Новости за 20.08.2019

The Council of State says Ghana is blessed to have in the President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, a listening President who takes his advisors seriously, and respects their inputs. This, according to the Council of State, is based, amongst others, on the expeditious manner the President accepted and implemented the recommendation for a downward revision of the tariff regime at the country rsquo;s port of entry, barely six weeks after a meeting at Jubilee House. The C ...

The Ghana Strengthening and Accountability Mechanism GSAM project has held a day rsquo;s sensitization program for assembly members and heads of various departments in Atebubu. The project which seeks to encourage citizen rsquo;s participation in local governance started in 2014 and runs in 100 districts countrywide. It is funded by the United States Agency for International Development USAID with CARE, ISODEC and OXFAM as the consortium. Welcoming participants, the Planning Officer ...

iWatch Africa investigation into the number of direct jobs lost as a result of the Bank of Ghana (BoG) clean-up of the banking and specialized deposit-taking and non-banking financial institutions sectors has revealed that over 6000 people have directly lost their jobs since 2017. The clean-up exercise which began in August 2017 has resulted in the revocation of the licenses of 9 universal banks, 347 microfinance companies, 39 microcredit companies, 15 savings and loans companies, eigh ...

The Sawla-Tuna-Kalba District NaBCo Secretariat with the support of District Assembly has trained about 41 NABCo trainees as field agents for the upcoming National digital addressing system. The District NABCO Coordinator, Mr. Soale Adams Alele, addressing the NaBCo Trainees elaborates on the need to take the exercise serious. He said, the digital property addressing system which is a nationwide exercise has NaBCo been central in executing the projects in collaboration with the MMDA ...

About 52 Ghanaian nationals have been deported from the United States and Saudi Arabia to Ghana. According to the PRO of the Kotoka International Airport (KIA) Command of the GIS, ASI Barbara Sam, said 40 of the deportees who were from the US, arrived onboard an Omini chartered Boeing 777-OAE 328 aircraft. The deportees aged between 21-70 and a gender distribution of 38 males and two females were deported for offences such as trafficking in banned substances, assault, vehicle ...

Ghana and Russia are looking forward to signing a visa-free access for holders of diplomatic and service passports between Ghana and Russia. The move is to further deepen the two nations bilateral relations. Ghana rsquo;s Minister of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey, made this known at a joint press conference after holding talks with her Russian counterpart, Sergey Lavrov, in Moscow on Tuesday, August 20, 2019. Both foreign ministers disc ...

The Deputy Chief Executive Officer (DCEO) of MASLOC, an aspiring Member of Parliament (MP) for Yendi Constituency of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Hajia Abibata Shanni Mahama Zakariah has made a timely donation of cartons of medical consumables to the Yendi Municipal Government Hospital in the Northern Region. The donation follows her usual natural drive to give back to the society, and the public outcry over the frequent shortages of basic medical supplies or consumables the hospital ...

The Railway Sector Minister who is also the Member of Parliament for Essikado-Ketan constituency Joe Ghartey has challenged the Sekondi Takoradi Chamber of Commerce and Industries (STCCI) to develop an industrial park around the enclave of the railway sector. The minister 39;s challenge was established when the Sekondi-Takoradi Chamber of Commerce and Industry in collaboration with the Ghana Railway Development Authority held a public lecture in Takoradi during their Annual General M ...

An Energy Expert and former Chief Executive of the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC), Mr Alex Mould has chided government's assertion that it made over $7billion savings from the cancellation of some Power Purchase Agreements (PPA)'s signed erstwhile in President Mahama's administration. He said a PPA is signed between Independent Power Plant (IPP) investor and the offtaker (in this case Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG)), and that no where was Government directly a party to that ...

GENEVA ndash; The aquarium industry poses a serious threat to ornamental coral reef fishes throughout the oceans. Yet there are hardly any regulations, controls or information on the impact of this trade on species and marine ecosystems. The CITES Conference of the Parties (CoP18), today approved a proposal by Switzerland, the European Union and the United States to rectify this situation, and to produce a comprehensive study on the aquarium industry, so that measures are taken before it is ...

The West African Regional Director of Alliance for Green Revolution Alliance (AGRA), Foster Boateng has disclosed that Ghana will be hosting a three day African Green Revolution Forum (AGRF) 2019 which will evaluate how far the continent has progressed in the past decade and also look at ways to jumpstart what needs to be done differently in the next 5-10 years to put Africa rsquo;s agriculture on a new footing with digitalization being hailed as ...

Good morning Ladies and Gentlemen of the Press. Thank you for coming to this event meant to provide you with the detailed state of our companies especially, what has bedeviled Menzgold for the past twelve months and the way forward. May I state humbly that, this communication is without Prejudice. First of all, let me start by praying the almighty God for grace today and to thank him gratefully as we count our many blessings. Let me also take the opportunity to thank the Government o ...

Lance Corporal Simon Ekpeagba Agbeko is a Police officer with the Accra Regional Police Command. He is an officer who has devoted himself and donates pair of crutches to the physically challenged persons on the street of Accra, as one of his endeavours to help the needy in the society. The mark of a Simon Agbeko is how he keeps giving to the people who really need the help consistently over a period of time. Simon Agbeko has decided to contribute his quota to the development of the ...