August 2013

The Girls Education Unit of the Ghana Education Service, in collaboration with Plan Ghana, on Tuesday opened a Girls Camp to encourage participants to appreciate the value of education. The 10-day residential meeting, which is under Plan…

Breast Care International (BCI), a breast cancer awareness organisation in Kumasi, is leading the effort at establishing the first-ever “Peer-Nurse Navigation Programme” for breast cancer patients. The concept is based on “helping others…

Dr Joyce Aryee, Management and Communications Consultant, has observed that graduate unemployment is a matter of choice. “To call yourself unemployed because you have not achieved what you are looking for does not make you unemployed,”…

The Okyehene, Osagyefo Amoatia Ofori-Panin on Tuesday urged Ghanaians to have faith in the nine Justices of the Supreme Court to deliver justice come August 29 on the 2012 Presidential Election Petition. He said: “The nine justices will…

Mr Sam Okudzeto, a legal luminary on Tuesday said Ghana could not afford to fail as a nation, which required all and sundry to appreciate and tolerate one another. He said as a nation, we made serious errors in the past because of…

Mr Patrick Victor Obeng, a Senior Presidential Adviser, has called on Ghanaians to ensure that the outcome of the election petition case before the Supreme Court would unite the country more than ever. He said Ghanaians should see…

MasterCard, a technology company in the global payments industry, has appointed Ezediashi Ofili as Vice President and Business Leader to drive the growth of its Prepaid Business in sub-Saharan Africa. He will also oversee MasterCard’s…

The government has set up a committee to settle a boundary dispute between Agona West Municipal and Agona East District Assembly. Nana Oduro Kwarteng, the Gyantuahene of Agona Swedru, made this known when he addressed a durbar of chiefs…

Government will not be able to achieve its target of appointing 30 per cent of women to head Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDAs) due to “structural difficulties,” says Dr Raymond Atuguba, Executive Secretary to the…

The growing number of microfinance companies in Ghana is seen as a threat to commercial banks. Their growth has even reduced commercial banks' share in total assets, according to the Bank of Ghana. While the banking sector has not…