2017

The government will soon establish a commission of enquiry to facilitate the creation of four additional regions in the country, Mr Dan Kwaku Botwe, the Minister of Regional Reorganization and Development, has announced. The…

Two years after launching an academic excellence awards in the South Tongu District, Mr Kobla Mensah Woyome, the MP for the area is rallying stakeholders for support in raising the standards of education. “I believe that, if all…

The Upper West Region has the second lowest HIV prevalence rate of 1.3 per cent in 2015 according to the HIV Sentinel Survey. The Northern Region has the lowest rate of 1.2 per cent out of the 10 regions in Ghana. Mr Amidu Chinnia…

Mr Seth Brako, Assin North Municipal Nutrition Technical Officer, has called on the Government to extend maternity leave to six months to allow working mothers to exclusively breastfeed their babies. He said exclusive breastfeeding for a…

Dr Archibald Yao Letsa, Volta Regional Minister has appealed to the Competitive Cashew Initiative and the German Development Co-operation (GIZ), to help increase cashew production in the Region. He said the Region…

The Assin North District has recorded 273 teenage pregnancies in the first quarter of 2017. This represented an increase of 27 as against the 248 teenage pregnancies recorded around the same time in 2016.…

The Komenda-Edina-Eguafo-Abrem (KEEA) Municipal Assembly on Monday, endorsed Nana Appiah Korang, as its Municipal Chief Executive (MCE). There was celebration by the assembly members and the public who were around to witness the…

Mr Teddy Ofori, the Municipal Chief Executive nominee for the Hohoe Municipality, on Monday failed to secure the approval of the Assembly members for the position. He only managed 24 and 27 votes out of…

No region of the world has ever moved to industrialised economy status without a transformation of the agricultural sector. Agriculture, which contributes 16.2 per cent of the GDP of Africa, and gives some form of employment to…

Ghana like all developing countries is losing billions of dollars to illicit financial outflows and inflows from trade fraud, according to a new report by the NGO, Global Financial Integrity (GFI). Developing countries overall lost…