Новости за 08.12.2019

Following from available evidence, it is the position of STRANEK-Africa that regardless of the political and financial commitment by the government of Ghana towards the establishment of an extensive, reliable, robust and all-encompassing national identification scheme through the National identification Authority, if provisions are not made for capturing and registering at birth, all Ghanaians and resident foreigners born in Ghana as well, the ongoing National Identification Registration woul ...

The Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) of Asokwa Municipal Assembly of the Ashanti region, Akwannuasah Gyimah has charged residents within his municipality to engage in rice farming to reduce dependence on foreign rice in the country. He has charged farmers in the municipality to venture into rice farming as a measure to reduce importation of rice. https://www.youtube.com/embed/ YlrBGLbgNc Speaking at this year 39;s farmers 39; day celebration held in the munic ...

A private legal practitioner, Nii Kpakpo Samoa Addo says President Akufo-Addo had no power in aborting the December 17 referendum. The President on Sunday, December 1, 2019 cancelled the December 17 national referendum which was meant to decide on an amendment of Article 55 (3) of the Constitution to enable political parties to sponsor candidates during local level elections. But speaking on Citi TV/FM 39;s current affairs program The Big Issue, Mr Addo, referring to Article ...

A 63-year-old man has been shot dead by an unknown assailant at Tingo in the Bole District of the Savannah Region. The deceased is an elder of the Pantra ethnic group of the Tinga community. According to the police, the deceased was in his room watching TV on Sunday when the unknown gunman shot through his glass window, hitting his chest and killing him on the spot. Attempts by the family who were in the compound at the time of the incident to trace the assailant was unsuc ...

World Vision Ghana (WVG) in partnership with the Government of Australia has commissioned shea butter processing facilities for the Kanibisi and Sheaga communities in the Talensi District of the Upper East Region at a cost of GH?232,000.00. The intervention is to enable women in the beneficiary communities to take advantage of the abundance of shea nuts and leverage on the shea butter trade to improve and diversify their livelihoods. http://cdn.modernghana.com/images/co ...

Freight forwarders and importers would have to keep squeezing huge sums of monies to be able to clear goods at the Tema Port as management of the Meridian Port Services (MPS) have failed to heed to the Transport Minister, Kwaku Ofori Asiamah rsquo;s directive. The sector Minister directed the Ghana Ports and Habour rsquo;s Authority (GPHA) and MPS to as a matter of urgency reduce the December 2 tariff increment to 40 percent. GPHA and the Meridian Port Services last week annou ...

President Akufo-Addo left Sunday to attend the 9th Summit of the Heads of State and Government of the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States (ACP Group), being held in Nairobi, Kenya. President Akufo-Addo will deliver the opening remarks on behalf of the Africa Group, and later participate in the general debate of Heads of State and Governments. The Summit is being held on the theme ldquo;A Transformed ACP: Committed to Multilateralism. rdquo; He is accompanied by ...

An electrical technician in Kasoa, Central Region who stole meters belonging to the Electricity Company of Ghana has been slapped cent;4,800 by the Accra Circuit Court. John Afadi, 27, was convicted on eight counts including interfering with the ECG system and stealing. The Court also asked Afadi to pay GH cent;2,000 as compensation. Failure to pay the fine, Afadi would spend two years in prison. Manager of the ECG Prosecution Unit, Paul Assisi Abariga, said the Kasoa ...

John Coffie, a 42-year-old farmer from Adaase received the coveted award as the 2019 Municipal Best Farmer at the 35th National Farmers rsquo; Day celebration held at Sanso in Obuasi. Mr Coffie who is a JHS leaver was given a certificate, tricycle, knapsack spraying machine, cutlasses, cloth and keysoap. It was a moment of pride for the man who specializes in vegetable production when he was pronounced winner of the highest municipal farmers rsquo; prize. He attributed his ...

The executives of the Volta Regional Juvenile Club Owners Association of Ghana (JUCOAG) have paid a courtesy call on the newly elected chairman of the Volta Regional Football Association (VRFA), Daniel Agbogah. The meeting which took place in Ho at the Regional FA rsquo;s secretariat was to congratulate Mr. Agbogah for his victory during the just ended election as well as familiarize with the Regional FA. The regional JUCOAG executives were led by their chairman, George Ofori, who sa ...

As Ghana celebrated the efforts and contributions of farmers in the country on December 6th every year, the Member of Parliament (MP) for Akatsi South, Hon. Bernard Ahaifor, has saved the Ghanaian tree crop farmers from a draconian law that could have thrown an innocent peasant farmer to jail. This is as a result of Hon. Ahiafor passionately appealing to Parliament to delete the Clause (c) from the Bill to ensure that no farmer or any person go to prison simply because, he failed to licensed ...

The road which links Dromankese to Busunya in the Nkoranza North District is in a bad state to the extend which has made it very dangerous for human use. During the raining season, it became very difficult for people travel on this road. This has become the plight of the people within Dromankese and it 39;s environment. Looking at this, he tried and mobilized the youth in Dromankese and supported them with his little resources to fetch gravels to fill those dangerous potholes which hav ...

Best of The Best Academy, a private school has held an event to commemorate its 15 years of existence. The event took place on December 6, 2019, at the premises of the school situated at Borkorborkor, a suburb of Ablekuma in Accra. Popularly known a BOB, the school which was established on September 21, 2004, by Mr. and Mrs. Opoku and started with 34 children as its first set of pupils now runs from the Pre-School level through to the Junior High School level with over hundred ...

The Food and Drugs Authority is embarking on a programme dubbed ldquo;One Consumer, One Officer rdquo; in Bono East, Bono and Ahafo regions as part of its efforts to increase awareness on the safety of the various consumables on the market, especially as Christmas is just around the corner. Areas being targeted for the programme this month include Techiman, Kintampo, Sunyani, Berekum, Dormaa Ahenkro, Wenchi, Mim and Goaso. Under the ldquo;One Consumer, One Officer rdquo; pro ...

The District Chief Executive (DCE) for Kwahu East, Hon Isaac Agyapong has said that the New Patriotic Party (NPP) government will continue to prioritize and support agriculture to make the sector one of the most viable driving forces of Ghana rsquo;s economic development and transformation. According to him, President Akufo Addo rsquo;s government will continue to support agriculture through planting for food and jobs and hence will continue the supply of fertilizers, seeds and other i ...