Effah, and the immediate past Managing Director, Mr Jim Baiden, have been honoured with Lifetime Business Builder Achiever Awards at the Fourth Business Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) Summit in Accra.The Awards recognises individuals who have successfully contributed to organisational success through a lifeti

The campaign has been launched in North Kivu province in the eastern part of the DRC, which is also the epicentre of the ongoing Ebola outbreak, according to the WHO. The cholera vaccination campaign will be implemented by the DRC Ministry of Health with support from the WHO and partners, and funded by Gavi, t

The Rwandan tobacco control law enacted in 2013 prohibits smoking in public areas, requiring proprietors of restaurants, hotels and other public places to designate smoking zones for smokers and clearly mark them as such. However, the health ministry has noticed the law is yet to stop public smoking, it said i

Minister of Tourism and Arts Charles Banda said the ministry was targeting to recruit more than 1,800 wildlife officers in order to curb the rising poaching levels. "Poaching is a big problem not just in Zambia but as a region in southern Africa, in order to curb this, as a ministry we are currently lobbying g

Speaking to journalists, Birtukan Mideksa, Chairperson of NEBE, said the board has requested the Ethiopian parliament to approve the amount it needs to conduct national elections in 2020. Mideksa said NEBE has been undertaking various efforts to make the 2020 national elections free and fair, including amendin

Jannie Rossouw, head of School of Economic & Business Sciences in Wits University, said on Monday that consumers at all levels would find themselves paying more once the act comes into effect. "When a tax is raised, somebody pays for it. Consumers will pay more. We might see higher prices and therefore inf

Daqlu made the remarks when addressing police forces at the College of Police Science and Law in Khartoum Monday."The elections tend to select a government from the people and not from these people," said Daqlu, referring to the opposition Alliance of Freedom and Change.

"You can do a lot of things in 48 hours. There is no reason in the world to paralyze the state for another half a year and spend billions on elections," Netanyahu said in the evening.However, he admitted that he had not yet persuaded Avigdor Lieberman, head of Yisrael Beiteinu party, to join the coalition.

Accra, May 28, GNA - A two-day workshop held to equip investigators and prosecutors with the necessary knowledge and skills needed to enable them to fight cybercrime effectively has ended on Tuesday in Accra.The workshop was organised by the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service

Accra, May 28, GNA – Dr Yaw Adu-Ampomah, the third prosecution witness in the trial involving Dr Stephen Opuni and one Seidu Agongo, has said it was not true that COCOBOD only purchases agro-chemicals, fertilizers, fungicides and insecticides through sole or single sourcing.He said some of the purchases are

A statement copied to the Ghana News Agency and signed by Mrs Agnes Teye-Cudjoe, the Deputy Director of Public Affairs, for the Head of National Office, WAEC, explained that the Council’s attention had been drawn to that false information circulating on social media. However, it explained that there had not

Afienya (GAR), May 28, GNA - Officers from the Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO), Counter Intelligent Unit of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) and the Forestry Commission faced off on Tuesday over who should take custody of four impounded 20 footer containers filled with suspected pieces of rosewood.

Accra, May 28, GNA - The Delegation of the United Nations’ (UN) Sub-committee on the Prevention of Torture and Other Cruel Inhumane and Degrading Treatment or Punishment (SPT) is on an official visit to Ghana to learn about Ghana’s National Preventive Mechanism (NPM).The delegation led by Mr Malcolm Evans,

Accra, May 28, GNA - Ghana Cocoa Board (Cocobod) plans to issue up to two billion dollars in bonds to pay off some legacy debts on its books, Mr Ray Ankrah, Deputy Chief Executive Finance, has said.Speaking at a meeting with executives of Standard Bank Group in Accra, Mr Ankrah said Cocobod was looking at a te

Accra, May 28, GNA - Mrs Akosua Frema Osei-Opare, the Chief of Staff, has urged Municipal, Metropolitan and District Assemblies to intensify their supervisory and monitoring roles of waste service providers to ensure proper sanitation in the country.She said clean cities were good attraction for tourists and i

Accra, May 28, GNA - Members of Parliament (MPs) have appealed to the Government to consider reducing the cost of sanitary materials to make it affordable, especially for poor young girls and women.They said removing the import tariffs on sanitary materials and supporting local innovation would enable wider af

Accra, May 28, GNA - Mrs Jean Mensa, the Chairperson of the Electoral Commission (EC) on Tuesday reiterated that the Commission is working frantically to ensure that Election 2020 will be peaceful, fair, credible and transparent. To this end the EC, she said had put together a litany of activity calendar, a st

The Minister would take her turn at the Meet-the-Press series on Wednesday at the Information Ministry's conference hall, to brief the media about the Ministry's activities and achievements over the past two years. The election of MMDCEs was a major campaign promise by the NPP in the 2016 Elections, therefore

Accra, May 28, GNA - Ghana requires about five billion Ghana cedis (equivalent to one billion dollars) to undertake advocacy programmes to address adolescent reproductive health challenges in the next five years.The amount would be used to undertake education and sensitisation programmes on sexual and reproduc

Accra, May 28, GNA – Mr Pius Enam Hadzide, a Deputy Minister of Information, on Tuesday urged the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) to champion professionalism and responsibility among its members as it celebrates the 70th anniversary.Speaking at the launch of the anniversary in Accra, which was performed