Hope For Future Generation (HFFG), a Ghanaian NGO has held its maiden “HopePalympics” project event at the Senior High Technical School for the Deaf-Mampong-Akuampim to commemorate the 2016 International Day of Persons With Disability.
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SEND-Ghana, a Non-Governmental Organisation, has organised a national stakeholders’ dialogue to address emerging issues from its monitoring and district dialogues on the District Development Facility (DDF).
The collaboration with repres…
The Medical and Dental Council (DMC) has inducted 120 newly qualified physician assistants and certified registered anaesthetists into the profession. The inductees were trainees from the College of Health, Central University College, …
Authorities in Ghana have busted a fake U.S. embassy in the capital Accra run by a criminal network that for a decade issued illegally obtained authentic visas, the U.S. State Department said.
Until it was shut down this summer, the sha…
The Ghana Aids Commission (GAC) has advised persons living with HIV/AIDS to stick to their medications instead of seeking cure from unverifiable sources.
Dr Angela El-Adas, Director General of the Ghana Aids Commission, gave the advice …
The Tema Metropolitan Assembly (TMA) has disbursed the third quarter disability fund to 102 Persons With Disability (PWD) in the Tema Metropolis. The fund, which is two per cent of the Assembly’s share of the Common Fund, is disbursed to b…
The Ghana Private Road Transport Union (GPRTU) has taken delivery of 350 brand-new vehicles on hire purchase from the Microfinance and Small Loans Centre (MASLOC).
The vehicles, comprising 100 33-seater buses and 250 saloon cars, are t…
Nana Oye Lithur, Minister of Gender, Children and Social Protection (MoGCSP) on Wednesday said one vital elements of empowering Persons With Disabilities (PWD) is by ensuring that all public spaces and facilities are accessible to all.
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In the quest to transform the health sector to provide quality health care delivery to the citizenry, President John Mahama yesterday inaugurated the ultra-modern Greater Accra Regional Hospital at Ridge, in Accra, amidst excitement among …
The Tema Oil Refinery (TOR) has signed an agreement with three companies to revamp its Crude Distillation Unit (CDU) and increase the facility’s production capacity.
The $40-million project is expected to increase the refinery’s product…
Nii Djangmah Vanderpuye, the Deputy Greater Accra Regional Minister, has inaugurated three projects in the Ada West District as part of government’s efforts to improve educational infrastructure and security in the district.
The projec…
The President of the College of Counselling and Psychology (CCP), Rev. Prof. Samuel Oheneba Dornyo, has expressed worry over the rapid growth of quack counsellors who he said confused and messed up people who were already struggling with t…
A three-day training seminar for Ghanaian judges and lawyers on the practice, procedure and jurisprudence of the ECOWAS Community Court of Justice is underway in Accra.
It is to create the awareness for the citizens of the 15-member sta…
The partnership between the Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNA) and the Canadian Teachers Federation (CTF) is showing good results. Ms. Helen Awurusah, Head of the GNAT Gender Desk, said it had led to significant improvement of t…
Nana Addo Dankwah Akufo-Addo, Presidential Candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), has rallied Ghanaians to work together to keep the nation united. He invited his colleague politicians to avoid doing anything to divide the people and…
Mr Tsatsu Tsikata, former Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation whose five- year conviction was quashed by the Court of Appeal says he had found justice in the court.
Reacting to the decision of the Court o…
The Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection has set-out 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Based Violence. Ghana joins more than 5,478 organisations and other participants from 187 countries and territories worldwide to commemor…
President John Dramani Mahama yesterday, inaugurated the much-awaited ultra-modern Cape Coast Kotokuraba Market, hinting of government’s intension of re-engineering other markets across the country.
That, he said, was in line with its t…
A five-year pilot project to get more girls to pursue technical and vocational trades has been launched in Bekwai. Known as Advocacy Alliance Project, it is being funded by the Netherlands Government with support from Plan International Gh…
A 12 unit-classroom block for the Avatime Senior High School (Avasec) at Amezdofe in the Ho West District has been inaugurated. Avasec, with a student population of 140, has had infrastructural deficits since 1967 in the aspects of dormito…
Dr Augustine P. Mahiga, United Republic of Tanzania’s Minister for Foreign Affairs, says the different legal systems in Africa are bottlenecks for effective implementation of the many legal obligations on the Continent.
Dr Mahiga assert…
Millions of people around the world experience depression at one point or another in their lives.
The Anxiety and Depression Association of America (ADAA) note that depression is one of the most common mental health illnesses in the Uni…
The Queen’s Young Leaders Programme is today delighted to reveal that 60 young people from across the Commonwealth, including Elijah Amoo Addo, Efua Asibon and Winnifred Selby from Ghana, have been selected to receive a prestigious Queen’s…
Ghanaian parents have been urged to shun child labour and help their children develop their God-given talents in order to break generational poverty and destitution in many communities.
Madam Emelia Menokpor, Principal Social Welfare Of…
The government is to procure 84 buses for the Metro Mass Transit Limited (MMT) to augment the fleet of the company and make its work more effective in the country. The Minister of Transport, Mr Fifi Fiavi Kwetey, who announced this at the …
Young women are especially vulnerable in countries with high HIV prevalence, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa
Thirty-five years since the emergence of AIDS, the international community can look back with some pride but we must also look…
With 49 per cent of Nigerian women married under the age of 18, according to latest figures from 2013, Nigeria has the world’s highest number of child brides
Nigeria’s Vice President Yemi Osinbajo officially launched a nation-wide Campa…
Two thousand security personnel will be deployed from Accra on Monday, for electoral duties across the country.
The personnel comprising the Military, Police, Immigration, Fire, Prisons and the Customs Division of the Ghana Revenue Auth…
Mrs Elizabeth Ofosu-Adjare, the Minister of Tourism, Culture and Creative Arts, has inaugurated an ultra-modern toilet facility for the Nzulezu Community in the Western Region.
The 10-unit facility would allow the community which was b…
African governments must domesticate and localize the sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to enable every citizen to be abreast with the agenda, Professor Godwell Nhamo, Exxaro Chair in Business and Climate Change University of South Afri…
Fifty Water Resources experts from 13 African countries have begun a five-day meeting in Accra, to discuss research findings on the first phase of the Sahel Region underground water project.
The Sahel project is a two-year research prog…
After 12 years of dedicated medical service to the public, the Lapaz Community Hospital has won an international award for customer satisfaction, leadership, innovation and efficiency.
The ceremony, organised in London by the prestigiou…
The Ghana Tourism Authority (GTA) has urged hospitality industry operators to invest in the training and development of staff, to be able to offer satisfactory services to customers.
According to the Ashanti Regional Manager of the Auth…
Geography students of Westphalia Senior High School, an orphanage, now have the privilege of having practical experience in weather predictions following the successful installation of a Digital Weather Station on their school campus at O…
The Ambassador of Japan to Ghana, Mr Kaoru Yoshimura, has stated that Ghana currently is the only country that accepts the largest number of volunteers from the Japanese International Cooperation Agency (JICA) globally.
He said next yea…
President John Mahama has presented a 33-seater Hyundai bus to the Nursing Training College at Bole in the Northern Region following appeals to him by the traditional authority of the area.
The bus, already registered in the name of the…
The Youth Employment Agency (YEA) has launched a new module dubbed “Youth in Greening Ghana Module” as part of measures to address the unemployment situation in the country.
Already, 250 young men and women and 30 supervisors have been …
Professor Daniels Obeng-Ofori has been inducted into office as Vice Chancellor (VC) of the Catholic University College of Ghana (CUCG). His investiture, witnessed by hundreds of people from across the nation, was held in Fiapre in the Suny…
As part of their mission is to equip 100,000 Women in Ghana & Africa to be globally minded, have globally competitive brands, businesses & careers, influence the society positively & leave a lasting legacy; WomanRising; a flagship project …
Pregnant women who get the flu, or a flu vaccine, are not increasing their baby's risk for an autism spectrum disorder (ASD), a new study suggests.
Researchers analyzed data on 196,929 children born from 2000 through 2010 in the Kaiser …
Scientists are taking the battle to prevent HIV to the next level with large-scale trials set to start using injections to protect vulnerable groups such as gay men and women in Africa for at least two months.
Further down the road, the…
Hundreds of thousands of healthy women should take pills to cut their risk of breast cancer, says NHS watchdog NICE.
The draft guidelines for England say women predisposed to breast cancer because of a strong family history of the disea…
About 9,000 stroke patients a year are missing out on a treatment that can prevent disability following a stroke, say UK experts.
Clot retrieval can restore blood flow to the brain, preventing some lasting damage, but currently only 600…
A former Vice Chancellor of the University of Cape Coast, Professor Donwini Dabire Kuupole, has added to calls to make academic programmes relevant to industry. That, he said, was the way out of the growing unemployment of the country’s un…
A total of 166 fishermen drawn from all the landing sites in the Central Region have received Information Communication Technology (ICT ) devices and training on how to effectively use them to enhance fishing activities.
The devices, …
The Youth Employment Agency (YEA) has recruited and trained 1,000 people to work as e-Health Technical Assistants (ETAs) to fast-track the achievement of the universal health coverage in Ghana.
The ETAs, who would collect data on health…
An inter-regional workshop to kick-start a project designed to find solutions to health problems faced by Ghanaians as a result of malnutrition has been organised in Accra.
The project dubbed: “Fish For Food,” also seeks to impart know…
Technocrats in the water sector have been asked to engage in more research in order to proffer scientific solutions to the negative impact of climate change and human activities on water resources. The Minister of Water Resources Works and…
As part of efforts to promote safe environment practices and maintain proper waste management system in the Adentan Municipality, Aya Green Initiatives, a non-governmental organisation (NGO), has held a forum to engage the people and polit…
The Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection has launched its five-year strategic plan aimed at redefining the ministry’s strategic direction to facilitate the fulfillment of its mandate.
The plan is expected to assist the min…
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