Ms Love Peace Kpedekpo, a Government Appointee of the Adaklu District Assembly, said she would work hard to push for the economic empowerment of women in the District.
"Though I am a government appointee, I am not only representing the …
Barely a month of distributing the much anticipated 307 ambulances by the Government, more than 23 lives have been saved by the National Ambulance Service (NAS) in the Central Region.
Mr. Francis Ohemeng, the Regional Administrative Man…
Reverend Asiedu Osafo, the Manager of Assin Fosu Vocational Training Institute, has debunked perceptions that only people with low intelligent quotient (IQ) became artisans.
He pointed out that some people were good academically while o…
One thousand and seventy two persons, made up of 636 females and 436 males in 2019, tested positive to the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) in Tema.
Eight hundred and seventeen of the number, tested at Tema South where Tema General…
Zipline, the company that has tranformed health supply deliveries in the country, has started safety tests on its high-performance drones in readiness of the opening of the third and fourth distribution centres.
Since its launch in Ghan…
The Ministry of Health (MOH) in partnership with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Global Fund, has launched the Ghana Integrated Logistics Management Information System (GhiLMIS) to improve Ghana's hea…
The government will on February 18, 2020 launch a mobile application to enable customers of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) to buy prepaid credit via mobile phones directly without having to visit sales points.
The Vice President…
The Conference of Heads of Assisted Secondary Schools (CHASS) says it will be difficult for schools to organise their students for this year’s National Science and Maths Quiz (NSMQ) at the regional and national levels as a result of inad…
Current and former heads of state attending former President Daniel arap Moi's state funeral have paid their final respects to the man who ruled Kenya for 24 years inside the Nyayo National Stadium.
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni, Rw…
A total of 2,154 candidates are writing this year’s Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) for private candidates across the country.
They are made up of 1,201 males and 944 females who are writing the examination which is in …
The Minister of State in charge of Tertiary Education, Professor Kwesi Yankah, has commended the management of the University of Education, Winneba (UEW) for judiciously using its Internally Generated Funds (IGF) to undertake massive inf…
The National Association of Graduate Teachers (NAGRAT) is not happy with regional and district directors of education and has asked them to desist from issuing official cover letters to organisations and institutions organising special cla…
The Minister of Transport, Mr Kwaku Ofori Asiamah, has urged the Executive Council of the Association of African Maritime Administration (AAMA) to develop measures that will curb the exploitation of Africa’s fishery sector by foreign fis…
The National Inspectorate Board (NIB) of the Ministry of Education has introduced the use of digital tools for schools inspection, right from the primary to the pre-tertiary level.
The move is aimed at tightening supervision and surve…
Ghana’s tax identification numbers (TINs) are set to rise by eight folds by the end of year 2020 following plans by the government to convert the national identification numbers into tax numbers.
The Vice-President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia,…
The Minister of Parliamentary Affairs, Mr Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu says the government is working on a Bill to ban the importation of accident and overaged vehicles into Ghana.
This is to help create an enabling environment and the market…
Traditional rulers and key opinion leaders have attended a meeting aimed at building their capacity to mainstream trauma in their activities to prioritise rehabilitation for victims of trauma.
It was also for participants, who included …
MTN Ghana Foundation has expressed the desire to collect a total of 5,000 units of blood during its annual blood donation exercise dubbed "Save a Life" scheduled for Friday, February 14, 2020.
The exercise is to collect blood to stock …
The Environment and Agriculture Women Association of Ghana (EAWAG) has embarked on separate community outreach sensitisation forum for farmers on the need to practice organic farming to maintain farm lands fertility for healthy food crop p…
The Sissala East Municipality has officially taken delivery of its share of the President's newly acquired ambulances for emergency cases to improve quality healthcare delivery in the country.
Mr Karim Nanyua, the Municipal Chief Execut…
Dr Christopher Boatbil, the Talensi District Chief Executive (DCE), has given the assurance that all basic schools in the district would receive the required number of furniture to improve academic work.
He said the huge furniture defic…
Stop TB Partnership, has organised a review and capacity building meeting for representatives of 42 non-governmental Organisations (NGOs) from the 16 regions.
These NGOs are working in more than 80 districts, with each handling 20 commu…
The Central Regional Office of the Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) has sensitised manufacturers, distributors and other stakeholders on the need to be mindful of the shelf-life of processed food products.
This was to ensure that expired …
The Ghana Health Service (GHS) has said a total of 13 suspected coronavirus cases in Ghana have all tested negative since the detection of the illness globally.
Out of the 13 suspected cases, three were from the Kotoka International Air…
Mrs Ursula Owusu-Ekuful, the Minister of Communications, has said that measures have been put in place for the enactment of a new cyber security law by June this year to sanitise and safeguard the country's cyberspace.
The Communication…
GRE stands for Graduate Records Exams and it is a standardized test that is an admissions requirement for most Graduate Schools.
The GRE is owned and administered by the Educational Testing Service (ETS) and it was created in 1949.…
A mentor can be the difference between an idea and empowering the next industry disruptor. Patricia Nzolantima, [1] the managing partner of the marketing agency EXP-Comunicart [2] and a YPO [3] member, has made it her life’s mission to inv…
Bill and Melinda Gates Release 2020 Annual Letter: “Why We Swing for the Fences: Reflecting on the First Two Decades of Our Foundation”
Today, Bill and Melinda Gates share their 2020 Annual Letter, “Why We Swing for the Fences: Reflecti…
In less than a month, South Africa has witnessed a massive wave of rentrenchments, as companies across multiple sectors have announced job cuts running into almost 10,000. Some of these include network operator Telkom SA, Walmart-owned ret…
Leaders acknowledged the scope of the challenge but sounded a note of optimism
African countries have made progress toward eradicating malnutrition and stunting but need to do more to hit United Nations malnutrition targets by 2025. Thi…
A standardized test is any form of test that involves all test takers to answer the same questions, or a collection of questions from common series of questions, in the same way, and that is scored in a “standard” or regular manner, which …
The Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) has started formal investigations into the Airbus bribery scandal in which some Ghanaian officials, between 2009 and 2015, were allegedly bribed prior to the acquisition of three C-295 military …
The Speaker of Parliament, Professor Aaron Mike Oquaye, has called on the World Bank to respect Africa human rights values.
“The World Bank should dissociate itself from some of this modern re-interpretation of human rights, for e…
More than 170 farmlands have been destroyed by bushfires in the Bono East Region, posing a threat to the government’s flagship agricultural programmes such as Planting for Food and Jobs (PFJs) and Planting for Export and Rural Developmen…
The New Patriotic Party (NPP) government will organise a town hall meeting in Kumasi Tuesday to give an account of its performance in office in the last three years.
The event which is expected to be headlined by Vice President Dr Maham…
The government has admitted that not all public institutions are implementing the Right to Information (RTI) Act, 2019 (Act 989) as quickly as expected.
“These are early days and, therefore, not all the ministries are implementing it …
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has stated that Ghana has an unwavering commitment to the establishment and operationalisation of the Secretariat of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA).
So far, he said, the governme…
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo left Ghana on Saturday, February 8, 2020, to attend the 33rd Ordinary Session of the Assembly of the African Union, which is being held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
The meeting of the Heads of State wi…
Mr Duncan Nsoh, the Upper West Regional Director of Ghana Education Service (GES) has advised basic schools to sign onto the Rescue to Effective Learning Through Creative Application and Sustainable Opportunities for All-Ghana (RECASO-Ghan…
Mr Issaka Anas Abdulai, Upper East Regional Coordinator of the School Health and Education Programme (SHEP), has called on school-based health committees to intensify the implementation of water, sanitation and hygiene promotion in schools…
The Institute for Interdisciplinary Research and Consultancy Services (IIRaCS) of the University for Development Studies (UDS), has opened its 13th annual Harmattan School in Tamale.
The Harmattan School is a two-day platform establishe…
African Center for Energy Policy on Thursday launched a report on disability intervention in Ghana that would in the future tackle the challenges with disability more appropriately.
The evidence based report gives understanding of the n…
The Domestic Violence and Victims Support Unit (DoVVSU) of the Ghana Police Service in the Bono Region recorded 937 cases in 2019, as against 1,019 in 2018.
The figure indicated a decrease of 82 cases, representing 8.04 per cent, Deputy…
Seven Sub-committees of the National Executive Council (NEC) of the National Association of Local Authorities of Ghana (NALAG) have been inaugurated in Accra, with a call on members to create a congenial and healthy relationship with all s…
Panelist at the Alternative Mining Indaba (AMI 2020) in Cape Town jointly called for processes to optimizing mineral revenue for future generations through an effective tax system.
They noticed that lack of pragmatic policy frameworks i…
The Ghana Tourism Authority (GTA) in collaboration with COCOBOD and Cocoa Processing Company will celebrate the 2020 National Chocolate Day on the theme; "My chocolate experience, my holistic wellbeing".
The Chocolate Day celebrated und…
We all know that drinking water is essential to survival, but the question of exactly how much we should consume on a daily basis is something that, well, feels like it will forever go unanswered. That said, we often find ourselves with a …
Dr Gyan Awuah Baffour, a Special Advisor to the Minister of Health, has said Ghana will soon implement its policy on the Prevention and Control of Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) to minimise related deaths.
The draft Policy, which is …
The Baraka Policy Institute (BPI), a social policy think tank on Wednesday held its sixth annual public lecture on Ghana's upcoming 2020 population census.
The lecture on the theme; "Ghana's 2020 population census: the community respons…
Professor George Oduro, the immediate past Pro Vice Chancellor of the University of Cape Coast (UCC) has called on students leaders to remain committed to their core mandate and resist all attempts to infiltrate their rank with partisan po…
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