The National Identification Project will begin in July this year, the Vice-President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, has said. According to him, all stakeholders and technical team needed for the successful take-off of the exercise have been assembled.
Mathew had been driving for six hours. His wife had insisted that they rested for sometime but he refused and insisted that it would waste time. He had an energy drink by him and took swigs, every now and then. Occasionally, he cleaned his face with a wet towel but the tiredness gradually turned into a short nap and it happened.
Toyota Ghana Limited last Saturday honoured two of its employees who emerged winners of its Toyota National Technical Skills Contest. Mr Rashid Adjei Laryea and Mr Enoch Wilson of the Accra and Kumasi branches, respectively grabbed the prize for winning the number one slot for the General Technicians and Parts Advisors’ categories—the two categories in the contest.
A senior research fellow of the Institute for Economic Affairs (IEA), Dr Michael Ofori-Mensah, has observed that the transition challenges encountered in 2017 are for the most part a manifestation of a breakdown of state institutions.
A steel factory in the Tema free zones enclave, Rider Steel Ghana Limited (RSGL), has been shut down due to what management describes as “high electricity tariffs.” As a result, more than 350 workers of the factory have been laid off.
Indonesian Liga 1 club, Persib Bandung are cashing-in on replica jerseys of former Ghana and Chelsea star Michael Essien in an attempt to recoup the 800,000 euros they will repay him over the course of his one-year contract. The Jakarta Globe reports that the recent signing of Essien, 34, has sparked a high demand in Persib jerseys.
Former Public Relations Officer of the Film Producers Association of Ghana (FIPAG), Michael Ola, has threatened severe actions against certain persons who have begun uploading and streaming Ghanaian movies free of charge on social media platform, Facebook.
With barely 73 days in office, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo granted the Political Editor of the Daily Graphic, Mr Kobby Asmah, and an Editor of Ghana Television (GTV), Mr Abdul Moomen, an exclusive interview. The interview centred on how His excellency was managing with the pressure that came with being President.
Former president John Mahama has commiserated with the families of the victims of the Kintampo Waterfalls tragedy. Eighteen people have been confirmed dead in the incident after trees fell on them following heavy rains on Sunday. The victims were mostly students from the Wenchi Senior High School. Mahama took to Twitter to console the bereaved families:
A Justice of the Supreme Court, Justice Jones Dotse, has expressed concern over some inadequacies in the judicial service which were affecting the effective administration of the judicial service in the country. According to him, the Judicial Service of Ghana has for several years, experienced an inadequacy in court infrastructure such as court houses and residential facilities for judges and obsolete equipment and technology.
The President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has described as "unfortunate" Sunday's incident at Kintampo Falls, extending his condolences to the families of students of Wenchi Senior High School and others who perished. Eighteen people have been confirmed dead by Chief Superintendent Desmond Owusu Boampong, Divisional Police Commander of Kintampo.
Thirty-nine community extension agents who are assisting cocoa farmers in 331 communities in some parts of the country have received laptops to help them collect and analyse data in cocoa-growing centres. The beneficiary communities are in the Suhum, West Akyem and New Juaben districts in the Eastern Region; Bia West, Juabeso and Wassa East in the Western Region; Awutu Senya in the Central Region; Ahafo Ano North, Sekyere East and Amansie West in
Goodwill Sports ambassador and patron of the Sports Writers Association of Ghana (SWAG), Mr Ray Quarcoo, has promised to support boxing in the country. Interacting with the press on the evening of the “Freedom Fight Night” at the Bukom Boxing Arena, Ambassador Quarcoo pledged to lend a helping hand to restore Ghana’s dwindling boxing fortunes.
Tamale Teaching Hospital (TTH) in the Northern Region recorded 162 cases of maternal deaths in 2016. The number, according to the Northern Regional Coordinating Director, Alhaji Alhassan Issahaku, was unacceptably high, for which reason he had tasked all metropolitan, municipal and district assemblies (MMDAs) in the region to prioritise maternal health care in order to prevent maternal deaths in their respective areas. Mr
The President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has dismissed suggestions that he is running a parallel Civil Service with his appointment of 110 ministers to steer the affairs of state. The President, who rejected the suggestions in an interview, indicated that the appointments were rather for him to have an insight into what was going on in various institutions such as the Public Procurement Authority (PPA).
The Administrative Manager of African Mining Services (AMS), Ms Adelaide Boye, has called on the government and corporate bodies to support projects geared towards providing skills for disadvantaged girls in the country. She has also urged companies to invest in the training of girls in vocational or technical skills so that those companies could employ the girls to reap the benefit of the sponsorship while providing employment opportunities for
A suspected cyber crime syndicate was last Saturday busted by the Achimota Mile 7 Police in Accra. In all, 29 suspects, all Nigerians, were arrested in an early morning swoop on a house at Alhaji Tabora in Accra.
A clash between students of the University of Cape Coast (UCC) and some students of the University of Ghana and Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) last Friday night left 10 people injured. One of the students who sustained a spinal cord injury has been referred to the 37 Military Hospital in Accra. A doctor at the Central Regional Teaching Hospital, Dr David Walawah, said the student was stabbed
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