The Sunyani Municipal Health Directorate of the Ghana Health Service (GHS) has urged pregnant women to report early to hospital to start Anti-Retroviral Therapy (ART) to protect their unborn babies from possible HIV infection. According to the Directorate, the early report to the clinic for the ART services could reduce the incidence of mother-to-child transmission … The post Pregnant

Dennis Aneakwoa Belinia Adda, Paramount Chief of the Navrongo Traditional Area has called on government to expedite action on the provision of autonomous status of the Navrongo campus of the University for Development Studies. The Navro-Pio said the development of the university is key to the growth of the Upper East Region and called on … The post Expedite

The Ghana Onchocerciasis Expert Committee (GOEC) has issued a communique after deliberations at its fourth twice-yearly meeting convened by the Ghana Health Service (GHS) in Accra. The meeting which was attended by GOEC Committee members included; disease experts and representatives from the GHS Neglected Tropical Disease Programme (NTDP), partners from institutions including; the World Health … The post Ghana

Total Petroleum Ghana Limited has held a project pitching programme for 16 finalists of its second edition of the ‘Startupper of the year’ challenge. The project pitching is the final stage for participants before the awards day which is slated for March, 1, 2019 under the Startupper Of The Year By Total Challenge which is … The post Total

The Sekyere East District Directorate of the Business Advisory Centre (BAC) has begun the registration of the youth in the area for entrepreneurship and financial literacy training programme. The training, which is under the Youth Entrepreneurship and Employable Programme (YEEP) of the National Board for Small Scale Industries (NBSSI) is to help provide employable skills … The post BAC

Phase implementation of malaria vaccine is expected to begin in selected districts in three regions across the country in March this year. The vaccine, RTS,S is expected to reduce episodes clinical malaria and severe malaria in the country with high risk of death. The regions are Central, Volta and Brong Ahafo, where some districts will have … The post Malaria

A two-day national security stakeholders’ dialogue has been held in Aburi in the Eastern Region to discuss security challenges in the country to find workable solutions to them. The dialogue, the fourth in the series, discussed and examined security challenges such as kidnapping, robberies, political vigilantism and terrorism in neighbouring countries. It is aimed at … The post Security

The Health and Finance ministries have been tasked to ensure that the eight per cent budgetary allocation to the health sector be increased to about 15 per cent with emphasis on capital expenditure and goods and services. The increment is to ensure that the health sector is adequately financed like other sectors of the economy. … The post Increase health sector budget

The Health and Finance ministries have been tasked to ensure that the eight per cent budgetary allocation to the health sector be increased to about 15 per cent with emphasis on capital expenditure and goods and services. The increment is to ensure that the health sector is adequately financed like other sectors of the economy. … The post Increase health sector budget

Protocols, under a new police transformation agenda, bans Journalists from taking or airing close range pictures at accident or crime scenes, Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP), Mr David Senanu Eklu, Director General, police public Affairs has said. Additionally, the police will not allow media coverage of police operations such as identification parades and swoops, he … The post Ghana

Protocols, under a new police transformation agenda, bans Journalists from taking or airing close range pictures at accident or crime scenes, Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP), Mr David Senanu Eklu, Director General, police public Affairs has said. Additionally, the police will not allow media coverage of police operations such as identification parades and swoops, he … The post Police

Mrs Catherine Abelema Afeku, the Minister of Tourism, Culture and Creative Arts, has announced Government’s preparedness to partner Cuban artists to mount cultural and historical sculptures to promote tourism. The sculptures would honour individuals who have fought to leave a legacy in the history of the country and preserved the country’s customs, traditions and history … The post Ghana

Pupils of Bukunor Junction Basic School in the Yilo Krobo District lie on the floor to write examinations. The primary block of the school, which houses 113 pupils, has the whole roofing leaking, which means that classes have to end whenever it rains. When the Ghana News Agency visited the school, pupils in class four … The post Bukunor pupils lie on floor to write

An Accra Circuit Court on Thursday sentenced three robbers who were traced through a phone tracker, to twenty years imprisonment each with hard labour on two charges of conspiracy and robbery. The sentences are to run concurrently on each of the charges. The phone was among other items robbed from the complainant and his family … The post Three robbers arrested through

Ghana will host the Third German-African Business Summit (GABS) from Monday, February 11th to February 13th 2019 in Accra, to provide a platform for Small and Medium Scale Enterprises in Africa and Germany to explore business opportunities. The GABS is Germany’s signature business event in Africa, where top business and government leaders from Germany and … The post Ghana

The Confucius Institute of the University of Ghana, in collaboration with the University Basic School, has organised a programme to commemorate the 2019 Chinese Spring Festival in Ghana. Mr Shi Ting Wang, the Chinese Ambassador to Ghana, said the spring festival is the most important traditional festival for the Chinese, which brings family and friends … The post Chinese

Madam Cynthia Mamle Morrison, the Minister of Gender, Children and Social Protection, has condemned ongoing underground practices of Female Genital Mutilation, (FGM) in some communities in Ghana. She said studies had shown that although Ghana’s FGM prevalence in the 1990s was as high as 77 per cent, it reduced drastically to a current national prevalence … The post Gender

Chinese investors have been called upon to explore existing investment opportunities in Dagbon to yield great dividends considering the untapped economic potentials and the prevailing peace in the area. “Dagbon is now ready for Chinese investors in areas such as agriculture, solar power generation, sheaFsh butter production and animal husbandry,” Dr Benjamin Anyagre Ziignaa-Atteah, the … The post Dagbon

Miss Hannah Dwumah, 14 years and the Sixth Prosecution Witness in the trial of the alleged murderers of the late Major Maxwell Mahama said she saw Akwasi Asante, one of the accused “persons take his father’s gun”. She said on the fateful day, May 29, 2017 “l went to school without picking my pocket money, … The post I saw one of the accused take my father’s

A fifth prosecution witness in the National Communication Authority (NCA) trial has denied that the National Security Council approved the purchase of the cyber security equipment before it was bought. Mr Duncan Opare, deputy National Security Coordinator, told an Accra High Court that there was no record on the purchase and use of the cyber … The post National