President of the Africa Diva Foundation, Clare Sablah is asking the Ministry of Gender, Children, Social Protection and the State Security Agencies to provide Ghanaians with progress report of their investigations of the whereabouts of the three missing Takoradi ...
Cocoa is an essential cash crop and has been the main driver of many developing economies across the globe. Ghana is no exception, and it is credited as being the second world largest producer of cocoa. It is worth acknowledging the tremendous impact of cocoa on our national economy, and the significant gains COCOBOD under the Akufo Addo administration has been able to achieve as a result of its deliberate policy initiatives, strategy and discipline with respect to implementation. In the past ...
The Fisheries Ministry has imposed a two month ban on fishing by industrial trawlers from August 1, to October 1, and threatened any vessel that flouts the directive with a $1-million fine. The sector Minister, Elizabeth Naa Afoley Quaye, who announced this in an interview added that the ban on industrial trawler fishing was part of moves to replenish the dwindling fish stock in the country rsquo;s territorial waters. She said there were enough monitoring mechanisms put in place to e ...
The Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA) is the Ultimate winner of the 2019 Sanitation Challenge. The Assembly received a price of pound;400,000.00 to implement more Sanitation related activities. The Sanitation Challenge for Ghana competition is UKAID funded project implemented by IMC worldwide and IRC Ghana, to create competition among all the Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDAs) to design and implement innovative strategies in solving liquid waste issues in Ghana ...
The Upper East Regional Minister, Hon Paulina Patience Abayage has held a crisis management meeting with all Heads of Second Cycle Schools in the region to find a lasting solution to the raging riots in some Senior High/ Technical Schools. Three Second Cycle Schools have been temporarily closed down currently because of students riots which claimed one life and left others injured. The Schools include Sandema Senior Technical School where a student died through an alleged police warni ...
Veteran journalist, Kwesi Pratt Junior, has expressed his total rejection over suggestions that media freedom should be restricted. In an exclusive interview with JoyNews rsquo; Emefa Apawu, Pratt met such suggestions, ldquo;some of which come from journalists, rdquo; with strong opposition, stating that they lack merit. ldquo;I am abhorred, rdquo; Pratt, editor of the Insight Newspaper vented. Comments from sections of the public and some state polices recently have pos ...
Two Gambian soldiers working for a hit squad controlled by former President Yahya Jammeh yesterday admitted to participating in the 2005 execution of 56 West African migrants, including 44 Ghanaians on the orders of Jammeh. Lieutenant Malick Jatta and Corporal Omar A. Jallow revealed to Gambia rsquo;s Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission (TRRC) that the migrants were executed by the ldquo;Junglers rdquo; squad, a paramilitary force that took orders from Jammeh, across the ...
The National Youth Wing of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) has instituted what it calls 39;The Youth Must Know rsquo; series, as part of the effort to explain the government 39;s actions towards the development of the youth in the country. They are using series of press conferences to educate and inform the youth in the country on the policies and achievements of the Akufo-Addo/Bawumia NPP administration. At the maiden series in Koforidua on Monday, NPP National Youth Organiz ...
Below is the NMC ruling: THE NATIONAL MEDIA COMMISSION RULING ON THE GOVERNMENT VRS. MULTIMEDIA On March 13, 2019, the Minister of Information, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah filed a complaint on behalf of the Government against the Multimedia Group before the National Media Commission, in accordance with Article 167 (b) of the 1992 Constitution and section 2(1) (b) of the National Media Commission Act 1993 (Act449). The complaint was against a documentary, ldquo;Militia in the ...
A Former Deputy Local Government Minister, Nii Lante Vanderpuye is asking Ghanaians to mount pressure on the Akufo-Addo government to complete projects started by the Mahama administration. President Akufo-Addo had assured he will complete existing projects including the Fomena and Bewkai district hospitals which were abandoned. But many have expressed fears that the government may abandon infrastructural projects commenced by the John Mahama government as it has its own plan. ...
The National Media Commission (NMC) has said the JoyNews documentary on the presence of D-Eye group at the Christiansborg Castle in Osu, was in the public interest but cites aspects as sensational. In March this year, government filed a complaint at the Commission against Joy News demanding a retraction and an apology. In a ruling, the Commission commended both The Multimedia Group and the government for pursuing the matter. Below is the NMC ruling: THE NATION ...
The Member of Parliament for Bole-Bamboi constituency in the Savannah region, Hon. Yussif Sulemana has describe as a total failure Akufo-Addo 39;s One Village, One Dam project. In a press statement, the MP said the lack of commitment from government evident in the amount allocated for the construction of each dam is the reason for its massive failure. He queried why a dam that 39;s supposed to cost a minimum of Ghc2.5 million should be constructed at Ghc256,000, adding that, when ...
New School of Education reflects Honoris rsquo; continent-wide goals of improving quality of education in Africa and reimagining teacher education in the 21st century. Honoris United Universities, the first private pan-African higher education network, announces the official launch of the MANCOSA School of Education in South Africa, designed to meet the education and training needs of aspiring teachers and education professionals within the continent. The MANCOSA School of Educatio ...
President Akufo-Addo has thrown his full weight behind KEDA ceramics also known as Twyford, a Chinese manufacturing factory in Shama in the western region for their district industrialization drive in the Western enclave. President Nana Akufo Addo stated that he is throwing his weight behind the company to encourage them to continue with their good job of creating jobs, reducing the import bill for tiles and participation in the government rsquo;s industrialization drive dubbed one dis ...
China rsquo;s ambassador to Ghana Mr Shi Ting Wang says his country has taken a keen interest in the Ghana government rsquo;s industrialization policy of one district one factory and fully supports its operation. He cited China rsquo;s show of support to the 1D1F policy by the massive investments of Chinese companies in the manufacturing industry in Ghana. One such example, according to the Chinese ambassador, is KEDA Ceramics, also known as Twyford ceramics factory in Aboadzi. T ...
A Kumasi based philanthropist Dr. Kwaku Oteng, the MD of Angel Group of Companies, has donated GH cent; 15,000 to the National Ambulance Service, Ashanti Region Branch. The business mogul donation was to be used to maintain some of its broken vehicles to enable the citizenry to access quality health services without difficulties in the region. Presenting the money on Tuesday on behalf for Dr. Kwaku Oteng, a Nurse at Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KMA) Emergency Unit, Mrs. Kate Appiah Boat ...
The leadership of the Kejetia Traders Association has dared the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the Ashanti Region to produce agreement documents between the traders and Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA) in 2015 they claimed they have in their possession. The traders said that there were no verbal or written documents signed during the reign of former KMA boss Hon. Kojo Bonsu, insisting, the Kumasi Mayor were denied them the opportunity to sign a contract with the KMA ...
The Ministry Of Sanitation And Water Resources has issued a statement to address the allegations leveled against Hon. Cecilia Dapaah accusing her of being rude to an Adom FM reporter. The Minister has come under severe backlash in the last 24 hours for questioning the propriety of an intern to interview her and citing that it was disrespectful to her office. In a statement issued by the PR unit of the Ministry, they have sincerely apologized to the Journalist in question as well as ...