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The Omanhene of Kwahu Traditional Area, Daasebre Akuamoah Agyepong II, has donated Five Thousand Ghana Cedis (GH¢5,000) to the winners of this year’s Maths and Science Quiz, Saint Peter’s Senior High School at Nkwatia Kwahu in the Kwahu East District of the Eastern Region.   The donation was made at the Esuno Gyimah Mampong Agyei palace, Kwahu Abene the traditional ...

A research done by the Ghana REDD+ secretariat has identified that agriculture contributes up to 50 per cent to the causes of deforestation in Ghana, This is so because the laws of the country do not favour farmers who nurture trees on their lands as a result of that, they resort to destroying them at a younger stage. “Farmers and ...

Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) has long being devising ways to maximize revenue collection, whilst ensuring the general public efficiently use electric power generated wisely. In their quest to meet this set objective, the Company introduced prepared meters in certain parts of the country in the year 2003. Information gathered at the end of 2004 indicated that ECG was able ...

Recently, following the attack on a woman in a Midland Bank premises in Accra (August 2018), the journalist, the Journalist, Linus Atarah posed the question, “where the women’s organisations in Ghana are?” That set me thinking. My mind went back to the 1990s when civil society, not for profit and non-governmental organisations were active in national life and led advocacy ...

Africa holds 60 percent of the world’s arable land and yet, imports $35 billion worth of food annually. Ghana on the other hand, imports some $2.4 million of food annually. Mr. Ken Ofori-Atta, Minister of Finance, quoting the AFDB Group President, said this when he commissioned the Multi-Purpose building of the West Africa Centre for Crop Improvement(WACCI) of the University ...

A proposal has been made to the government of Ghana to consider the establishment of Disability Desks in all the country’s heath facilities to ensure ease of access by Persons with Disability (PWDs). Such initiative, according to stakeholders, would embolden Persons with Disability to access the health facilities without fear of discrimination, stigmatization and the use of denigrating languages against ...

President of the Sickle Cell Foundation of Ghana, Prof. Kwaku Ohene-Frempong, has called on the Ministry of Health (MoH) to implement the National Programme on Newborn Screening for Sickle Cell Disease (SCD). Prof. Ohene-Frempong, who is a sickle cell expert, disclosed that more undiagnosed sickle cell babies are dying before five years because the programme, which when implemented would ensure ...

The Petroleum Commission (PC) says the Petroleum Local Content and Local Participation Petroleum, 2013 (Legislative Instrument 2204) will be reviewed next year to make it more pragmatic and practical. Mr Kwadwo Asare Kyei, Manager of Local Content, PC, said proposals made towards the making of the new LI bothered on the Joint Venture Formation and some other interpretations of the ...

The National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) will fully roll-out a mechanism to involve the public more in its accountability process, Deputy Chief Executive, Operations, Dr Lydia Baaba Dsane-Selby has said. A lack of proper accountability by some service providers of the national health insurance scheme, and outright fraud, has hobbled development of the scheme for some time now. In a ...

Data released by the Bank of Ghana last week reveals that mobile money is now the leading platform for payments in Ghana outside of cash itself. During the first half of 2018, not only were more payment transactions executed through mobile money than through any other type of non-cash payments platform, but mobile money became the biggest form of payments ...