Kofi Ahovi

  We are pleased to introduce to Ghana and West Africa, and later the whole continent of Africa, and the world, a common platform for learning. Traditionally teachers met students in buildings on large tracts of land set aside for sharing knowledge in the form of courses taught by teachers. At the University level this involves millions and even billions of dollars invested. In places like Africa millions are denied opportunities due to poor infrastructure and distance from available schools and amenities. This should not be so anymore. Today cell phones and Wi-Fi Internet reaches many more millions than a few years ago and expanding. The cost of telecommunication devices keep dropping every year. MyGlobalStudents (MGS) is a platform designed by a Ghanaian company in collaboration with a private vision originated in California called Global Data Design by Dr. Kwaku A. Danso. In the 1960s Ghana had a vision from first Premier and President Kwame Nkrumah to develop her own technologi...

The Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Shippers’ Authority (GSA), Benonita Bismarck has lauded the police service for its commitment to addressing road governance challenges in the promotion of transit trade. She said under the able leadership of the Inspector General of Police (IGP), James Oppong-Boanuh, the GSA is enjoying good collaboration with the police service  in addressing bottlenecks relating to its operations impeding the smooth passage of transit trucks along Ghana’s transit corridors. These were said on her behalf by the Head of Freight and Logistics of the GSA, Fred Asiedu-Dartey  on 11th November, 2020  in Kumasi during  the first in a series  of a sensitisation workshop organised by the GSA  to sensitise senior police officers on the importance of the transit trade. The event also sought to address key concerns relating to the conduct of  police officers deployed along the corridors. Read also: MPS T3 breaks all-time productivity reco...

The third phase of the national market disinfection is underway. The exercise is aimed at controlling the spread of the Covid-19 virus in the country. The exercise which begun early Monday morning at Wenchi in the Bono Region saw all the markets, shops and other public places disinfected. Amponsakrom, Subinso, Boku and other nearby towns also had their markets disinfected by the Zoomlion sanitation officers with support from the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development. Richmond Sarfo, the Assemblyman for the Wenchifie Ntoase Electoral Area, who spoke on behalf of the MCE, Dr. Prince Kwaakye Afriyie, said the quarterly disinfection exercise has become even more important as other countries are experiencing second and third waves of the virus. He mentioned that the Assembly has provided enough Veronica buckets, hand sanitizers and nose masks to the market women as a measure to curb the spread. "We know the virus is still with so we are ensuring that the spread i...