The Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MoFA), has introduced an internet-based platform, called the “e-Agriculture”, for the effective and efficient dissemination of agricultural related information. The “e-Agriculture” system, financed by the World Bank, under the West Africa Agricultural Productivity Programme (WAAPP), is a platform which enables agricultural experts, farmers and community members exchange opinions and resources relating to agriculture. Access to information  Dr. Ahmed

Deputy Information and Media Relations Minister, Murtala Mohammed says the puzzle of how a baby got missing at birth at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH), must be cracked at all cost. It does not matter how long the search takes or how long doctors at the facility embark on a strike under the guise of workplace insecurity, the baby must be found, dead or alive because it is just and fair to bring the controversy to a close, the deputy minister emphasised.Murtala Mohammed made the demand

Sonitra, a road construction company, has been contracted to carry out emergency remedial works on the Atibie-Nkawkaw road in the Kwahu area. The company is already working on the reconstruction of the Nkawkaw by-pass. The poor nature of the Atibie-Nkawkaw road has been a source of worry to many motorists who move in and out of the mountainous area. As part of a two-day working visit to the Afram Plains, the Minister of Roads and Highways, Alhaji Amin Amidu Sulemani, inspected the road, which is

The Communication Development Officer of the UNICEF in Accra, Mrs Charity Nikoi, has stated that behavioural change is crucial if the nation is to attain the various Millennium Development Goals. She, therefore, called on all Ghanaians to let the change of attitude be a priority in their way of life to help improve upon the living standards in the country. Mrs Nikoi said this when she spoke at a two-day trainers workshop organised by the Ghana Red Cross Society (GRCS) in collaboration with the United

Parliament yesterday failed to conduct public business as a result of the lack of quorum. After a debate on the business statement for next week, the First Deputy Speaker, Mr Ebo Barton-Odro, who was in the Speaker's chair, initiated moves for the House to engage in public business, but the Member of Parliament (MP) for Effutu, Mr Alex Afenyo-Markin, drew the attention of the House to the fact that by his reckoning, the members in the House did not exceed 64, which fell below the number required

Mrs Kwansema Dumor, wife of the late broadcaster Komla Dumor says she will terribly miss the presence and voice of her husband whose sudden death has grieved many hearts around the world. In her first public address following the death of her husband on January 18, 2014, Kwansema, in a moving tribute recounted how she met her husband of whom she spent 18 years of her life with and bore three lovely children; Elorm,  Elinam and Araba. She described her late husband as an intelligent, knowledgeable,

A rail line connecting the Diamond Cement Ghana Limited factory at Aflao to the Lome Port has been completed. The 2.5-kilometre railway, on which construction works started in December 2012, is expected to be inaugurated by President John Dramani Mahama in March this year. The rail line will help the company to carry raw materials from the port to the factory for the production of cement.   In effect, it would help decongest the roads of heavy trucks carrying raw materials to the factory and increase

Nii Armah Ashitey, Minister of Employment and Labour Relations on Friday said a new minimum wage for 2014 would soon be announced by the National Tripartite Committee (NTC). The decision to announce a new minimum wage followed a meeting of the NTC, comprising representatives of the government, the Trades Union Congress (TUC), and the Ghana Employers Association, to discuss the new minimum wage. Representatives of the Fair Wages and Salaries Commission (FWSC), the National Labour Commission (NLC)

Eight vehicles were burnt, two of them beyond repairs, when a Renault tanker with a Malian number plate, AE 3208 MD, caught fire in an accident at the Suame Roundabout in Kumasi. Two Opel Astra taxi cabs, two mini Urvan buses, a Toyota Land Cruiser and one unregistered KIA truck meant for sale got damaged in the incident. The accident occurred about 5.30 a.m. when a Burkina Faso-bound trailer, with registration number 11 HM 1526 and loaded with iron rods, reversed in the process of climbing the

A 40-year-old woman has given birth to an unusually over-weight (macrosomic) baby at the St. Gregory Catholic Hospital at Buduburam, near Kasoa. The woman, Efua Sam, who already has six children, was rushed to the hospital after attempts to deliver her of the baby at the Nyanyano Health Centre where she was first admitted to proved futile. The baby weighed 7.2 kilogrammes at birth. The normal weight of a newborn baby in Ghana is between 2.5 kilogrammes and four kilogrammes. The unusual size of the

The Global Action for Women Empowerment (GLOWA), a rural-urban integrated non-governmental organisation (NGO), in partnership with the Volta Educational Foundation (VEReF) and Voice of People with Disability (VOICE Ghana), has embarked on a social inclusion and accountability project in the North and South Dayi districts of the Volta Region. The project, dubbed: "Integrating Socially Excluded in Local Governance (ISELG),” is expected to afford socially excluded groups, especially marginalised

The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Salt and Light Ministry, Rev. Dr Joyce Aryee, has stated that our over-reliance on imports from foreign countries for almost all the products we use is the cause of our woes as a country. She explained that Ghana was not a producing economy and we were not utilising our knowledge to enable us to produce appropriately to meet our needs. She said the end result, therefore, was to rely on others who were taking advantage of their application of knowledge, which

A day after the damaged pipeline at Awoshie Water Works had been repaired, a number of people in parts of Accra are still searching for water. From dawn to dusk, residents in areas such Darkoman, Bubuashie, Abeka, and Tesano were seen carrying gallons and jery cans to fetch water at different places. At some places where there were hand dug wells and boreholes, residents, including children, had walked long distances to form queues using their yellow gallons, popularly referred to as ‘Kufuor gallons’,