August 2013

It has become necessary to re-engineer academic curricula using more focused and appropriate methods that go beyond cognitive mastery of disciplines, an educational manager, has said. Mrs Cynthia Siaw Agyapong, the manager, said the…

Mr. Abu Kabiebata Kansangbata, the Deputy Upper West Regional Minister, has said some residential facilities belonging to nurses in Wa were being converted into alcohol drinking spots by people believed to be illegal occupants. He…

Ghana bid farewell to the World Athletics Championship underway in Moscow, Russia after Janet Amponsah failed to go past the 200m heats. Amponsah, the nation’s torchbearer for the global championship finished bottom (7th position) in the…

Mr Raphael Godlove Ahenu,  Chief Executive Officer of Global Media Foundation (GLOMEF), a non-governmental organisation said, youth unemployment was a serious problem that needed a radical approach to tackle. He emphasized the need for…

The rate of reduction in malaria cases in the Northern Region is slower than targeted despite interventions, making it the number one cause of death especially in children below five years and in pregnant women. The Region recorded a total…

Several public toilets in the Ho Municipality are without hand-washing facilities. Out of 21 public latrines, only seven are water closets with improvised hand washing facilities, the Ghana News Agency has found out. Patrons of the seven…

The Senior Presidential Advisor, Paul Victor Obeng, yesterday, August 14, 2013 opened Ghana’s longest running water, sanitation and hygiene conference at Fumesua, near Kumasi in the Ashanti Region, with a call on the about 140…

The government is to expand the local bond market in order to raise internally generated funds to finance long-term development projects in the country. Most of these bonds will be listed on the Ghana Stock Exchange (GSE), to give…

An estimated 33,185 teachers have abandoned their posts in recent years to seek greener pastures elsewhere.  Low salaries, poor infrastructure, delayed promotion, lack of motivation by managers of the system and wrong perception about the…

Ghana’s oil industry is expected to rake in $20 billion in investment in the next five years. The Minister of Energy and Petroleum, Mr Emmanuel Kofi Armah-Buah, announced this at the launch of the GNPC Oil and Gas Learning Foundation in…