Новости за 15.10.2019

The Bono Regional Minister, Evelyn Ama Kumi-Richardson, has called for a comprehensive review of the Nation Builders Corps (NaBCo) to find solutions to the implementation challenges. ldquo;As we celebrate the one year anniversary of the programme, I expect that a thorough review of the programme and modules would be undertaken to know if the benchmarks are being met and if there are some shortcomings, they will be appropriately addressed. The Minister said this in Sunyani during th ...

The Nation Builders Corps (NABCO) beneficiaries in Jomoro Municipality of the Western Region, have donated suction machine to Half Assini Government Hospital. The donation forms part of their one year anniversary celebration of the beneficiaries across the country. The donation provided an opportunity for the beneficiary to give back to society. The Akufo-Addo-led government in 2018 employed over 100,000 unemployed graduates to render services in different modules of progr ...

President Akufo-Addo has emphasised on his commitment to the quality of education in the country to help in transforming the economy. He has, however appealed to final year students to study hard to get good results in the WASSCE next year. President Akufo-Addo speaking to a gathering of students, teachers and staff at the Koforidua Senior High Technical School (SECTECH) at his last day tour to the Eastern Region urged the first batch students of the Free Senior High School policy to put c ...

Rome, 15 October 2019 ndash; With over 80 per cent of the Sudanese labour force engaged in agriculture, a new euro;77.7 million programme that aims to increase food security and ensure access to natural resources is a vital investment in Sudan rsquo;s future. The project will benefit about 720,000 vulnerable smallholders, pastoralists and agropastoralists in nine states, across three regions. The financing agreement for the Sustainable Natural Resources and Livelihoods Programme ( ...

Students of the Tema branch of Gimpa have honoured Dr Adu Boateng, CEO of Endpoint Homeopathic Clinic for his outstanding contribution to effective healthcare delivery in Ghana, his committed to the global Breast Cancer fight and for his charitable contributions to various Ghanaian communities. On Saturday, October 13, as part of activities to mark this year rsquo;s Breast Cancer month and to honour those who continue to generously dedicate their expertise and resource to the fight against Br ...

Street and Homeless Shelter Foundation, a non-governmental organization (NGO) has feted the poor and needy children at Madina in the Greater Accra region. The NGO made several donations to head porters, otherwise known as 39;kayaye 39;. The Executive Director of the NGO, Adelaide Abena Frimpomaa, described the conditions of the 39;kayaye 39; as worrying and needs collaborative efforts from all to solve it. According to her, the NGO was set up to build the capacity of the st ...

The driver of the bus at the center of the controversy at Effiduase-Asokore constituency in the Ashanti region of Ghana has stated on Fox Fm 39;s morning show hosted by the award winner Oheneba Nana Asiedu that, the member of Parliament for the area Hon Nana Ayew Afriye never slapped the District Chief Executive of the area. The bus driver at Asokore AMASS, Hakim explains that as an eyewitness; the legislator even opened the gate for him to enter his car to ignite the car engine when ...

Farmers and Agricultural Extension Officers in Afram Plains have welcomed marketing opportunities under the Ghana Warehouse Receipt System (WRS) at a capacity building workshop organized by the International Finance Corporation (IFC) at Afram Plains. They believe that the WRS project will help address the challenge of access to market as well as access to credit and storage facilities. ldquo;I believe this project is going to solve our problems because it is going to give us easy ...

A good person who comes in touch with wicked people provokes a surge of greater wickedness in them. Said Jesus. Only wicked people give or take bribes, payola, or other payoffs. The Lord God has commanded us: And you shall take no bribe, for a bribe blinds the officials, and subverts the cause of those who are in the right. (Exodus 23.8) And saint Paul tells us, that: ... wrong-doers will not inherit the kingdom of God. This means that the ...

When Ghana 39;s President Akufo-Addo was sworn into office in January 2017, he admonished Ghanaians to be active citizens, not passive citizens - so as to hold their elected leaders to account by implication. The time has come for Akyems who care about their natural heritage, to be active citizens - and condemn in no uncertain terms, Hon.Yaw Osafo Marfo, the Senior Minister, and Vice President Bawumia, who went to China to sell the birthright of Akyems, without our permission. They sods. ...

The National Poultry Farmers Association has celebrated World Eggs Day with a call on pregnant women to consume more eggs in order for the brains of their babies to develop well. At the National celebration in Kumasi last Friday, the National Chairman of the Poultry Farmers Association, Mr. Victor Oppong Adjei said one of the nutrients found in eggs called 39;cholen 39; is really helpful to brain development especially in babies. Calling on all pregnant women to eat more eg ...

Madam Gifty Ayeh, a former national treasurer of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) popularly known as Daavi has advised beleaguered Prof Ransford Gyampo of the Political Science Department of the University of Ghana, Legon, to scale down on talks on air. She said Prof. Gyampo must allow for the investigative machinery set in motion to adjudicate on the allegations made against him and one other Prof. Butakor, of the Education Department. Daavi opined that since the BBC aired exce ...

Aggrieved contractors who were allegedly duped by Mr Frank Akulley, the CEO of Ghana First Company Limited (GFCL) have burst out their frustrations. According to them, on the 7th of May 2018, Graphics online published an article titled: Boost for sanitation efforts , Ghana First Company to build 20,000 modern toilet facilities across the country. This led to the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with a German firm, Thermodul Systems GmBH with an amount of three t ...

The Barbecue Masters has partnered with the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) to celebrate the world egg day under the theme; An Egg a Day is a Whole Meal. The organization, knowing the benefit of eggs for children, chose the Independence avenue 1and 2 clusters of schools in Accra and distributed thousand five hundred eggs to the school children from kindergarten to the Junior High School (JHS). Hon. K Clottey, from the Mayor rsquo;s office spoke to the children about the benefit ...

Residents of Adeiso in the Eastern Region have bemoaned the continued abandonment of certain projects embarked upon by the previous Mahama administration. They mentioned a sacks (kotoku) factory put up at Adeiso to take care of the country 39;s sack needs for fertiliser, groundouts, maize and numerous other produce. The project costing the tax-payer millions of hard currency, was over 90 percent complete before the NDC lost power. However the project had been left to gather weeds a ...

One of the country rsquo;s finest radio presenters, Frankie Taylor, is gearing up to celebrate his 20th anniversary on Fox Fm 97.9 in Kumasi, the Ashanti regional capital. Frankie Taylor, an actor, movie producer and philanthropist, has for the past 20 years, worked diligently as a radio broadcaster and was adjudged as the Best Music Promoter at the Ghana DJ Awards for 2013. He had disclosed to the Punch newspaper that a number of activities have been lined up to celebrate his 20 yea ...

The President of the Republic of Ghana, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo 39;s government, has made it clear, his intention to eradicate corruption from his party. It is very amazing to realize that there is a missing link in the awards of contracts on Railway development in Ghana allegedly awarded by the sector minister who has allegedly failed to adhere to best practices in contract procurement governance. Documents sighted during the course of our investigations, which is still ongoin ...

An Educationist and a Social Commentator, Mr. George Akom, has described the Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE) curriculum which was expected to be implemented by the Ghana Education Service (GES) under the Ministry of Education (MoE) as not a bad programme for our current socio-cultural dynamism of the youth. He continued that, CSE dates back to early 1957 had gone through transitional stages till now which was carried out in different forms with different expressive names under ...