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Mobile phone cements position as payment king …as other forms of financial service delivery lag behind The mobile phone, with every recent report, continues to cement its position as the platform on which financial services or payments are delivered through - as evidenced in the latest Payment Systems Oversight Annual Report, 2018, released this week by the Bank of Ghana (BoG). The report shows that with the astronomical growth in mobile money transactions and mobile banking services in both volume and value, while other payment platforms such as cheques, cards and Internet banking over laptops and desktops either saw declines in volume or value, or both, or at best grew marginally.

Over 175,000 students, who sat for the West Africa Senior Secondary Certificate examination and failed English Language, will have to compete next year with more than 400,000 free Senior High School first-batch students for the limited space at the country's tertiary institutions. The problem is compounded by the backlog of students seeking admission into the country's tertiary institutions. This backlog of about 200,000 students, created by merging two batches of SHS 4 and SHS 3 students who sat for the West Africa Senior High School Certificate Examination in 2013, still exists.