Miss Metropolitan Intellectual Pageant 2020 to be launched in July

The maiden edition of the annual Miss Metropolitan Intellectual beauty pageant will be launched in Accra in July, 2020. The Miss Metro Foundation, organizers of the pageant said it was aimed at crowning a beauty queen who would become a campaign ambassador for sanitation in Ghana and the various Metropolises. The launch of the pageant […]

Premier League players to wear ‘Black Lives Matter’ on shirts

Premier League players’ names will be replaced on the back of their shirts with ‘Black Lives Matter’ for the first 12 matches of the restarted season. The Premier League will also support any player who chooses to ‘take a knee’ before or during matches. “We, the players, stand together with the singular objective of eradicating […]

Sefwi Wiawso: Illegal chainsaw menace reduced by 80%

The Sefwi Wiawso District of the Forestry Commission has announced that the menace of illegal chainsaw operations has been reduced by 80 percent. The Outgoing Manager of Sefwi Wiawso Forest District, Nana Poku Bosompim, said this in an interview at Bosomoiso in the Sefwi Wiawso Municipality of the Western North Region. He said the Commission […]

Gender Minister donates PPE to Council of Churches in Agona West

Minister for Gender, Children and Social Protection, Mrs Cynthia Mamle Morrison has donated Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) worth GH¢25,000 to the Swedru Council of Churches to enable them to follow the COVID-19 protocols while church services resumed. The items were 25 veronica buckets with stands, 100 boxes of alcohol-based hand sanitizers, 100 bottles of liquid […]

POS Foundation donates to Sunyani Central Prisons towards covid-19 fight

The POS Foundation, known for its work in facilitating the Justice for All Programme, has donated a cheque of ¢2,000.00, Four Automated Handwashing Machines, Gallons of liquid soap and Infrared Thermometers among other items to the Sunyani Central Prisons in the Bono Region. The package is aimed at assisting the Correctional Facility continue its effort […]

NECPAD set to fight child labour

The Network for Community Planning and Development (NECPAD) is set to fight child labour in 30 fishing communities in 13 districts of Ghana through the “Sustainable Nets” project. Mr Paul Asamoah Kukwaw, the NECPAD Executive Director, said the project had a funding support from the European Union and would contribute to the elimination of the […]

Heated exchanges in Parliament over Affordable Housing Projects

There were heated exchanges between Members of the Minority and the Minister for Works and Housing, Samuel Atta Akyea over his choice of words in response to a question on the status of the Affordable Housing projects started under the Kufour administration. In the response, Mr. Atta Akyea indicated that both the Prof. Mills and […]

Elections 2020: Electoral Commission to appear in Parliament on Tuesday

The Electoral Commission will on Tuesday appear before the Special Budget Committee of Parliament to brief Members on the Commission’s preparedness for the conduct of the 2020 general election. Minority MPs have been pushing for the Chairperson of the EC and the other officials to appear before the House for several weeks now. The Majority […]

NIA to distribute over 200,000 Ghana cards in Volta/Oti Regions

A total of 145,452 and 100,330 printed Ghana Cards are to be distributed by the National Identification Authority (NIA) to owners in the Volta and Oti Regions respectively. Assistant Commissioner of Immigration, Mr Francis Palmdeti, Head of Corporate Affairs of the NIA, who disclosed this to the Ghana News Agency in an interview said the […]

Ashanti Region EC Director denies vital documents and gadgets theft

The Ashanti Regional Director of the Electoral Commission, Benjamin Bannor Bio has denied media reports that the Commission’s District office at Afigya Kwabre South has been burgled, with some vital documents and gadgets stolen. Speaking to Radio Ghana in Kumasi, Mr. Banor Bio explained that the District Assembly offered two rooms at the District’s ICT […]