Новости за 02.12.2019

The National Identification Authority (NIA) will begin the mass registration exercise in the Ashanti region from Wednesday, 11 November, 2019 and ends on Wednesday, January 8, 2020, for the issuance of the Ghana Card. The exercise starts from 7:00am to 5:00pm, and will be conducted at 833 NIA operational registration centres across 47 districts in the region, with 15,000 NIA officials to speed the exercise. Executive Secretary of the NIA, Prof. Kenneth Attafuah, announcing this at a ...

The United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) in collaboration with the International Trade Centre (ITC) and the Government of Cote d lsquo;Ivoire is organising a workshop to validate the National Strategy and set up the guidance mechanism of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) for the country. The workshop, from December 4-5, is part of a technical assistance project aiming at deepening trade integration through effective AfCFTA implementation led by ECA in collaborati ...

It was meant to maintain order and make our metropolis, our malls and massive markets more civil and modern. However, by their mercenary manners and dubious modus operandi, the men mandated by the Metropolitan authorities to make the measures work, have rather made things matchlessly murkier and life more meaningless for many a motorist, merchant and major patrons of our many mushrooming markets. The Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) rolled out a very laudable initiative, ldquo;Sustai ...

A research conducted by the Media Intelligence Solutions Limited (MIS), a media research and consultancy firm in Tamale has revealed that, despite the several development policies and interventions initiated by the NPP government, the Metropolitan, Municipal, and District Chief Executives (MMDCEs ) in the Northern Region failed to project them to the people. According to the MIS research findings, most of the MMDCEs though have been initiating a number of interventions in their respect ...

Fourteen persons have been granted bail during in-prison court proceedings under the Justice For All Programme (JFAP) held at the Ho Central Prisons in the Volta Region. The Justice for All Programme started in 2000, and it is aimed at easing prison overcrowding through setting up special court sittings to adjudicate cases of prisoners on remand. At the Ho Central Prisons, the hearings which involved 27 applications also saw two discharged unconditionally, two convicted, but b ...

Children with Dyslexia, a Specific Learning Difficulty that affects a person rsquo;s ability to read, write and spell are 3 times more at risk to commit suicide than children without Dyslexia, says the Project Director of Special Attention Project (SAP). According to Mr. Richard O. Opoku, unidentified and untreated Dyslexia can cause serious psychological and emotional problems such as depression and anxiety. ldquo;When dyslexic children repeatedly fail to perform in school, they f ...

A day rsquo;s seminar organised by Gloryhill Women Empowerment Foundation has taken place in Kete Krachi in the Oti Region. The Programme which sought to encourage women to take note of important issues which directly or indirectly affect their aspirations for leadership, took place on Thursday 28th November, 2019 specifically at Kete-Krachi Senior High under the theme, ldquo;Breaking the Glass Ceiling rdquo;. The programme began with some soul-soothing music from Mega Praise that ...

The Senior Executive Liaison Officer at the Office of the Chief Executive of the Volta River Authority (VRA), in Charge of Stakeholder Engagement for the Pwalugu Multi-Purpose Dam and Irrigation Project, Mr. David Prah, says the Pwalugu Multipurpose Dam and Irrigation Project is indeed the Game Changer. The Pwalugu Multi-Purpose Dam and Irrigation Project is a Roller Compacted Concrete (RCC) dam with earth and rockfill abutments and an elevation of 168m above sea level and a reservoi ...

Chief of Pepesah, a farming community in the Prestea Huni- Valley Municipality in the Western Region has expressed gratitude to the mining firm, Gold Fields Ghana Limited, for considering their health needs. He told modernghana.com at the sidelines of the commemoration of World AIDS Day at Pepesah. The Odikro for the community, Nana John Dziwornu said, for the mining company to mark the World AIDS day in his community signifies how Gold Fields has them at heart. Nana Dziwornu said, the ...

Team Nyankonton has emerged as winners in the first-ever Hult Prize on-campus contest at the Christian Service University College (CSUC) in Kumasi, Ghana. The contest which was keenly partaken by four final teams selected from 16 teams in the preliminary stage ignited entrepreneurial spirits in many other students who pledged to join the next challenge. Judges on the day expressed delight at the performance of some of the teams however cautioning them to read wide, stay focused and ...