Новости за 30.10.2019

Former Central Regional Chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Bernard Allotey Jacobs, has expressed worry about the state of the road infrastructure in the country. He said the recent rains had compounded the problems and further exposed the bad nature of roads making it difficult for the public to go about their day-to-day activities. According to him, the quality and state of roads indicate that roads in the country have been poorly built and deteriorated at a fast p ...

The Chief Executive Officer of Public Sector Reforms, Thomas Kusi Boafo has said the agricultural sector failed under the erstwhile John Mahama but says Akufo-Addo rsquo;s leadership has witnessed a tremendous improvement in that sector. According to him, the former President failed to prioritize the agricultural sector, resulting in the low number of Agric Extension Officers, low harvests and lack of financing for the sector. Mr. Kusi Boafo said, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Ad ...

Executives of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) at the Sekondi Constituency says they suspect the constituency treasurer was shot by a hired assassin. Party executives at a press conference this morning said the deceased had written on his WhatsApp status that his life was in danger. Class Fm rsquo;s Western Regional Correspondent Nana Kumi, reported that executives categorically stated, they suspect a deliberate plot in the murder of the constituency. The constituency Treasur ...

Interregional Maritime Security Institute (ISMI) has organized a four day seminar to build capacity of officers of the Yaound eacute; architecture coordination centres and maritime operational centres in the Gulf of Guinea countries with simple and inexpensive tools for exploiting maritime information and intelligence in order to enable effective operational action at Abidjan from 08 to 11th October 2019. The seminar under the theme, Maritime information and intelligence: targ ...

The newly-elected Executive Director of Danquah Institute, Richard Ahiagbah, denied media reports that he referred to former President John Dramani Mahama as a ldquo;shameless old man without sense. rdquo; According to a statement signed by him and sighted by Modern Ghana, he noted that aside the article being false, it seeks to tarnish his image. The caption is false, misleading and amounts to a mean attempt by the author to distort and divert attention from the issues. It ...

The Metropolitan Chief Executive (MCE) for Kumasi, Mr. Osei Assibey Antwi says stores allocated to deserving and validated traders cannot be transferred to anyone or a third party. He also noted that no trader who has been allocated store or stall can sell it to another person or trade it off. Addressing the media this Tuesday on projects, programs and initiatives the Assembly has undertaken in the area of education, sports, health, security, trade, and culture as well as othe ...

Former Central Regional Chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Bernard Allotey Jacobs, has expressed disappointment in the previous and current governments for failing to deal with the perennial flooding in the country. Accra continues to sink in water at any time it rains as a result of choked drains that do not allow the free flow of water. He has urged the government to promote a holistic approach to flood management in communities along the Odaw Stream, which ...

The government says it is hopeful the country 39;s Energy Sector will be more efficiency when ongoing reviews in the sector are completed. A review of take or pay clauses in the country rsquo;s power purchase agreements is currently underway following the setting up of a steering committee under the Energy Sector Recovery Task Force tasked to make recommendations on the sector. Finance Minister, Ken Ofori Atta announced this as part of engagements with stakeholders including diploma ...

Irate drivers and road users at Apam in the Gomoa West District of the Central Region have given government a one-month ultimatum to fix their roads or face their wrath. The angry drivers hit the streets of Apam on Tuesday, clad in red, chanted war songs and burnt tyres as a way of showing their displeasure at the government for failing to fix their roads. http://cdn.modernghana.com/images/content/10302019113606-n6iul8w331-img-20191028-wa0030-1024x768.jpg ...

Ghanaian landscapes are marked by multiple and competing resource frontiers, from the cocoa-forests and oil palm belts in the high-forest zone (HFZ) to converging shea parklands and pastoral lands of the northern savannah. Widespread mining and complex tenure arrangements overlay, and sometimes further undermine, efforts to design long-vision resource management plans. With the aim to address these issues, the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) has launched two new projects ...