Новости за 13.06.2019

Traders plying their trades on the streets of Asankranguah causing daily congestion on the road to Enchi, Bibiani and other towns in the Western North Region will soon move to a new market near the Asankrangwa Senior High School in Amenfi West Municipality of the Western Region, which is almost at the completion stage The Municipal Chief Executive, Hon. George Agyiri who recently received a lot of complaints about the dangers the traders are being exposed to, took some journalists to the ...

The Chief Executive Officer of the National Entrepreneurship and Innovation Plan, Mr. John Kumah has been appointed a member of the Jury panel for the 2019 Creative Business Cup to be held in Copenhagen, Denmark. Mr. John Kumah is part of a global team of professionals drawn from various part of the globe to look out for and identify winning creative ideas of representatives from 60 countries that will be pitching entrepreneurial innovations aimed at enhancing the creative space. Re ...

Kojo Mensah, a constituent of Kwasimistim Constituency in the Western Region, deem it convenient to end his life over his inability to cope with life. The 35-year-old Kojo with a hospital bandage around his arm, on Thursday, June 13, entered the Chamber of Parliament wanting to observe proceedings. But in the mind of Kojo, it was an opportunity to end his life in the chamber. But Kojo he was spotted on time and was quickly rescued. Kojo Mensah was arrested by officers from Parlia ...

Officials from the Ministry of Finance were told the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area (GAMA) Sanitation and Water project which commenced in 2015 has exceeded its target by 17percent with one more year to go. This was said at a meeting held at the Institute of Local Government Studies, Accra to brief the Finance Ministry team on the level of progress as the project ends on 31st May, next year. The team were wowed that between 2017 and 2019, 22,346 household toilets have be ...

Marina Distribution, the sole distributors of San Simon Communion Wine have launched its products on the Ghanaian market in a colorful ceremony which resulted in the donations of 40 cartons of the products worth several thousands of Ghana Cedis to the Christian Council of Ghana, in Osu, Accra. In a welcome address, Rev. Dr Cyril G.K. Fayose, General Secretary of the Christian Council of Ghana thanked Marina Distribution for their generous donation and urged other organization to e ...

The West African nation, Ghana, is one of the nations in the world endowed with natural resources which could make its citizens richer and be among the category of developed nations like Malaysia, Singapore, Turkey, Brazil among others, yet the story is differently told since the start of resources extraction. Ghana for centuries has been extracting natural resources commonly gold, diamond, bauxite and salt. The recent addition is oil and gas which others call lsquo;black gold rsquo; ...

The Prestea Huni-Valley Municipal Assembly in the Western Region has presented motorbikes to 45 assembly members in the area. This is to aid the assembly members go about their normal duties in their respective electoral areas to interact with the people and discuss development issues with ease. Presenting the motorbikes at a brief ceremony held at the forecourt of the assembly in Bogoso on Tuesday, June 4, Hon. Mozart Kweku Owuh, the Municipal Chief Executive expressed happin ...

The Hohoe Municipal Hospital will soon be upgraded to a Regional Hospital, Kweku Agyeman-Manu, the Health Minister has announced. The Minister who announced this during his tour of the Municipality told the Chiefs and people that cabinet has given the approval for Hohoe to become a Regional Hospital. The Minister, since Monday, June 10, 2019, has been touring the Volta Region to familiarise himself with operations in the region. His visit is part of a series of visits from ...

The Ghana School Feeding Program started in 2005 to among other things provide children in selected public primary schools and kindergartens in the poorest areas of the country with one hot, nutritious meal a day. The concept was meant to increase primary school enrollment as it was thought that many children of school-going age were home because of the inability of their parents to provide them food and would rather send them to work on farms or engage them in some economic activity to ...

A team led by the National Security Minister, Albert Kan-Dapaah, has had a meeting with the diplomatic community in Ghana outlining to them, measures the Ghanaian government had put in place to ensure the safety of everyone in the country. The delegation briefed the diplomats on the successful national security operation that led to the rescue of the two kidnapped Canadian women and the arrest of the alleged criminals involved in the abduction. http://cdn.modernghana.co ...

Although some Ghanaians are applauding the service for its swift action in finding the missing foreign nationals, others have criticized the service and accused it of prioritizing the rescue of the foreign nationals as against the three Takoradi girls who are yet to be found. But ACP David Eklu said although both cases looked similar, they were not the same and the police got adequate support and information from the public to help it successfully carry out the rescue operation of the Ca ...

Bowls of cooked food that had gone stale for days was found in the room the kidnapped women were accommodated. http://cdn.modernghana.com/images/content/613201983623 l5gsj8v331 3562614391040 3201271607385.jpg A bowl of food left unattended in one of the rooms It is unclear who served the food and for whom but a police source says the victims may have rejected food from their captives. Bailen Chitty and Lauren Patricia Catherine had been missing since June ...

A female candidate of the ongoing Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) in Sissala East has given birth to a bouncing baby girl right after writing the first paper, English, on Monday. The candidate (name withheld) got into labour immediately the examination ended and was rushed to the Tumu Hospital where she successfully delivered of a bouncing baby girl. Mr Cornelius Longyintuo the Examinations Officer for the Sissala East Municipal, who narrated the incidence to th ...

The people of Gomoa Obuasi, a community in the Gomoa Central district in the Central Region were on Monday griefed with fear and shock when a 27-year-old graduate of University of Cape Coast (UCC), James Annan, allegedly murdered his own brother around midday. Annan has been arrested by the Police while the body of his brother, Michael Botchwey, a 21-year-old product of University of Education Winneba (UEW) who was scheduled to graduate in July 2019 has been deposited at Agona Swe ...

The Port Ladies Association of the Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority (GPHA) has officially introduced a new dress code and uniforms for ladies within the organization. DGN Online understands that the new uniform is to uplift their image and confidence in undertaking their duties within the Industry. The Port Ladies Association of the Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority which has been in existence for over 22 years, has the core objective to encourage ladies to make influential contri ...

Two Ghanaian non-governmental organizations, Ghana Federation of Disability in conjunction with Sightsavers have launched a petition soliciting signatures from Ghanaians to compel the Government to ratify the Africa Disability Protocol Treaty. The petition also sought to draw the United Nation (UN) to uphold the rights of persons with disability in all UN member states. According to the disability-friendly NGOs, the ratification of the disability protocol as well as the implementatio ...

Ms Emefa Akosua Adeti, Winner of 2012 Ghana Most Beautiful 6th Edition of the TV3 reality show has been unveiled by Ghana Association of Persons with Albinism (GAPA) as Goodwill Ambassador for Persons with Albinism in Ghana. Emefa is to champion public education and awareness campaign against the stigmatization and discrimination of persons with albinism in the country and as well seek support from the co-operating world for their expenses. Speaking at a ceremony to unveil the Albini ...

The Chairman for the Parliamentary Select Committee on Defense, Hon. Seth Kwame Acheampong has charged the Ghana Police Service to up their game in their search for the Takoradi girls who have gone missing since last year. He made this call on Wednesday in an interview on Accra based Peace FM 39;s evening news, whiles congratulating the security agencies for their immense support in the rescue of the abducted Canadian girls. The two Canadian girls who were kidnapped in the Ashanti R ...

Sightsavers and Ghana Federation of Disability Organizations has called on the government to ratify the African disability protocol and adopt an employment equity policy to promote equal and accessible employment for persons with disabilities. In a petition launched at the Conference of States Parties to the United Nations Convention at the UN headquarters in New York, Sightsavers together with its partners argued that this will ensure the equal rights of people with disabilities ...