.

Mr Emmanuel Ketaman Evortepe, Executive President, Duamenefa Foundation expressed gratitude to Dr Nutakor for choosing the Foundation as a conduit to extend his long thought-of dream to support and motivate students at secondary schools in the country to study hard and exhibit good morals and prayed for other individuals and organisations to support the project.

He called for true education necessary to bring changes to society saying, it goes beyond earning degrees and acquiring bookish knowledge to mean 'inculcating moral values, positive thinking, an attitude of giving to society and ethical values.'

Madam Esi Azalekor, mother of the best awardee, Ms Cynthia Makafui Abla Baragbor from Keta Senior High Technical School, who obtained a perfect score of A1 in all eight subjects - and currently studying Medicine at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, attributed her daughter's brilliant performance to the good upbringing she gave her and urged all parents to train their children to grow into responsible adults in future.

Ms Rejoice Morvey, an awardee and currently a student at University of Health and Allied Sciences asked for God's blessings for organisers of the award and urged secondary school students to take their studies and Christian life serious to qualify for the award.

Source: Ghana News Agency