Government has plans to promote women’s empowerment in rural areas – Minister of fisheries and aquaculture
The Deputy Minister of Fisheries and Aquaculture, Francis Ato Cudjoe, says government has plans to promote rural women’s empowerment in the country. This, according to him, will help them take up new roles in their chosen fields. The Deputy Fisheries Minister said this at the 20th anniversary of Development Action Association at Kokrobite. It focused […]
GSS unveils five-year Corporate Plan
Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) has launched five-year new Corporate Plan to support and speed up national development as it promises to provide accurate data. The new Corporate Plan sets out how the GSS will lead the efficient collection, production, management and dissemination of quality Official Statistics to provide Ghana with the needed data for the […]
Ghana still suffers in nutrition-related diseases – Planning Minister
Minister for Planning, Professor George Gyan-Baffour, has said despite the commendable progress made in reducing malnutrition over the last three decades, Ghana still suffers from the triple burden of malnutrition, under-nutrition, over nutrition and micro-nutrition deficiencies. He said this burden had yielded direct and indirect causes to individuals, families and the nation as a whole. […]
Man fakes own kidnapping to get out of attending his wedding
When it comes to backing out of a wedding, faking your own kidnapping sounds like overkill, but that didn’t stop a Colombian man from using this technique to avoid attending his own wedding. The unnamed 55-year-old man, from the Colombian town of Pitalito, was scheduled to marry his fiancee, a local woman, in front of […]
Patriotic Gents organise health screening in Kpando
Patriotic Gents (PG), an all-male humanitarian group affiliated to the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), has organised a day’s health screening exercise for about 500 residents in Kpando Municipality. Mr Godwin Adae-Mensah, the National President of PG, said President Akufo-Addo needed four more years as President to continue the good works he was doing and […]
Ningo-Prampram Education Directorate receives studydesks
The Ningo-Prampram Education Directorate in the Greater Accra Region has received 1,000 mono and dual desks to be distributed to local schools. The desks, which were presented by the Ningo-Prampram District Assembly (NiPDA) formed part of a total of 3,000 furniture package which include teachers’ tables and chairs. Mr. Jonathan Teye Doku, Ningo-Prampram District Chief […]
adidas launch Predator 20 Mutator to be worn by Pogba
The sportswear manufacturer is set to launch their latest model and it promises to be another classic in the making. Every now and then, a brand launches a boot that becomes an instant classic. The adidas Predator that got released in 1994 falls into that category, with superstars such as David Beckham and Zinedine Zidane […]
New Voters Register: Political parties asked to assist EC
The National Democratic Congress (NDC) says the party will advise itself if the Electoral Commission (EC) defies all the controversies and goes ahead with the compilation of the new Voters’ Register. Director of IT of the NDC, Kwame Griffiths says the EC must have the interest of the state at heart, considering the issues coming […]
Billionaire pays Zimbabwe doctors to return to work
Zimbabwe’s junior doctors have agreed to return to work, ending a strike that has lasted for over four months, after they accepted an offer from a Zimbabwean telecoms billionaire. The strike was one of the longest in the country’s history and brought the public healthcare system to its knees. UK-based Strive Masiyiwa will pay each […]
Smoking ‘Shisha’
Abul-Fath Gilani, in an attempt to purify smoke through water in a glass base called a ‘Shisha’, he invented the Hookah. Hookah also known as Shisha. Shisha became a term used by people from Middle Eastern and Asian for smoking a tobacco substance through a bowl or pipe Shisha smoking is now practiced almost every […]
