President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo has said the clean-up in the banking sector has cost the national treasury GH¢12.7 billion. He said: “money we can ill afford, but which was necessary to sanitise the sector, minimise job losses, and protect deposits of 1,147,366 Ghanaians and their businesses and the people they employed.” Delivering the … The post Clean-up
President Nana Addo Danquah Akufo-Addo has announced that the World Bank has approved a $40 million grant to support the Ministry of Tourism and Creative Arts and its agencies to help upgrade tourist facilities. The President said the Ghana Tourism Authority recorded a 20 per cent growth, recording over 600,000 visitations to various tourist sites … The post World
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo says that apart from exercising and taking regular health check-ups seriously, it is imperative that Ghanaians eat healthy diets to prevent diseases that are caused by poor choices of nutrition. He said Ghana’s hardworking nurses and doctors would do their best, as they had always done, to make sure Ghanaians … The post President
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has announced that the construction of a state-of-the-art recycling facility at Agbogbloshie will commence in April. The move, he said would help to solve the problem of waste disposal in an environmentally-friendly manner and create over 20,000 direct jobs, through the establishment of associated holding centres in each regional capital … The post Government
Regardless of all the multifaceted interventions employed by the Ghana Health Service (GHS) to drastically reduce malaria infections, it remained the highest of all Out-Patient Department (OPD) cases in the Assin Fosu Municipality of the Central Region. Reported cases of Malaria increased from 41,006 in 2017 to 45,219 in 2018 representing 43 per cent of … The post Malaria
Government is putting in place plans to avert the perennial flooding caused by the spillage of the Bagre dam, that annually resulted in the constant loss of lives and property. In the short-term, desilting of the White Volta would be undertaken this year, in conjunction with discussions with the Burkinabes to regulate the flow of … The post President Akufo-Addo
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo Thursday called on Ghana’s two major political parties to find a solution to the unacceptable phenomenon of political violence in the country. He said the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and the National Democratic Congress (NDC) should “come together, as soon as possible, to agree on appropriate measures to bring an … The post NPP
Togbe Gbogbi Atsa V, Paramount Chief of Adaklu has appealed to the National Communication Authority to give approval to radio stations to operate in the Adaklu District to enhance local governance in the traditional area. He said the Adaklu District was perhaps the only district without a radio station and pleaded with the Authority to … The post NCA
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on Thursday announced that this year a legislation will be passed to redefine basic education to include senior high school. He said in September this year, the new standard based curriculum would be rolled out from kindergarten to class six in primary schools. The President said this in his State … The post Basic education
Excessive partisanship and political mistrust by the two dominant political parties – the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and National Democratic Congress (NDC) is the reason for the high cost of Ghana’s general election. Dr Eric Asare Bossman, a Deputy Chairperson of the Electoral Commission (EC) who revealed this noted that the cost of elections in … The post Excessive
Ghana has projected an overall cargo throughput growth of 10 per cent this year due to aggressive trade and industrial policies being rolled out by government, Ms Benonita Bismarck, the Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Shippers’ Authority, has announced. The projection, she said, was also premised on the expectation that the introduction of the … The post Ghana’s
The African Union (AU) has underscored the need to analyze the impact of migration in the countries of origin within the context of the social protection systems in Africa. “The impact of migration in the countries of origin ought to be studied within the context of the social protection systems in Africa, as the crux … The post Analyze
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