Vegetables farms in the Pusiga District of the Upper East Region are perishing as roads linking the farms to market centres are washed away by the week-long torrential rains and the spillage of the Bagre and Kompienga Dams in Burkina Faso.…
A study has revealed a high demand for more investment in social protection interventions in the country.
Respondents also raised concerns over inadequate public knowledge of available social protection interventions, their financing a…
Some Sanitation Guards under the Zoomlion Ghana in the Hohoe Municipality have appealed to their employers for the payment of their salaries.
They said the current economic situation had brought financial challenges on them and they the…
The Managing Director of the Graphic Communications Group Limited, Mr Ato Afful has appealed to debtors of the company including Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDAs) and Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) includ…
Mr Ernest Patrick Kodzo Mallet, District Chief Executive (DCE) of South Dayi has said the Business Advisory Centre (BAC) of the Assembly would embark on business management skills training for Persons With Disability (PWDs) to enhance thei…
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo yesterday cut the sod for the construction of an integrated recycling and compost plant at Fiaso, near Techiman in the Bono East Region.
The €15-million project, which is expected to be completed wi…
Several hectares of farms in the Bawku enclave, Upper East Region, have been completely destroyed with livestock carried away by flood as a result of a weeklong torrential rains.
The situation, which affected all the six administrative …
The government has secured a 140-million Euro facility to expand and upgrade some health facilities to improve access to quality healthcare in the country, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo said on Thursday.
He said the contract had…
The Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, has visited victims of recent devastating floods in the Upper East region.
The floods, caused by the opening of the Bagre Dam in Burkina Faso and days of torrential rainfall in northern Ghana, ha…
The West African Examination Council (WAEC) has called for public and stakeholders' support to safeguard the integrity of examinations in the country.
"We cannot effectively carry out this mandate without the support of stakeholders. Al…
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has performed a ground breaking ceremony for work to begin on the upgrading of the Atebubu-Kwame-Danso-Kwadwokrom road in the Bono East Region.
The 35-kilometer road remained in a bad shape, thoug…
Madagascar attracted a lot of attention in April when the African island nation announced it was using a local plant to combat coronavirus.
A drink using artemisia plant extracts was promoted by its leader, President Andry Rajoelina.
…
The Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL) has announced that there will be an interruption of water supply to the eastern part of the Greater Accra region between September 14 and September 20, 2020.
In a statement, the GWCL said the inter…
The Ministry of Health (MoH), the Ghana Health Service (GHS), and partners are set to embark on a polio outbreak reactive mass vaccination in all 29 districts in the Greater Accra and seven other regions across the country.
The house to…
Mr. Amoako Atta, the Minister for Roads and Highways has announced the Bono East Region was benefiting from 73 road projects to open up the Region for rapid socio-economic development.
"In all about 4,550 kilometres of road network woul…
There are thousands of diet plans and some people change them almost as often as they change their underwear and pills to be swallowed in a bid to fast-track the wellness dream. The plastic surgeon’s blade and even prayers have all been ca…
Top African financial service technology company OPay, and the leading web browser and software company Opera, have made a donation of a hundred thousand medical face masks to support the fight against the spread of COVID-19 in Ghana.
T…
Doctors, nurses and other staff of the Koforidua Regional Hospital have donated blood to the Blood Bank to improve the blood stock to help save lives.
Dr Arko Akoto-Amppaw, the Medical Director of the Hospital, who led the staff in the …
The Ghana Health Service (GHS) will from Thursday, September 10 to 13 undertake polio immunization exercise for children under five years in eight regions.
The vaccination is to raise the children's immunity against the non-wild polio v…
Shipping a coronavirus vaccine around the world will be the "largest transport challenge ever" according to the airline industry.
The equivalent of 8,000 Boeing 747s will be needed, the International Air Transport Association (IATA) has…
The Ghana Red Cross Society (GRCS) in collaboration with the Swiss Red Cross has commissioned 102 units of two bedroom houses constructed for victims of the October 2019 flood in six communities across the Builsa North District and Kassena…
Mr Umar Nuhu, the Upper West Regional Coordinator of the Nation Builders Corps (NABCO) has advised the NABCO trainees to exhibit good work habit and uniqueness at their various workplaces.
He said they should be ready to learn and to g…
The Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection is developing a national digital portal that will facilitate the effective management and sharing of information on child marriage and sexual and gender-based violence.
The portal t…
West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has declared its readiness to conduct this year’s Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE), taking into consideration all the security measures and COVID-19 safety protocols.
“All the quest…
The Ghana Mineworkers' Union has commended the government for its sterling leadership in the fight against the spread of the COVID-19 in the country.
The Union, however, urged the government to develop a multifaceted Comprehensive Nat…
A total of 189,000 children under five years in the nine Districts of the Western North Region are expected to receive Polio vaccines in the four-day nation-wide immunization campaign.
Addressing a press conference in Sefwi- Waiwso, Dr …
The National Development Planning Commission (NDPC) has launched a mid-term evaluation of the government's development policy framework at Twifo Hemang Lower Denkyira (THLD) District in the Central Region.
The four-year policy framework…
Mr Kofi Asemanyi-Mensah, the Deputy Western Regional Public Health Director, has appealed to parents to patronize the Oral Polio Vaccine (OPV) exercise scheduled for September 10 to 13, 2020.
He called on the parents to allow their c…
The National HIV/AIDS Fund will become operational by the end of the year, four years after its creation by law.
The fund will mobilise domestic resources for the local production of medicines for prompt HIV/AIDS response in the countr…
The National Union of Ghana Students(NUGS) has hailed the National Democratic Congress' (NDC) promise to absorb 50 per cent of fees for tertiary students if elected into power on December 7, 2020.
It said the intervention, if implemente…
The National Identification Authority (NIA) said that the mop-up registration exercise, which started on August 24 in the Greater Accra Region ended on Tuesday, September 8, 2020.
However, the issuance of printed cards will continue at …
Mr Yawson Amoah, District Chief Executive for Sefwi-Akontombra has commissioned a Community-Base Health Planning Services (CHPS) compound with nurses quarters at Yawkrom in the Akontombra District of the Western North Region.
The facili…
A sod-cutting ceremony has been performed for the construction of 9.5 kilometres of roads in Atimatim and surrounding communities at the Afigya Kwabre District of the Ashanti Region.
The project includes the construction of drains, pat…
The citizenry has been encouraged to show active interest in government projects to ensure they are executed properly to serve their purposes.
Madam Lucielle Hewlett Annan, Greater Accra Regional Director, National Commission for Civic …
The United Nations office in Ghana, on Monday disassociated itself from an award scheme purported to be associated with the United Nations and the Kofi Annan Foundation.
In a public disclaimer, it stated categorically that the UN, neith…
The Ghana Police Service has dismissed 28 personnel, including two females, for showing unprofessionalism.
This was as a result of complaints lodged by the public, of which they were found culpable of 181 cases of unprofessional conduct…
This year's National Communication Awards, which is a development communications reward programme instituted by RAD Communications Limited to champion communications, organisational and national development comes off on November 7, this ye…
Ghana's COVID-19 active case count has increased to 831 after 143 new cases were recorded.
The Ghana Health Service's latest update indicates that 42,898 persons out of a cumulative total of 45,012 have recovered from the illness.
Of…
The second rainy season over Southern Ghana is expected from the second week of September, hence the need for the public to pay close attention to weather forecasts to plan their activities safely.
Madam Felicity Ahafianyo, the Acting …
Dr Senanu Kwesi Dzokoto, Deputy Volta Regional Director of Health, in charge of Public Health, has said that a total of 381,536 children in the Region would be dosed against polio between September 10 and 13, 2020.
He said the exercise …
Mental Health Society of Ghana has trained 21 mental health nurses and volunteers in Ga West and Ledzekuku municipalities on trauma and organised violence.
The training done in collaboration with BasicNeeds Ghana and Dignity Institute A…
Residents of Langogu community in the Karaga District of the Northern Region, have appealed to government and other stakeholders to construct a Community-based Health Planning Service (CHPS) Compound to cater for their health needs in the …
With three of the eight candidates to become the next leader of the World Trade Organization (WTO) coming from Africa, BBC Africa business editor Zawadi Mudibo looks at what difference having one of them at the helm would make for the cont…
The National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE) has said its Social Audit Programme is not a tool to witch-hunt duty-bearers to put them on spotlight for public ridicule and condemnation.
Rather, the social audit programme was design…
Professor Kwabena Frimpong Boateng, Minister for Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation has disclosed to a Public Accounts Committee (PAC) public hearing in Accra that lands and estate properties of the Council for Scientific and …
The National Road Safety Authority (NRSA) remains focused towards its efforts to educate, supervise and ensure the enforcement of the various road safety legislations to drastically reduce the spate of road accidents in the country.
Ms …
The next National Democratic Congress (NDC) administration will absorb 50 per cent of the school fees of all tertiary students, Professor Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang, running mate of the NDC, has said.
She said the cut would take immedia…
Professor Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang, running mate, National Democratic Congress (NDC), says the next NDC government will extend maternity leave from three months to four months and introduce a seven-day paternity leave.
She said the ex…
The main test used to diagnose coronavirus is so sensitive it could be picking up fragments of dead virus from old infections, scientists say.
Most people are infectious only for about a week, but could test positive weeks afterwards.
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The Health Promotion Division of the Ghana Health Service (GHS) and the African Field Epidemiology Network (AFENET) have organised a COVID-19 quiz for children to ensure they are not left out of COVID-19 health education.
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