Ghana and Switzerland have agreed to undertake joint projects aimed at increasing cocoa production in Ghana and adding value to the country’s raw cocoa beans. A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed to that effect yesterday when the President of Switzerland, Doris Leuthard, called on President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo at the Flagstaff House yesterday. The two countries also agreed [...] The post Ghana,
By the year 2020, Ghana will achieve its target of a national open defecation free (ODF) status through its rural sanitation model and strategy (RSMS) approach, says the Ministry of Sanitation and Water Resources. Currently, access to improved sanitation is only 15 per cent having increased by seven per cent since 1990, implying that nearly one out of four households [...] The post Ghana
A 13-member Council for the Ghana Immigration Service (GIS) has been inaugurated by the Interior Minister, Mr. Ambrose Dery with a call on members to ensure the full implementation of the service’s new laws. The new laws are Immigration Service Act, 2016, (Act 908), following which the service now has a council instead of a board; and the Immigration Service [...] The post GIS Council inaugurated appeared
The Association of Ghana Industries (AGI) Construction Sector has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Youth Inclusive Development Initiative for Employment (YIEDIE) to find innovative ways of using the construction sector to create jobs for the youth. YIEDIE, a five-year project designed to create economic opportunities in Ghana’s construction sector for economically disadvantaged youth is being implemented by [...] The post AGI,
Tigo Ghana for the second consecutive year, has won the prestigious African Excellence Awards held in Cape Town, South Africa. This year, the telecom company walked away with the Best Internal Communications campaign and were also runners up for the Crises Communication category and Recruitment campaign. The African Excellence Awards was created to honour the most outstanding achievement of communications [...] The post Tigo
Mr Michael Okyere Baafi, Executive Secretary of the Ghana Free Zones Board (GFZB), has assured investors that his outfit is charting a new strategy to improve its operations and change its face in the eyes of investors. He said the new strategy was also to market Ghana as a destination of choice for investments that have the potential to generate [...] The post GFZB charts new
Mr Kenneth Thompson, Chief Executive Officer of Dalex Finance Company has described Ghana’s economy as fragile and bedeviled with huge challenges. He said the economy could crumble under any major economic shock such as crop failure or sharp fall in commodity prices. Mr Thompson in a mid-year review of the economy with the Ghana News Agency in Accra, urged the [...] The post Ghana’s economy
The National Vocational and Technical Institution (NVTI) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Golden Sunbeam College of Science and Technology at Ayikuma to admit healthcare graduates for a top-up programme. The deal is to offer healthcare graduates who could not make the WASSCE grades to qualify for entry for BSc in nursing programmes. Stephen Amponsah, Executive Director of [...] The post NVTI
The Paramedics and Emergency Care Training School (PECTS) at Nkenkaaso in the Offinso North District is struggling with huge infrastructural challenges. The school, established by the National Ambulance Service (NAS) in 2013, was started in structures left behind at a project site by the contractors who reconstructed the Abofour-Techiman stretch of the Kumasi-Techiman highway. It is the first national training [...] The post Paramedics
The 1979 alumni group of Mawuli Senior High School (OMSUA) has presented 60 foldable tables to the school to be used by teachers in the classrooms. Making the presentation, Mr Emmanuel Akoto, a senior member of the group noted that the donation was to support the strategic plan of the school in which aid has to be offered to address [...] The post Mawuli SHS secures furniture from alumni
Mrs Christabel Vida Botchey, Founder of Edupro Concept Ventures, has called on Ghanaian adults not to prejudge children but to endeavour to appreciate their individual talents and challenges. “Some children may be a little dull, but all they may need is some tap at the back; some encouragement just to lift them out of that situation,” she said. Mrs Botchwey [...] The post Ghanaians
Celebrated boxing referee, Tony Weeks is expected to arrive in Ghana on Sunday, July 16 for the July 22 WBO International championship involving Ghana’s Isaac ‘Royal Storm’ Dogboe. The legendary American referee, Weeks, who has officiated top fights involving Floyd Mayweather, Manny Pacquiao, Osca de la Hoya, Shane Mosley and many other great boxers will be in the middle of [...] The post Boxing
Two strikes from skipper Thomas Abbey yesterday ended Accra Hearts of Oak’s two-game losing streak as they beat Berekum Chelsea 2-0 in their match day 22 game of the Ghana Premier League played at the Accra Sports Stadium. Abbey, who was voted the Man-of-the-Match for his sterling performance all afternoon, took 10 minutes to brush aside the Chelsea threat to [...] The post Hearts win, Kotoko lose
Accra Great Olympics held Ebusua Dwarfs to a goalless draw, encounter at the Cape Coast Stadium in their 22nd week fixture of the Ghana Premier League (GPL). The game of two halves saw Dwarfs dominate the first half with Kingsley Nteng firing a long drive which the advanced Michael Sai in post but Olympics managed to save in the [...] The post Oly hold Dwarfs appeared first on The
There is tension at the corridors of the Ghana football Association (GFA) following a reported clash on Tuesday between president Kwesi Nyantakyi and his vice, George Afriyie during a meeting to sack the latter from his position, SportsObama.com has gathered. The Ghana FA boss is reported to have summoned an emergency meeting on Tuesday announcing his decision to sack Afriyie [...] The post Afriyie
The Ashaiman Municipal Assembly (ASHMA) has held its General Assembly Meeting with a charge to staff to be committed to the development of the area. Mr Albert Boakye Okyere, Ashaiman Municipal Chief Executive, addressing the Sixth Ordinary Assembly Meeting of the Second Session of the Third Assembly, urged departmental heads and staff to give off their best to uplift the [...] The post ‘Be committed
Mr Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, the Majority Leader has dismissed criticisms from the Minority in Parliament that the government is taking too long to bring its bills before the House. According to him, the claim by the Minority was not true because government was within time and had not delayed in presenting the bills before the House. Mr Mensah-Bonsu made the statement [...] The post Majority
The 2016 Presidential Candidate of the People’s National Convention (PNC) Dr Edward Nasigri Mahama has said he did not receive support from his party going into the 20i6 general election that saw the party performing abysmally. According to the renowned gynecologist, it was evidently clear that some of his own national executives worked against him during the campaign at a [...] The post National
Former President John Mahama has cautioned members of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) to ignore any individual who attempts to undertake a supposed post survey of the Kwesi Botchwey report, on his behalf. According to a statement signed by the special aide to the former President, Joyce Bawa Mogtari, some members of the umbrella family are going round soliciting information [...] The post NDC
President Muhammadu Buhari is “recuperating fast” and will return home “very soon”, says Nigeria’s acting head of state Yemi Osinbajo. He made the announcement at a press conference on Wednesday morning, after visiting Mr Buhari at the London hospital where he is being treated for an unspecified illness. Mr Osinbajo, now back in Nigeria, said he had discussed a wide [...] The post Nigeria’s
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