In a press release signed by the Executive Director, Mustapha Ussif, the management advised all those interested to send their application details before Friday, March 16, 2018.

[contextly_sidebar id=”4JIAVYiMTtvqyNFcb7S4UyToISFnfKh3″]“The management of National Service Scheme(NSS), wishes to announce that eligible Ghanaians who missed the opportunity to do national service in the previous years and now wish to enroll to do the service, have up to Friday ,March 16,2018 to do so. ”

Eligible applicants are to submit their application letters to any regional secretariats of the Scheme. Applicants from the Greater Accra, can however submit their letters to the NSS head office in Accra.

“All application letters must be accompanied by an introductory or attestation letters, certified true copy of all academic certificates or transcript from accredited tertiary institutions attended, school I.D cards and evidence of application for deferment of national service from previous years” the statement said.

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However, the process has been fraught with a few challenges resulting in students and parents left standing in long queues for extended periods of time.

With the students supposed to report back in a couple of days, the parents have thronged the schools to get their wards registered before classes commence.

At some schools in Accra, parents expressed their frustration with the slow registration process to Citi News’ Marrie Franz.

“I got here almost 7:00am and was told to sit in the Assembly Hall and wait. While we’ve been here, some parents have come to call their wards. We don’t know what’s going on but we think they’ve started. They told us they were using the numbers,” one parent said.

“When we reported, we were told that we had to take numbers before we’ll be attended to. They just gave us the numbers and paid no more attention to us,” another parent said.

“We came here around 4:30am, thinking that we’d be attended to quickly so that we could go to work. We can’t spend the whole day here. We saw a few people going upstairs and we thought they were getting VIP and protocol treatment. They’ve told us they are using the numbers and I’ve got a number now.”

One of the officials stated that, the process was going smoothly, but expressed concerns with the “impatience” of the parents.”

“We have to admit 500 people, we can’t do it at the same time,” she said

Kumasi

At the Kumasi Academy in the Ashanti Region, Citi News’ Hafiz Tijani reported that, many parents had braved the rains to arrive early in order complete their wards’ registration.

According to him, the process at the school had initially been tense, but the situation had calmed down with many parents able to register their children since then.

Bolgatanga

Citi News’ Frederick Awuni reported that, a few schools in the Upper East Region had not yet put up a list of the students who had been placed there.

Some parents also complained about the slow pace of the registration process.

“We were here very early, some of us are from very faraway places. I’m from Kintampo and had to sleep in Tamale to get to the school early,” one parent said.

However, the school assured them that their challenges would be addressed in time for them to complete the registration process.

Listen to the reports from Accra, Kumasi and Bolgatanga below

Accra – 0:00 minutes

Kumasi – 5:06

Bolgatanga – 8:23

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She noted that sales agents that are registering SIM cards before selling them are breaking the law, and that customers should assist MTN to fight the crime by alerting the mobile communication company on agents doing that.

“We have put certain business rules in place to pick up on some of these things, so that depending on the way the registration is, the systems are able to tell us that this can’t be credible, and we immediately block it and deal with the perpetrators”, she added.

Cynthia Lumor spoke to Citi News at Elmina on Wednesday, during the Central Regional Media and Stakeholder Forum by MTN Ghana, to interact with its stakeholders on the achievements, packages, challenges and the short and long-term plans of the mobile telecommunication company.

Stakeholders consisting of journalists, officials of the Ghana Highway Authority and other state and private agencies enumerated some of the challenges subscribers have using the network, with prominence on mobile money subscription and unregistered SIM cards.

Reacting to concerns about the recent spate of mobile money frauds, Cynthia Lumor said though the company is vigorously doing a lot to “sift out recalcitrant mobile money agents, and that users should insist on not giving (their) pin numbers to anybody.”

She further stated that “When somebody calls you to tell you I just sent you an X amount of money and asks you to send it back, check your balance. Make sure that indeed some money has just come to you that you were not expecting.”

Taxes, other payments and corporate social responsibility

In 2016, MTN Ghana paid taxes totaling GHS 1.1 billion to the government of Ghana.

They include a corporate tax of GHS 713 million to the Ghana Revenue Authority, and over GHS 51 million to the National Communication Authority (NCA), and the Ghana Investment Fund for Electronic Communications (GIFEC).

Other components are a GHS 258 million payment to the NCA for its 4G LTE, and a Standardization and Innovation Information Technology (SIIT) payment of GHS 85 million.

While the communication giant boasts of one hundred and forty-two projects nationwide, the Central Region has had fourteen out of the number, costing close to two million Ghana  Cedis.

Some of the projects in the Region are the construction of the maternity ward for the Twifo Praso Government Hospital and a dormitory block for Apam Senior High School.

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By: Joseph Ackon-Mensah/citifmonline.com/Ghana

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