The Deeper Christian Life Church will be welcoming its Founder and General Superintendent Pastor, William F. Kumuyi, to the country in April. Pastor Kumuyi who is at the Church’s headquarters in Lagos, Nigeria will be in the country on 4th and 5th of April and every other month in 2014.He will be leading a “Life Transforming and Miracle Service” at the Deeper Life Church, Anyaa in Accra.The programme will be telecast live on Metro TV and other media outlets to ensure that all those outside

The Minister of Gender, Children and Social Protection, Nana Oye Lithur, has called on Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty (LEAP) service providers to intensively train the beneficiaries on how to access the payment system. That, she said, would help them understand the benefits of the programme and  why they were migrated from the cash payment system to the electronic payment system. “It appears most of them are illiterates and do not know how to use the mobile phones that they are given,

A vital component needed for the completion of the gas processing plant at Atuabo has been produced by the manufacturer and is to be sent to Ghana this weekend. The gamma ray scanner is a very important equipment needed to test the integrity of the four spherical gas storage facilities.  The Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana National Gas Company (GNGC), Dr George Adja Sipa Yankey, who made this known, said the scanner had been made by a South African manufacturing firm and would be shipped on

Members of the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) have expressed their support for the interdiction of three building inspectors following the collapse of a seven-storey building at Nii Boi Town in Accra. The Metropolitan Chief Executive (MCE), Mr Alfred Oko Vanderpuye, announced the six-month interdiction of the building inspectors, soon after the collapse of the building, which killed one person.  The members expressed their support at a meeting chaired by the Presiding Member (PM) of the AMA,

The Finatrade Foundation has presented cheques for GH¢800 each to five Agriculture students of the College of Agriculture and Consumer Sciences of the University of Ghana, Legon. They form part of a scholarship package awarded to needy brilliant students studying agriculture in three other universities in the country by the foundation. The foundation has since its inception in 2003, supported 203 scholars nationwide and have spent about GH¢2 million on the scholarship scheme. Mr John Awuni, the

The Finatrade Foundation has presented cheques for GH¢800 each to five Agriculture students of the College of Agriculture and Consumer Sciences of the University of Ghana, Legon. They form part of a scholarship package awarded to needy brilliant students studying agriculture in three other universities in the country by the foundation. The foundation has since its inception in 2003, supported 203 scholars nationwide and have spent about GH¢2 million on the scholarship scheme. Mr John Awuni, the

Direct Impact Foundation (DIF), a non-governmental organisation set up to support women and children, has launched its ‘Leading Models’ project. Leading Models project is aimed at mentoring, coaching and grooming young ladies between the ages of 18 and 35 to become entrepreneurs and     self-sufficient. The launch brought together over 100 women and seasoned entrepreneurs in support of the project.  Speaking to the Daily Graphic after the launch, the President of DIF, Nana Adjoa A. Sifa,

The total amount of monies accrued from the South Africa 2010  World Cup, which is estimated at about $11 million, was paid into the consolidated fund, the Minister for Youth and Sports, Mr Elvis Afriyie Ankrah, has stated .   However, he indicated that what would be earned from FIFA in this year’s competition in Brazil would be used for the construction of boxing arenas, gyms and to support the development of other disciplines. Responding to a question on how the Ministry of Youth and Sports

The James Town Ngleshie Alata Paramount Stool has advised BG International, the US-based company, set to develop a shopping mall at Mallam, to deal with the rightful land owners and not the Gbawe Kwatei Family of  Gbawe. The Chief Executive Officer of BG International, Mr Irwin Barkan, announced plans of constructing a 23,000-square metre shopping complex when he visited the Gbawe Palace in Accra. Even before mortar touches the ground, however, there is controversy, as the James Town Ngleshie Paramount

A delegation from cement manufacturer, Ghacem Ltd, has paid a courtesy call on the Minister of Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation, Dr Joe Oteng Agyei. The call was to officially notify the ministry about the ongoing 2nd edition of Ghacem’s Quarry Life Awards (QLA) campaign, and to also thank the ministry for the immense support it gave the maiden edition last year. The delegation, which includes the QLA National Co-ordinator, Mr Kwabena Larbi Addo, and the Communications Co-ordinator,

The Circuit Court in Kumasi yesterday sentenced three persons to a total of 60 years in prison for ransacking a boutique at Asafo in Kumasi and making away with items worth GH¢69,400. The convicts — Kwame Sekyere and Kweku Poku, both car dealers, and Ibrahim Alhassan, unemployed — pleaded guilty to three counts of conspiracy to steal, unlawful entry and stealing and were convicted on their own pleas. They were each sentenced to 20 years with hard labour on each count. The sentences are to run

The government is brainstorming with its development partners to help resolve the country’s current economic difficulties, the Vice-President, Mr Kwesi Bekoe Amissah-Arthur, has stated. While expressing the government’s resolve to deal with the fiscal challenges in the country, the Vice-President said a number of issues had been discussed with the banks on how to restore economic stability. Mr Amissah-Arthur was speaking with a three-member delegation from the African Development Bank (AfDB)

Parents have been advised to place premium on the upbringing of their children since they form the nucleus of every country’s development. A traditional birth attendant (TBA), Madam Dinah Dansoa, who gave the advice, said she had been in the business of delivering expectant women of the their babies for close to 40 years and had helped in saving the lives of many women in labour.  Popularly called Aunt Ama, she told the Ghana News Agency (GNA) in an interview that her work as a midwife had exposed

The Minister of Health, Ms Sherry Ayittey, has suggested to corporate organisations to set up  crèches to enable nursing mothers to devote more attention to their lactating babies. She said many working mothers were having the difficulty of exclusively breastfeeding their babies for the first six months as a result of the limited leave period extended to them.  Ms Ayittey, who was speaking at the annual reproductive and child health review meeting in Kumasi, noted that many working mothers were

Chieftaincy disputes will soon be issues of the past, with the passage of the Legislative Instrument (L.I) on the succession of chiefs in the country. This was announced by the Minister of Chieftaincy and Traditional Affairs, Dr Henry Seidu Daannaa, when he delivered a special message on behalf of President John Dramani Mahama to the chiefs and elders of  the Tumu Traditional Council in the Sissala East District in the Upper West Region at Tumu last Tuesday. Dr Daannaa said the ministry was preparing

The Police Administration has outlined measures to curtail the potential rise in criminal activities during the two-week national load-shedding exercise. The measures include increase in police visibility and constant police patrols of various places, especially crime-prone areas.  Speaking to the Daily Graphic in Accra Wednesday, the Accra Regional Police Public Relations Officer, Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Freeman Tettey, said the measures were aimed at protecting lives and property

The youth of Anyinam in the Atiwa District in the Eastern Region yesterday demonstrated against small-scale and illegal mining (galamsey) activities in the area. Clad in red, the demonstrators carried placards some of which read “Away with small scale mining”, “Galamsey destroys water bodies”, ”Our leaders beware”. The demonstrators, majority of whom were women, marched along the Anyinam-Kumasi highway, amid drumming and chanting of slogans and later converged on the main lorry park

The Chief Psychiatrist of the Accra Psychiatric Hospital, Dr Akwasi Osei, has condemned calls for a national debate on the legalisation of marijuana in the country, describing it as "a dangerous call". He said the legalisation of marijuana or 'wee' would rather encourage more youth to increase or start smoking it and consequently raise the rate of mental cases and drug-related crimes in the country. In an interview with the Daily Graphic in Accra, Dr Osei said the suggestion that Ghana should legalise

President John Dramani Mahama Wednesday appealed to motorists and passengers who used the Accra-Tema motorway to exercise patience as efforts were underway to complete a temporary route by March 26, 2014 to ease the current congestion caused by a damaged bridge. To bring some amount of relief to users of the motorway, the President ordered the immediate re-opening of one lane on the damaged bridge to reduce the congestion pending the completion of the temporary bypass. President Mahama, who was

The President, Mr John Dramani Mahama, has urged the investor community interested the country’s oil and gas sector to respect the rules and regulations outlined in the Petroleum Local Content and Local Participation Regulation, 2013 (LI 2204). Mr Mahama said the law, which was passed in November last year and came into force last month, ensured that both the investor and the country benefited from their engagement in the sector. Speaking after a tour of the Enterprise Development Centre (EDC),