The Executive Chairman of Zoomlion Limited, Dr Joseph Siaw Agyepong, has commended President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo for pledging to make “Accra the cleanest city in Africa in the next four years”. He said the President’s commitment fed into the company’s vision of championing clean, green and healthy communities.

The National Police Service will hire 10,000 officers who will be bonded for 10 years. Interested Kenyans aged between 18 and 28 are required to fill an application form ahead of the recruitment on May 11.

Reverend E.D. Nikoi, the president of the Netball Association of Ghana (NAG) says lack of funds has seriously affected the progress of the sport in the country despite the promise it holds to make inroads at the international level. According to Reverend Nikoi, who has headed the sport for over two decades, the national team has not been able to participate in international competitions because the association is not able to raise funds for that purpose and the support from government,

When you work hard every single day and there’s only so much money left after your regular expenses, you have to make certain it’s well spent. Spend your limited funds on what science says will make you happy.

Queenmothers in the Upper West Region have described the “Planting for food and jobs” policy of the government as laudable but discriminatory against women. The queenmothers observed that the at least five hectares or 12 acres of land that an individual should have before benefiting from the policy was highly discriminatory against women, particularly women from Northern Ghana who do not own land.

The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of Parliament has taken issues with the Bank of Ghana for its failure to capture a transaction involving the export of more than 40,000 tonnes of bauxite by the Ghana Export Company Limited in its audited accounts for 2015. The committee, chaired by Mr James Klutse Avedzi, consequently directed the central bank to furnish the PAC with the report today as it began sittings to scrutinise the audited accounts of some state institutions for the 2015

Kumasi Asante Kotoko skipper, Amos Frimpong, has thrown down the gauntlet saying his teammates are ready to fight till their last breath to ensure they deliver victory to the fans when they host Aduana Stars at the Baba Yara Stadium today. The Porcupine Warriors have been without a win in their last five games and skipper Frimpong admits the task of breaking that jinx seem daunting although they are ready to put their best foot forward to reverse the trend.

Donald Trump has indicated he will scrap plans to find cash for his border wall in this week's spending bill. The president's close adviser, Kellyanne Conway, said funding for the wall would be left out of a budget measure that must pass by Friday. Building the wall, paid for by Mexico, was a key campaign promise.

Tanzania has expelled the head of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in the country, the foreign ministry has said in a statement. It blamed Awa Dabo, a Gambian national, for the "deteriorating performance" of her office, driven by what it called her "strained relations" with staff.

Some nurses who have constituted themselves into a pressure group called the Coalition of Unemployed Bonded Diploma Nurses in Ghana have threatened to march to the seat of government in the coming days if the Health and Finance ministries fail to give them financial clearance to be posted to the various health institutions. The nurses, numbering more than 100, last Monday night picketed at the Ministry of Health to press home their demand for job

The District Governor (DG) of Rotary International District 9102, Mr Sam Worentetu, has urged government to make the youth appreciate the value of time as it leads to the increase of revenue and income in the country.

The Member of Parliament (MP) for Ningo-Prampram, Mr Sam George, has said the bank accounts on which Ibrahim Mahama had issued cheques to the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) were not closed, as claimed by the authority. According to him, the accounts might have been dormant.

Minister of the Interior  Ambrose Dery has hinted of the possibility of legislative reforms and policy review to reduce the duration of custodial sentencing. “We need to reduce the time people stay in prison,” he said, adding that something also needed to be done about pre-trial detention.

Today, executives have to cut through a lot of hype around automation. Leaders need a clear-eyed way to think about how these technologies will specifically affect their organisations.

Centre for Agriculture and Biosciences International (CABI), a UK-based inter-governmental not-for-profit organisation, has pledged support for the “Planting for Food and Jobs” initiative being implemented by the Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MoFA). CABI, through its capacity-building programme, intends to facilitate the training of agricultural extension agents for them to acquire the necessary skills to drive the project.

The Yilo Krobo Traditional  Council in the Eastern Region has called on the Presidency and the general public to disregard a press release on the nomination of the Yilo Krobo Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) that was purported and alleged to have come from the council. A statement signed by the acting President of the Yilo Krobo Traditional Council, Nene Tetteh Odorkor Tumeh, at Somanya, noted that the council has not authorised anyone at all, not

The Volta Region Caucus of the Minority National Democratic Congress (NDC) in Parliament has begun interactions with constituencies in the region to brace itself up for activities to reorganise the party. The caucus, led by  the Deputy Minority Leader and Member of Parliament for Ketu North, Mr James Klutse Avedzi, said the caucus had been divided into four groups who visited 18 out of the 26 constituencies in the region from April 19 to April

The government has started the process of reclaiming an estimated 1.5 per cent of the country’s land surface which has allegedly been degraded by illegal mining and other bad environmental activities. The country’s land space is estimated at about 238,000 squre kilometers. Out of this, between 50,000 and 60,000sq km, representing 1.5 per cent, is reportedly degraded by either illegal mining or other unhealthy environmental practices.

The President of the Ghana Association Bankers (GAB), Mr Alhassan Andani, says the international capital market could punish the economy for public comments that impugn wrongdoing in the recently issued US$2.25 billion bonds.

THE Publisher of The Washington Informer in the United States of America (USA), Ms Denise Rolark Barnes, has commended the Graphic Communications Group Limited (GCGL) for its commitment to fight the ‘galamsey’ menace. She said the fight against illegal mining being spearheaded by the GCGL was in the right direction since it would help save the environment from further degradation and also save lives.