Eight selected markets in Greater Accra and the Northern regions are to be rewired under the Millennium Development Authority (MiDA) Compact II programme They include Madina, Mokola, Agbogbloshie, Dansoman, Kaneshie, Timber markets and Tamale Central and Timber market. The exercise dubbed, Access Project (AP) is worth $498.2 million and seeks to provide safe, quality and reliable electricity in some markets [...] The post 8

About 2,400 out of the 4,000 earmarked public buildings and institutions have been tagged with the generated Ghana Post Global Positioning System (GPS) address. The seat of government, Flagstaff House, hospitals, ministries and departments, state corporations, mosques, churches, banks, media agencies, offices, all spread across the country, among others, have all been tagged. According to Edwina Andrews, Head of Nationwide [...] The post 2,400

The Player Transfer and Registration Window is scheduled to close on Friday, March 1 with clubs expected to complete all registration before the commencement of the season this weekend. All clubs, including Premier and Division One League clubs have till Friday March 2 to finalize their final list of registered players for the upcoming season, a statement from the FA [...] The post Player

A new promotional outfit, Cabic Promotions and Management Syndicate (CPMS) has been launched. Mr. Ivan Bruce Codjo, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Syndicate said at yesterday’s launch that the new body has come to build on the gains chalked so far in professional boxing. The climax of the event that attracted several boxing aficionados was the signing of two [...] The post New boxing syndicate

The Ghana Football Association (GFA) and Premier League Board (PLB) have unveiled a new logo for the Ghana Premier League (GPL) to herald the 2017/18 league season. The unveiling coincided with the media launch of the new season held at the offices of the GFA on Monday. The new logo features a star clad in the national colours with a [...] The post GFA, PLB unveil new league logo appeared first

Middle distance specialist, Agnes Abu has run a new time to break a 14-year-old 800m indoor national record. Abu, a student of the Middle Tennessee State University in the USA, improved Akosua Serwaa’s 2:4.61 seconds national record set on February 29, 2004 in Leipzig, Germany with her personal best performance of 2:2.30secs to record a new chapter in Ghana’s athletics [...] The post Abu

Professor Livingston Kobina Sam-Amoah, the Provost of the College of Agriculture and Natural Sciences at the University of Cape Coast (UCC) has said the government’s one-village-one-dam project, will enhance food security in the country if successfully implemented. “Obviously the one district one dam is a very good programme. I am not saying this because I have sympathies with NPP or [...] The post Expert:

Financial institutions, particularly insurance companies and banking institutions, have been advised to employ people with sound financial mathematics and actuarial knowledge. In this vain, they would be able to apply proper mathematical modules to manage their assets. Professor Ralf Wunderlich, a visiting researcher from the Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg, Germany who gave the advice stressed that financial and actuarial [...] The post Banking

The government’s industrialisation agenda to transform the nation is not mere rhetoric, but has pragmatic policies that will ensure its realisation, Yaw Osafo-Maafo, Senior Minister, has said. He said government was determined to building an industrial park in each of the 10 regions adding that the industrial park for the Greater Accra Region had already started at Dawa. He said [...] The post Govt’s

Jumia Ghana, a leading online shop in Ghana will organise Mobile Phone Week from March 19 to 25 with the aim to make smart phones accessible and affordable as well as promote thebsmart phones penetration rate in Ghana. Mr Joseph Owusu Badu, Head of Jumia Ghana Marketing Department, who announced this at a media engagement in Accra, said the company [...] The post Jumia Ghana to hold Mobile Phone

The government is pursuing initiatives to add value to a significant proportion of gold and cocoa beans produced in the country, within the next five years, the Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has announced. That, he said, would help create private sector jobs and ease the pressure off public sector as well as increase the potential sources and value of [...] The post Ghana

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has challenged African countries to take advantage of the digital revolution and modernise agriculture, if they are to create wealth and prosperity for her peoples. He said the continent had nearly 30 per cent of the earth’s remaining mineral resources, with a young, vibrant population and must build value-added and industrialised economies. Describing Africa as [...] The post Take

The Wa branch of the Bolgatanga-Nagodi-Bongo-Tongo (BONABOTO) Association on Sunday donated quantities of items valued at GH¢2,300 to the Wa School for the Blind. The items meant to support the upkeep of pupils of the school included three bags of second hand clothes, 10 bags of rice, nine bags of maize and two gallons of cooking oil. The group also [...] The post Wa School of

Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT) has cut sod for the construction of a bridge at Ejisu Abankoro, in the Ejisu Juaben Municipality.   The project, estimated at about GH¢70,000, is being solely funded by the GNAT.   The construction of the bridge would bring to an end the perennial problems encountered by drivers plying the road from Ejisu township [...] The post GNAT