The United Nations was inundated on Tuesday by water issues: The Ocean Conference focused on rising, polluted seas while the Security Council examined the threat to international peace and security by conflicts involving fresh water that crosses borders. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, sitting alongside President Evo Morales of Bolivia, this month’s president of the Security […]

Growing cracks within the South Sudan rebel movement coupled with international pressure on the government side seem to provide a ray of hope to the end of the conflict in the war-torn country. Several rebel factions within the country are now expressing willingness to negotiate peace with the government, according to some top military officers […]

Ghana stood to miss out on its revenue targets for 2017 due to lower growth potentials in the economy, an economist projected on Tuesday. Olabode Augusto told the media during the Seminar on Ghana’s Macro-economic Landscape that the country needed a competitive taxation strategy to run the economy. “The revenue projections, especially the tax revenue […]

Chinese electronics maker Hisense celebrated a milestone at its manufacturing facility in South Africa’s Atlantis on Monday as both the one millionth television set and the one millionth fridge unit rolled off the production line. The factory of Hisense South Africa is also marking its fourth year of operation in Atlantis outside Cape Town. The […]

The Representatives of the World Health Organization (WHO) said the hospitals in Syria are now in critical situation because of Western sanctions. WHO representative in Syria, Elizabeth Hoff, said there aren’t enough equipment and replacement parts for X-ray, ultrasound machines, endoscopes and other scanners in the hospitals because of restrictive measures against the republic. According […]

Earlier this year, the Youth Employment Agency suspended the payment of allowances to over 60,000 beneficiaries on suspicions of discrepancies in the report handed to it by the managers under the previous administration. A full-scale audit revealed that, many people who did not deserve to receive monies from the Agency were doing so fraudulently. The […]

The Tanzanian government on Monday injected 94 million U.S. dollars into the country’s Tanzania Agriculture Development Bank (TADB) to help empower farmers. The money, a soft loan from the African Development Bank (AfDB), is aimed at empowering the bank to have enough capital that will help it fulfill its main role of financially empowering small […]

The Tanzanian government on Monday injected 94 million U.S. dollars into the country’s Tanzania Agriculture Development Bank (TADB) to help empower farmers. The money, a soft loan from the African Development Bank (AfDB), is aimed at empowering the bank to have enough capital that will help it fulfill its main role of financially empowering small […]

The international community has been striving to mediate the crisis among the countries concerned since the escalating tensions between Qatar and its fellow Arab nations culminated when Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Egypt, Libya and Yemen abruptly announced to sever diplomatic ties with the Gulf gas-rich state, accusing it of supporting terrorism […]

Minister for Inner City and Zongo Development, Mr. Boniface Abubakar Saddique has urged the private sector to support the Akufo-Addo led government to achieve its objective of changing the face of Zongo communities and slums across the country. He said here at the capital when a team from Access Bank Ghana, called on him in […]

One year to the day of his demise, the late superstar and football legend Stephen Okechukwu Keshi remains as enigmatic in death as he often was in life. This has compounded the shock and sorrow of his departure for his fans, still wondering why he died of a heart attack. At the burial last year, […]

The World Bank (WB) has approved an amount of 150 million United States Dollars (USD) International Development Association (IDA) credit for Transport Sector Improvement Project (TSIP) in Ghana. The credit facility help improve regional connectivity in the Northern Region (Province) involving rehabilitation of road links from Tamale to Yendi and Tatale on the Eastern border […]

Ghana Cement Works (GHACEM), the leading cement producer in the country has presented an cheque of GH? 3.5 million to the government as part of its dividend payment. Deputy Minister for Finance, Hon. Kweku Agyeman Kwarteng, who received the cheque on behalf of the government, observed the economic management strategy of the Akufo-Addo led administration […]

Mr Francis Essandoh, Secretary for the Market Planning Committee of the Ningo–Prampram District Assembly, has indicated that a once lofty idea for the construction of a market for Prampram was abandoned because the town folk thought the site was too far from town. “Since the District was not able to move all those selling at […]

A truck driver arrested over the theft of 1,600 bags of salt, valued at GH?48,000.00, has been sentenced to eight years imprisonment by a Kumasi Circuit Court. Abdul Rahman Mohammed was additionally ordered to pay the full cost of the stolen salt after serving out the jail term. He pleaded guilty to the offence. The […]

Assemblies under the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area – Sanitation and Water Project (GAMA-SWP), have been called upon to devise effective communication strategies to enable the people to buy into the project. The GAMA-SWP is implementing the provision of toilet at half price in 11 metropolitan and municipal assemblies in Accra to improve sanitation with the […]

A GH?200,000.00 hostel built at the Ankaase Methodist Faith Hospital, the only referral facility in the Afigya-Kwabre District, to provide decent accommodation for medical personnel, has been inaugurated at a ceremony. It would house visiting doctors, nurses and students on exchange programmes and those doing housemanship. The project was constructed with mixed funding – the […]

Madam Sun Baohong, the Chinese Ambassador, on Tuesday donated items, including desktop computers, printers, UPS and a cheque for 10,000 Ghana cedis, to the office of the Attorney General. The donation is to support the Attorney General’s Office, towards organising a stake-holders’ consultative workshop, on the Office of the Special Prosecutor Bill, 2017. The Chinese […]

Professor Akwasi Kumi-Kyereme, a lecturer at the University of Cape Coast on Tuesday called for a comprehensive sexual and reproductive health (SRH) education to ensure healthy sexual and reproductive lives of adolescents. He said sex education must include accurate information on a range of age-appropriate topics that should be participatory to foster knowledge, attitudes, values […]

The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) would commence a food safety enforcement exercise and food vendors who do not comply with the laws and standards of food safety will be imprisoned or fined. Ms. Maria Aba Lovelace-Johnson, the Head of the Food Safety Management Department, FDA said this at a training programme organised by the […]