The Takoradi Poly Students who were sacked for applying with fake certificates must be prosecuted in a court of competent jurisdiction. Just sacking them is not enough.
Nowadays businesses and government organisations have ... read full comment
The Takoradi Poly Students who were sacked for applying with fake certificates must be prosecuted in a court of competent jurisdiction. Just sacking them is not enough.
Nowadays businesses and government organisations have stopped demanding Secondary School Certificate or Basic Education Certificate.
Each of these certificates are important. For example for many tertiary graduates the only certificate that can tell whether one can speak good English or whether one has adequate knowledge of Mathematics is the Secondary School Certificate.
Similarly the only certificate that can tell whether a tertiary graduate has basic knowledge of Ghanaian history, culture, agriculture and the basic geography of West Africa is the Basic Education Certificate.
Kofi Boaten 9 years ago
There has been a lot of Agricultural Activities in Africa lately and all agree that Value Addition to local crops and creating new products is the way forward. This will entail processing, packaging and marketing activities a ... read full comment
There has been a lot of Agricultural Activities in Africa lately and all agree that Value Addition to local crops and creating new products is the way forward. This will entail processing, packaging and marketing activities and farmers will then have markets for their produce.
A good example is the cassava resurgence in which science has brought to bear research reports which show that it can be used in the Bakery, Timber, Pharmaceuticals, and other industries besides the well known Gari, Fufu and Kokonte in Ghana.
Leadership is essential to move these activities forward and people like Bill Gates, the Cassava Adding Value for Africa (C:AVA) programme have given lots of money to continue with the research and support academic institutions in Africa to champion the use of cassava as an industrial product to boost the small scale rural farmers income.
The onus is now on African governments to take up the challenge and enact policies to enable the countries and its people benefit from their farming activities by growing cassava. Nigeria has taken the lead and Rwanda has followed. Ghana is the forth largest producer of the cassava crop and about half of it goes waste, leading the farmers poorer. Ghana can do better and thanks to Kuffour and Kofi Annan for championing the cause,
The Takoradi Poly Students who were sacked for applying with fake certificates must be prosecuted in a court of competent jurisdiction. Just sacking them is not enough.
Nowadays businesses and government organisations have ...
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There has been a lot of Agricultural Activities in Africa lately and all agree that Value Addition to local crops and creating new products is the way forward. This will entail processing, packaging and marketing activities a ...
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