Merck Foundation (www.Merck-Foundation.com), the philanthropic arm of Merck KGaA Germany, in partnership with the African First Ladies, announced the winners of Merck Foundation Africa Media Recognition “More Than a Mother” Awards 2022 and…
Accra, the capital of Ghana, will host a Meeting of Gender Experts from 27th to 29th March 2023, followed by a Meeting of Ministers responsible for Gender and Women Affairs of ECOWAS Member States on 30th March 2023. Organised by the ECOWA…
The report has been released by the Kenya Private Sector Alliance (KEPSA) through its Knowledge Center, the Sustainable Inclusive Business Kenya.
Through the Sustainable Inclusive Business (SIB-Kenya), the Kenya Private Sector Alliance …
The winners of a children’s art competition took part in a celebration with their classmates, teachers, and parents at the Megle Kibo Primary School, Semera, Afar region. The competition was organized by United States Agency for Internati…
The Vice-President of the United States of America (USA), Kamala Harris, has said her week-long visit to Africa is focused on increasing investment on the continent and facilitating economic growth and opportunities.
She said her trip…
As the world commemorates World Tuberculosis (TB) Day, the MP for Nabdam, Mark Kurt Nawaane, has called on stakeholders to help bridge the funding gap to prevent, diagnose and treat the disease.
Currently, Ghana needs a minimum of $18…
Chinese authorities have expressed their commitment to support Ghana to resolve the current short-term liquidity challenges.
China will also continue to support Ghana's medium and long-term developmental aspirations.
“China believe…
The Bank Hospital Renal Unit is staffed by a team of nephrologists and dedicated medical professionals dedicated to providing great care to each and every patient.
We offer a full range of services to support the health and well-being …
A REPORT on a survey with a sample size of 780 on COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy conducted in 39 districts in the country has revealed that 31 per cent of respondents refused to get vaccinated because they could not trust the safety of the vac…
AngloGold Ashanti (AGA), which operates the Obuasi Mine, has installed mechanised boreholes in four communities within the Binsere electoral area in the Ashanti region. The initiative is aimed at providing safe drinking water to host commu…
A former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ghana (UG), Professor Ernest Aryeetey, has called on the government to grant senior high schools (SHSs) some level of autonomy to help improve education in the country.
Such autonomy, he sai…
Government has been called upon to increase investment in the water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) sector, and create an enabling environment for private sector and users to invest in sustainable water and sanitation services.
The Chief…
Power has been restored at the Keta Municipal Health Directorate which houses the vaccine store of the municipality.
This comes hours after the Daily Graphic published a story on how vaccines for routine immunisation, including recent…
The High Commission of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan in Ghana has held a reception to commemorate the Pakistan National Day.
The High Commissioner, Farhat Ayesha, hosted the Pakistan Community, the Diplomatic corps and Ghanaians, i…
UNI Africa, under its SASK project has built capacity of three affiliates unions in Ghana on “Enhancing the bargaining power through organising.”
The SASK project being funded by Finnish Unions, started in 2022 and would end in 2025, an…
Mr John Eric Kwofie, the Bono, Bono East and Ahafo Regional Chief Manager of the Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL) has appealed to the public to reduce activities that polluted raw water sources.
The Regional Chief Manager said such sa…
The Ahafo Regional Directorate of Ghana Health Service (GHS) has not recorded any child malaria-related death in 2022, Dr. Samuel Boakye-Boateng, the Ahafo Regional Director of the GHS, has said.
He said the Directorate exceeded its ann…
World Vision Ghana has asked the government to prioritise access to safe drinking water in communities, schools, and health facilities.
Mr Robel Wamisho, the WASH Technical Programme Manager, World Vision Ghana, said access to safe drin…
Friend of the Sea®, a project of the World Sustainability Organization (WSO) has introduced its Sustainable Restaurants Certification to Ghana’s hospitality sector, through its collaboration with Ghanaian business development firm, Fort Gr…
Mr Joesph Dankwa, the former Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Middle Belt Development Authority (MBDA), has handed over to Mr Joseph Kumah-Mackay, the newly appointed Head of the Institution.
A statement issued and signed by the new…
Professor Kofi Asare Opoku, the Chairman of the Governing Council, African University College of Communication (AUCC), says the polarisation of society and excessive partisanship is bane to Africa’s development and “must be checked”.
He…
The Greater Accra Metropolitan Area (GAMA) Sanitation and Water Project is to provide 150 modern toilet facilities in the GAMA and the Greater Kumasi Metropolitan Area by 2024.
Mr. Emmanuel Addai, Knowledge Management Expert, at GAMA Sa…
The Leader of Ghana’s Delegation to the ECOWAS Parliament, Alexander Afenyo-Markin, has made “a passionate case” for countries within West Africa to sink “significant percentages of their GDP into developing the vast renewable energy poten…
The Minister of Sanitation and Water Resources, Cecilia Abena Dapaah, has inaugurated the first Governing Board of the Ghana Water Institute (GWI) to oversee the operations of the institute.
The five-member board has been entrusted to…
More youth leaders have actively been engaged in an interactive dialogue at a UN Youth Summit, focusing on the prevalence of online violence and hate speech against women and girls.
The dialogue was organised by the UN Women at the 67th…
On Sunday 12th March 2023, Professor Enyonam Yao Kwawukume, who together with his wife Dr Susu Bridget Kwawukume, founded Ghana’s premier private Medical School, the Family Health University Medical School, Teshie, Accra turned seventy (70…
Child Rights International (CRI) in partnership with Mondelez International Cocoa Life (MICL) has launched a mobility project for school children in Nwamase, in the West Akim Municipal Area.
The project, which is to be piloted in three …
Stakeholder institutions in the management of water, sanitation and environmental sustainability have expressed displeasure with the government’s over-reliance on the security services as its truimph-card to remedy the menace of illegal mi…
The Home Economics Teachers Association of Ghana (HETAG), an Association formed to offer proper training to Home Economics teachers across the country, has been inaugurated in Accra.
The inauguration, on the theme: “Empowering livelihoo…
The Ghana Office of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has stressed the need for households to institute practices that encouraged efficient use of water at home.
According to the UNDP, it was important households to make e…
Hypertension and diabetes were theleading cause of deaths recorded in the Greater Accra Region, last year.
Likewise, malaria continues to top the list of out-patient department (OPD) admissions in the region despite an increase intotala…
Government is developing a national strategy, to develop all commercially viable tourist sites in the country, for development, the Minister of Tourism, Arts and Culture, Dr Mohammed Awal, has disclosed.
“The World Bank funded Tourism D…
THE Namibian High Commission in Ghana has donated a high Independence-performance ventilator to the Paediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) of the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital as part of its 33rd Day activities.
The GH¢300,000 equipment …
Residents of Kasoa and adjoining communities have urged the government to add the collection of tolls to its flagship digitalisation projects.
That, they said, would help ease the burden of vehicular congestion and traffic at the variou…
The National Road Safety Authority (NRSA) says it has recorded a reduction in road traffic crashes, injuries and deaths from 2022 through to the beginning of 2023.
According to NRSA, provisional figures gathered from the Mot…
The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) is warning the general public against the use of two brands of contaminated eye drops on the market.
The products are ‘Ezricare artificial tears’ and ‘Delsam Pharma’s artificial tears’ prod…
The National Union of Ghana Students (NUGS) has confirmed that the Student Loan Trust Fund (SLTF) has begun disbursing student loans.
It comes after months of delays, with the National Union of Ghana Students and the University Students…
The Ghana Stock Exchange (GSE) and the Minerals Income Investment Fund (MIIF) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) that seeks to, among other things, increase the number of mining companies listed on the local bourse.
In sp…
The Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL), with support from the government, has invested $700 million in nine water projects throughout the country in the last five years as part of efforts to deliver safer water to consumers.
The devel…
The One Country One Priority Product (OCOP) initiative, launched by FAO in 2021, aims to promote agricultural development by identifying and prioritizing one essential agricultural product per country that has the potential to increase far…
Incessant hunger and chronic insecurity forced Rukia Yaroow Ali and her nine children to abandon their home in Jilib, Somalia, to seek shelter at the Hagadera refugee camp in northern Kenya.
“My husband was a successful farmer, …
A new line has been added to the Moscow Subway, which opened in 1935 as the Soviet Union's first underground system. Designed to relieve traffic congestion in Koltsevaya and to reduce traffic congestion in Moscow in general, the new circle…
As leaders gather in New York for the milestone UN Water Conference, Nigeria has taken a decisive step for cooperative water action by officially becoming the 48th Party to the Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercou…
The African region is recording around 4% annual decline rate in tuberculosis (TB) cases. Although the rate is double the global pace, the region risks missing major milestones and targets to end the disease if efforts are not scaled up ra…
Ten Ministries of Health with country, regional and global partners have resolved to strengthen collaboration towards improving maternal, newborn and child health through sustained quality of care at all levels of the health system.
…
Vaccines for routine immunisation, including new deliveries received last week, risk going waste at the Keta Municipal Health Directorate because the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) has disconnected power supply to the facility for the …
Women and girls have been encouraged to access Technical and Vocational Education (TVET) to tap into the economic potentials of the sector.
The advent of innovation and technology had made the field less labour intensive and friendly fo…
Four Early Childhood Education (ECE) facilities (kindergarten blocks) have been constructed at four basic schools in the West, and East Mamprusi Municipalities to ensure quality teaching and learning experiences for children.
They will …
The West Africa Network for Peacebuilding’s (WANEP) 2023 General Assembly, Fellows Conference and Partners Forum is underway in Accra.
The three events are being organised from March 20 to 23, on the theme, “ECOWAS Vision 2050: Towards …
A nine-member delegation drawn from Namibian government institutions is in Ghana to understudy the country’s Carbon Market project.
Ghana is one of the few countries in Africa to develop a comprehensive Carbon Market Framework – an init…
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