Local fruit processing companies risk collapse due to inadequate raw material, if no conscious effort is made by government to rescue the situation. According to the Director of Corporate Affairs at Fruit Processing Company, Blue Skies, Alistair Djimatey, several of these factories struggle to access quality raw material from farmers, and are unable to meet ...
Some fruit juice producers in Ghana have lamented that their products are rejected by some super markets and other big shops in the country. Although they failed to list names of some of the super markets complicit in the matter, they said such shops prefer to stock their shops with imported European products. This comes on ...
One person has been killed at Sankore in the Asunafo South district of the Brong Ahafo Region during some clashes between supporters of the governing New patriotic Party (NPP) and the main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC). The deceased, popularly known as Gatuso who lives at Sankore Zongo, was gunned down on Saturday night during ...
A group of law graduates calling themselves the Concerned LLB Graduates, are going to court to seek an injunction to halt the upcoming entrance exams for potential students of the Ghana School of Law. This comes after the General Legal Council declared that it would hold the exams for the prospective students despite a petition ...
A group of law graduates calling themselves the Concerned LLB Graduates are going to court to seek an injunction to halt the upcoming entrance exams for potential students of the Ghana School of Law. This comes after the General Legal Council declared that it would hold the exams for the prospective students despite a petition ...
An official correspondence between the Chairperson of the Electoral Commission (EC), Charlotte Osei and the embattled Director of Finance, Dr. Joseph Kwaku Asamaoh shows he was indeed not at post when the GHc480,000 was missing from the Commission’s Staff Endowment Fund. The Economic and Organized Crime Office (EOCO), has been grilling Dr Asamoah, a Deputy ...
An official correspondence between the Chairperson of the Electoral Commission (EC), Charlotte Osei and the embattled Director of Finance, Dr. Joseph Kwaku Asamaoh shows he was indeed not at post when the GHc480,000 was missing from the Commission’s Staff Endowment Fund. The Economic and Organized Crime Office (EOCO), has been grilling Dr Asamoah, a Deputy ...
The Ziope traditional area in the Agotime-Ziope District of the Volta Region has launched the seventh edition of the Agbleza festival in Ho. The festival is on the theme, “Planting for Food and Jobs,” in support of government’s commitment to the agriculture sector. Togbui Lawluvi VI, Paramout Chief of Ziope, said the tomato growing area ...
The Award Winning Dancehall Artist Stonebwoy is on a two-day tour of some farming communities in the Volta region to inspire young persons into agriculture. The two-day tour of the BET Award winning Artist is part of his role as an ambassador for MASO; an innovative program by Solidaridad targeted at providing career opportunities for ...
US$150 million worth of fruit juice is imported into Ghana each year, while fruit juice processing factories in the country are said to be collapsing. Only US$ 40 million worth of juice representing 28 percent of total domestic demand is produced in the country. 99 percent of these major factories including Coastal Groove in the ...
Chief of Adaklu -Waya, Togbega Lablulu has pledged to support the treatment of the Junior High School graduate with a hunchback at Adaklu in the Volta Region. Bernice Ekpeh, developed the hunchback at age 6 and had since been suffering pains in her spine. Although the condition has delayed the education, the 20-year-old pupil’s zeal to become a ...
A jealous husband is facing life in prison after chopping off his wife’s fingers because she began studying for a degree without his permission. Rafiqul Islam, 30, blindfolded his wife Hawa Akhter, 21, and taped her mouth, telling her he was going to give her a surprise present. Instead he made her hold out her ...
A jealous husband is facing life in prison after chopping off his wife’s fingers because she began studying for a degree without his permission. Rafiqul Islam, 30, blindfolded his wife Hawa Akhter, 21, and taped her mouth, telling her he was going to give her a surprise present. Instead he made her hold out her ...
Several communities in the Tamale metropolis are likely to be in total darkness for a very longtime. This, Today gathered, follows attacks on some workers of the Northern Electricity Company (NEDCO) by some angry residents of Dohanayili, a suburb of Tamale, in the Northern Region. Today learnt that workers of NEDCO went round in the community to check ...
Twenty-four suspected highway robbers believed to be the masterminds of a number of robberies on major highways across the country have been busted by the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service. They are Abdulai Salia, alias Mallam, Bob Cedi or Forest Killer, Abdul Karim, Abdul Razak Abubakar, Saliu Ali, Ibrahim Issaka, Abdul ...
Qualcomm, the world’s biggest producer of mobile phone chips, has appealed for the sale of some iPhones in the US to be blocked. It claims that iPhones using chips by rivals, such as Intel, infringe six of its patents. Qualcomm said it had asked the US International Trade Commission (ITC) to investigate and impose an ...
The interim CEO of the University of Ghana Medical Center, Professor Aaron Lamptey Lawson has dismissed claims that work on the facility has been abandoned. In an interview with Citi News, Professor Lamptey stated that the facility would be opened to the public in October. Phase One of the project was commissioned by then President ...
Chinese shipping giant Cosco is set to buy its Hong Kong rival OOIL for $6.3bn (£4.9bn). The deal would make Cosco the world’s third-biggest shipping company, with more than 400 vessels. OOIL’s majority owner has accepted the bid, though the sale will still need regulatory approval. It would be the latest in a wave of ...
Staff of the Pantang Psychiatric Hospital will commence a sit-down strike from today [Monday] following the failure by the government to take action against private developers encroaching on the hospital’s land. The staff had earlier served notice of their intended strike and insist that they will lay down tools and hit the streets if the situation ...
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