Inflation up by 0.4% to close the year 2021
By Edzorna Francis Mensah The year-on-year inflation rate as measured by the Consumer Price Index (CPI) has gone up by 0.4% by 12.6 % in December 2021 with a monthly change rate of 1.23 % within the same period under review. The Food and Non-alcoholic beverages recorded a year-on-year inflation rate of 12.8 % whereas […]
National PR and Communications Summit slated for Jan 19 to 22
By Henrietta Afful Twitter: @AffulHetty Public Relations and Communications practitioners in Ghana will meet in Akosombo from 19th to 22nd January 2022 for the Institute of Public Relations-Ghana (IPR-Ghana) National PR and Communications Summit. The three-day event will focus on the theme, “Truth Well Told and Shared.” In a statement, IPR-Ghana said the Summit is […]
Zipline Ghana partners NSMQ to make study of Math & Science more enjoyable
Joyce Kantam Kolamong Zipline Ghana in collaboration with the National Science and Math Quiz, NSMQ, has instituted a learnership programme aimed at promoting and making the study of Science, Technology, Engineering and Math, STEM, more appealing and enjoyable. The programme is giving opportunity to students from less endowed schools who qualify to quarter finals of […]
AFCON 2021: Medics are in constant touch with Ajax on Kudus fitness, FA Boss
By: Tilda Acorlor The President of the Ghana Football Association (GFA), Kurt Okraku has revealed medics of the senior national team, the Black Stars are in constant touch with Ajax for Mohamed Kudus to join the BlackStars in Cameroon. Kudus was part of Milovan Rajevac’s final list for the ongoing 2021 Africa Cup of Nations […]
₵200,000 available for Ghanaian Youth under Obatanpa Cares programme
By Vanessa Adjei The National Entrepreneurship and Innovation programme, NEIP, through the Ministry of Finance has launched the Youth in Innovative Agriculture Support in Accra. The Initiative which is under the Ghana Obantanpa programme seeks to help the youth to venture into farming using modern technology. ₵ 20 to ₵ 200,000 worth of funding will […]
Ghana Medical Association describes anti-vaccine sentiments from some colleague Doctors as ‘misleading’
The Ghana Medical Association has described the contents of a petition against the vaccine roll out filed by some doctors as misleading, unfortunate and not based on available local and international scientific data. A statement jointly signed by the President and General Secretary of the Association said in an era of evidence based medicine, it […]
Nigeria: Ban on Twitter lifted
Nigeria has lifted the ban on Twitter, seven months after clamping down on the social networking site. Nigeria’s government suspended Twitter last June after the company deleted a tweet by president Muhammadu Buhari about punishing regional secessionists. Authorities accused the social media firm of siding with the secessionists. But the government said it was reversing […]
Another collision at Zebra Crossing infront of GBC
A driver who was believed to be adhering to road safety rules by allowing a Pedestrian to access the Zebra Crossing infront of the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation, GBC on the Ring Road Central had his car smashed by a speeding vehicle. A driver of Toyota Vitz with registration number GS 242-21 was stopping for […]