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Ghana cannot attain the Millennium Development Goals by 2015, if the people hold on to out-dated customary practices such as widowhood rites, female genital mutilation and denying women the right to own land. Mrs Lucy Awuni, Deputy Upper…

Stanbic Bank Ghana, a member of the Standard Bank Group, has confirmed that the Ghana Cocoa Board’s 17th annual pre-export finance facility (COCOBOD) has secured a record number of commitments. Standard Bank was one of the joint mandated…

The Management of Western Union Money Transfer, the global leader in consumer money transfer services, has presented 600 insecticide-treated nets to two health care institutions to augment government’s effort in the fight against malaria.…

The Deputy Minister of Health, Rojo Mettle-Nunoo on Monday said government would increase budgetary allocation to promote mental health care and build capacity of nurses to identify the signs of depression and treat it on time. Speaking at…

The Prisons Service Council has set up a three-member Committee under the chairmanship of Lieutenant Colonel Seth Ohene Asare (Rtd) to investigate the September 15 disturbances at the Kumasi Central and Sekondi Central prisons. A statement…

Mr Tony Brown, a fisherman at La in Accra, has appealed to the Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MOFA) to make available to fishermen modern fishing vessels at affordable cost. He said the use of canoes for fishing was outmoded and…

The perennial water problem at Adaklu Have near Ho, ended at the weekend with the inauguration of pipe-borne water supply system at the cost of 8,400 dollars. The project was funded by World Mission Outreach Fellowship (WMOF), a USA- based…

Asia has slashed the number of people living in extreme poverty, but leads the world in malnourishment and is struggling to meet ambitious development goals set at the United Nations, a UN report has said. "One of the region's greatest MDG…

The UK's public finances are set to show a plunge into the red of around £12.5 billion during August. The month is usually a demanding one because corporation tax receipts do not tend to feature strongly, meaning total borrowing for the…

In the fast-paced world of Silicon Valley innovation, Google's chief dealmaker David Lawee puts many a youthful engineer to shame. As head of Google's M&A group, he has powered up the search giant's acquisition machine and his team is…