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Mr Henry Alifo, the Volta Regional Population Officer, on Tuesday advised government to review some benefits under the free Maternal Health Programme and step up the drive towards contraceptive use. He expressed optimism that the country…

Some 564,276 children were immunized during the first round of the National Immunization Exercise in March this year in the Western Region. Mr Peter Ofori Tweneboah, the Regional Coordinator of the Expanded Programmed on Immunization,…

Dr Elias Sory, Director General of the Ghana Health Service (GHS), has expressed worry about the practices where people including adults defecate at refuse dumps thereby "promoting' diseases. He noted that it was not wise to defecate in…

Ms Najat Ibrahim, Communications and Administration Officer of Vision for Alternative Development (VALD), a non-governmental organisation has called on the Government to hasten the passage of the Tobacco Control Bill into law. She said…

The total potential of irrigable land in Ghana is put at 500,000 hectares, but only 25,000 hectares are under irrigation. This means that just five per cent of the total cultivable area is irrigated despite plans for irrigation development…

Only one woman won the primary to contest Election 2012 as a parliamentary candidate for the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Central Region. Mrs. Mercy Hawa Koomson won to contest for the Awutu-Senya seat at the recent NPP primaries held…

A two-day Steering Committee of the Interim Guinea Current Commission/Guinea Current Large Marine Ecosystem (IGCC/GCLME) opens in Accra on May 17, according to a statement from the committee on Tuesday. It said the meeting would be…

Mr. Kwaku Asomah Kyeremeh, the Brong-Ahafo Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), has said the party could only snatch power from the National Democratic Congress (NDC) if they resolved any internal differences. "There is the…

Mr Clement Akugre, the Bongo District Chief Executive, on Tuesday inspected some schools and houses in the District that got damaged following a rain storm last Saturday. The roofs of the buildings were ripped off and the hardest hit was…

Mr Larbi Katti, Algerian Ambassador in Ghana, on Tuesday called for collaboration between the Ghana News Agency (GNA) and the Algerian News Agency as part of steps to improve relations between Ghana and Algeria. This, he said, would enable…