Grohe, a leading global brand for complete bathroom solutions and kitchen fittings, says it is committed to helping create healthier urban landscape beyond the COVID-19 pandemic. In line with the objective, the company which is the founder of the programme, which started in 2008, sponsored the 2021 World Architecture Festival (WAF). The 2021WAF held digitally … The post Grohe
The Ghana Commodity Exchange (GCX) in partnership with the Venture Capital Trust (VCTF) with the support of government has established a Commodity Aggregation Development Fund (CADeF) to improve liquidity for commodity brokers. The Minister of Finance, Ken Ofori-Atta, disclosed this at the inauguration of the reconstituted board of directors of the VCTF, and said the … The post Govt
The Managing Director of Absa Bank, Abena Osei-Poku, has begun a series of engagements with the customers of the bank. The move, according to the bank, was to bring banking closer to the doorstep of customers and clients and also know their challenges and concerns for redress. “With 2022 already halfway through its first month, … The post Absa Bank Managing Director engages customers
The European Union (EU) has removed Ghana from the bloc’s high risk third countries with strategic deficiencies in their Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism(AML/CFT) regimes. The EU took the decision after Ghana strengthened the effectiveness of its AML/CFT regime by addressing related technical deficiencies, a press statement issued by the Ministry of … The post EU
The Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, Samuel AbdulaiJinapor, has called on Ghanaians to support the government’s afforestation programme to restore the country’s lost forest cover. He said government’s efforts to plant at least 20 million trees this year, under the Green Ghana Project, would not be successful without the input of Ghanaians. In an … The post Minister
The Metropolitan Chief Executive (MCE) of Accra Municipal Area, Mrs Elizabeth Kwatsoe Tawiah Sackey, on Tuesday welcomed Kindergarten and primary one pupils to school. The MCE, who visited some public schools as part of activities by the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) to observe “My First Day at School”, an annual initiative adopted by government, distributed … The post AMA
The chiefs and people of the Chiana Traditional Area, in the Upper East Region,have celebrated the Fao festival with a renewed call on the government to create a separate district for the area. The Paramount Chief of the area, Pe Detundini Adiali Ayagitam III, reiterated the call at the celebration of the festival on Tuesday. … The post Paramout chief of Chiana calls for
The Ghana Tourism Authority (GTA) on Tuesday closed down three facilities for not meeting the tourism standards and default in the payment of the one per cent tourism levy. The facilities are Hill View Guest Centre, Suma Court Hotel Limited and Tayiba Bar and Grill. The Head of Corporate Affairs of GTA, Mr Jones Aruna … The post GTA descends on 3 low standard, defaulting
The Assemblies of God Church on Sunday launched a new TV station to widen its outreach. The GH?2 million Ghanaian free to air television network known as AGTV would among others, show a variety of programmes including sermons, gospel music, news bulletins and sports highlights. The General Superintendent of the Assemblies of God, Ghana, Reverend … The post Assemblies of God
The Kingdom Mandate Devotionin collaboration with Promasidor over the weekend presented food item to the Good Shepherd Orphanage in Accra. They comprised of rice, sugar, beans, tom brown, drinks, cartons of milk, sardines, mackerels, detergents, gallons of oil, noodles and bags of sachet water. Speaking to the Ghanaian Times after the donation, Papa Elijah Kofi … The post Kingdom
The youth have been encouraged to use technology to solve societal problems and also create wealth to help improve upon the local economy. Speaking at a digital start-up summit at Wa on Saturday, a Software Developer, Mr Abubakari Sherifdeen explained that technology had become the bedrock of society with which people solved development and general … The post Use
A 63-year-old retired police officer, Kwesi Salia has been confirmed dead after he was knocked off his motorbike and crushed by a Toyota Fortuner vehicle on Tuesday afternoon at Wa in the Upper West Region. Police said the Toyota Fortuner with registration number GW 977-14 and driven by Osman Namba, hit the back of the … The post 63-year-old retired police officer
Abantu for Development, an international women’s Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) is urging government to pass the country’s Affirmative Action Law that promotes women’s effective participation and representation in all decision-making spaces. This was because the law presented itself as the guaranteed way to increasing women’s representation in decision making spaces such as Parliament, District Assemblies, Ministerial … The post Abantu
The Conference of the Regional Chief Imams of Ghana have condemned the shooting incident which occurred on Tuesday during a clash between Mamobi and Nima youth gangs in Accra. The Conference, which comprised of 16 Imams across the country, saidthe immoral behaviour of the youth compromises the principles of the Islamic religion, hence, the immediate … The post Confab
A total of 77 residents and business operators in the Ayawaso East Municipality in the Greater Accra Region were yesterday summoned by the Environmental Health Department of the Assembly for failing to clean their frontage. This was when the Ayawaso East Municipal Assembly (AEMA) embarked on a pilot exercise of the “Operation Clean your Frontage” … The post 77
Two technological platforms aimed at enhancing timber trade in Ghana have been launched at Ejisu in the Ashanti Region. Dubbed “Property Market Registration/Renewal Process platform and Electronic Wood Tracking System,” it would be deployed by the Forestry Commission to ensure effectiveness in the monitoring and enforcement in the timber business and improve revenue mobilisation. Minister … The post Lands
The Ghana Health Services will soon announce days for nationwide immunisation against COVID-19 infections in the country, the Minister of Health, Kwaku Agyeman-Manu, has announced. To be known as the national vaccination day, the five-day activity which is scheduled to take place between February 2 and 6 will among other things ensure mass immunisation of … The post GHS
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo yesterday joined tens of thousands of people to witness the inaugural ceremony of re-elected President of The Gambia, Adama Barrow, at the Independence Stadium at Banjul, the capital of The Gambia. The President, who is Chair of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), Authority of Heads of State … The post President
At least nine persons have been arrested in connection with a bloody clash between two rival youth groups of Nima and Mamobi, both suburbs of Accra, on Tuesday over supposed territorial supremacy. They are Abdul Gafari Mohammed, Bashir Ganiyu, Mohammed Saidu Baribui, Attawurah Basson, Gariba Abdul Mumuni, Abdul Aziz Sulemana, Imoro Ibrahim,Isaiah Seidu and Elliasu. … The post Mayhem
The Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) has urged the media to be cautious in their reportage of the conflict between the Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II and the Dormaahene, Osagyefo Agyeman Badu II. “It is needless to state that the hyper-sensitive issue involving the two prominent chiefs can result in a conflict of unthinkable proportion if … The post Be
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