Новости за 31.05.2019

The 2009 year group of the Bishop Herman Old Boys Union (BHOBU) and their counterparts, the Past Ola Girls Association (POGA) have launched their 10th anniversary of graduating from their respective schools a decade ago at Labadi in Accra. The groups have also resolved as part of activities marking the anniversary, to give back to their alma mater by undergoing developmental projects aimed at improving teaching and learning conditions in the schools. Vice Chairman of the planning committ ...

Over a year after Ghana introduced a locally designed digital addressing system, British Police Forces and Emergency Services around the UK have announced the initial rollout of a digital addressing application (what3words) to assist their operations. The adoption of the digital addressing system, according to UK officials, is to help more accurately locate places and people in times of emergency and improve service delivery. Sam Sheppard, from Avon Somerset Police, one of the first forc ...

As one way of reducing maternal and neonatal deaths in the country, the Member of Parliament for Kpandai constituency in the Northern region, Mathew Nyindam has today donated an ambulance to the District Health Directorate. The MP also presented sewing machines to over 75 constituents, which he also paid apprenticeship fees for the beneficiaries to learn a trade. Speaking at the gathering, the MP said he remains committed to his promise to stop pregnant women and sick people from bei ...

Vice President of the Republic of Ghana, Dr. Alhaji Mahamudu Bawumia has called on residents of the Northern Region to put away their differences and come together to collectively work towards building a prosperous society. Speaking at the maiden Northern Region Development Summit at Tamale on Thursday, 30 May 2019, the Vice-President stressed that the people living in the north must take it upon themselves to build peace regardless of their background to ensure they build a just ...

Ghana rsquo;s First Lady and founder of The Rebecca Foundation, H.E. Mrs Rebecca Akufo-Addo has indicated that the wisdom behind the old adage which says that ldquo;educating a woman is educating a nation rdquo; will be a lip service if pragmatic measures are not taken to empower women both academically and professionally. She said this at the Launch of the ldquo;Because I Want To Be rdquo; project at Teshie Salem Presbyterian Church, and later at La Bethel Presbyterian Church, ...

The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) in Collaboration with the Narcotic Control Board (NACOB), the Bureau of National Investigations (BNI) and the Customs Exercise and Preventive Service (CEPS) of the Ghana Revenue Authority has safely disposed of 4152 bottles of banned Codeine containing cough syrups. The syrups which were concealed in duvets, packed in suitcases, back packs and other traveling bags, were impounded at the Kotoka International Airport, Accra. It will be recalled ...

Parliament on Friday morning at a short pre -burial services paid tribute to late Dr. Kwabena Adjei, the former National Chairman of the main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC). Speaker of Parliament Rt. Hon. Professor Aaron Mike Oquaye joined Members of the House including the Majority and Minority Leaders, Parliamentarians and staff of Parliament to file past as they paid their last respect to the former legislator. According to him, late Dr. Kwabena Adjei has served the ...

A pessure group, Coalition of Healthcare Delivery Monitors and some members of Ghana 39;s political parties have joined forces to stage a mammoth demonstration at Ho, the Volta Regional capital. The group indicated that they demonstrating to draw the attention of the government to the bizarre health care system and non-functioning of the health insurance scheme in the region Members of the group explained that ldquo;MIE KUKUM rdquo; literally means we are dying, therefore ldquo;w ...

It will be recalled that some Members of Ghana rsquo;s Parliament are taking steps for action against pastors and churches cashing in on the gullibility of the public. According to Parliament, the state must step in with legislation to clamp down on what they term as abuse of congregants, especially by lsquo;one-man rsquo; churches. However this campaign has not gone down so well with many pastors in the country as General overseer of Hope Generation Ministry International Eric Nana ...

The opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has attributed the recent floods which have destroyed hundreds of homes and killed many in Accra to the Akufo-Addo led Government negligence and disregard for human life. In a statement signed by the Party 39;s National Communications Officer, Sammy Gyamfi and copied to the media, said The failure of the Akufo-Addo government to desilt the Odaw River, the Korle Lagoon and the several primary and secondary drains in Accra during the dry ...

Harriet Afriyie Foundation has donated assorted items worth GHC10,000 to three orphanages in the Kpando Municipality of the Volta Region The donation is in line with the foundation vision of a A world with Empowered and Independent Women and Girls and Slogan: Helping Hand . The donation which was initially intended for the only licensed and operational HIV kids Orphanage in Ghana at Kpando-Konda, Hardthaven children home was extended to the other two, Ryvanz Mia and Missahoe childre ...

The Deputy Minister for Communications, Honorable George Andah has commended telecommunications giant MTN Ghana, for contributing immensely to the development of Information Communication Technology (ICT) in the country. George Andah who is also the Member of Parliament (MP) of the Awutu Senya West Constituency in the Central Region made this pronouncement at the official launch of MTN rsquo;s TurboNet device at the Accra Digital Center on Thursday, May 30, 2019. The new produ ...

Ghana rsquo;s leading telecommunications network, MTN has once again set the pace with the official launch of the lsquo;TurboNet rsquo; to revolutionalize high-speed home broadband in the country. The new product is a plug and play internet router that comes with a high-powered external antenna, as well as a data SIM that enables it to deliver fast internet at the convenience of the user rsquo;s home or office. Though users of the TurboNet will need to be in MTN 4G location ...

Alhaji Amadu Bukari Sorogho, a former Member of Parliament (MP) for Madina is hopeful that Ghanians will vote out President Akufo-Addo come 2020 in response to his deceptive policies. According him, President Akufo Addo and his the New Patriotic Party (NPP) has failed brutally in their campaign promise that it will build factories in every District which never materialised. Alhaji Sorogho made this comment as a panel member on 39;Inside Politic, 39; a political program on Power 97 ...