75 Students get Scholarship for further studies from Gold Fields Ghana
By Marie Aziz Tunde The Damang Mine of Gold Fields Ghana has through the Gold Fields Ghana Foundation offered 75 students from the Company’s operational areas full scholarships worth $240,000 to pursue tertiary education. The scholarships cover fees, hostel accommodation and academic materials. This comes under the education and skills development intervention programme of the […]
Bulgarian Embassy land: Minority demands full-scale enquiry
By Edzorna Francis Mensah The Minority in Parliament led by MP for North Tongu and Ranking Member on Foreign Affairs Committee, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa has called for a full-scale enquiry into the demolition of the Bulgarian Embassy in Accra. According to him, “without a scintilla of doubt, Ghana’s conduct amounts to a grotesque violation of […]
General Secretary ensures equitable distribution of gains in Africa Continental Free Trade
By Nathaniel Nartey The Secretary-General of the Africa Continental Free Trade Area HE. Wamkele Mene has pledged to ensure the equitable distribution of the gains of the AfCFTA as the Secretariat continues with moves to fully implement the agreement. This according to HE. Wamkele Mene is the sure way of Sustaining the Secretariat. He said, […]
Only 4 MRI machines active – Ghana’s Health Minister
By Edzorna Francis Mensah The Minister of Health has confirmed that Ghana has only four active Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) machines stationed in selected Government Hospitals. According to the Minister, Kwaku Agyeman-Menu four (4) out of the seven (7) Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) Machines in major hospitals across the country are functional. The Minister in […]
CLOGSAG asks Gov’t stay away from Civil Service business
By Edzorna Francis Mensah Civil and Local Government Staff Association, Ghana (CLOGSAG) has accused the Deputy Minister of Local Government and Rural Development of breaching article 195(1) of the 1992 Constitution by appointing a “known” politician in person of Henrietta Lamptey as Registrar of Birth and Death Department. According to CLOGSAG, the position of Registrar […]
Let’s Be Responsible In Waste Disposal– Asenso Boakye
By Ruth Adjorlolo The Minister for Works and Housing, Francis Asenso-Boakye has expressed grave worry about peoples’ subculture of dumping household solid waste into open drains, which continue to have an adverse effect on government’s efforts in improving communities resilience to flooding. Mr. Asenso-Boakye said the safety of Communities especially those in flood-prone areas should […]
National Reading Radio Programme records 50% listenership
By Racheal Kakraba End line survey of the National Reading Radio Programme, NRRP indicates the programme achieved a fifty percent Listenership, among beneficiaries within a year and half implementation. This is an increase in listenership which was at 27 percent at the commencement of the programme. 57 percent of children also moved up to a […]
World Water Day: Research Institute makes case for access to groundwater to address drought
By Ewurabena Paha The Water Research Institute says northern Ghana can totally eradicate drought if groundwater resources in that part of the country is properly accessed. The challenge however is the right technologies needed in drilling for groundwater. Activities of unqualified groundwater drillers also affect the quality of the resource underground. These came up at […]
Ghana to host maiden external Community Court Justice of ECOWAS next week
By Roslyn Gayaglo Ghana will for the first time host the external court session of the Community Court of Justice, (CCJ) ECOWAS, since its introduction in March 2007 in Mali. Sixty pending cases have been listed for the session and scheduled to take place at the Law Court Complex in Accra over 11 days, from […]
No water for residents of Frafraha in Greater Accra
By Francisca Maame Esi Quainoo Residents of Frafraha in the Greater Accra region still lack access to potable water. Most of them have resorted to boreholes or buying water from tankers and vendors. These were revealed when members of the Ghana WASH Journalists Network, visited some communities in Accra to assess the water situation as […]
