The Ghana Tertiary Education Commission (GTEC) has urged private universities and colleges to move towards specialisation. This, according to the Deputy Director General of GTEC, Dr Ahmed Jinapor, would help equip students with the requisite skills needed for the job market. He disclosed this at the graduation ceremony of the Business Management and Financial Institute … The post Private
The Liberty Centre Assemblies of God Church on Sunday cut sod for the construction of a two-storey building hospital for the Akweteyman community in the Okaikwei North Municipality. The sod-cutting ceremony which coincided with the 50th anniversary launch of the church was held on the theme “Declaring God’s goodness”, with the official celebration slated for … The post Akweteyman
The Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) has honoured 19 of its longest serving members of staff for their loyalty and contributions to the operations of the hospital. In addition, 16 other category winners, independently assessed by a committee of their peers and selected on very competitive basis, were also awarded for distinguishing themselves in their various fields … The post KATH
The Ministry for Local Government, Decentralisation and Rural Development, yesterday handed over equipment including tools to management of the Department of Parks and Gardens. The equipment included a tipper truck, two KIA trucks fitted with water and water pumping machine, Toyota Land Cruiser Prado vehicle, 4×4 Nissan single cabin pickup and 14 motorcycles. The rest … The post Local
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo yesterday launched a GHC6.1 million Police Emergency Medical Intervention Fund to provide financial support to personnel who sustain injuries in their line of duty. The President also inaugurated a virtual medical centre/new Out Patients Department (OPD) of the Police Hospital in Accra to provide medical care to police personnel from … The post Emergency
The Deputy Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, Benito Owusu-Bio, has declared zero tolerance for illegal logging in the Ahafo Region, to among others, prevent the wanton destruction of the forest cover in the area. He said, although there was no mining taking place in the region’s forest reserves, illegal logging and lumbering was prevalent and needed … The post Land
The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) says it has put in place measures to address consumer complaints on coagulated milk products from Nestle Ghana Limited. The authority had indicated that it has in receipt of consumer complaints, and in line with best regulatory practices requested Nestle to respond to the complaints and initiate a recall … The post FDA resolves to address
More than 60 residents and business operators in the Ayawaso North Municipality were yesterday summoned and made to tidy up their surroundings. A motor repair shop in the municipality was also locked up for operating on the road and damaging public property. This was when the Ayawaso North Municipal Assembly (ANMA) embarked on a pilot … The post Ayawaso
The former Minister of Employment and Labour Relations, under the National Democratic Congress (NDC) administration, Nii Armah Ashitey has debunked rumours purporting that he is dead. Nii Ashitey was mistaken for the former Greater Accra Regional Minister under the New Patriotic Party (NPP) administration, Mr Ishmael Ashitey who died last week. In a statement issued … The post I’m
The Asueyi gasification plant and gari processing factory will begin operation by July this year, says the Techiman North District Planning Officer, Ernest Adarkwa Yiadom. According to him, electrical fittings, burners for frying processed cassava into gari and other key components would by then have been installed for the factory to start full operation That, he … The post Asuenyi
Forestry Research Institute of Ghana of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR-FORIG) has identified citronella oil/extract as highly potent to fight fungus that causes black pods disease in cocoa.Several trials had been done in the laboratories and now the institute is looking at the concentrations that would be ideal to control the cocoa … The post CSIR-FORIG
It looks like we are in for a long haul with coronavirus. I picked some information from international news feeds, e.g. Business insider and the Economic times (ET). On December 31, 2021, Israel announced the first case of Florona disease. This is a double-infection of the COVID-19 and influenza (flu). It is not a newly … The post COVID 19, FLU, VARIANTS,
Weep! Please weep! For my uncle, WofaKwadwo Kuma. For he is dead. Why should it concern you? It should be, precisely because he was so ordinary. He could have been met on the streets of any village in Ghana. He never went to school. And he didn’t learn any particular trade. But he cultivated cocoa farms. Not necessarily … The post WEEP, WEEP FOR WOFA KWADWO KUMA!
The Tree Crop Development Authority (TCDA) through the Ministry of Food and Agriculture is to distribute five million seedlings of the six tree crops to farmers this year. Namely mango, cashew, shea, oil palm, rubber and coconut, the move is to expand production of these tree crops in the country Mr William Quaitoo Adjapong, Chief Executive … The post TCDA to distribute
The Wa Area of the Church of Pentecost has dedicated and handed over three boreholes with hand pumps to some communities in the Wa West District of the Upper West Region. The facilities were drilled and handed over to the people of Yorkonteng, Metii and Gurungu after the problem of lack of potable drinking water … The post Church of Pentecost provides boreholes to
The suspect in a fire that gutted parts of South Africa’s 138-year-old parliament building this month was charged with terrorism on Tuesday, appearing in court for a case officials have described as an attack on the country’s democracy. Zandile Mafe, 49, had already been charged with arson in connection with the fire that started on … The post South
Former Lagos State governor and a national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu on Monday declared his intention to contest the office of the president in the 2023 election. “I’ve informed the President of my ambition,” Tinubu told newsmen after meeting Buhari on Monday in Abuja. “It’s been my life-long ambition. … The post Former
Award-winning Ugandan author, Kakwenza Rukira Bashaija, has been charged with two counts of “offensive communication” after making unflattering remarks about the president and his son on Twitter. The prosecution alleged that he had “used his Twitter handle to disturb the peace” of President Yoweri Museveni and his son, Lt-Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba. Mr Rukira Bashaija pleaded … The post Author
The National Labour Commission (NLC) has invited the government, University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG), and all other stakeholders to a meeting today, to find solution to the on-going strike by the association. A statement signed by the Director of Administration and Human Resource of the NLC, Dr Mrs Bernice Welbeck, said the initiative was … The post NLC invites govt,
The Department of Parks and Gardens yesterday received some pieces of equipment from its sector ministry, the Ministry for Local Government, Decentralization and Rural Development (MLGDRD), to augment the existing equipment to facilitate its revitalisation. The equipment included computers, mowing machines, drive mowers, chainsaw machines, grass cutters, Polytank-branded water containers and aluminum ladders as well … The post Resource
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