President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, on Tuesday, May 1, 2018, launched the Nation Builders Corps (NABCO), which government says, will employ in this year alone, 100,000 graduates.
The NABCO, according to the President Akufo-Addo, “will be the vehicle to deliver one hundred thousand (100,000) jobs in seven (7) prioritised areas, defined as the following modules: Educate Ghana; Heal Ghana; Feed Ghana; Revenue Ghana; Digitise Ghana; Enterprise Ghana; and Civic Ghana.”
World Press Freedom Day
Hundreds of journalists, high-level representatives of regional and national judiciary systems, ministers and heads of media organizations from across the world gathered in Ghana’s capital, Accra, to commemorate the 25th edition of the World Press Freedom Day on the theme, “Keeping power in check: media, justice and the rule of law”.
The main highlights included plenary sessions to discuss new challenges to press freedom and freedom of expression, covering of elections and electoral campaigns, the right to information and how freedom of information laws could contribute to sustainable development in Africa, artistic freedom in the digital age, investigation journalism: ethics and risk mitigation, restricting the free flow of information through internet shutdowns and service restrictions would also feature prominently.
NPP bigwigs beg 'furious' Asantehene
Some Executives of the NPP including the Acting General Secretary - John Boadu, Ashanti Regional Minister - Simon Osei Mensah, Regional Chairman - Bernard Antwi Boasiako, and Regional Coordinator of the NADMO - Kwabena Senkyire, on Wednesday visited the Manhyia Palace to apologise to the Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II.
Their plea for forgiveness follows the Asantehene’s outburst suggesting there are active attempts from some people close to government to pitch him against the Akyems.
Mahama’s galamsey comment
Former President John Mahama during NDC’s Unity Walk in Kumasi cautioned the Akufo-Addo government against the use of aggressive ways in fighting illegal mining as the deployment of a joint police and military task-force to rid the country of the illegal small-scale miners is counterproductive.
He indicated that the government must make available a livelihood package for the sustenance of unlawful miners after leaving the illegal mining sites. “…it is true that if we don’t do something about it, it will destroy the environment. But we need to apply wisdom. Because we’ve chased young people involved in illegal small-scale mining with soldiers in the past in this country but it didn’t work.”
These and many other topical issues would dominate today’s discussion by the host and panellists on this week's edition of JoyNews' flagship current affairs program, NEWSFILE.
