The Awadada of Anlo, in the Keta municipality of the Volta Region, Togbui Agbesi Awusu II, has urged the various clans of Anlo to come together and protect their heritage. He explained that it was the only way to maintain their cultural identify towards supporting each other financially, materially and spiritually against any external aggression. Togbui Awusu gave the advice [...] The post Awadada
Consumer Unity and Trust Society (CUTS) International, an Accra based Centre for Policy and Research, has urged the government to scrape the allowances for teacher and nursing trainees, and channel the resources into the payment of their boarding and lodging fees. The group also said it did not understand why government should continue to pay allowances to the students while [...] The post Govt
A U.S. federal jury has charged a Pennsylvania man with 44 counts, including hate crimes, for killing 11 and injuring six people during shootings at a synagogue in Pittsburgh last weekend, authorities announced Wednesday. “Hatred and violence on the basis of religion can have no place in our society,” U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions said in a press release, [...] The post Pittsburgh
The untouched wildness areas on earth are rapidly disappearing, and urgent international action is needed to protect them, according to a study published Wednesday in the journal Nature. “A century ago, only 15 per cent of Earth’s surface was used to grow crops and raise livestock. Today, more than 77 per cent of land, excluding Antarctica, has been modified [...] The post Earth’s
A black box of Lion Air plane that went down in waters off West Java province of Indonesia on Monday was retrieved by a diver on Thursday, a senior official from the Transport Ministry disclosed. “Based on initial information, yes it has been found,” spokesman of the Transport Ministry Baitul Ihwan told Xinhua by phone when asked whether the black [...] The post Indonesia
The Association of Ghana Industries (AGI) has reiterated calls on government not to introduce charges on the tax stamps for importers and manufacturers affected by the tax stamp policy. Mr. Seth Twum Akwaboah, Chief Executive Officer of AGI, said that any charges on the tax stamp would only increase cost of doing business and adversely affect the production capacity of [...] The post AGI raises
The Apex Farmers Association of Ghana (APFOG) has urged government to hasten with the establishment of the National Seed Policy of the country to boost agriculture. That they explained was the only way to ensure the continuous availability and access to quality seeds for members and other farmers to increase yields and incomes. The association made the call at a [...] The post Farmers urge
The national cycling team, the Golden Pedals are gradually warming up into the Tour Du Faso international cycling competition ongoing at Burkina Faso. At the end of stage five on Tuesday, a 145.6Km race from Yako to Zinaire, Anthony Boakye gave the Ghana a lift with an impressive time of 3:36.21 seconds to settle for the 18th position. Solomon Tagoe [...] The post Cycling: Tough start
A crack assemblage of Nigerian players are set to storm Ghana to take part in the forthcoming Tema Open Draughts Championship slated for the Community 5 playing grounds on December 7. The two-day potentially explosive contest will feature Nigeria’s Doubra, Dafa, Toyin and Reuben – all of whom are highly revered names in the sport. The West African neighbours have [...] The post Top
Tournament Coordinator for this year’s Accra Seniors Open tennis championship, Mr Peter Annan has announced that registration forms for the competition have been released for sale. He has therefore advised players interested in taking part in the 16th edition of the tournament to visit the Accra Lawn Tennis Club, Stadium Club and other clubs around the country to obtain copies [...] The post Accra
The government has revealed that the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service has concluded investigations on embattled former Ghana Football Association (GFA) boss, Kwesi Nyantakyi. In a statement signed by the Deputy Information Minister, Pius Enam Hadzide on Wednesday, the government expects the docket to be presented to the state’s chief prosecutor soon. “Criminal investigations have been [...] The post CID
MTN Ghana has rewarded departments under the company and external partners for their excellent customer services which have placed the company as a leading telecommunication company in the country. They were presented with plaque, citation and cash prices. The departments awarded were Sales and Distribution Division, Enterprise Business Division, Mobile Financial Services, Marketing, Corporate Services, Capital Projects Group, Human Resource [...] The post MTN
Residents of Adentan in the Greater Accra Region have urged government to establish more schools in the area to improve the quality of education in the municipality. According to them, there was so much pressure in existing schools leading to overcrowding and poor academic performance. They expressed their frustrations at a Town Hall Meeting organised by Adentan Municipal Assembly on [...] The post Ashaiman
Gomoaba Nana Apata Kofi V, Chief of Gomoa Pomadze, in the Central Region, has urged beneficiaries of the Ghana Cocoa Marketing Board (CMB) Scholarship Scheme to voluntarily provide financial and material support for the Free Senior High School (SHS) programme. He asked them to ‘payback’ what they had benefited from the scholarship scheme as a way of complementing government’s efforts [...] The post CMB
The Director of the Centre for European Studies at the University of Ghana, Professor Ransford Gyampo has raised concerns over the usefulness of the 1992 Constitution in its current state insisting there is the need to develop a new one. He explained that “there are many loopholes within the constitution that renders several institutions and agencies ineffective in delivering their [...] The post 1992
The Sekyere South District Director of the National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE), Evans Nunoo, has expressed worry about the citizenry’s lack of demand for transparency and accountability of government funded-projects within their localities. He noted that “if citizens take interest in government funded projects by the assemblies’ corruption will minimise, we should demand accountability in the cost of government-funded [...] The post NCCE:
South Sudanese on Wednesday celebrated the signing of a power-sharing deal aimed at ending a brutal five-year civil war amid calls for lasting peace in the world’s youngest nation. Regional dignitaries and South Sudan’s rebel leader Riek Machar who signed a revitalised peace deal in September with President Salva Kiir in Ethiopia, joined thousands of South Sudanese in the [...] The post Sudanese
Ethiopia’s parliament yesterday swore in the country’s first female Supreme Court president, building on efforts by reformist Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed to achieve gender parity in government. The appointment of Meaza Ashenafi comes two weeks after Abiy named 10 female ministers to make Ethiopia the third country in Africa – after Rwanda and Seychelles – to have its cabinet split [...] The post Ethiopia
Suspected members of the Islamist Boko Haram insurgency killed at least 15 people in an attack on a group of villages in northeast Nigeria late on Wednesday, residents told Reuters. The villages lie on the outskirts of the militarised city of Maiduguri, the heart of government in the northeast and the headquarters of efforts to defeat Boko Haram and the [...] The post Suspected Boko
PARLIAMENT has unanimously backed the nomination of six persons as ministers and deputy ministers in the Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo-led administration. They are Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, Information, Mrs Cynthia Mamle Morrison, Gender, Children and Social Protection, and Evans Bobie Opoku, Brong Ahafo Region. The rest are Ms Paulina Tangoba Abayage, Upper East Region, Samuel Nuertey Ayertey, Deputy Minister, Eastern [...] The post Parliament
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