On his second day of cross examining Dr. Bawumia, Counsel Quarshie-Idun sought to rationalize the occurrence of voting without biometric verification by suggesting that the law and reality meant that certain persons like the disabled were exempt from biometric verification. This ostensibly was to pave way for the EC to justify the over 535,000 people who according to evidence on the face of the pink sheets were allowed to vote across the country without going through biometric verification.
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She specifically urged them to use ICT to ‘revolutionize’ agribusiness in Ghana.
Madam Clarke gave the advice during an interaction with students of the Computer Science Department of Ho Polytechnic in Ho.
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He said even though ICT has become a lucrative sector in terms of job creation, business growth and rewards, career in ICT had somehow become mainly dominated by males.
Mr Vanpercy made the remarks in a speech read on his behalf by Mrs Florence Martey, NCA Deputy Engineer, at a "Girls in ICT" Marathon training programme on Wednesday in Accra.
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The exercise, which is scheduled to begin anytime within this third quarter of the year will capture those public sector employees who could not be registered during the main biometric registration exercise carried out by the Ministry last year.
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He said according to experts, there would be two million more ICT jobs available than ICT professionals all over the world in the next decades.
“For this reason, we need to empower our school girls and young women alongside the young men to take up such job opportunities that ICT was creating”.
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