2017

The Ho Municipality has recorded a decline in Malaria cases from 60,000 in 2015 to 49,000 in 2016, Dr. Senanu Kwesi Dzokoto, Municipal Director of the Ghana Health Service said on Tuesday. He further revealed that under-five…

Mr Ambrose Dery, the Minister of the Interior, has on the advice of the Northern Regional Security Council and by Executive Instrument renewed the curfew hours on the Bunkprugu Township in the Northern Region. The Bunkprugu Township…

The Agricultural Development Bank (adb) has announced a total of GH¢450 million to, among other initiatives, support the government’s ‘Planting for Food and Jobs’ programme. The fund, according to Mr Daniel Asiedu, Managing Director of…

Government has been urged not to concentrate solely on illegal small scale mining (Galamsey) activities but widen its scope to include activities of legally registered mining companies in its determination to control mining activities in…

Ghana and Zambia have become the newest members of the African Financial Markets Initiative (AFMI), under the auspices of the African Development Bank (AfDB) and Bloomberg African Bond Index. The AfDB/AFMISM Bloomberg® African Bond Index…

Stakeholders have warned that the growing menace of the Fall Armyworm could derail government’s programme to boost agriculture production and to create jobs. Speaking to the GNA on the sidelines of a two-day workshop organised by the…

The Integrated Social Development Centre (ISODEC) says Ghana would be able to finance its own development without external aid if the loopholes that engender illicit financial outflows are plugged. According to ISODEC, Ghana and other…

A delegation from Ivory Coast would today hold diplomatic talks with Ghanaian officials over the effects of illegal mining in Ghana and its ripple effects in that country. Mr Benito Owusu-Bio, a Deputy Minister of Lands and Natural…

A Cameroonian journalist has been jailed for ten years by the government. He has also been fined CFA 55 million. The African Editors Forum (TAEF), in a statement said the journalist, Ahmed Abba attended a function in his official…

More than 200 workers of the Prestea Sankofa Gold Limited in the Western Region who have not received their salaries for the past nine months have appealed to the government to inject capital to revamp their operations. They said…