For the past three months the Polytechnic Teachers Association of Ghana (POTAG), had been on strike bemoaning government’s plans to scrap their book and research allowances for a national research fund.
The body thus went on strike in May, and were later joined by the University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG) earlier this month, also over the same research allowance.
Polytechnic students the country over, after over three months of anguish, can finally breathe a huge sigh of relief as the General Secretary of POTAG announced the cancellation of the strike earlier today.
The strike came at a particularly bad time, especially for final year students who were in the middle of their final dissertations, whilst to this day exams for the third semester has not been held for those students to complete their polytechnic education.
The General Secretary, Ibrahim Adamu, announced that the group had signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), after a fruitful meeting with the Ministry of Employment and Labour Relations regarding the issue.
Some of our favourite celebrities have shared various out and about photos of themselves—and Yvonne Okoro in particular shared an interesting video.
Few years down the line after being BASHED on GhanaCelebrities.Com for that FAKE ACCENT, Yvonne Okoro seems to have taken over from Nadia Buari as our British born American celebrity, living in Thailand, worked in Australia, married to a half Chinese and half Japanese–therefore with such a messed up accent which she continues to proudly put out there…
It sad how our celebrities are everything in this world but themselves…
Check below for the video + photos of Juliet Ibrahim, Eazzy,Sarkodie, Menaye Donkor and others…
Increasingly, women are considering perfection as achievable and some go further to achieve this–in their bid to look GREAT.
An accountant- Maddison Hawk from the UK has spent £25,000 on plastic surgery so she can get her dream body before her 25th birthday.
As soon as Maddison turned 18, she spent more than £2,000 on semi-permanent make up and then she went in for a host of chemical peels, countless lip fillers, regular teeth whitening and then, at the age of 23, came a £4,800 breast enhancement, boosting her from a 32C to a 32H.
2008 was the last time we hosted the African Cup of Nations, and it was a successful event, only soured by the inability to fulfill the ‘host and win’ mantra we saddled ourselves with.
Now it seems like we might get the chance to host Africa again, three years from now, as the Minister of Youth and Sports, Honorable Mahama Ayariga, has announced that Ghana are planning to bid for the 2017 tournament.
Libya was initially slated to host the tournament, but current civil unrest in the country has severely disrupted preparations, whilst simultaneously making the country unsafe to host the rest of the continent.
Thus the North African country withdrew as hosts over the weekend, and the Confederation of African Football (CAF), invited new bids for a new host nation to be chosen.
And Ghana’s Sports Minister confirmed on twitter that we would be bidding for the tournament.
The problem with social media is that things can quickly reach a lot of people and a lot of people can get into doing things—increasing the risk levels.
Though the Ice Bucket Challenge has been successful for the ASL Charity as they’ve raised more funds than they did in the whole of 2013 within just two months, some people are ignorantly taking the Challenge for publicity purposes—and others are getting into serious problems by taking the challenge.
The death of an 18-year-old boy-Cameron Lancaster, from Burntisland is believed to be linked to the ice bucket challenge craze.
Cameron Lancaster died on Sunday evening. His family described his death as a tragic accident and “a great loss” and said Cameron would be hugely missed by family and friends.
Growing up, I heard and learnt lot. For example my grandma used to say that if you told a small lie, you had to tell a bigger one to cover the small one and then eventually you’ll be caught in the biggest one that will drown you. I didn’t want to drown in my lies so I made a point to keep things simple. I will tell the truth; after all it set you free.
So growing up I believed in honesty being the best policy.
This particular night however, this policy wasn’t working very well for me. Somehow I had come to understand in my adult life that the truth didn’t always set you free. In fact more often than not it puts me into even bigger troubles. I was accused of being brutal and unfeeling. Heartless! But I wasn’t about to give up the one true trait that my dear grandma had instilled in me. At the end of the day when all was said and done, I was the ‘free’ one.
But I wasn’t having any such luck this night.
On a long business trip to Canada, I started chatting with this fine dude of Ghanaian birth and Canadian citizenship. We talked at length, shared jokes, exchanged numbers and promised to hook up in Toronto.
After my business was done, I wanted to see the city so I called my Ghanaian/Canadian pal who was more than happy to show me the ropes. As the night wound down I felt light and silly. I had had quite a bit to drink but I was also ready to let my head down. So I did. I went dancing.
When my pal dropped me off I asked him to come in for a nightcap. He didn’t refuse. We started kissing from the door, down the hall—
The premise is; the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge is not a publicity gimmick. The core purpose of the campaign is to raise money for the ALS Charity. The Ice Bucket Challenge which kick-started mid July, 2014 has in two months raised more funds than the ALS Charity was able to raise in the whole of 2013.
So despite the various ALS drug testing ethical issues that other celebrities have used as grounds in refusing to take part in the Ice Bucket Challenge in the West, the campaign has been massively successful for the ALS or the MND Chairty.
Importantly, the Ice Bucket Challenge has rules and this is where you get to see how DUMB some of our Ghanaian celebrities are—for just taking part in a challenge and not even knowing the rules or the core purpose.
For you to take part in the Challenge, you must be nominated and when you are nominated, you have 24 hours to take the challenge or donate 100 dollars to ALS. Take special note that the donation must go to ALS and no other charity.
If within the 24 hours you decide to take up the Ice Bucket Challenge, you still have to donate to the ALS charity after you have performed the challenge but you can decide to donate less than the mandatory 100 dollars.
So the main purpose is the donation to ALS and the Ice Bucket Challenge is just a tool to request or ask people to donate to ALS. Basically, if someone nominates you to take up the Ice Bucket Challenge, all the person is saying is; I nominate you to donate some money to the ALS charity.
However, our African celebrities (especially the Ghanaian and Nigerian ones) have turned this into some sort of absurdity and publicity gimmick. They are not donating any money to ALS as Menaye Donkor just did and yet, continue to take the piss by taking the Ice Bucket Challenge.
It was only a few months ago that the entire airwaves in Ghana was saturated with Bukom Banku and Ayittey Powers. The two were billed in the most hyped boxing match in Ghanaian history, and although the fight itself ended anti-climatically; the two became the most hyped personalities in Ghana this year.
Now it seems like Ayittey Powers, who lost said bout, has not seen the last of his troubles. The Australian based Ghanaian boxer has been arraigned before court, allegedly for defrauding two residents of Kumasi out of Ghc 14, 000, under the pretext of securing them visas to Australia.
Daily Guide reports Ayittey Powers, real name Michael Okine, has been charged with defrauding under false pretenses, and was granted bail in the amount of Ghc 50, 000 with two sureties.
The proseceuting officer, Chief Inspector Isaac Agbemehia, said in November 2013 Ayittey Powers claimed he could acquire visas for those planning to travel to Australia.
The fighter has been based in Australia for the larger part of his boxing career, and the two complainants were put in touch with him to facilitate the deal for them.
