Enpact has been running its flagship international mentoring program in Ghana since 2017. Hundreds of entrepreneurs, ecosystem players and individuals who are interested in entrepreneurship have participated in our programs. But the 6th February 2020 was a special day for us. Three years into our Ghanaian journey, we opened a physical office space in Labone, […] The post Enpact:
On Wednesday, July 14, 2021, Citi FM’s Literacy Challenge team visited the Victory Presbyterian Church School and the Holy Child Continual School in Accra. This is part of the team’s efforts to interact with Junior High School students across the country and encourage them to partake in this year’s competition. The team first made a […] The post #LiteracyChallenge
2,323 students from a total of 363 schools have tested positive for COVID-19 since the resumption of schools in January 2021. This was disclosed by the Director of Ghana Health Service, Dr. Patrick Kuma-Aboagye at a press briefing on Wednesday, July 14, 2021. Breaking down the figures, Dr. Kuma-Aboagye said there are currently 166 active […] The post Over
Police at the KNUST District Command of the Ghana Police Service in the Ashanti Region, have begun investigations into the shooting of a young lady to death at Maxima in Kumasi by suspected robbers on a motorbike on Tuesday evening. The deceased, according to the Police, was pronounced dead on arrival at the KNUST Hospital […] The post Kumasi: Armed men on motorbike
Police at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology District Command in the Ashanti Region have begun investigations into a case where a young woman was shot and killed at Maxima by some unknown men on a motorbike on Tuesday evening. The victim according to the police was pronounced dead on arrival at the […] The post Young lady allegedly shot dead by
The Ghana Health Service (GHS) says it is expecting 1.2 million doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine to help vaccinate more of the country’s population. The Director General of the service, Dr. Patrick Kuma-Aboagye, disclosed this when he briefed the media on Wednesday, July 14, 2021. He said the doses are expected to arrive in […] The post COVID-19:
The Speaker of Parliament has referred Assin Central legislator, Kennedy Agyapong to the Privileges Committee over alleged threats he made on the life of Erastus Asare Donkor, a Broadcast Journalist with Kumasi-based Luv FM. This was after the Tamale North Member of Parliament, Alhassan Suhuyini made a request on the floor for the Chairman of […] The post Ken
The representative of the Ejura Traditional on the Municipal Security Council for Ejura/Selyedumase, who is also the Nifahene of the traditional area, has handed bullet shells retrieved during the disturbances to the committee probing the matter. The Nifahene in handing over the shells to the committee said it was handed to the Kontihene of Ejura […] The post Nifahene
The Registrar-General’s Department (RGD) has commenced the validation of companies in line with the directive for dormant companies to file their returns. Companies that fail to file returns face being delisted from the Companies Register. The three-month-long review began on July 1, 2021, and will end on September 30, 2021. “The review has become necessary […] The post Registrar-General
It appears that a good number of Ghanaians have resigned themselves to a broken system and a life of perpetual suffering and indiscipline. They have conditioned themselves (or have been forced to do so) to believe, for example, that suffering, inefficiency, corruption, poverty, or poor (or lack of) access to healthcare is normal. This new […] The post Godwin
The Executive Director of the Ghana Center for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana), Prof. Henry Kwasi Prempeh, says the current 1992 constitution is not-fit-for purpose. In comparison with the country’s second constitution developed in 1969, Prof. Prempeh simply makes the point that “frankly, other than the Constitution of the First Republic, this [1992] constitution is, from a […] The post 1992
A tax waiver of 13.3 million dollars has been tabled before Parliament to cover the importation of cars for MPs and Council of State Members. This is in spite of the fact that the MPs and the Council of State members are paying only forty percent of the loan being facilitated for them by the […] The post MPs, Council of State members to get $13.3M tax waiver
Ranking Mmember on the Food, Agriculture and Cocoa Affairs Committee, Eric Opoku has called on the government to immediately settle debts owed fertilizer suppliers in the country. Suppliers of fertilizer for the Planting for Food and Jobs programme have had to halt distribution since April 2021 due to the debt owed them by the government. […] The post Pay debt owed
The Ghana Journalists Association (GJA), has condemned alleged threats on the life of Erastus Asare Donkor, a Broadcast Journalist with Kumasi-based Luv FM by the Member of Parliament for Assin Central, Kennedy Agyapong. The association says the threat is a form of impunity against journalists in the country and must be condemned. While addressing a […] The post GJA
The Finance Committee of Parliament has recommended to the House to discontinue the practice where government facilitates loans for Members of Parliament and Council of state members to purchase cars for official duties. Government usually pays 60 percent of the loan with the accrued interest, whiles the beneficiaries pay forty percent, although there have been […] The post ‘Don’t
The Wenchi High Court has slapped the National Democratic Congress with another cost of GHS 12,000, after throwing out three of its applications and granting one, in the suit challenging the outcome of the Techiman South Parliamentary election in 2020. The NPP is challenging the election of the New Patriotic Party’s Martin Adjei-Mensah Korsah as […] The post Techiman
The Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, has launched a digital platform that will provide a single point of access to government services. The platform, Ghana.Gov, will also serve as a digital service and revenue collection platform. The launch of the platform has been in pursuit of the government’s vision to digitise the economy and modernise […] The post Ghana.Gov:
Cash they say is king, but the cash we have come to cherish may no longer be the printed paper and embossed coins decorated with the faces of dead statemen. Cash will become a string of codes recognised by highly sophisticated computer algorithms, which we can either store in our mobile phone or download onto […] The post The Digital Currency Revolution
It is another season for the harvesting of watermelon in parts of the North East Region, and some farmers are already worried about post-harvest losses, largely due to the lack of market for the produce. There are nearly one thousand farmers engaging in the annual production of watermelon in the region. But production always outweighs […] The post 1D1F:
Ghana’s Minister for Education, Dr. Yaw Osei Adutwum, has been invited to be part of a High-Level Advisory Group for Mission 4.7, a new global initiative to put into practice the bold vision articulated by the Sustainable Development Goal (SDGs) on education and target 4.7. Mission 4.7 is a partnership between the United Nations Sustainable […] The post Adutwum
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