After taking the domestic biscuit market by storm, Olam’s Nutrifoods Biscuit company is headed for the gaping West African export market following the completion of major expansion works and launch of its factory in Tema on Friday. Jointly owned by Olam International (75%) and Sanyo Foods of Japan (25%), the Nutrifoods facility is currently the ...
President Nana Akufo-Addo on Saturday inspected the abandoned 1,000-bed maternity & paediatric block at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital as part of his visit to the Ashanti Region. The project has been neglected for the past 37 years after it started in 1974. The construction firm, which is handling the project, Cymain Construction Limited, assured President ...
The Association of Alcohol Manufacturers and Importers (AAMI) has lauded the launch of the National Alcohol Policy by government. The association believes this will help promote responsible alcohol consumption among Ghanaians. The policy was advocated by the AAMI and its members in 2006. The National Alcohol Policy will set out a policy direction aimed at ...
Robert Lewandowski scored a hat-trick and Thomas Muller got two as Bayern Munich crushed struggling Augsburg to close in on a fifth successive Bundesliga title. Lewandowski volleyed into the top corner to open the scoring before striking from close range. Bayern scored four goals after the interval, Lewandowski making it 3-0 before Thiago struck. Lewandowski ...
The World Food Programme (WFP) has introduced a biometric electronic-voucher model for girls under its ‘take home rations’ project to eliminate transportation costs borne by government. Mrs Magdalene Owusu Moshi, the Acting Country Director, WFP, indicated that under the e-voucher model, WFP has contracted local businesses to supply the food rations to the girls. She ...
Chelsea 1-2 Crystal Palace Chelsea suffered their first home league defeat since September as they saw their lead at the top of the Premier League cut to seven points. Crystal Palace, having gone without a win at Stamford Bridge since 1982 before last season, recorded an unlikely victory to maintain their four point buffer from ...
Nurses at the Upper West Regional Hospital in Wa have for the past two days refused to take fresh admissions following the shortage of some consumables. A visit to the facility saw the Out Patient Department (OPD) and the medical laboratory virtually empty contrary to the usual daily long queues. Some of the nurses ...
Seventeen people were missing and feared buried after a landslide struck Indonesia, the national disaster agency said Saturday. The landslide hit Banaran village in Ponorogo district, East Java on Saturday morning, damaging up to 30 houses. “There are conflicting reports about the number of people missing, but based on the data from the field we ...
Worship leader Eugene Zuta has released his latest single, ‘Nkunim’ to ahead of the celebration of this year’s Easter. The song, ‘Nkunim’, which literally means victory, speaks about the finished work of Christ on the cross and the victory He has won for believers. “Jesus is the reason for our being. He’s the only reason ...
Nestle Ghana has launched its new product, Cerelac® with Iron+, with a primary focus on infant health especially during the exclusive breast feeding periods. The campaign for the new product is on the theme, “Complementary feeding in infants – the role of Iron”. According to researchers, the first one thousand days between a woman’s conception ...
Twitter on Thursday began rolling out changes to let people pack more into tweets, subtracting from the character count names of those being replied to in posts. The latest software modification at the one-to-many messaging service comes about a year after Twitter set out to relax a 140-character limit set due to mobile phone text ...
A member of pressure group, OccupyGhana, Sydney Casely-Hayford, has described as intellectual dishonesty an apology rendered by the Member of Parliament for the Bawku Central Constituency, Mahama Ayariga, the man at the centre of the bribery allegations in Parliament. According to Casely-Hayford, Mr. Ayariga’s apology should not be accepted because his comments are deemed rude ...
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has assured that the rule of law will work in work in the country without fear or favour, and without regard to any partisan, ethnic or religious considerations. He made the comment at the Manhyia Palace on Saturday when he paid a courtesy call on the Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, ...
In an era where music sales fetch lesser income for Ghanaian musicians, one of their major sources of subsistence has been putting up musical concerts. On 28th May, 2017, one of Ghana’s ebullient gospel musicians, SP Kofi Sarpong, will be ministering to gospel music fans at National Theatre. The concert dubbed ‘SP Kofi Sarpong Live ...
Liverpool enhanced their prospects of a top-four place by beating derby rivals Everton, whose own hopes of breaking into the battle for a Champions League qualification spot were severely damaged by the defeat. Sadio Mane gave the hosts an early lead when he played a one-two with Roberto Firmino and finished off an angled run ...
The Convention Peoples Party (CPP) has called on the Ghana Police Service to stop pampering groups masquerading as political party affiliates and causing troubles. Professor Edmund N. Delle, CPP Chairman, expressed disgust with the attitude of the pro-New Patriotic Party groups known as “Delta Forces and Invincible Forces,” saying “they are a time-bomb, we must detonate them immediately.” ...
Parliament on Friday approved seven deputy ministers appointed by the President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo. They include, Kwaku Agyeman Kwarteng, Charles Adu Boahen and Abena Osei Asare, all deputy Finance Ministers. The rest are Dr. Mohammed Amin Adam, Owuraku Aidoo, Joseph Cudjoe, who are deputies to the Energy Minister and Henry Quartey, Deputy Interior Minister. ...
Some groups within the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), have thanked President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo for appointing the party’s regional Secretary, Sule Salifu, as the regional Coordinator of the Youth Employment Agency (YEA). The Constituency Chairmen caucus, constituency Secretaries and Organizers caucuses, and the Tamale Central NPP youth coalition among others, have unanimously endorsed ...
Despite being charged with contempt of Parliament and subsequently compelled to apologize for the bribery allegations he made against Members of the Appointments Committee and the Minister of Energy, Boakye Agyarko, the Member of Parliament for Bawku Central, Mahama Ayariga, has said he still stands by his claims. Speaking on The Big Issue on Citi ...
Documents released by the White House have revealed millions of dollars in assets held by its senior staff. President Trump’s daughter Ivanka and her husband, Jared Kushner, have assets valued between $240m and $740m (£191m- £590m). That includes a stake in Trump International Hotel, which earned Ms Trump between $1m and $5m last year. The ...
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